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Series A does not require $1M/year. That's just for low-tier stuff.

I’ve never understood the notion that YC is a good deal on the seed. Traditional series a VC, which I did, was far more capital for the same eventual percentage. You’re going to do a venture round. If 125k or whatever is significant to you, I guess it makes sense.

This insight is more familiarly stated as:

take an existing budget line item

do not try and combine line items

do not cross operational boundaries in the customer

A rare exception but also an exception in many, many ways, and a sort of hilarious situation that the UX people who use it almost exclusively produce terrible, dumbed down interfaces.

The final sentence is very sad. Fuck Alzheimer’s.

I think it’s actually that designers as a group feel like they should not have to understand the product they are designing. This is why the modern uis are so minimal and lacking in features for people who actually use the product in a way that is deeper than trivial.

Imagine a current era designer trying to design Photoshop without just copying an existing system. It would be useless.

You remember mushrooms after.

The h100 is $80k.

A general rule for life is that companies making a big deal about military grade encryption or about how they are affiliated with Nordic countries are scams.

They really weren't beyond basic grappling. By the time The Art of War was written, everyone was using swords, knives, clubs, etc.

s/fracturing/having to use older libraries in the existing manner/

often dipped in batter/corn starch

LLMs are like measles for engineers. Their hard-earned immunity to bullshit is reset.

The RUR thing is basically because that specific example is used as an example of interesting etymology.

My apple support experiences have been very good. I don't know that at all.

And dropbox etc. based

not even within 2 orders of magnitude.

Very few people actually know how to provision and manage a lossless Ethernet fabric and I’d wager someone who had literally never touched infiniband would have an easier time accomplishing it from zero with IB than with Ethernet on real vendor gear.

Ethernet has so, so many gotchas. Maybe if it was a layer 3 only network it would work. Maybe.

Yes.

Not everyone likes squashed/rebase workflows and it's frustrating to have to police people. A lot of groups use a workflow where all commits to branches of global interest are strictly pull requests.

For those who are in this situation, consider that what you can do is test _only_ merge commits - that is, put something like this into a script:

    if git log -1 --pretty=%B | grep -q 'Merge pull request'; then
       # tests here
       exec the_actual_test.sh
    else
       exit 125
    fi

... then "git bisect run script.sh". This skips the intermediates and only tests merge waypoints.

Edit: someone below notes --first-parent option, which basically accomplishes the same thing.

Are you saying that their claims that they can teach people to levitate are true?

https://www.npr.org/2016/06/13/481845003/a-childhood-of-tran...

There are plenty of online resources about the cult aspects of TM if you actually look.

I was at one of SGI's competitors and we had teams doing cheap HW - ATi and other cards, like IBM's GPUs at the time - and yet the company as a whole was like "ALL GOOD LET'S KEEP BUILDING MASSIVE CUSTOM GRAPHICS SYSTEMS!"

They were as dead as SGI in the same timeframe.

details?

The announced Grace-Hopper chip appears to use a CXL or Arm-specific-CXL-alike

The Remembrance of Earth's Past series as a whole is also pretty terrible. Interesting concepts here and there, awful characters and writing, terrible convenient plot elements.

Yes.

Yep. This. It’s impressive how communication is instantaneous, unimpeded, complete and transparent in economics.

Those things aren’t even true in a 500 person company let alone an economy.

Because the current operating mode for almost all companies is a focus on shorter and shorter term results?

Because while there is a place for some hands on developers at such a place that is not most of the staff? The Manhattan project hired a lot of engineers but none of them were the design leads.

The latest one is also just more lambdas. Like that’s impressive but DWDM itself took a decade+ after gear was introduced.

Most of the time it’s easier to just add another few dozen fibers when laying cables.

I’m not so sure it will matter much. The earth is 42ms across at light speed, 66ms if traversing a great circle.

Network hops are notoriously slow. In the datacenter the best I have ever seen is 200ns or so per packet which is very rare, most in DC hops are closer to 3-9 usec (especially modular chassis); then you hit the routers. With moderate congestion your routing hops are going to be twice that or more ignoring queuing, and you are likely six hops at least between two points in each direction.

The hollow core stuff mostly will jot help since it gains with distance, but distance means more hops on average, so we are talking about an application where low latency is required but distances are high (where the improvement applies) but the minimum latency achievable is still tens of ms.

It is interesting technology but I think it’s more interesting for hypothetical materials savings than for latency improvement.

One of the underappreciated reasons both Bell Labs and PARC worked was they actually hired a lot of people who had already established themselves. One of the problem with young researchers, no matter how nobly minded, is that they will play the game. A PARC today would have almost no chance to avoid becoming a trend following mess.

This is part of how they avoided the ROI catastrophe (researchers with enough cred could argue that there was a long term potential) and the publish or perish issues.