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Geohot is a smart guy full of hot air. He keeps claiming that problems have simple solutions and vow to fix it as a proof of how easy it is. Then he meets real

Geohot is a smart guy full of hot air. He keeps claiming that problems have simple solutions and vow to fix it as a proof of how easy it is. Then he meets reality and silently gives up within a few weeks. Every. Single. Time. See comma that still hasn't produced anything. See his stint at twitter where he claimed he'd turn everything around within weeks but gave up after 2 days. See the absolute bullshit that went on with his shitcoin, cheapETH. Now see this.

boringuser2 3y ago
His Twitter shit was ridiculous, imagine ever having beaen a software engineer and thinking you alone can universally out-compute MILLIONS of man hours of human brain compute into a project. Fucking audacity beyond words.
- giraffe-flavor 3y ago
  If you were a composer, you’d be Salieri.
  - boringuser2 3y ago
    Thanks!
  - foul 3y ago
    Salieri was a master of his craft in his era, the artistic father of Schubert and Beethoven. He had nothing to envy Mozart for, and for most of their lives Salieri was preferred for a lot of gigs for the emperor. Salieri's portrait in media is crazy because historical documents tell a very different story (the Mozart family was very much convinced of the existence of an Italian cabal putting down composers and directors who weren't Italian) until Salieri's senile delirium of stating that he poisoned Mozart, so you should call him Mozart, but I sense he doesn't fit neither of them.
    - boringuser2 3y ago
      Not much of a put down, nobody fits "neither of them".
      - foul 3y ago
        Computing is a very broad matter, sooooo maaaaaybeeeeee if you were Karpathy you could be compared?
  - red-iron-pine 3y ago
    you're taking your history from a pop-culture movie based on a book, both of which were of dubious historic value and designed to attract eyeballs.
parksoha 3y ago
> See comma that still hasn't produced anything. What do you mean by this?
- eeemmmooo 3y ago
  Comma.ai was his self driving car startup.
  - gamegoblin 3y ago
    Yes, but it has produced something -- in fact, it has produced the top rated ADAS system as rated by Consumer Reports: https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/consumer-reports-active-driving-assistance-systems-november-16-2020.pdf https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...
rohit89 3y ago
Comma and openpilot are doing fine and don't need George anymore. Don't think they will "win self driving cars" though.
- ergocoder 3y ago
  > Don't think they will "win self driving cars" though. The boldest and bravest prediction. Comma.ai wont win self-driving against Google and Tesla.
kotaKat 3y ago
There's a reason he earned the name 'egohot' many, many years ago, and he hasn't changed since.
- juunpp 3y ago
  "Feel free to close my issues", I'm too cool for this shit.
bko 3y ago
> See comma that still hasn't produced anything. What are you talking about? They actually shipped a product that has over 90 million miles driven, blowing past all competitors apart from Tesla. You can buy the product today, hook it up to your care and get a better lane assist than pretty much every other car company ships. Plus they're profitable. Compare that to dozens of self-driving startups that are basically vaporware or outright frauds. You can dislike the guy but you're delusional if you brush off comma.ai as not having produced anything.
- stuntkite 3y ago
  Yeah, Op is so off base here. I do think that George still gets astroturfed by Muskateers though. Possibly even Musk's paid for army, but I think they are still cool with each other. But people who wanna cuddle an Elon will just jump in and crap on George or Comma quick. He was for sure more than a bit manic when he debut Comma, but their tools work and they have been in quite a bit of use for a while and their new robot platform is pretty cool. I don't think self driving cars can really be solved in the US but whatever, I hear the Mercedes stuff is surprisingly good. I'm not a twitch guy buy I joined a stream he was doing one day where he was live coding SLAM. I've done a lot of work with slam and not only is he a very good programmer but while doing the work to an audience he was able to have a brief but compelling conversation with me about his strategy. If my girl knocks on the door to bring me coffee while I'm coding I lose my place. He's not involved with Comma much anymore and he's 100% right that Nvidia hasn't won the race yet. I worked at Nvidia on RAPIDS. From what I understand, they've gotten better but it's still a very traditional MS style company. CUDA is amazing and is something akin to x86 with it's ubiquity. It's the fastest and best to work with but is an albatross and it's being used to accelerate the development of it's replacements. I feel his pain with this AMD stuff. I bailed on them in 2018. They do not have the ability to ship real compute tooling. Also the myriad of ways we can now bridge to the browser with WebGPU and WebASM and Vulkan.... and FPGAs and next year photonic computing is going to start trickling in and then it's going to become. a flood. I think there are two fabs in the US. I plan to ship some test designs to SkyWater in August. With the end of globalization, photonics are going to be where we move quick. I like Geohot. I really enjoyed his punk ass spirit as a young guy and I think he's grown up to being a decent example of how to be a tech public figure. His soundcloud is dope. Not only does it have some good songs but a few of them are about valley inside baseball that has not ever been reported anywhere but his music. https://soundcloud.com/tomcr00se/ https://soundcloud.com/tomcr00se/
ergocoder 3y ago
> silently gives up He gave up loudly on his twitter in public space. > gave up after 2 days. More like several weeks. > See comma that still hasn't produced anything. It has produced something as other comments pointed out. It seems to me you are the one who is full of hot air.
tibbydudeza 3y ago
He just uncommented the forced login to twitter when you wanted to search for something - he then left saying "mission accomplished" then it became worse - they bought the forced login back and and now give a crappy rightwing leaning meme timeline featuring Elon's wisdom

boringuser2 3y ago

His Twitter shit was ridiculous, imagine ever having beaen a software engineer and thinking you alone can universally out-compute MILLIONS of man hours of human brain compute into a project. Fucking audacity beyond words.

