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You probably need $100K of hardware to run Sora.

Full quality Sora yeah probably needs serious hardware. distilled version on a 4090 though? maybe. danjl earlier in this thread made a solid case for just distributing the weights and letting people run locally. the SD/ComfyUI crowd already does this daily. OpenAI won't because deepfakes. they already had a mess WITH server-side moderation. open weights with zero moderation, good luck with that PR.

> OpenAI won't because deepfakes.

Do you think someone would spend 5 or 6 figures on a license and hardware to create deepfakes?


People pay for OnlyFans accounts; why not this?

Most people just want emulation which was solved a while ago. Recompilation is mostly for modders which is a very small community.

The whole decomp and recomp scene has really started popping off this past year in the emulation community. The N64 recomp tool was the first one to really get interest going.

PowerPC doesn't have the organic ecosystem that ARM has.

IBM wasted plenty of effort on Itanic but at least they were smart enough not to cancel any of their architectures.

Probably Intel and AMD aren't willing to do this deal but Arm is.

IBM actually owns x86 rights still. They last used it to do something similar called Lx86 which ran x86 VMs on POWER CPUs.

Developing a good x86 CPU is far beyond IBM's abilities. The rights aren't enough.

Price competitive to AMD and intel? Sure. Abilities? There is no magic, the Tellium and Power11 are each as complicated as something like Epyc and the former has both a longer and taller compatibility totem pole than x86.

Anyway this post was never about building ARM or x86 CPUs, the point is they could have done a zArch fast path for x86 for "free", so there is some other strategy at play to consider doing it with ARM.



They could have had file permissions. They could have had a package manager instead of third-party installers.

Also note that Microsoft Office has a long history of not following Windows rules. Microsoft didn't even set a good example.


In the era of Windows 95, having a network connection was still a rarity. Expecting modern systems to have package management and sandboxing mechanisms would have been 20 years ahead of their time.

They had. Sort of. MS-DOS was a single user system. See attrib for details.

Maybe other runtimes should copy dynamic workers.

I wish we would admit that you can't have it all. You can't have a product that is open source with neutral foundation governance and also have that same product be de facto proprietary. People have been pushing this bait-and-switch business model for too long.

Conversely, I feel like a company with a cracker jack support team to match their sales team could profitably sell support for ALSA if they wanted to.

ALSA?


Thanks. I thought this was superseded a long time ago, but apparently the newer sound architectures build on top of it.

It was not really proprietary though? I don't like Collabora Office at all as a product (sorry, and I have tried) and the branding situation is super messy (sorry but it's true) but all the code is online.

These guys do interesting work but note that it's all on an old obscure Atom processor. I guess they can't hack any Core processors.

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