Sapozhnik posted:

On the one hand yes, but on the other hand we've had Enough Computer for about 10 years now, and the thing about technological progress is that it monotonically trends upwards. It will never be harder to make software and hardware than it is today, and the same is true of tomorrow and the day after. Now, open hardware is an exciting world that has barely been explored, but it has significant capital requirements that aren't going to be fulfilled easily due to the lack of a sufficiently lucrative business model behind it.

A Core 2 Duo with 8GB of RAM from like 2007 is Enough Computer for most tasks these days. Bullshit bloated code can bring even the most powerful systems to their knees, but it's really not a herculean undertaking to write programs that get things done on 10 year old hardware. Back in the early 90s, yes, Microsoft was legitimately a technological power house because of their institutional skills in making really lovely hardware do the sorts of things we now think of as ordinary computing tasks. This was a big deal on the hardware platforms we had back then.

What I'd like to see is more open and more readily available hardware of mid-2000s caliber. For example, a production-strength RISC-V application SoC with fully open HDL, manufactured on gross disgusting obsolete processes like *shudder* 100nm or whatever, but manufactured by many different manufacturers in many different countries. And without a loving NSA back door in the chip itself that has a direct hardware connection to the NIC for what I'm sure are totally benign reasons.

Maybe some day, many decades from now, there will be a similarly open HDL 4G baseband chip, running open source firmware that can be deterministically compiled to a particular binary. Approved builds would be digitally signed by the FCC or other such body and production chips would be fused with a regulatory body's public key, so you can't hack up the software radio to have it interfere with other licensed radio traffic, but you could at least trace the provenance of the approved binary running on your cellular baseband and be reasonably assured that it isn't doing anything terribly nefarious.

(yes I know hard IP blocks are a rather large and hairy fly in this particular ointment, particularly for mixed-signal stuff like an SDR baseband)



Source: Sapozhnik, The Something Awful Forums.

chestnut santabag posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9AE15nD0M
north koreas proganda videos are some next level poo poo

SmokaDustbowl posted:

I turn 35 next month and I've been thinking of a tattoo

I'm not a polite member of society so I can get whatever I want wherever I want

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

FMguru posted:

smoka get a tattoo of a dodo

like this one

Sapozhnik posted:

A Core 2 Duo with 8GB of RAM from like 2007 is Enough Computer for most tasks these days

NoneMoreNegative posted:

https://twitter.com/shanevader/status/817270452095590401

lol I missed this when it was first posted

RISCy Business posted:

rest in peace smoka, got hiv from a backalley tattoo parlor and died

RISCy Business posted:

millenial comedian dan nainan

35 year old comic Dan Nainan posted:

Me, classy? No, I’ll tell you who’s classy!

City comics who:

• destroy themselves with drugs, alcohol, prescription drugs and cigarettes
  
• facilitate the murder of policemen, judges and other innocent victims all over the world by using illegal drugs
  
• sexually harass female comedians to the point where females don’t want to do comedy
  
• do rape jokes that they consider “clever”
  
• mercilessly pick on audience members for their physical attributes or race to the point where people don’t want to sit in the front or avoid comedy clubs altogether
  
• try and tell other comics what kind of material they should and shouldn’t be doing, based SOLELY on their own tastes (which is kind of like telling country and western musicians that they shouldn’t play country music), even though last time I checked, we live in a free country

Jimmy Carter posted:

http://brianmcguinness.tumblr.com/post/8108071490/dan-nainan-is-the-worst-human-being-ever-the

bump_fn posted:

im facilitating the murder of policemen right now

Cazlab posted:

https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/912494352940896257

Dislike button posted:

one of the best concerts ive ever been to was incubus in high school. i didnt really care for them beforehand, and dont listen to them now, but they put on a hell of a show

perturbator was ok, idk how you get hundreds of metal heads to show up to what is basically a techno concert but he did it.

the opening band was moondragon who played a bunch of synth overlaid with clips of top gun and old F1 races

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://twitter.com/ItMeIRL/status/912316774120673281

Kenny Logins posted:

prefect posted:

"first, a hot dog is not a sandwich. second, i'm triggering the remote eject function for putting ketchup on hot dogs. also for spelling 'ketchup' weird"

Furia posted:

ketchup hotdogs are p. good

Furia posted:

ketchup hotdogs are p. good