Intel are cooked. no, not in a good way.

Intel are cooked. they had a crazy long arcing plan to get back on top, which would require them to skip through a couple of generations of cpu production, where they would see heavy losses and a decline, it was all part of Pat Gelsinger’s plan apparently. …but it looks like they have bottled it.…

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“Let’s Go Take, A Closer Look”

This channel is so kitsch, I’ve grown to love it. I just watched 28 minutes of some English nerd installing Linux, and all the familiar hassles he had along the way. I’m going to assume you just watched this video in it’s entirety, or switched it off after a few seconds. i know you have…

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Fancy laptop with discrete GPU? Afraid of the hassle of setting up Linux properly?

I’ve got a Dell XPS 15 9560. It’s beginning to get on now – 5/6 years old?? But still full of life and power. The Windows drivers have always been a problem with all the new tech in these things. I’ve had several long episodes over it’s lifetime related to the nvme driver / storage…

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tfjs for M1 very close!

https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/issues/4514#issuecomment-974982349 hmm, I think I have a working binary. I probably should have contributed it

Unit testing

Spending even a nanosecond chasing down bugs in unit test feels like a raging contradiction. …although if we wrote perfect unit tests, then why couldn’t we write perfect code every time. Still infuriating spending even the slightest nanosecond debugging when writing a test :-D