Tufty Indigo
@tuftyindigo.bsky.social
Fox with a box! Loves 🪗 🎹🎤 and 🏊♂️🚴♀️. Programs 🖥 by day, commissions 🖼 by night. He/him. I might post publicity for events here occasionally, but all my HILARIOUS CUSSPOSTING is only on Mastodon @[email protected].
It's like sci-fi authors keep saying. Humans want struggle. Synthetic bliss is too easy and feels unsatisfying. Bliss that feels like an achievement is much more satisfying. If AGI takes over the world, it won't keep us in tanks, it will make us a fishing minigame.
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It's like sci-fi authors keep saying. Humans want struggle. Synthetic bliss is too easy and feels unsatisfying. Bliss that feels like an achievement is much more satisfying. If AGI takes over the world, it won't keep us in tanks, it will make us a fishing minigame.
True audiophiles play the instruments themselves, through gold plated doohickeys and valve preamps and only handmade pedals because surface mount components have worse tone
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
True audiophiles play the instruments themselves, through gold plated doohickeys and valve preamps and only handmade pedals because surface mount components have worse tone
They literally only did Thumb in response to OEM complaints about poor code density. It was a much bigger problem in v embedded applications back when the ROM or flash for your firmware was a big fraction of the BOM cost. Mem bandwidth & i-cache size is important now, but less so.
December 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
They literally only did Thumb in response to OEM complaints about poor code density. It was a much bigger problem in v embedded applications back when the ROM or flash for your firmware was a big fraction of the BOM cost. Mem bandwidth & i-cache size is important now, but less so.
Yup, I worked on GPUs before the Softbank buyout
December 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yup, I worked on GPUs before the Softbank buyout
Arm publishes OpenCL libraries for both Neon and their Mali GPUs, but as you say, the big licensees tend to do their own thing instead. Samsung uses CL a lot for their 1st party apps but they don't seem interested in pushing it as part of a s/w ecosystem.
December 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Arm publishes OpenCL libraries for both Neon and their Mali GPUs, but as you say, the big licensees tend to do their own thing instead. Samsung uses CL a lot for their 1st party apps but they don't seem interested in pushing it as part of a s/w ecosystem.
Maybe it's because of the company's focus on finding new application-specific instructions that they could patent while the earlier versions of the ISA were going into the public domain :-)
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Maybe it's because of the company's focus on finding new application-specific instructions that they could patent while the earlier versions of the ISA were going into the public domain :-)
Those are all fair points (except for fixed-length, where Thumb2 is a massive exception, and when compiling for pre-v8 it's commonplace to switch frequently between T2 and ARM mode to maximise code density), but this was very much a running joke back when I worked at Arm.
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Those are all fair points (except for fixed-length, where Thumb2 is a massive exception, and when compiling for pre-v8 it's commonplace to switch frequently between T2 and ARM mode to maximise code density), but this was very much a running joke back when I worked at Arm.
Arm hasn't really been a RISC arch for the last ten years at least, but the design goals are still there. Intel and AMD have historically been more willing to burn power for marginal perf gains, but are changing now that thermal mgmt is the limiting factor, while Arm has been on the reverse journey.
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Arm hasn't really been a RISC arch for the last ten years at least, but the design goals are still there. Intel and AMD have historically been more willing to burn power for marginal perf gains, but are changing now that thermal mgmt is the limiting factor, while Arm has been on the reverse journey.
Are "accused of sex with stepmom" and "the importance of family" the same story? I hope so.
December 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Are "accused of sex with stepmom" and "the importance of family" the same story? I hope so.
Putting pressure on industries to reduce their pollution is always a good thing. But if the amount the industry gets seen as a polluter is uncorrelated with how much they actually pollute, they'll focus on showy gestures and marketing rather than improving anything.
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Putting pressure on industries to reduce their pollution is always a good thing. But if the amount the industry gets seen as a polluter is uncorrelated with how much they actually pollute, they'll focus on showy gestures and marketing rather than improving anything.
Even the engineers, who know exactly how much power and water our projects use, don't tend to think quantitatively about AI in relation to that. Most of them aren't thinking about it at all, but some of them are basing their opinions on the hype alone, just like the shouty BlueSky people.
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Even the engineers, who know exactly how much power and water our projects use, don't tend to think quantitatively about AI in relation to that. Most of them aren't thinking about it at all, but some of them are basing their opinions on the hype alone, just like the shouty BlueSky people.
The bias is real, but don't overestimate it. I work in an engineering consultancy that does a lot of sustainability work, but whenever we do anything with AI, even our in-house DL (not generative) models, someone says we're undoing the sustainability benefits by using AI.
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The bias is real, but don't overestimate it. I work in an engineering consultancy that does a lot of sustainability work, but whenever we do anything with AI, even our in-house DL (not generative) models, someone says we're undoing the sustainability benefits by using AI.
Linguistic formalism has been around for a while, so the idea that language is not just a way of communicating ideas but also the means of reasoning with them isn't a wholly new one. LLMs are essentially a constructive proof that it *can* work this way, and to me that's the most exciting thing.
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Linguistic formalism has been around for a while, so the idea that language is not just a way of communicating ideas but also the means of reasoning with them isn't a wholly new one. LLMs are essentially a constructive proof that it *can* work this way, and to me that's the most exciting thing.
Don't run yourself down, it's a pretty neat truck build!
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Don't run yourself down, it's a pretty neat truck build!
A lot of adhesives do, and the UV can even generate tiny sparks. You shouldn't peel the sticky label off a fuel can, because if the conditions are just right, that energy can ignite the fuel.
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A lot of adhesives do, and the UV can even generate tiny sparks. You shouldn't peel the sticky label off a fuel can, because if the conditions are just right, that energy can ignite the fuel.
You say that, but people keep asking "why don't they use the waste heat to heat the nearby houses?" Is Manhattan one of those places with neighbourhood steam pipes? That would be an ideal location!
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
You say that, but people keep asking "why don't they use the waste heat to heat the nearby houses?" Is Manhattan one of those places with neighbourhood steam pipes? That would be an ideal location!
but we already saw the proof of concept! that means like 90% of the work is already done, right?
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
but we already saw the proof of concept! that means like 90% of the work is already done, right?
yes, I know a bunch of parents who do it
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
yes, I know a bunch of parents who do it
As for doing it yourself, check your contract. If you engaged them as a broker, there might be a penalty fee if they find you a mortgage but you go direct, and it's probably more than their regular fee.
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
As for doing it yourself, check your contract. If you engaged them as a broker, there might be a penalty fee if they find you a mortgage but you go direct, and it's probably more than their regular fee.
It varies. Sometimes they get the fee from you, sometimes commission from the lender (which makes the lender charge you more than if you went direct). Maybe the "lower rate" is just them offering you the choice between paying them directly vs paying commission.
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It varies. Sometimes they get the fee from you, sometimes commission from the lender (which makes the lender charge you more than if you went direct). Maybe the "lower rate" is just them offering you the choice between paying them directly vs paying commission.
I don't know but my mum told me it's next to cleanaeclyness
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I don't know but my mum told me it's next to cleanaeclyness
I feel like the person who chose the axes on this diagram must have been traumatised by a maths teacher as a child.
November 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I feel like the person who chose the axes on this diagram must have been traumatised by a maths teacher as a child.
When I tell people that all of the British Isles is north of Vancouver, the reactions are 50/50 split between "of course it is; you call that trivia?" and "omg this explains so much"
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
When I tell people that all of the British Isles is north of Vancouver, the reactions are 50/50 split between "of course it is; you call that trivia?" and "omg this explains so much"