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New comment by migueldeicaza in "AMA: I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) & Author of New Bestseller Incorruptible"

migueldeicaza — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:11:36 +0000

Wow I didn’t know that.

That is deeply disappointing.

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

migueldeicaza — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:25:27 +0000

SunOS 4 did not have /proc, that was a BSD-based system.

New comment by migueldeicaza in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

migueldeicaza — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:55:34 +0000

Destroying the world is cheap compared to the cost to humanity.

Now they need to share the cost that we have burdened the world and ourselves with.

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Sopwith – 1984 Game (2000)"

migueldeicaza — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:07:21 +0000

Did the site get slashdotted?

New comment by migueldeicaza in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

migueldeicaza — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:05:59 +0000

I look forward for you to post a rationale for the site reliably for these 6,000 extensions.

Not clear why it needs to scan for Amazon image downloaders, Rufus conversation extracters, Amazon delivery scheduler, Product Scanner, or pharmacy operations.

That was a two minute search here:

https://browsergate.eu/extensions/

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Swift 6.3"

migueldeicaza — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:03:11 +0000

Swift on Windows has been part of the official distribution for a long time:

https://www.swift.org/install/windows/

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Libxml2 Enterprise Edition (AGPL, from the previous maintainer)"

migueldeicaza — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:51:05 +0000

Correct, not many folks understand this.

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza"

migueldeicaza — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:11:05 +0000

I don’t distrust rust, I think it is great for some things. But I write code to enjoy myself and swift hits the spot between safety and satisfaction for me.

Your satisfaction might be different, enjoy it!

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza"

migueldeicaza — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:07:56 +0000

Oh noes! Will someone ever figure out how to open a file on windows? I do t think we have the technology.

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]"

migueldeicaza — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:05:05 +0000

Scrubbed the talk, saw “M$” in a slide, flipped the bozo bit

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Fluid Glass"

migueldeicaza — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:29:57 +0000

Brilliant - I need this

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips"

migueldeicaza — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:31:07 +0000

The CUDA moat is real for general purpose computing and for researchers that want a swiss army knife, but when it comes to well known deployments, for either training or inference, the amount of stuff that you need from a chip is quite limited.

You do not need most of CUDA, or most of the GPU functionality, so dedicated chips make sense. It was great to see this theory put to the test in the original llama.cpp stack which showed just what you needed, the tiny llama.c that really shows how little was actually needed and more recently how a small team of engineers at Apple put together MLX.

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips"

migueldeicaza — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:23:20 +0000

TSMC manufactures the MAIA 100:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-maia-for-the-er...

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips"

migueldeicaza — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:22:23 +0000

They do have such a dedicated chip, the MAIA 100 chip which is an in-house chip, and it is a chip that was designed in the era of transformers, and this is what is being discussed in the interview.

New comment by migueldeicaza in "GNU Midnight Commander"

migueldeicaza — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:51:55 +0000

Good memory!

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Native visionOS platform support"

migueldeicaza — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:35:02 +0000

There is no need to have Apple conform to it, you can just expose the functionality, like this plugin does

https://github.com/jamuus/OpenVision/tree/main

Which was used by a community effort to bring VisionOS support to Godot:

https://github.com/jamuus/godot-vision

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Playing in the Creek"

migueldeicaza — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:00:46 +0000

Vonnegut said it best:

https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2017/11/18/we-are-here-...

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Xogot – Godot for iPad"

migueldeicaza — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:09:42 +0000

The terms have changed gradually over the years and now we are boiling IDEs on the iPad.

My plan is to ship something that is both a great iPadOS app and operates within the confines of the AppStore restrictions.

I find restrictions as a powerful motivator to think about a problem differently. Lots of great art (and software) is great when it explores and brings to light what’s possible with the limitations of a medium.

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Xogot – Godot for iPad"

migueldeicaza — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:00:16 +0000

I still use .net :-)

But this port could not have been done with Xamarin due to the lack of SwiftUI integration.

New comment by migueldeicaza in "Announcing the Tech for Palestine Incubator"

migueldeicaza — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:01:13 +0000

Yes