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bilbyx··on Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit
Stock price alone doesn't tell the full story. Pat Gelsinger was brought in to fix long-term structural issues at Intel - things like rebuilding its foundry competitiveness and securing leading-edge node capabilities. These aren't quick fixes and takes years to pay off. Yes, the TSMC discount issue hurt, but that also speaks to broader industry tensions and strategic missteps that predates Gelsinger. Letting him go before the turnaround had a chance to work seems shortsighted.
bilbyx··on Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit
I felt like Intel was slowly making progress, but the board was too impatient and let Pat Gelsinger go too soon. I don't understand why Lip-Bu Tan would be a better choice than Gelsinger.
bilbyx··on Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit
I agree that the bean counters from McDonnell Douglas played a big role in Boeing's decline. but it's important to remember that the merger was a negotiated one, not a hostile takeover. Still, it's sad to see how many once-great engineering companies - like DEC, HP, SUN - have been brought down by poor leadership.
bilbyx··on Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit
Looks like Intel is going the same way as Boeing - focus on only shareholder value.
bilbyx··on Does current AI represent a dead end?
I hope people will come to the realisation that we have created a good plagiarizer at best. The "intelligence" originates from the human beings who created the training data for these LLMs. The hype will die when reality hits.
bilbyx··on Ask HN: How much are you willing to use a "worse" product to promote competition
Yes, I have bought many RISC-V dev boards even though you get more bang for buck using ARM ones. Similarly for AMD GPUs.
bilbyx··on Kurzweil: We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045
I think there is a decrease in intelligence after reading this article.
bilbyx··on ECC RAM on AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs
How about just bringing your cell phone close to the DIMMs to trigger errors? That would be easy to do.
bilbyx··on How China's “debt traps” work
Not this China "debt trap" BS again. Deborah Brautigam had unbunked this a long time ago.
bilbyx··on Ukraine war YouTuber: My Channel is being held hostage [video]
If you seek the truth, you will find it. In fact, a majority of people in this world are on the side of the Russians, despite what you were led to believe. A good starting point is to listen to Professor John Mearsheimer.
bilbyx··on Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
I would trust a proven security research group's analysis and evidence of backdoors rather than CNN or WSJ that has a track record of lies and biases. They always cite government sources or experts without provided a single shred of evidence. I have read a lot of articles in relations to the so called "Chinese backdoor" and the "evidence" was either the equipment contains default root or admin passwords or the software has vulnerabilities. Last time I checked, most if not all vendors have default admin accounts and passwords so you can configure the device and change the initial password. Similarly I have not come across any network equipment software without security vulnerabilities. If you can refer me to an article with conclusive evidence please send me the link. This would be much appreciated.
bilbyx··on For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara (1992)
I had switched all my customers from CentOS 6 to FreeBSD many years ago, before systemd was introduced into RHEL. They have been running solidly for almost 9 years now, all on various DELL PowerEdge rack mounted servers.
bilbyx··on Musk suggests making Taiwan a ‘special administrative zone’ similar to Hong Kong
It would be good to backup your claim with the exact location of their statement regarding Australia. I could not find it in the link your provided.
bilbyx··on Musk suggests making Taiwan a ‘special administrative zone’ similar to Hong Kong
Can you show me the exact link where the reference can be found?
bilbyx··on Musk: Tesla Full Self Driving Will Release by End of 2023
Surely he can come up with another hare brain idea to grab attention. FSD is getting old.
bilbyx··on Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem
I've had more Microsoft Office 365 outages than Fastmail outages in the past 10+ years, and I'm sure Microsoft has a much deeper pocket than Fastmail.

Things break. More things will break in the future due to increased complexity, brittle network automation processes and poorly written code. You can mitigate failures to a certain extent, but you can't guarantee 100% uptime, even with a triple redundant system. Every business decision is a compromise among various constraints.

bilbyx··on Atari 800XL Remake
I started with a VIC 20, then a Commodore 64, then an Amiga 1000, before getting my first PC running DOS. The Amiga was the best computer hands down. Shame about the Commodore board idiots. Always love the work of Jack Tramiel and Chuck Peddle.
bilbyx··on Brutal week sees Tesla shares lose $80B in market value
Tesla cars are just overpriced and poorly manufactured, and definitely not luxury. Their FSD software does not work as advertised. There are much better EVs out there from other manufacturers at a fraction of the price.
bilbyx··on Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine
It's disappointing that JetBrains did not move out of Ukraine when the country started a war of aggression against the Russian people in the eastern breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, where thousands of Russians were killed since 2014. Why the double standard?
bilbyx··on Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine
Brian Berletic from The New Atlas had already supported the claim that the US administration wanting to destablise and destroy China using official US government documents as evidence many times over. The truth is out in the open for all to find. The question is, do you want to know the truth.
bilbyx··on Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine
lol. The Communist Party of China is made up of millions of Chinese, so how are the two not the same? And no, the Chinese government has never pushed its ideology onto the world, unlike the US.
bilbyx··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
That's exactly my point. Get your own shit working before wasting time on another company's shit.
bilbyx··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
Tesla software engineers still have not managed to get their FSD shit working, I don't see how this would help Tesla nor Twitter.
bilbyx··on Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
And Apple is no longer the cool company it used to be. Their decline in hardware and software quality was what made me stopped buying Macs after being a fan for the longest time.
bilbyx··on The Internet Is Debunking Russian War Propaganda in Real Time
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mfv2M9q8vc

bilbyx··on Punishing Putin: How Biden could cut Russia off from world tech
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-go...
bilbyx··on Did Russia Invade Ukraine?
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-go...
bilbyx··on Apple is ready to admit it was wrong about the future of laptops
It appears that Apple has lost its "courage".
bilbyx··on Ask HN: Why can't I call myself “a Japanese”?
Similar to how native Japanese speakers often drop particles from their speech, it sounds more natural to say "I'm Japanese" rather than "I'm a Japanese". BTW I'm not American, but Australian. "I'm Japanese" sounds fine to me.
bilbyx··on Pharo 9
Lots in the embedded space.
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