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but why? :)

oh geez.. I was not thinking about it, but if this piece of hardware runs PowerPC Mac.. then Amiga OS 4.x or MorphOS and Amiga baby... PowerMac is for sissies when you compare this opportunity!

IP6 babe!

Oh my Gosh.. this is a little bit too abstract to me as first encounter, but the concept never the less is cool to digest deeper into!

Agreed, I found SO and Quora and similar sites with general or specific question/answer based communities weak long before AI.

AI replaced Google Search in many ways more directly on arrival than those.

SO to me was weak as it had outdated answers to outdated questions (yet related to search queries) that nobody maintained well.. and the community more focused on patronising to push their point of view than being essentially objective in many ways.

that was a total killer to me and I started preferring to come back to books, manuals and researching topics myself than short cuts like SO.. and that research is heavily optimised during AI/LLM era, yes, but that's just one of many nails to SO's coffin.

I’m fine with it as long as Anthropic is fine we can distill their models to create own without burning all that energy (vide DeepSeek case)

I agree, this is also where I'm investing my time Metal mostly and then try to adapt it to DX12 on Windows and I totally skipped Vulkan for that simple reason you have described. but in generic terms only Vulkan comes with portability as analogy to original OGL vision.. I respect that even though the whole framework is to be ditched and rethought into something even more modern and sustainable...

so Metal yes, if somebody wants to be Apple focused. but in the academic world I don't believe that's the case either...

I agree with Adam Sawicki that it's not that relevant any more but also I do believe it's valuable lesson to tech students where the modernity comes from.

I just don't see personally sense to focus on it longer than just 1mo of intro, tutorial, get through simple example, show limitations, carry on to Vulkan/WGPU with background story that there is also DX12 and Metal that follow similar principles.

Man, <Eternal September> this is so true. I totally forgot that term until you brought it back to my memory. I miss times when only universities and enlightened people had access to online discussions, not the average folk who just quack.

considering people today are messaging (typing in) more in whatsapp than in facebook as the latter is infested by AI content and dead internet theory more than ever.. well. I'd add to whatsapp valuation in their evil empire. I'd not be surprised it should be more valued by Zuck today than FB + Insta together as prospect for the future.. only to die as every online communicator eventually dies... call it ICQ, Skype or whatever...

true. but since 2012 or so with almost no karma thanks to little activity. so I'd say I respect HN for it's self-curated discipline to consume something that often Reddit and other places long lost. Don't screw it up people! :)

that's something very key about how you found out that it had to be paid first to afford what is the most expensive currency in the world -> time. People not always realise that until it's too late that we're not fighting to get more dollah... but more time when you have enough dollah so you can show all that consumerism and wanna-be-life-celebrity attitude a proper middle finger!

I absolutely agree too.. also on the extra effort factor to get it.

when I think about ADHD as modern civilisational disease, I can't find better reference than Johny Mnemonic and that lady who needed jabs from a black doc because she could not handle emotions not keep her hand without shaking and they explained it very well.. "nobody understands it.. but it came with the moment we stopped being able to consume all the information that was bombarding us" sort of as quasi quotation (I don't really remember it word by word, but I do believe that was the explanation)

Today we don't need sci-fi/cyberpunk movies/books to actually have that as properly diagnosed biological/psychological problem, not many know how to deal with unless you get prescriptions for soft-amphetamine variance given as a medicine so one can kill extra thoughts running crazy inside or... go mental and/or depressed. and trust me.. I have 2 at home. so it's not that I'm judgemental.. it's just my daily routine to deal with a challenge that outside drug.. slowing down and getting offline.. actually helps equally vs. everybody believes we can be celebrities online for 72h then nobody cares... actually never cared so here comes the attention drama to 10k other thoughts, brains tells you is important.

I can assure you... all the online mess ain't helping all of you who suffer it, unless you're brilliantly intelligent people (many are) who are highly functional, considering the energy burnout that requires you to stay above the water line.

Yes, world we live in not helping to avoid its pitfalls, even if you were born with it. not saying it's 100% 'gotten' thanks to times we live in, but surely exposed beyond personal management to many... thanks to times we live in.