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> Across client and data center, I’ve directed our teams to define next-generation product families with clean and simple architectures, better cost structures and simplified SKU stacks. In addition, I have instituted a policy where every major chip design is reviewed and approved by me before tape-out. This discipline will improve our execution and reduce development costs.

One would hope they would figure out if a design was a good fit for the company well before tapeout. Ideally before they were done with the rtl.

If Careless People is to be believed, not even then. In that book Facebook was perfectly happy to have employees spend time in jail, as long as it wasn't Zuckerberg or Sandberg.

It would be interesting to see if the failure rate across time holds true after a rocket launch and time spent in space. My guess is that it wouldn’t, but that’s just a guess.

Plus when you have the kind of money that Zuck has, buying your way out of everything seems to work pretty well.

What choice do we have? Indeed, I would rather prefer that the companies that comprise the broad market embrace some form of ESG ethos, but that's clearly out of vogue these days. I vote to that extent, but I'm a breathtakingly small portion of the vote when it comes to corporate governance.

> “We’re at a new point in human history,” Wagner says. Up until the last decade, “the major drivers of biodiversity losses around the planet were really land degradation and land loss, habitat loss. But I think now that climate change is by far exceeding that.”

If that’s true, this is dire news indeed.

This is bizarre to me - my extended family live in the towns surrounding Massena, NY, and have for about four generations now. The area certainly has its perks, it can be very pretty and there is plenty of room for hunting, fishing and other such pursuits if one is so inclined. Houses are extremely inexpensive, as is a surprising amount of land if that’s what you want. Though the set who are actually farming has declined precipitously over the generations.

The article however rather oversells the economic opportunities of the area - the two best employers are a nearby Indian casino and the prison system, both of which have their drawbacks. Otherwise there is a reason why all the local farmland is slowly being occupied by the Amish, they’re a group that doesn’t care much about the lack of opportunity.

As you can guess, this has led to a big divergence in outcomes. My relatives who have found remote work are living like kings, and the ones who haven’t are really struggling.

I dunno why I’m writing this. I guess it’s just funny to see Massena written about. And Massena is the big city compared to the surrounding towns.

I agree, that line jumped out at me. They need the chopstick contraption, it isn’t available worldwide!

But I expect my insurer to be unreasonable about paying today.

It’s just that A) I didn’t choose this insurer, my employer did and on balance the total package isn’t such that I want a new employer and B) I expect pretty much all my available insurance companies to be unreasonable.

We could probably drive the cost down a bit by specializing in a delivery system (say, submarines) but I’m not a strategist and maybe those that are think it’s too risky. Certainly if we were to keep only one thing about the military it would be nuclear missiles.

Why do you say that? The strong impression I have is that Vance is agreeing with Trump because he has to in order to maintain any influence (and not get Pence'd), is there any indication he actually wants these Tariffs in the same way that Trump does?

I can assure you that the employees of Altria at least are not stigmatized in their community.

Another Schlock Mercenary fan? Or does this adage have many adherents?

Surely this is hyperbole? I usually have hundreds of tabs open on firefox.

It will be an interesting dynamic, FDA taking a turn to ban much more, EPA taking a turn to ban much less.

This 'it's only a meme' bit ignores the part where being pregnant has the potential to breathtakingly suck. It doesn't seem so strange that people would want to avoid that if given the option.

I’m very curious as to what the American likely pending increased scheme of tariffs will do for intel. It seems like they could plausibly be the vastly cheaper option by this time next year for US residents.

Is > For an invention to be patentable, the core inventive concept must be beyond the grasp of those with average powers of imagination.

Really the case? I had always interpreted the obviousness test as more ‘an average person familiar with the state of the art would not immediately think of the invention’, not that they never would.

Seems excellent, that will at the very least reduce hesitancy among my immediate family.

I agree completely. Anyone who spends even a cursory amount of time with a companion animal such as a dog or cat can see that they are emotional beings, and the notion that you can be emotional without also being conscious seems to strain credulity.

To an extent it tracks. No one wants their children to have fewer opportunities than they did, so a ‘rich’ person will probably have to plan on expensive tuitions and other activities. Obviously once you hit the ultra rich this is a rounding error, but for the middle class I see this dynamic at play.

I can afford one private school tuition, I can’t afford 3. Obviously that’s not a requirement for life, but I went to an expensive private school, do I not want my kids to have similar opportunities? Etc.

> Between 2018 and 2022, Nvidia built and opened two nearby office buildings, totaling over 1.2 million square feet. Those buildings, named Voyager and Endeavor (the former a reference to Star Trek and the latter a NASA space shuttle), were developed and owned by Nvidia and were not part of this recent sale

Seems like it’s not the palatial HQ, but something else.

If only it were possible to just turn it off and have it not exist! Facebook is a faucet of money, and were that Zuckerberg turned his off, one of his competitors or someone new would fill the void. Maybe they’d be better than he is, maybe not. Either way we can’t go back to 2000.

Midjourney hasn’t opened their models.

Yi-34B-200k has been one of my favorites over the past few months, so I’m glad to see this post, hopefully it holds a glimmer of the 34B’s performance.

Wouldn’t that make it easier to make fakes, if everyone could trivially look up what the serial number and features were supposed to be?

On one hand yes, on the other you can't buy without someone trying to sell. If someone is trying to sell after a disaster they presumably need the money more than they need title to destroyed land.

That’s interesting, I interpreted the article more positively. Certainly there will be massive disruptions and that’s not good. Ideally however goods including food should be produced where they can be economically created, not where they are subsidized. Given the scarcity of water in the west all the downstream users need to be paying as close to the proper price as possible.

It didn't blow up on the pad. They'll be happy to blow up dozens of these, hopefully incrementally perfecting the design each time.

It’s not strictly better. It has many advantages, but it’s heavier, larger, hotter, louder and more expensive, without the ability to detach controllers. Not to mention it lacks the ability to easily play Nintendo titles.

It’s better in many ways which many people care about, but it’s not strictly better.