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by blackoil 2y ago
These bans are more to do with geopolitics and economic interest than security. e.g. Blanket ban on Huawei including accessing TSMC, Samsung fabs is more to protect Apple and Qualcomm.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Hope Toyota get their mojo back for EVs.
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by blackoil 2y ago
CATL has 5C batteries and svolt 6C. BYD also is working on similar tech. So 10 mins should be possible by year end or early next year.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Oh you know the solution. Ad Blocker with AI
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by blackoil 2y ago
Maybe, it is simply a legacy business model. Nvidia wasn't always a behemoth. In olden days they must be happy for someone else to manage the global distribution, marketing, service etc. Also, this gives an illusion of choice. You get
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by blackoil 2y ago
GB200 is ~USD 60,000/. So, it should be like 20th of that.
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by blackoil 2y ago
That is the PC of today and yesterday and yesteryears.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Isn't that just a regular PC with one or more 5090 or equivalent workstation GPU?
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by blackoil 2y ago
Is there any effort in local cloud computing? I can't justify $3000 for a fun device. But if all devices (6 phone, 2 iPads, a desktop and 2 laptops) in my home can leverage that for fast LLM, gaming, and photo/video editing, now i
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by blackoil 2y ago
> So either it dies or prices go up. Or efficiency gains in hardware and software catchup making current price point profitable.
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by blackoil 2y ago
> Most of these 38% won’t be able to tell the difference between a phone pic taken 5 or more years ago. That is an arbitrary statement, that came from your biases and not observation. Maybe in best of lighting some 5-year-old photos mayb
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by blackoil 2y ago
If is funny how a site that otherwise stays away from politics turns into reddit as soon as China is mentioned.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea are closeby and large+stable enough to easily create such data centers. Small batches for experimentation by team can be easily smuggled. China is too large and powerful to be completely sanctioned.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Yeah, the homeless pool would automatically prune every year. Giving people also the incentive to be not homeless.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Singapore also has "draconian" laws, so it may not be as easy to replicate.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Because HTTP is ubiquitous and now performant enough. It has a whole ecosystem of battle tested tools that can handle any usecase you throw at it. So, unless you are writing an app used by billions of users or some game hyper-sensitive of l
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by blackoil 2y ago
It looks all these rants are from people who need "Hello World" equivalent of web and are angry that there are tools for more complex use cases. I am primarily a backend developer with couple of decades of experience, who is now w
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by blackoil 2y ago
Yes, but you are not supposed to watch them in sleep.
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by blackoil 2y ago
In simplistic terms, they buy machine with 1000 knobs. They have engineers who know how much and when to turn each knob.
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by blackoil 2y ago
We need better control in the phone. In your case blocking all calls from India will help.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Government could manage companies to give right tools to the parents to do the parenting.
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by blackoil 2y ago
OP has already contacted them once. If they want, one thing all lawyers are competent at is digging out info.
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by blackoil 2y ago
It is immaterial what they do and what you know. Important is what CIOs of the enterprise believe.
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by blackoil 2y ago
In a free market they'll manufacture in China or Taiwan. US wants them to manufacture it in USA and it's paying for that.
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by blackoil 2y ago
> A lot of what comes from China might be low quality (especially for internal consumption) but it's cheap and they're specializing In the batteries CATL and BYD are leaders in terms of cost, quality and innovation.
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by blackoil 2y ago
It is simply the amount of R&D investment already done and manufacturing pipeline scale that favors Lithium. But if trend continues in couple of years, sodium should have all that market.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Movies have ratings and entry to hall is restricted. Games have rating and ability to buy them is restricted. books allowed in school libraries is heavily curated and sometimes restricted by law or vested groups. It is illegal to sell R18 m
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by blackoil 2y ago
Consumer GPUs don't have Nvlink so they don't work very well in cluster.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Can't Alibaba use a Singapore based cloud provider? For Nvidia as long as GPUs don't move to China or maybe directly owned by Chinese company it is clear. For SG based non US data center there aren't any sanctions.
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by blackoil 2y ago
Instead of binary it should be tiered, complete monitoring of online activity of child till say age 8, to gradually opening the circle till age 14-16. We do it for movies/games.

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