This sort of thing can’t really be done in capitalism at all. Open Source (as it was advanced by Eric S. Raymond and the Mozilla Project back in the late 90s) was always stuck in a capitalist way of thinking.

In a society where everyone has their basic needs met and people are expected to contribute what they can, writing FOSS can be your contribution.

Yes. The way this always works is through useful idiots. There’s a core group that knows it’s bullshit, but they want to use it to pursue some other agenda. They then filter talking points to their media contacts. Those people may or may not believe it, but their paycheck depends on convincing masses of people that it’s true.

The random MAGA guy on a Facebook post? He probably believes it. He’s two degrees removed from the people who don’t. The Enlightened Centrist who tries to mix both sides into a resemblance of an ideology is three degrees removed.

This is also why the only “journalism” outlets that aren’t financially struggling are conservative podcasters and YouTubers.

“You just don’t understand strong typing” when the problem at hand is about lifetimes.

I’m glad the Rust compiler is super helpful, because the community isn’t.

Clarence Thomas seen sweating profusely.

Been a while since I read it, but Larry Niven had a whole essay on this subject:

https://larryniven.net/?q=man-of-steel-woman-of-kleenex-by-larry-niven

My best guess is that it gets sold off to the company who buys the most $1M/plate dinners with Trump.

Part of what saved AMD was spinning off their fabs into a separate company. Besides the cash flow, they could focus on design and weren’t hitched to what their own fabs could produce. They could choose the best fab contract they could afford.

Pat Gelsinger floated the idea of spinning off the fabs, but the US government shut it down as part of the deal for building new fabs with government money. The fabs that Intel may not even finish now.

Another factor for AMD was having their SoC in consoles. Kept some cash flow going when they desperately needed it. Intel doesn’t have that benefit, either. AMD owns the PS5 and Xbox, while Nvidia has Nintendo. Steam Deck-like handhelds are a small but growing market, and all the ones people want to buy run AMD.

So the question comes up of what Intel can even do for cash flow. Their GPU division might start showing real profit in another generation, but they have to survive that long while taking a loss. One more uncompetitive generation of CPU releases will probably doom their core product, and the best they can hope for there is “not completely suck”. The datacenter market was holding on because Intel has traditionally been rock solid stable, but that argument was killed with the 13th/14th gen overheating issues (which did affect equivalent server processors, as well). Their other hardware, like networking chipsets, comes with the same dark cloud looming over it, and it isn’t enough to keep the company running, anyway.

So the “realisim” here is a programmer beating themselves up over not being able to figure something out.

In fact, it probably picked up that exact attitude from being trained off of the writings of actual programmers.

Sam isn’t exactly denying the original claim, here.

Because the lesson they took away from the French Revolution is that if you make a strict class separation where “well bred” people are different from “dirty peasants”, the peasants will eventually cut your head off.

If they pretend “we’re just like you, and through hard work, you can become rich like me”, then peasants will line up to defend them.

You must like cleaning balls.

That’s a myth that should die out. It used to be true, decades ago, but not anymore.

The PS/2 protocol interrupts the CPU and sends a packet. USB has the CPU poll the connection and then gets the packet. However, the polling and clock rate of USB is so high that it can hit it several times before the PS/2 is done transmitting a single packet.

NKRO is also no longer an issue in newer USB versions. You have to get a more expensive keyboard to make it work–cost of all the diodes adds up–but that was just as true of PS/2.

Here’s a Ben Eater video that goes over the details with an oscilloscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgULBpRoXk

IIRC, that’s electrically compatible with the smaller, more fragile PS/2 connector. The adapters are just wiring it down to the smaller connector (and maybe some impedance matching resistors?).

And it’s not like the companies will update old stuff, either. They’ve shown a willingness to forget about old games as soon as the revenue dips too much. The result will be that those games will be unplayable in the future.

Who could have foreseen that letting game companies into the kernel would cause problems?

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I’m also very confused.

The base x86-64 patents expired in 2021. Also, it was held by AMD, not Intel.

However, there are a lot of extensions that are still under patent. You can make an x86-64 processor the way it was when Opteron was released in 2003, but it won’t be competitive with current offerings. Those extensions are patented by a mix of both Intel and AMD. Intel failing isn’t going to fully open x86-64.

Edit: also, it’s not just the patents, it’s the people. Via is still technically out there and could theoretically make its own x86-64 to modern standards. However, x86-64 is a very difficult architecture to optimize, and all the people who know how to do it already work for either Intel or AMD. Actually, they might only work for AMD, even before the layoffs.

Mass layoffs are never done in a thoughtful way. It’s often the C-suite telling each division “cut x number of staff underneath you”. That order is filtered down through layers of management until it gets to the people who do actual work. If they’re lucky, they can negotiate some room on their team with one or two layers of management above them, but it just means another team underneath the same management layer is getting hit that much more.

Remember that when a CEO says “we had to make the hard but necessary decision”. All that asshole had to do was say “cut 10,000 people” and filter that order down the stack. All the actual hard decisions were made far, far away from the board of directors.

That’s just “the worst possible consequences won’t happen”. The danger at higher orbits is that things wouldn’t come down, and we couldn’t safely launch rockets past that orbit. That wouldn’t happen here, but destroying everything in LEO would still be pretty bad. Astronauts would likely die.