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I wish this was true in the Bay Area. 5-MeO-DMT does not seem to be available and it’s supposedly a unique experience.

ECC is _not_ too expensive to use in hardware data paths. The existence proof of this is almost every medium to high end NPU has end to end ECC.

I think you've not experienced one of the real downturns. There isn't always a golden parachute for most of the people involved.

Othr than bubble $, not really. The true "golden time" was the 1980s. Creation of Cisco, Sun and SGI, and so many other things (like the personal computer), all new, incredible ene…

There isn’t unlimited funding. That’s temporary and it’s going to be great when it runs out.

No. You are thinking of the ibm Mach-kernel “workplace OS” which descended from the os/2 interaction once IBM and Microsoft broke up. NT was entirely a Microsoft project. They hire…

Repeat or not this is wonderful.

Wow that rings a bell. The lack of end to end ECC protection in some packet paths on very high end ASICs is something I just can’t get over.

He has engaged in a ton of bullshit marketing for years.

The Russians signed it and then completely ignored the agreement. That is an objective fact and has nothing to do with the rest of the cultural relativism you're engaging in. Whata…

Google would have to start selling them (the real ones, complete with interconnect) to third parties. If google does that, though, Nvidia is done. Unlike AMD, Google can actually s…

Nvidia's moat is the IBM, Microsoft moat: I am about to spend $20M, if I buy anything other than Nvidia, and things go wrong, I am going to get blamed, and if things go right I wil…

Their "own" as in built by Marvell and Broadcom. Especially Trainium but also TPU4.

I doubt we can even track all of the chip production capacity.

A lot of it relies on what is effectively "the AI will be so smart it can solve anything" magic.

The Soviet Union systematically ignored the BWC. There's tons of evidence.

Blade servers have been doing this for 25+ years.

Until you get cancer. Survivalist fantasies aren’t realistic.

Being able to punish and control others, especially sexual exploitation, is a huge part of the draw. You need lots of slaves for that.

There's also the story "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird" by Sonya Dorman in the first Dangerous Visions which is like this, in a way.

Are you familiar with Elon Musk's endless, repeated and obvious lies for the last decade?

A shocking number of the neocloud teams have exactly one skill set: raising money. A few of them also have locked in power agreements. Almost none of them have the expertise to bui…

No. xAI is buying Nvidia, not using Tesla chips.

Are you implying that it might be exploited by unethical tech bros looking to build data sets?

Anyone who would voluntarily work for Musk when he went obviously has things going on that aren't great.