Re:Today is my first day at Oxide Computer Company
by steveklabnik on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:30PM
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My personal take on this bit is that it's not something that customers care about directly, but impedes overall quality, which they do care about. We'll just see how it all goes, of course!
I don't have the energy to watch a 90 minute talk, but some skipping around finds a bit more detail about what is in the plan:
https://youtu.be/vvZA9n3e5pc?t=1299
The theme seems to be giving the operator of the computer a lot more control - eliminating opaque binary blobs, exposing the hardware more directly, etc. I can't tell if this is a particular bee in the founders' bonnets, or a real market demand, or if they know about some scary threat they can't talk about.
Whilst this is definitely cool, and something that will get a lot of people on HN super pumped, it doesn't sound like something any company i have worked at would really care about. Unless these machines also deliver significantly better performance. But then, those companies were not hyperscalers.