George Hotz says that everyone should learn C and Assembly.

I wanted to put out a general call to any IHVs out there who might be interested in discussing CPU and/or GPU architecture with my readers. We are currently the #7 technology Substack in the world, and are read widely by people interested in software performance.

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A) Yes
B) Myself and others have been sounding this alarm for over a decade
C) Many factors are at play, including an improperly trained workforce, monopoly business effects, and widespread adoption and standardization of low-quality practices, languages, platforms and protocols

AltStore for iOS has been released in the EU, and is the very first independent app store installable under the new DMA law.

Does x86 need to die? ThePrimeagen and I did a livestream about this last week. I've linked to the VOD and provided a bunch of additional material for those interested:
computerenhance.com/p/does-x86-nee…

Remember kids:

Going to be doing a lot of Linux development over the next few weeks.
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Casey Muratori the arc of history is long but it curves toward every online store eventually becoming more like aliexpress

Either AMD added 2 extra hyperthreads per core without telling anyone, or someone got a little carried away with the Amazon product description...

The Managerial Revolution was not televised.

Since it keeps coming up: where is the actual data about ChatGPT using 'delve' more than humans? As far as I can tell, humans use 'delve' frequently when writing - less often than 'dive', to be sure, but it's not that uncommon:

Beautiful images of the Eclipse from earlier today.

If you enjoy historical game footage, John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social's retrospective on the launch of PlayStation 1 is a fantastic watch:
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I would like to be able to easily play Steam games in the living room on the TV. Now that Steam Deck is a thing, I feel like it should be possible to have a standardized Steam Machine succeed. I hope IHVs and/or Valve are considering giving it another shot!

Listening to some Night Ranger, and their band photo immediately brought to mind the meme, 'Dear Men, What Is Preventing You From Looking Like This??'

The xz utils fiasco reminds me of the age-old adage, 'There are two kinds of software: closed source, which may have a backdoor in it, and open source, which definitely has a back door in it.'

Finally got my hands on this book.
I think I'm going to rewrite my file manager in Rust now, adhering to clean principles.

I was going to write a response to that terrible Hackaday x86 article, but Chips and Cheese has posted their own fantastic one, so please read it instead: chipsandcheese.com/2024/03/27/why…

How many indirect bounces? 0, 1, 2... 1000?

I am really impressed with the job the Meta Quest 3 team did with the 'out of box experience'. It's nearly flawless. The only screeching halt is when, for some unknown reason, it forces you to use your mobile phone to connect an account. Why couldn't this be done on the headset?