OrvalWintermute

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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
Arguably, the leading RISC-V IP is from US firms like SiFive; it has also caught major traction with NVDA in custom products, and US Govt for various industries, and even Redhat is now supporting RH on Risc-V Microchip Inc partnered w US Go
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
Great read! Suspect may be in other products too, have seen similar issues elsewhere in Asus produce line
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
A percent of people have allergies to multiple vaccine ingredients. One of her friends likewise in the medical field with allergies was forced to get a vaccine or lose her job, and then proceeded to have significant medical issues afterward
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
I had a conversation with a talented UK startup developer about a month ago at a defense industry event. He mentioned wanting to move to the US. I assumed smugly “must be for our business environment or contractual benefits” and said as muc
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
what about a MFing SOB POS? :)
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
The energy costs of certain parts of Maryland are about to skyrocket, or have already risen dramatically, driven by datacenter demand, primarily but not exclusively from Northern VA. https://www.wusa9.com/article/tech&#
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The AI Doomsday Machine Is Closer to Reality Than You Think(politico.com)
7 points by OrvalWintermute 1y ago|2 comments
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
I can’t help but think of Google’s “Don’t be evil” mantra………. Before their heavy handed censorship machine ramped up
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
It sounds like Mozilla has problems despite the quite lucrative "notoriously under-resourced" $400M - $500M a year Google spends on FF a year Is there a spending on junk projects issue with Firefox? https://galaxy.ai&
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
> Amazon’s AWS is predicated on the idea of commoditized infrastructure at scale where price is the priority. But with AI, quality/performance is the priority. cost is not the priority with AWS. To quote my collaborator, "I ju
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
I love this kind of story: Developer frustrated with missing functionality / UI problems / etc / and solves it. So awesome!
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
the current number is around 12.5% of the federal budget (2025 Administration budget, discretionary & non-discretionary).
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
oops.... Net_Interest $965 billion, 13.3%
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
The US federal budget goes to: (based on FY 2025 budget proposal ) category, billions, % of federal spending Social Security 1,543 21.2% Medicare 936 12.9% Medicaid 589 8.1% Food Stamps (SNAP) 94 1.3% WIC 8 0.1% Section 8 33 0.5% Defense 9
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
If we hadn't gone to Iraq, Afghanistan, and supported the Israelis, I imagine these numbers would be much higher with the young.
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
There are two key truths: Hackerdom has always had a relationship with Defense, Intelligence & LE. Most hackers are deeply benevolent and care greatly about the world, and insecurity at large, mostly fostered by Business. Building relat
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
I agree with you in a temporal & non-proprietary sense. Temporally, because (knock on wood) RISC-V is going to take over the RadHard space market between Microchip/NASA’s High Performance Space Computer [1] and the Gaisler chips [2
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
obligatory Neuromancer reference to get those sweet upvotes. Well played sir! <3
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
A mac studio configured similarly With 128 GB of memory and an 8 TB SSD is $5799
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
I don’t know about pro or anti Apple, but the framework optional 8TB NVME SSD is only +$699 whereas Apple charges $2200 for a similar 8TB NVME SSD
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
Total salary going up for less work can truly hurt people that are low, aptitude, low skill, and do not produce sufficient value to hit minimum wage.
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
very impressive... Max+ 395 specced with: 128GB of non-upgradeable LPDDR5x WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe - M.2 2280 - 8TB Noctua fan 3x + 3x extra USB-A & USB-C ports No OS option. only $2,776.00!!!
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
64bit RISC5 is cheap & has significant advantages around address space, computational efficiency, and suitability for high-performance applications while being more future-proof for complex systems. It is cheap also, with the F133*, pri
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
Japan is our ally.
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
There is a paradigm shift that has occurred with the realization of the impending war drums beating for Blocs in East (China+allies) vs West (US+allies) and how it relates to our technocratic centers in SV & other key locations. In the
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
This guy needs to make more of them so he can TAKE MY MONEY!
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
My engineering colleagues could jump to SpaceX / Blue Origin / Newspace in a second, and they work insane amounts. Much Newspace pays NASA to borrow talent to help stand up their space programs. However, they want to do NASA work
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
What you said is very correct. there are a huge amount of one time costs associated with the design and engineering of a spacecraft or a satellite that could enable fairly cheap constellations compared to singular satellites, and the testin
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
The normal formula we use is a range from 1.8x to 2.4x for fully loaded contractor labor rates based on contractor salary. I presume we’ll be paying up to $576,000 for a senior engineer (GS15) equivalent from SpaceX
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by OrvalWintermute 1y ago
Seeing how money is spent with: Medicare Medicaid Social Security Foreign Aid Section 8 Foodstamps WIC And many others Would suggest not paying down the debt while Congress is still spending like a drunken sailor in a red light district. Th

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