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$4.65B seed round. That's a lot of investor faith in a seed round.

- Don't put them in non-trivial paths so they are not easy targets. I never put them under a path that `git clean -xdf` erases, for example.

- One thing that always scares me is that some third party code will just do a getenv AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID in whatever language and send it out somewhere. So I tend to either invent non trivial environment variables names, and/or do unsetenv when the process starts, after it loads them to some internal config struct.


Terminals and web browsers are our main UI drivers right, so yeah, it makes sense to have a super app that provides them both in the best way. Embdding a terminal inside a web app is annoying because of Ctrl-W and other issues, and embedding a web broswer inside a terminal is even more weird. So we wind up having Wayland compositors do the work to combine them in one environment.

I tried to do this with a simple wgpu + winit app, servo, and alactitty_terminal, and it kinda worked, but both terminal and web browser rendered poorly.


Frankly, I don't know how this 10% chance can even be calculated.

I see this too. Generally, having a builder mindeset is independent from the tools available.

I think that the future in which these projects will remain relevant does not exist.

Yeah i think its a dying category, most software will be A2A.

I don't think that's what they meant at all.

The way I interpreted it is that projects that blanket ban AI/LLM usage will become less relevant... not because the robot overlords will take over software development, but because the use of AI as a tool has legitimate and sometimes profound usefulness... and if they can't be utilized on a certain platform, people will just go elsewhere.


I think this has changed since then, their policies toward open source improved (e.g ROCm).

The market says the problem is still there.

An NVIDIA consumer GPU sells for 50+% or more than an equivalent AMD GPU. Because people are buying NVIDIA GPUs to run local models instead of AMD ones.

I did the same thing, I paid 50% more to get an 5070 Ti instead of the equivalent AMD.

This is probably good for gamers, AMD GPUs are not price inflating to the same degree as NVIDIA, because they are bad at LLMs.

> That was the reason for comparing them in the first place: based on performance, they are direct competitors, or at least they are meant to be. However, as things stand today, there is a massive price divide between the two, with the RTX Ti GPU now commanding a premium of more than 50%.

https://www.techspot.com/review/3168-geforce-rtx-5070-vs-rad...


> AMD GPUs are not price inflating to the same degree as NVIDIA, because they are bad at LLMs.

9060 XT 16GB seems to have some great performance with gpt oss 20B and others, and works great with their lemonade-server.

https://lemonade-server.ai/

What exactly do you think is running on a Strix Halo?


wondering when AMD will realize it can charge 2x as much for the same thing, by simply finally writing a fucking driver

The story of “great hardware ruined by poor drivers/software” is so old than its truly shocking its still a thing these days

On Linux the problem is often flipped (historically for Nvidia/AMD).

The AMD drivers are mainline kernel, while Nvidia is still handing out binary blobs.


AMD also deprecates cards and throw in wrenches for cards that are hot in used markets. Latest ROCm kind of works on MI50 but requisite files are taken out of just standard Ubuntu installation. They truly don't understand marketing.

That is a ~9 year old card. I'm not sure any of the newer work AMD has been doing can utilize that hardware at all.

It would have been sold off to grey market or destroyed 3-4yr ago in most companies.

Newer, much cheaper stuff ironically would run better. That card isn't even really designed for AI workloads at all.


> because they are bad at LLMs.

They are actually great at LLMs but you need to invest in keeping up with community tuning efforts. But I am fine with most thinking they are bad at LLMs, because I keep buying more of them!


While the logo somewhat like the shape of the Star Trek franschise Starfleet logo, the small text reads 'Starship Troopers'-inspired, and to remind, in that Heinlein fiction human societies pride themselves in becoming authoritarian. That's the scary part.

I've read the whole thing, but I usually read the end paragraphs of long articles because that's where he point is made.

Leading to it is:

> A recent report issued by Britain’s most important cultural funding body, the Arts Council, warned against the use of “terms like excellence” which may promote “unhelpful hierarchies about what kinds of work are valued”.’

Which I find despairing. Article ends with:

> The cultural elite has abandoned cultural elitism.

So the point goes far beyond 'social media despair', it goes to say that the entire culture is regressing.


Understanding human interaction nuance to an exact degree. For example, even when given all the scripts of the Seinfeld TV show, they still cannot come up with a new script does not feel as good as any of them (once they can, I want to watch these episodes..).


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