CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@AVincentInSpace @munin "here you can see our incredibly-rapid DAU growth, and here's another chart showing our industry-leading estimation error per unit of compute"

@AVincentInSpace @munin "i'm sure we can improve the accuracy only after we've gained enough developer mindshare"

@munin `return "1 second";`

you didn't specify how good the solution needed to be to _ship_, only to be an "innovative new product"

@erincandescent @mcc @artemist @kasperd there are definitely ways to make this work on linux specifically (e.g. non-PIE statically-linked stub which blocks out the address space you want to reserve before loading into a more "normal" environment)

WINE has a.... poorly-documented and apparently not required "preloader" which does something vaguely of this nature

@whitequark inb4 you discover the oldschool _parallel_ NOR commands?

@whitequark no we did quite a few already (might be the first with vivado tho)

hey it's faster than qemu on M1

@whitequark according to one benchmark, it has some strange CPU memory bandwidth issues ( https://chipsandcheese.com/p/van-gogh-amds-steam-deck-apu )

but overall still performs quite well for the "ultra-mobile" (do they still use that term?) device class. doesn't throttle for no reason, for one

@whitequark fwiw we quite like it, but we also think the form factor is being *very* underutilized (as far as we understand it, due to limitations of the Gamer️ middleware ecosystem)

notably: trackpad ~= mouse, *not* thumbsticks! (this *used* to be a huge part of valve marketing materials, but they've been repeating it less and less)

we're also a heavy user of "flick stick + gyro", but that one might be divisive

on the "platform" level, it's a rare x86 device that supports USB DRD, if you enjoy cursedness (also top example of giving a shit: all the kernel support is enabled and shipped even though this function isn't used by the rest of the software stack)

@whitequark the software stack has some amount of Gamer Jank (especially if you want to actually play games), but the bulk of the advantage seems to come directly from "not being gratuitously dgaf terrible"

@whitequark works

it comes with distrobox for your convenience

@skinnylatte you probably know this, but for anybody else reading: fremont has one of the most notable concentrations of afghan americans in the US. this dates back to the soviet era

@whitequark unless you're talking about the principle of the thing, in which case that just feels like typical aliexpress

@whitequark huh, we're normally somewhat desensitized to ESLisms, but we were curious enough once you've mentioned it and..... this is english's fault, as far as we can tell!

doing a reverse machine translation yields a rather directly-corresponding "请理解" which *is* literally "[please] [understand/comprehend]" but would idiomatically be "please be understanding"

because the copula in english is weird!