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mircea_popescu: "The crappy 3D support on Mac OS is in direct conflict with that goal. Furthermore, as a non-Mac OS user, I would kindly request that no disproportionate developer effort be spent on such an inadequate and developer-hostile platform.
mircea_popescu: "And that article Richard posted just seems to exist to stroke Apple's ego. I don't think I know a single artist who would choose to buy one of the new Mac Pros for their work, especially considering the premium you pay and their reliance on AMD hardware in a field dominated by nV and CUDA."
mircea_popescu: heck, yahoo briefcase apparently had users, when it closed.
mircea_popescu: what idiots do isn't really in the scope of this discussion.
mircea_popescu: anyway. jobs could have pulled something like this off, maybe, as an outlier result. mostly, he'd have failed miserably while denying it all along.
mircea_popescu: they'll just pretend like the poroblem doesn't exist and will go away, like any mcdonalds.
mircea_popescu: and no, i don't believe cook has the guts to even try.
mircea_popescu: looks more like, "neither nvidia nor amd were willing to go into a intel-ms deal with fucking apple, because who the fuck do those assholes think they are and it's about time they figured out a) jobs is deads and b) if he weren't he'd be in jail ; meanwhile apple won't talk to intel or asus etc because they think they're too good to deal with lesser babka, and so they're saying fuck you to the entire modern computing g
mircea_popescu: as the costs to prop it up just keep on growing and eventually tyhe whole "ecosystem" collapses
mircea_popescu: if they don't have decent driver suport they COULD make some in house abomiation circumvent it all, and so on
mircea_popescu: apparently it's not going to. i dunno whence this idea comes that something can run magically-like.
mircea_popescu: those folks, whatever they may think, or wish the worlkd to be, still have to eat.
mircea_popescu: if you want to process say a shader and it takes you half hour on mac and five minutes on gentoo then by this standard one would i guess say it doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: but runs as in what ? "can't access the driver, here's a nice welcome box" ?
mircea_popescu: oris it just the thing chicklets derping on facebook and calling themselves designers favour ?
mircea_popescu: apple wants to be a "mobile platform". because it worked so well for nokia, and for samsung, and for fucking blackberry.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah, apparently the problem is that whatever actual driver support they had, marginal as it was, they're chucking in the new osx
mircea_popescu: the things one finds on the internet. i thought mac survived principally because graphics shitheads.
mircea_popescu: "Mac has never been a viable platform for professional production 3d work"
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.phf.1:a15501b9b874c832d39da21bd66e77d5c726136d1695025a7edffba5998423ff
mircea_popescu: phf do you intend to publish results of your run anywhere ?
mircea_popescu: phf am i reading what you're saying correctly , "thermonuked more efficient network utilization" ?
mircea_popescu spent his decade or so of acquaintance with indian cuisine eating pretty much nothing but lamb.
mircea_popescu: but so far most of the productions on the topic are "smoking is bad and vaccines good mkay"
mircea_popescu: not that inadequate. iirc it's the leading cause of death in small children in the western world.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, spontaneous abortion is a thing, and obviously children inhabit some sort of continuum between that and adulthood, so...
mircea_popescu: i suppose on the surface "sudden infant death" seems insanity, as adults don't do anything like that.
mircea_popescu: eh from what i've heard, they convicted a buncha women for what actually was bona fide kids dying
mircea_popescu: otherwise we will never be able to answer this dilemma.
mircea_popescu: better get the pm request special powers to investigate the content of people clicks
mircea_popescu: i thought unemployed is "hasn't made 1mn clicks on fb stuff this month"
mircea_popescu: also leaves, bits of their own front yard, inept 6yo drawings on bits of wallpaper etc
mircea_popescu: that is actually a mexican sundae. except with cognac.
mircea_popescu: anyway - this is what the vanishing 1% intelligent gpu bitcoin miners did with their rigs.
mircea_popescu: punkman because a) when i first asked, their idea was "buy a mug" ; b) the link i finally fished out did not include any reference either i or fluffypony found (see it in logs) - they have A DIFFERENT unlinked page for this purpose
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field iirc the agreement was that it can go, as it serves no useful purpose nor has for a long time - but not a priority. we're atm working on getting the priorities in AND RUNNING
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> coffins for everyone involved with checkpoints? << this is necessarily true. bitcoin hardforked once.
mircea_popescu: i think that's gonna be the bitcoin thing - we're here to surprise you.
mircea_popescu: clarke wrote scifi. orwell wrote emofi. not the same thing at all.