Certhas

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by Certhas 3y ago
Last year, North Sea wind parks produced at full capacity for more hours than french nuclear plants. The advantage of nuclear is of course that to some degree you can schedule the shut-downs. Solar will make energy production essentially fr
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by Certhas 3y ago
Those people didn't build the CUDA ecosystem. nVidia, Google and Facebook did. I think your hypothesis is pretty self-serving. nVidia is dominant now. The question is, what's your wedge.
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by Certhas 3y ago
They are focusing on HPC first. Which seems reasonable if your software stack is lacking. Look for sophisticated customers that can help build an ecosystem. As I mentioned elsewhere, 25% of GPU compute on the Top 500 Supercomputer list is A
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by Certhas 3y ago
The most recent "card" is their MI300 line. It's annoying as hell to you and me that they are not catering to the market of people who want to run stuff on their gaming cards. But it's not clear it's bad strategy to
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by Certhas 3y ago
Fair, too late to edit it now.
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by Certhas 3y ago
Did you read the blog post? The whole point of the blog post is that the model does not demonstrate that it's learning in interesting ways (as strongly as people make it out).
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by Certhas 3y ago
2005 is when the Wikipedia table starts. The premise of your "they should have invested in Firefox" is just flawed. They are spending by far the most money on Firefox, always have. And Firefox has always been a perfectly fine brow
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by Certhas 3y ago
Google ad campaigns, some years where Chrome genuinely felt snappier, Google pushing Chrome everywhere, Google sabotaging Firefox on their own websites. Generally speaking, we have seen that people are okay with handing over the web and all
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by Certhas 3y ago
Mozilla is also making 10x as much revenue as 15 years ago, has massively increased cash reserves, and is finally starting to diversify its income streams. And it's absurd to put the fault for the declining market share purely at the f
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by Certhas 3y ago
This line is trotted out all the time... but her salary also was going up as revenues and earnings kept going up. From 2005 to 2022 revenues grew more than 10 fold, from 52M$ to 593M$. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi
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by Certhas 3y ago
No matter how profitable building good planes is, building slightly worse planes that are bought in equal numbers is more profitable. The profit maximizing move is to lower quality until sales suffer more than profitability is increased. An
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by Certhas 3y ago
I know it's a recurring theme, but it's just stunning to me every time again how cruel the US health and employment system is. In any half way affluent nation, no one whose 2 year old is on the brink of death should have to worry
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by Certhas 3y ago
The point is that other tools achieve the same with less complexity in the users mental model. If you use the undo button because your word processor doesn't do what you want a lot, maybe look for a word processor that's better de
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by Certhas 3y ago
You just ignored the second part of my message? If your company is not willing to pay someone (another company ) for making sure the open source software used is actually working properly (and for assuming liability if it doesn't), the
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by Certhas 3y ago
The mechanism is clear: If you use Open Source software commercially, you are now liable if the software misbehaves. Thus, you have an incentive to make sure the software is correct. For (A)GPL software, you have to publish your contributio
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by Certhas 3y ago
That statement was based on the old text, correct? The revised law seems to address this in the opinion of experts OSI spoke to: "In particular, “digital artisans” using Open Source software at small scale – the main concern of Debian
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by Certhas 3y ago
Over what timeframe? Also you conveniently neglect to cite the part of your link where it says that this 1.2 Trillion brings spending levels back to where they were in the mid 2010s, and still way below historical rates.
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by Certhas 3y ago
I am not convinced that we have seen much worthwhile innovation through VC money. Apple has released innovative products. Many other tech companies, too. Compared to that VC funded business in the last 20 years seems to have been very good
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by Certhas 3y ago
How about we tax it all away and invest in public infrastructure...
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by Certhas 3y ago
30% efficiency is fine if you only need it for like 5% of the overall energy consumption. The price and efficiency of H2 storage is contained in the models.
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by Certhas 3y ago
Sequestration at scale isn't free and isn't proven technology. Carbon Capture and Storage is clearly a part of the picture for a carbon neutral economy, we are too late to do without it. But I don't think we have a full pictu
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by Certhas 3y ago
Two issues with that: I) There will be a "danger window" where the fact that audio-visual evidence is meaningless has not yet fully registered with too many people. II) It's perfectly possible that audio-visual lies are just
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by Certhas 3y ago
With you on "institutions are not failing as such". As for biggest challenges: You _massively_ underestimate climate change, and the way it is entangled with everything else. There have always been authoritarian nations. The so ca
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by Certhas 3y ago
"The market would work if only consumers had perfect information, and infinite capacity to analyze it"
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It's perfectly possible that that cost difference is massively exaggerated. It might well just be 95$ vs 100$. But if you don't have the information that one is far more risky, then you always pick the 95$ option, don't you?
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by Certhas 3y ago
My understanding is that 130W is a proprietary extension of USB C, the spec only goes to 100W.
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by Certhas 3y ago
I regularly use multiple profiles in Firefox. Firefox also has containers which (AFAIK) Chrome lacks. The UI for Profiles is probably worse, but Containers dramatically reduced the need for them for many (but by no means all) use cases. It&
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by Certhas 3y ago
The question is, can you change the market share? Specifically as long as you depend on Google for your income. If not, then the goal should be to build up assets and alternative revenue streams.
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by Certhas 3y ago
That's absurd. Firefox has been at parity with Chrome for a long time, both are extremely mature technologies. Sometimes one is ahead of the other in one way or the other, but they are largely identical. The exception is when Google or
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by Certhas 3y ago
Am I reading the documents you link right? Mozilla is wildly profitable. They made a profit of roughly 150 Million dollars last year. They have 1.2 Billion dollars in assets. They have increased revenue from non-search deals significantly (

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