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Re:Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard by jmward01 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:26PM (#49264729)
The 1980's US car industry comes to mind. Nearly wiped out because they refused to make efficient vehicles. SpaceX is arguably showing how a rethink towards efficient can take over an entire industry. I am sure there are strong examples in software as well but they aren't coming to mind.

I think when successful, optimization really just means 'finally built right' and people forget the ridiculously inefficient ways before.

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Re:Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard by sgc on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:41PM (#49265497)
I would argue about 30% of Apple's success was just from not being slow annoying bloatware. I could never stomach it, but I know a lot of people who basically rage-quit Windows for the Apple ecosystem. I did the same, but for Linux.
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