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I enjoy this style of absurdism humor

This misses the point entirely. What happens when apple inevitably discontinues support for this hardware.

The same thing that has previously happened with discontinued Intel Macs or PC hardware that is no longer supported by Windows.

You can still boot Linux natively on it.


i have no idea how you think apple silicon will discontinue support for itself.

the hypervisor framework documentation, that i linked above, is pretty clear; the linux builds for arm run extremely fast on apple silicon because hypervisor framework gives them hardware access, in some subsystems directly (memory mapping for example), in other systems through a shim (graphics hardware).


Apple discontinues support for this HW, not Apple discontinues support for running Linux in a hypervisor.

when apple discontinues support for older hardware, it doesn't get OS software updates. that doesn't disable the hardware from running the latest OS before OS updates for the hardware were ended. On the frozen-in-time OS, you'd still have a working instance of apple silicon hypervisor wrapping optimized drivers that make whatever linux arm build you're running still see the hardware.

Some people would like to keep running a system that’s connected to the internet that’s still receiving security updates. Running an outdated host isn’t the best idea.

So you are wrapping Linux in an insecure and never updating wrapper connected to the internet?

Sounds awesome!


Since the hardware will no longer get security updates for the firmware you should stop using it and move to a newer MacBook.

Linux doesn't solve the issue of not getting security updates anymore. For example the FCC does not allow letting users write arbitrary firmware they can run on their devices so this means you legally can't update the Bluetooth or Wifi firmware and need an update from Apple.


Absurdism

>§ 2.944 Software defined radios.

>(a) Manufacturers must take steps to ensure that only software that has been approved with a software defined radio can be loaded into the radio.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/2.944


The lesson is that if you keep writing good content, people will keep paying

Theres no reality where remotely operated weapons/drones dont start getting controlled by AI rather than people.

Im not suggesting its a good idea, but its only a matter of time before someone decides its better than being invaded/attacted by another country thats doing the same


The workflow isnt a single prompt then you have working code from the LLM, its 30 prompts of discussion and then reading each proposed edit and having tangent discussions until you're somewhat ok with it. Then reviewing the changeset as a whole and refactoring a few times

Can I suggest putting some text in the page that tells the bot what the more efficient download method is?

What makes you think that would accomplish anything?

These scrapers aren't LLM agents. They're distributed classical programs that harvest data which is later used to train an LLM. The LLM doesn't write the scraper or respond to individual scrape events. The entity training the LLM contracts someone, who contracts someone, who contracts someone to run a web scraper and send them the data.


Check out Hiive and make a bid if you want Sifive stock

also Andes is public


Sadly I think that Hiive is restricted to US based investors.

Will they just stop using an ‘algorithm’ and have a mathematician sit there and state numbers that are of unknown origin?

Not much on user facing OS, but billions of small controllers

I don't think CPython targets those, though; that seems more like a micropython thing?

Atleast CI-class hardware finally exists, with the sifive bigsky

https://www.sifive.com/development-platforms/sifive-bigsky-s...


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