It would be interesting if there were a state sponsored effort to discredit a project that helps some people keep their communications private.

There might be one, in France.

In your country merchants are not obligated to honor fraudulently altered price displays.

That may not be true if the faked display contents are reasonable. Price labels on shelves are leading: https://www.consumentenbond.nl/juridisch-advies/rechten-bij-...

Supermarkets all throughout my country have these labels add "35% off" to any goods that they need to remove from shelves (either because they expire soon or because they want to replace the product with something different). That's done outside of normal advertising campaigns, just in the price tags on the shelves (and the digital systems, if they actually work).

Supermarkets here are already on thin ice because they frequently do not charge the price listed on shelves already, without malpractice.

Of course, if you happen to have a cart full of wrongly discounted stuff that someone needs to go out and correct, the store will probably look through security footage. If you play the game well and can make it look like a glitch in the system, a store would probably not bother, though.

Poe's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

The cult of personality is impenetrable. He won't be held to account, ever. Nor his sycophants in the administration.

> FUZIX is a fusion of various elements from the assorted UZI forks and branches beaten together into some kind of semi-coherent platform and then extended from V7 to somewhere in the SYS3 to SYS5.x world with bits of POSIX thrown in for good measure. Various learnings and tricks from ELKS and from OMU also got blended in

https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX#what-does-fuzix-have-o...

The fact that it's written in python is often brought up in order to explain its name. But really, it's much less interesting than the fact that it has a tracing JIT. If it were called PyJIT I'd bet it would be clearer and more obvious that it's fast. And people would prob get less hung up on the distinction between python/rpython.

It makes a lot of sense to me that PV and wind power could have subtle undesirable effects that we don't know about until it scales up.

Taking gigawatts of energy out of the planet ecology and redirecting it to something else seems like it could have drawbacks. Of course, on net it seems likely to still be a significant improvement over burning hydrocarbons.

“…good enough” and why is it that we can’t be a part of the planet’s ecology? it must have happened when we exceeded the beaver and ascended. there’s a cake joke in this somewhere but i’d rather just suggest it than wait for the joke to come to me.

this is what concerns me about geothermal and hydrogen production... the latter more so because clean water is a scares resource as it is.

But It would not surprise me at all if sucking some of the heat out of the earth would have some undesirable effects.

Dang, can you substantiate that this is actually Mr. Farrow like he claims?

Or Mr Farrow can you post some evidence somewhere we can see?

Some of that could be related to the ISA but I'm hoping that it's just the fact that the current implementations aren't mature enough.

The vast majority of the ecosystem seems to be focused on uCs until very recently. So it'll take time for the applications processors to be competitive.

The RISC-V ISA can be fast.

Tenstorrent Ascalon, expected later this year, is expected to be AMD Ryzen 5 speeds. Tenstorrent hopes to achieve Apple Silicon speeds in a few years.

The SpacemiT K3 is about half as fast as Ascalon and available in April. K3 is 3-4 times faster than the K1 (previous generation).

This should give you an idea about how fast RISC-V is improving.

I'd be pretty surprised if Ascalon actually hits Zen 5 perf (I'm gessing more like Zen2/3 for most real world workloads). CPU design is really hard, and no one makes a perfect CPU in their first real generation with customers. Tenstorrent has a good team, but even the "simple" things like compilers won't be ready to give them peak performance for a few years.

>I'd be pretty surprised if Ascalon actually hits Zen 5 perf

Certainly not in the Atlantis SoC, due to the older fab node used. Zen2-3 territory IPC is the expectation, with lower clocks than these actually got.

By the time they have the necessary scale to use the best fabs, they'll be tapping out something newer than the Ascalon that went into Atlantis.

Tenstorrent expects to reach parity with the best x86 and arm chips by 2028.

All RISC ISAs are basically the same thing as far as compiler optimisation is concerned, and there is 40 years of work into that already.

I can't see any reason why the father of Zen and the designer of the M1 can't make a core for the simpler RISC-V ISA with basically the same (or better) µarch than the M1.

Assuming AMD, Intel, ARM, Apple in a few years haven't released new CPUs, otherwise the difference is the same as today.

I guess if you can solve phase alignment then another big problem is grid capability?

If everyone plugged one in, could the transmission network reliably deliver the power generated where it's needed? I thought that was a serious long term challenge for utilities wrt solar.