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by mmx1 1y ago
I am not suggesting NT is dead on servers at all. I am positing it would be dead had it not been for owning the majority of desktops. Those use cases are primarily driven as an ancillary service to Windows desktop[1], and where they hav
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by mmx1 1y ago
Obviously we'll never know, but I seriously doubt that parallel universe would've had a chance to materialize. Not the least due to "free as in beer" aspect of Linux whilst web/Apache was growing at the pace it did
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by mmx1 1y ago
Realistically anyone who cared would be using something like Cygwin (and the original UNIX server market segment evaporated due to Linux and had zero interest in migrating to NT in that form--some did migrate due to application layer benefi
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by mmx1 1y ago
I don't think it is fair to brush it off under "same bucket; doesn't count." The syscalls are still different and there's quite a bit of nuance. I mean the lines you're drawing are out of superficial convenienc
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by mmx1 1y ago
Indeed countless companies went under investing in tech, on various iterations of the exact things that later became enormously successful, e.g. iPhone. Success is only guaranteed in retrospect.
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by mmx1 1y ago
The point is precisely that being super fixated on Microsoft as a monopoly producing relatively trash-quality products is a static worldview. It is the case that Microsoft monopoly did not in any shape or form preclude a measly search start
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by mmx1 1y ago
I’d say the point is more subtle than that: it is not mere efficiency that comes with such scale. Rather, such scale is necessary to enable certain technological investments and long-term risks and behavior. For example, if you were a non
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by mmx1 1y ago
This is a good take. Also hints at why Peter Thiel's thesis on tech monopolies in a dynamic world is correct; i.e. that they aren't necessarily bad. A lot of the value in big tech comes from scale and integration and is inherently
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by mmx1 1y ago
That's actually not true. GPLv2 by default means v2, not v3, unless you explicitly allow "or later." Linux is actually the famed example of v2 but not v3.
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by mmx1 1y ago
Pretty sure the answer is yes. I have no direct knowledge of the matter for Gemini 2.5, but in general TPUs were widely used for training at Google. Even Apple used them to train their Apple Intelligence models. It’s not some esoteric thing
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by mmx1 1y ago
What I've heard is that the extrapolation of compute needed so many additional CPU servers to keep running the existing workload types that it obviously justified dedicated hardware. Same for video encoding accelerators[1]. [1]: https
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by mmx1 1y ago
Google has done stuff primarily for negotiation purposes (e.g. POWER9 chips) but TPU ain't one. It's not a backup option or presumed "inferior solution" to NVIDIA. Their entire ecosystem is TPU-first.
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by mmx1 1y ago
I mean, it is obvious that you cannot sustain efficiency as you scale (Amdahl's law) but (1) $100M is not that crazy to be able to keep track of in your head, even for a single individual (I can imagine a successful real estate develop
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by mmx1 1y ago
Yes, IIRC (please correct me if I'm wrong), translate did utilize Seastar (TPU v1) which was integer only, so not easily useful for training.
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by mmx1 1y ago
You can’t be serious. Lots of businesses easily have that much just in cost of goods or marketing spend. $100M is not such a crazy amount especially considering the cost of hiring technical people. Also note that the benchmark of “efficie
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Show HN: Inspect-HTTP-Proxy: a tool to pretty-print JSON requests/responses(github.com)
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Inspect HTTP Proxy(github.com)
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