nickik

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by nickik 3y ago
The CPU is commodity, nothing else is. Costume Mainboard and firmware without BIOS and their own BMCish thing and their own Root of Trust. Same for their router. Standard chip, everything else is costume.
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by nickik 3y ago
There is still a huge amount of stuff not using GPU and never will. Claiming that's only for 2020 is pure nonsense. They are likely looking at future racks with GPU as well, but as a first product getting the basics right makes more se
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by nickik 3y ago
Literally on the main page: https://oxide.computer/
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by nickik 3y ago
> - He has turned into a pro-Putin, right wing troll, regularly spewing out falsehoods on Twitter/X. This one is just baffling. He is literally the most important private person helping Ukraine right now. He like once suggested that
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by nickik 3y ago
If you don't like Musk, just ignore him, pick the next person in the hierarchy and assign the success to that person. SpaceX was successful before Shotwell was president. Shotwell is great, but so are lots of other people that work for
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by nickik 3y ago
I'm so sick of people acting like Starlink is the end of terrestrial telescopes. Fucking insane. Actually inform yourself. A very low number of terrestrial telescope sometimes lose a slight amount of information. Terrestrial astronomy
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by nickik 3y ago
Not even close, and doing it with a tiny 100kg rocket isn't even remotely the same thing anyway.
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by nickik 3y ago
Yes and he has often overruled his engineers and was right. Taking calculated risk to shorten development is reasonable. Even if you don't get it always right. > Literally EVERYONE said the cement base was a stupid idea They expecte
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by nickik 3y ago
Education on an ongoing project is far easier then rebuilding fresh, even with better science and engineering. We often see this in infrastructure, like train electrification, tunnel boring and so on. Trams is a good one, so many cities got
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by nickik 3y ago
People are giving a lot of reasons. But what one should really pay attention to is batteries. GM has had a catastrophic time with their battery factory. Their Ultium factory has been far, far worse then they claimed a few years ago. I belie
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by nickik 3y ago
The chief architects of the two companies who are making RISC-V cores seem to have a lot of experience if you are gone look up their resumes. Arguably more then people Qualcomm. Qualcomm bought Nuvia and are now trying to make money from th
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by nickik 3y ago
I think costumers have a few issus. First of all, one of the biggest reason consumer companies want RISC-V is because they can select between multiple vendors. Qualcomm would very likely be the only high performance implementation of their
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by nickik 3y ago
Seems to me this statement goes way, way to far. RISC-V has already been deployed widely, including 64-bit. Various medium performance cores are out there being used or are being interceded soon. There are also various companies making high
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by nickik 3y ago
If this is such a big problem, why have the other RISC-V high performnace people never made this into a big issue? This really just seems to be Qualcomm wanting it to be more like ARM so they can use their existing cores. That seem pretty c
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by nickik 3y ago
People often asked this but there are a few misconceptions. OpenPOWER was not really 'open' in a meaningful way. It was only RISC-V that made OpenPOWER actually push towards more openness but by then it was to late. OpenSPARC is r
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by nickik 3y ago
> Why this focus on the weight of the vehicle? Because more weight requires more energy. > they want their funds to go towards subsidizing someone they'd rather not see gain more power Rivian subsidizes Ford and Amazon. Ford 100
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by nickik 3y ago
Musk is the only person to get shit for not doing literally everything by hand himself. People are like 'sure but he didn't design, build, program and launch the rockets by themselves' therefore he is pointless any even a bri
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by nickik 3y ago
Go watch Ron talks at this conference and Open Compute project. He and others have done an amazing to make sure its possible in the first place to use open fireware. And you know what, its not just 'technical' it has to do with po
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by nickik 3y ago
It wont create demand because its not efficient and therefore nobody will invest huge amounts of money in it. > providing additional power to spacecraft in deep space Very likely an extreme niche application or wont happen. > powering
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by nickik 3y ago
Its of course always nonsense to talk about 'fatality' as the people are still there and the economy will not just stop. But lets not pretend the lackluster growth isn't related to issues with energy.
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by nickik 3y ago
It was too depended on shutting down their green energy fleet.
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by nickik 3y ago
Germany is spending lots of money on ESA and thus Arianespace. Of course they wont do that and ALSO give plenty of funding to startups. Germany on its own very much could develop its own rocket, the question if just if this is a priority or
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by nickik 3y ago
> I think themgt is correct to say the creation of contracts like that in Europe could provide European rocket companies the same kind of opportunity Europe has literally just spend 5 billion $ on a SINGLE rocket. Its not hard to unders
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by nickik 3y ago
ESA already had the ATV to do what CommercialCargo does. But because of cost they stopped that program and instead helped with the Orion service module. They are committed to Orion service module and have no interest in going back to cargo
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by nickik 3y ago
This is all a bunch of questionable nonsense. Small launch is already an economic terrible and all companies are losing money and are trying to get out of that business. So building an expensive sea based port will simply require even large
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by nickik 3y ago
Where do you think hydrogen comes from?
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by nickik 3y ago
Musk has often said that Orbital solar is incredibly stupid. And it is.
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by nickik 3y ago
I'm a big fan of SpaceX, but don't just make baseless assumptions that you don't have evidence for. > bullshit lawsuit about SpaceX not hiring enough foreigners (ITAR regulations specifically ban hiring of foreign national
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by nickik 3y ago
I don't know if it was the 68000 but Apple demanded that when they adopted POWER, Motorola could still supply chips. But Motorolas core couldn't be made to run POWER. So PowerPC is basically a merge between IBM Power core and Moto
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by nickik 3y ago
> The highest Gigafactory output is Shanghai, by far. To me, this demonstrates China's EV manufacturing prowess, if we didn't know already. Its the first costume built factory. And has been expanded. Its hard for the others to

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