erelong's comments

On: Tesla's Terafab chip fab ambitions ignore its lack of semiconductor experience

[erelong]

They probably figure it's worth a try

[CamperBob2 → erelong]

It's not. As one of the comments in the article points out, Musk's successes have all come from neglected, underfunded markets (Tesla) or from blowing past lazy incumbents (PayPal, SpaceX).

Semiconductor fabs are the polar opposite. The hungriest, smartest, and wealthiest interests on the planet are already highly incentivized to produce chips in their own home markets (US, China, Taiwan.) Someone who has no idea what he's doing can beat GM, ULA, or a bunch of dumbass bankers, in many cases on competitive grounds they never cared to defend in the first place, but 2 nm fabs? Yeah, right.

Then there's the fact that Musk has gone out of his way to repel top talent rather than to attract it. He'll have to pay much more for much less. Another ingredient in a surefire recipe for failure in the semiconductor business.

On: SuperTux 0.7.0

[erelong]

there's a website as well: https://www.supertux.org/

it has a video trailer for the new release and also a longer development summary vid

On: The Official DR DOS Website

[erelong]

And then there's PDOS (public domain operating system): https://www.pdos.org/

On: The Compose key is magic

[erelong]

Autokey (linux) or autohotkey (windows) as examples can do text expansion if you want to create custom symbols to expand to

Or you could make a snippets program in a terminal to copy a symbol to a clipboard

(Workarounds I've considered since I don't have altgr or compose set up)

On: Your phone is an entire computer

[erelong]

For me this has two takeaways:

One, I avoid Apple products as they are locked down and overpriced

The other, that it's probably worthwhile to push for apple to open these products up more - especially would be nice if more old hardware could be "opened" to reuse and avoid them being e-waste

On: “This is not the computer for you”

[erelong]

Used thinkpad or mini pc seems more practical

On: Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war

[erelong]

paywalled but I found: https://archive.ph/ujecr

On: Will Claude Code ruin our team?

[erelong]

sounds fun if framed as: everyone now has tools to help each other's role more

On: LLM Writing Tropes.md

[erelong]

alternatively: "a guide for humans on to how to sound like LLMs"

On: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

[erelong]

alternatives like matrix exist... maybe some vibecoders could take a project like that and try to "soup it up"