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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @12:42AM (#41921885)
Qualcomm should put a giant bid on SiFive tomorrow, to remind ARM that its not unassailable
In the bay area it’s mildly different as its known that the wages are high
Re:The IPv6 Transition on Sunday October 20, 2024 @05:31PM (#41898649)
Nintendo should really enable IPv6 on the Switch to help with this
Lots of companies need skills they don't know how to ask for. So they advertise for the wrong things. For example a medium size real estate firm probably needs someone to deal with the computers. Its a grind but cold reach out can go far
New grads are a lot of work to train
I was told they get harder to remove when you’re older
Re:Nvidia Stock Rises. AMD's New AI Chip Is Not Competitive on Saturday October 12, 2024 @05:22PM (#41822756)
Depends on what yield AMD has, they may be able to undercut that if aiming for marketshare rather than revenue.

The marginal cost of each chip is dollars. The 5 digit prices for H100s are just margins to be undercut

Re:Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA on Saturday October 12, 2024 @03:16PM (#41821630)
1st stage reusability matters more so they can reach a cost model similar to F9, second stage is really just bonus.

If they never get the second stage working with reusability they could strip the design down to a simple S2

Re:Are retrocomputers best left on or off? on Saturday October 12, 2024 @12:56AM (#41816529)
Power them from a pure sine wave inverter connected to a battery thats being charged. Aka a good UPS
Re:Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009) on Friday October 11, 2024 @12:38AM (#41806184)
Its not laundering to buy gold and store it, same with stashing USD
Re:$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst on Friday October 11, 2024 @12:37AM (#41806180)
The real money is in renting infiniband clusters, not individual gpus/machines

If you look at lambda one click clusters they state $4.49/H100/hr

Re:$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst on Friday October 11, 2024 @12:34AM (#41806171)
The PCIE has much lower perf than even a 1x slice of an SXM
Re:Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:37PM (#41801888)
Im surprised Adobe themselves dont try to help with this.

Adobe would be able to try a vertical integration play

Re:(Re)Using rustc components in gccrs on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @05:36PM (#41782061)
Its their itch to scratch, and its good to have an independent implementation anyway
Re:Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009) on Sunday October 06, 2024 @05:29PM (#41760490)
I think its meant as not spooking the people in countries with unreliable currencies that hoard USD like one might gold bars
China and Tawain do trade despite the situation
I’m looking at them, they’re nice.. be more specific?
Charity from yet another private company is very different from a taxpayer funded public service
The should raise the taxes to account for land size to make it fair
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:00PM (#41733130)
ACM/IEEE should really run a name allocation service
Re:Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture on Monday September 30, 2024 @01:36AM (#41693880)
Too many people love smallpox, especially the younger croud who missed the early 2000s
Re:Apple, These Macs Aren't 'Obsolete' on Saturday September 28, 2024 @10:11PM (#41684325)
Its like asking how long a car can last. Apple makes it difficult to continue using them
Desert land is already cheap, energy storage prices will come down, its just a question of how much. Grid storage can take weight penalties that typical battery users cant
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:23AM (#41666234)
Removing access the the courts results in alternative forms of justice
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:21AM (#41666220)
Ban the advertising of betting, like cigarettes in many countries
Re:Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can't Save Them on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:04AM (#41659224)
Why would they want that
Re:Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE) on Monday September 23, 2024 @01:11PM (#41628293)
Is it missing a license?
Re:Gandi's .com renewal price is up 60% on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:11PM (#41618798)
Do you have a source for this?
They’re paid to support the CEOs hunch, so it’s credible to take action on the hunch
Re:Support for IPv6 on Friday September 20, 2024 @06:20PM (#41606020)
Its the $$ cost of big nat hardware, compared with dumber routers

If someone is torrenting behind the NAT you can get exhaustions

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