At the pace every PC component is becoming quite expensive it's not entirely out of the realm of possibilities that my next CPU will be RISC-V based. /s (kind of)
PS: for those still hesitating to tinker with RISC-V the workflow is becoming quite convenient already, to the point you can "just" boot and install Linux (as mentioned in the article) on it to get a headless server running in minutes.
> throwing shit at the wall with Johnny Ive and hardware.
Damn, I already forgot about that. You'd think a company who has the smartest people on Earth building a "product" that is "intelligence" would be able to... you know, make something out of it. Somehow despite ALL that, despite all the press too, they can't ship? Something does not add up, it's as if, and I know I'm going to sound like a crazy person, they were just... a normal company! /s
> I was initially rooting for OpenAI hoping it can challenge google and Apple. However they showed to being unscrupulous and seem to have a moral compass at the same level as meta.
OK ok well this is weird to me, I didn't think I'd be the one to defend Meta here ... but Meta at least never hid it's intention : it was a for-profit VC backed startup which only goal was to make money from day 1. OpenAI though started as a non-profit, collected goodwill from everyone to get the best talent because it's 1 thing, what made it special : it's mission WAS safety. Then they did 1 thing that actually got popular, GPT2, thanks to some pretty damn good marketing "Oh no, it's too risky to release!... but ok OK here it is anyway, but like don't destroy the World please." then exclusive partnership, etc, etc. Meta was "We want money." so at least they didn't lie about it.
Guess I didn't take the same econ classes, I thought providing value to the customer was what capitalism ran on. I go to the butcher next door without having seen a single ad about it. They just sell a "better" product (according to my own criteria) than the supermarkets around.
If tomorrow (please take a second to imagine) that ads were banned and it worked (effectively 0 ads anywhere) I would still read journals that review new boardgames, I would still need products to fix my bike, etc.
Depends entirely the kind of journalism you are referring to and the kind of business model they want. I can't imagine 404 Media adding ads to their premium feed.
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Very neat! I had a https://www.crowdsupply.com/wee-noise-makers/wee-noise-maker... but I don't always carry it with me. I do have my phone though most of the time in my pocket so having this on, Web based, is great! The author of ToneJS is very kind, if the documentation wasn't clear you might want to reach out to help clarify it.
PS: didn't check it but being a PWA to work offline would be quite neat, just in case the subway or train goes through a spot without connectivity.
PS: for those still hesitating to tinker with RISC-V the workflow is becoming quite convenient already, to the point you can "just" boot and install Linux (as mentioned in the article) on it to get a headless server running in minutes.
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