SecretDreams
Sometimes naming is just naming. No further depth or symbolism.
Skylake is when things started to go south, outwardly facing. But it was even long before that. The rot happened in the foundry side and it grew for a very long time, silently, because of how little competition existed.
Everything thereafter was pain.
1) I hope they learn some hard lessons about security and what should be exposed to the internet vs LAN.
2) These are some evil ass people doing this shit.
If they hadn't fucked up their process and gotten complacent from the absolute lack of competition in the space, they'd be fine today. And, if they were fine today, they'd have had money to continue to support more money-losing/commodity endeavours that could have had good payoffs as long as the fraction of their expenses weren't meaningful to the business (e.g. mobileye, altera, 3dxpoint, Intel arc).
The main issue is they squandered the golden goose and then all other endeavours that were worth doing but riskier also suffered.
It was just a lot of bad management and bean counters going unchecked for a very long time. Their board is equally at fault for signing off on the destruction of the business for so long.
Intel pioneered dram, but that was a long time ago, agreed.
Their more recent exit from 3d xpoint was very unfortunate in timing, though. I think that could have been a very cool technology to use in the current age.
Doesn't manufacture anymore*.
This company has been run so far into the ground over the last 15 years. Such a fall from grace, with so many decisions that just seem to never be correct.
Bubbles don't mean the tech won't one day be great and materialize into something great.
They mean there is a mismatch in valuations/equity/debt to revenue today, putting far too much emphasis far too quickly on potential revenue some time tomorrow.
We cannot solve/tackle climate change when we don't even have functional governments that actually try to genuinely support their citizens needs.
They're here, too. Just quiet about their beliefs so they can talk about their passions. I'm mixed on this because we're giving a subset of bad people a safe space to talk about their not-bad parts, which is adjacent to giving them a pass. I don't know how to reconcile this because I'm also not the thought police.
In some ways, I wish everyone wore the basic foundations of their heart on their sleeve so I could at least filter out the evil from my life more readily and try to make space for some people with bad ideas, but a willingness to change.
A viscous cycle all around!
I think we have different definitions of pleasure.
This is a relatively dry place for any kind of conversation other than hyper logic conversation devoid of empathy or humour.
On certain tech topics, it can be very informative. On anything where there is a conflict between the topic and how the base makes money, there's a lot of down voting and sad rhetoric. As a result, you rarely get to discuss the harms of AI or certain oligarchs, e.g. musk, zuck, bezos, Russia, Israel.
This is a place mostly for reinforcing your own beliefs, rather than finding new ones, unless it's around a very mild topic.
That seems arguably pretty cheap compared to the human alternatives.
I do get super annoyed at how specific you've got to be with these tools. They are like almost like malicious compliance geniuses lol.
The whole world has sub fatigue. I can't sub to everything.
Segway: make the internet itself a paid subscription and then have a profit sharing model for all content generators. Ban ads. Shit, make it something covered through taxes that governments around the world support and have billionaires subsidize it more heavily.
This is not unlike the strategy the US employed to win the space race after they were quite behind in said race. It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off! (I'm not confident since I don't find the CEO to be anything more than a margin chaser).
Energy input is just one portion of a businesses expenses.. even if this business was fully dark (all robots, since you're not going to get all your HQP to move to Africa), you still would like to have that business somewhat interconnected to the supply chain.
Many businesses won't exist long enough to hit the ROI needed to uproot to move to someplace extra sunny and to pay for the full install of the power required to be fully off grid.
I'm in the 14-15 camp w/ lighter form factors being worth the premium.
I tried below 13 after the trend of smaller laptops from a couple years back - I now don't believe anyone who tells me they're regularly productive on these smaller form factors lol.
At some point, you need cognitive dissonance to function and we see that pretty plainly on HN since the money in the space became very good.
Fixed that for you
The same reason they do when it comes to coding?
Take a big enough sample size of human opinions and there seems to be some convergence in the statistical ether.
Like, if we polled 100000 humans, what answer would we converge to?
Meta is the cigarette company of the modern era and if our historians are allowed to write a neutral take on this era, they will likely not be kind to meta.
25 bil is no where near enough for privacy damages, let alone what they'll have to deal with on the addiction damages down the road.
My first comment was just meant to highlight why* a certain car might pass all tests but have more injuries in real life. Another reason could be the nature of Tesla accidents, with people either driving silly or people sleeping in the car while it drives itself into a wall, e.g.
They engineer to robustly pass tests, seemingly without a lot of consideration of "beyond" the test. It's not uncommon for most OEMs to target the test metrics, but you can still make design choices along the way where you may recognize with EJ when there is a "design cliff" and you may avoid it.. if desired.
But they lacked a lot of the showmanship here.
You can basically engineer almost anything with enough money for a demo. It's a lot different to engineer something that'll actually get commercialized.
Sometimes I think this sub, being software heavy, downplays the achievements of their own field and overplays the achievements of other fields they lack experience in.