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The CEO/founder as the L1 support is not the flex it may appear to be. As a user, if the CEO/founder is answering my questions, I honestly will wonder if this is a one man fly by n…

You hit the nail on the head. The rest of the world yearns for a phone that is cheap, has many years of updates, and not directly subject to US government control. Motorola on Grap…

The keyword in "Software as a Service" is not Software; it's the Service. In the early days, the tagline for Salesforce is "No Software". It's secret recipe is this: your sales tea…

The typical GPU cloud machine will have 8 H100s in a box. I didnt check your math but if a single machine needs 32 square meter radiator, 200 machines will probably be the size com…

I was listening to a podcast featuring Gavin Baker and he went on and on about models being defined in generations, and we will be moving from Blackwell generation to Rubin generat…

Because big companies can crush competition, either via lobbying for government regulations, acquiring the competitors, or driving the competition out of business by offering somet…

On paper, Google should never have allowed the ChatGPT moment to happen ; how did a then non-profit create what was basically a better search engine than Google? Google suffers fro…

Does anybody actually work with H100s and the like? Their failure rate is so high, I dont understand why anybody will even consider it feasible to put the machines in orbit or even…

During my army days, the sergeant major always seem to know where we would fail to clean during inspection standbys, eg the top rim of doors. Part of it is a hazing ritual, but it …

Despite his public persona, I read recently Obama is actually quite aloof and didnt have the patience to charm the politicians in person.

Even though I worked for companies that killed Sun, I never stopped admiring the foundational work the company was doing, which was not just cool, but critical for technological pr…

Most religions have the concept of ritual cleanliness for thousands of years, esp touching dead bodies make them unclean and yet at some point, doctors have to be reminded to wash …

That's the fundamental problem right there. You have no problem accepting eg a treatment can only work on a man, but not on a woman. But modern medicine have no concept of a yin bo…

The unspoken part is the human mind is a big part in health, and treatments that does nothing medically but fools the human mind can work wonders too. There is a lot we do not unde…

The fundamental problem is TCM acknowledges individual differences that cannot be measured or even dont exist in the eyes of modern medicine, eg identical twins with different diet…

I am biased as an ethnic Chinese, but I feel modern medicine is afraid that it's approach, the sum of parts empiricism may be incomplete, in that we dont understand all the parts y…

I always believed that the AI/LLM/ML hysteria is misapplied to software engineering... it just happens to be a field adjacent to it, but not one that can very well apply it. Medici…

AI code assistants are amazing when you start from zero and just need a 80% working prototype. But once you start trying to refine the product from there, that's where the automati…

Cant watch from my location, just want to know if he is the inspiration for the blind character in my favourite movie, Contact.

As someone who was working on Itanium systems at the time, I can confidently say that "consumers" never had a chance to choose Itanium. It was only available on server hardware and…

"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." ― Voltaire

I'm an overseas Chinese and can read Chinese but not keeping up with modern slang and 暴雷 means to me what you see in the translation... a thunderbolt?

Bigco creates a VR/AR/Metaverse seemingly for entertainment but really is gathering data of the "guests", esp how they will behave when they think nobody is watching and/or judging…

Amazon in particular has RSUs 80% vesting only in the 3rd and 4th years resulting in these spectacular TCs.

You have rediscovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth%E2%80%93share_matrix