giraffe-flavor 3y ago
If you were a composer, you’d be Salieri.
- boringuser2 3y ago
  Thanks!
- foul 3y ago
  Salieri was a master of his craft in his era, the artistic father of Schubert and Beethoven. He had nothing to envy Mozart for, and for most of their lives Salieri was preferred for a lot of gigs for the emperor. Salieri's portrait in media is crazy because historical documents tell a very different story (the Mozart family was very much convinced of the existence of an Italian cabal putting down composers and directors who weren't Italian) until Salieri's senile delirium of stating that he poisoned Mozart, so you should call him Mozart, but I sense he doesn't fit neither of them.
  - boringuser2 3y ago
    Not much of a put down, nobody fits "neither of them".
    - foul 3y ago
      Computing is a very broad matter, sooooo maaaaaybeeeeee if you were Karpathy you could be compared?
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  you're taking your history from a pop-culture movie based on a book, both of which were of dubious historic value and designed to attract eyeballs.

parksoha 3y ago

> See comma that still hasn't produced anything. What do you mean by this?

eeemmmooo 3y ago
Comma.ai was his self driving car startup.
- gamegoblin 3y ago
  Yes, but it has produced something -- in fact, it has produced the top rated ADAS system as rated by Consumer Reports: https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/consumer-reports-active-driving-assistance-systems-november-16-2020.pdf https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...

rohit89 3y ago

Comma and openpilot are doing fine and don't need George anymore. Don't think they will "win self driving cars" though.

ergocoder 3y ago
> Don't think they will "win self driving cars" though. The boldest and bravest prediction. Comma.ai wont win self-driving against Google and Tesla.

kotaKat 3y ago

There's a reason he earned the name 'egohot' many, many years ago, and he hasn't changed since.

juunpp 3y ago
"Feel free to close my issues", I'm too cool for this shit.

bko 3y ago

> See comma that still hasn't produced anything. What are you talking about? They actually shipped a product that has over 90 million miles driven, blowing past all competitors apart from Tesla. You can buy the product today, hook it up to your care and get a better lane assist than pretty much every other car company ships. Plus they're profitable. Compare that to dozens of self-driving startups that are basically vaporware or outright frauds. You can dislike the guy but you're delusional if you brush off comma.ai as not having produced anything.

stuntkite 3y ago
Yeah, Op is so off base here. I do think that George still gets astroturfed by Muskateers though. Possibly even Musk's paid for army, but I think they are still cool with each other. But people who wanna cuddle an Elon will just jump in and crap on George or Comma quick. He was for sure more than a bit manic when he debut Comma, but their tools work and they have been in quite a bit of use for a while and their new robot platform is pretty cool. I don't think self driving cars can really be solved in the US but whatever, I hear the Mercedes stuff is surprisingly good. I'm not a twitch guy buy I joined a stream he was doing one day where he was live coding SLAM. I've done a lot of work with slam and not only is he a very good programmer but while doing the work to an audience he was able to have a brief but compelling conversation with me about his strategy. If my girl knocks on the door to bring me coffee while I'm coding I lose my place. He's not involved with Comma much anymore and he's 100% right that Nvidia hasn't won the race yet. I worked at Nvidia on RAPIDS. From what I understand, they've gotten better but it's still a very traditional MS style company. CUDA is amazing and is something akin to x86 with it's ubiquity. It's the fastest and best to work with but is an albatross and it's being used to accelerate the development of it's replacements. I feel his pain with this AMD stuff. I bailed on them in 2018. They do not have the ability to ship real compute tooling. Also the myriad of ways we can now bridge to the browser with WebGPU and WebASM and Vulkan.... and FPGAs and next year photonic computing is going to start trickling in and then it's going to become. a flood. I think there are two fabs in the US. I plan to ship some test designs to SkyWater in August. With the end of globalization, photonics are going to be where we move quick. I like Geohot. I really enjoyed his punk ass spirit as a young guy and I think he's grown up to being a decent example of how to be a tech public figure. His soundcloud is dope. Not only does it have some good songs but a few of them are about valley inside baseball that has not ever been reported anywhere but his music. https://soundcloud.com/tomcr00se/ https://soundcloud.com/tomcr00se/

ergocoder 3y ago

> silently gives up He gave up loudly on his twitter in public space. > gave up after 2 days. More like several weeks. > See comma that still hasn't produced anything. It has produced something as other comments pointed out. It seems to me you are the one who is full of hot air.

tibbydudeza 3y ago

He just uncommented the forced login to twitter when you wanted to search for something - he then left saying "mission accomplished" then it became worse - they bought the forced login back and and now give a crappy rightwing leaning meme timeline featuring Elon's wisdom