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 @ganonmaster @thomasfuchs I remember thinking this as a child after reading the story of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in a computer magazine!   @ganonmaster @thomasfuchs "society" has nothing to do with it. don't blame everyone for the lousy behavior of a handful of rich sociopaths who've captured the media @walruslifestyle I just see this as the net result of the system we exist in. Please don't misinterpret my post as an indictment of all the people who make up our society. There are obvious nuances to be found that a simple statement like that one doesn't express. @ganonmaster OK i understand. i just wonder what the value is in implicating society at large when it'd be not so hard to name individuals. if anything i feel like society pushes us in the direction of not naming names especially when they're the names of the powerful. but i get it.  @asdflushy @ganonmaster I never get over how good humans are at solving certain super hard problems I feel the same every time a techbro tries to tell me a shit 1080p camera is better than a human eye. Not just at resolving an image but for image processing as well. The crass and gross understanding of how good even a poor human is at doing stuff is why these people think they can replace them, or pay them slave wages.  @thomasfuchs My wife was volunteering at Lighthouse for the Blind and one of the other volunteers had a thing he wore on his head that was an interactive wayfinding tool that described everything he saw and read signs. It was mindboggling. (It's gotten better since.)  @glennf @thomasfuchs could you provide me more info on Lighthouse for the Blind? Is it this one? https://lighthouse-sf.org/   @DeltaWye @thomasfuchs Apparently the normal version is OpenCL and ROCm. Still, batch computing on the GPU when you aren't using it for graphics is getting a lot of power out of the hardware that we just didn't utilize before. @Raccoon @DeltaWye @thomasfuchs OpenCL was an early attempt at an open standard. The current-gen standand is Compute Shaders, which is integrated into Vulkan, Metal, and DX12. The wgpu (rust) and dawn (C++) libraries provide cross-platform access to this interface.  @thomasfuchs on the one hand, i don't want to be *that* sort of gatekeepy hipster asshole, but on the other i end up being that sort of gatekeepy hipster asshole all the time just because time and again i'm forced to learn that the best sign that something is actually (still) good is if nobody knows about it
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@thomasfuchs Society glorifies the stories of successful salesmen, not the engineers whose innovations they sold.