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by vaxman 3y ago
Like trying to herd cats. Spiritual death by Microsoft or work for the reincarnation of Howard Hughes at https://x.ai/ ? ..no wonder they are trying to keep on with their current routines! Even if somehow they stay at OpenA
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by vaxman 3y ago
How quickly can DJ Elon de Don get organized and swoop in to take them Home, where they belong? Spending their remaining productive mortal lives in an MS bus terminal isn’t as bad as it sounds though. (Younger Me just projectile vomited.)
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by vaxman 3y ago
[delayed]
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by vaxman 3y ago
OpenAI was valued around $91 billion so if only 700 employees had options, they could have been worth a lot. While they are going to all have great jobs and continue on with their life’s work (until they’re replaced by their creations lol),
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by vaxman 3y ago
Altman can’t really go back to OpenAI ever because it would create an appearance of impropriety on the part of MS (that perhaps MS had intentionally interfered in OpenAI, rather than being a victim of it) and therefore expose MS to liabilit
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by vaxman 3y ago
> MS is positioning itself as an opponent to OpenAI They were positioned that way by the OpenAI board, which has effectively committed corporate suicide and won’t be around much longer.
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by vaxman 3y ago
> most of OpenAI employees would have no qualms about following Sam and Greg. It will take time for sure By all accounts, OpenAI is not a going concern without Azure. I could see Tesla acquiring the bankrupt shell for the publicity, but
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by vaxman 3y ago
“Sorry, we are reporting a write down of $10 billion due to potential misrepresentations of commercial intent that occurred in our OpenAI portfolio.” Things you will never hear Satya Nadella say. Way more likely he will coordinate to unify
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by vaxman 3y ago
TBH, my primary concern is this will be the catalyst for another market crash by destroying the public trust in AI, which is currently benefiting from investor FOMO. Bear in mind that the cause of an equity market crash and its trigger are
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by vaxman 3y ago
So they should keep buying H100s (and H200s) and pouring billions into their own chips on the expectation that OpenAI will fulfill its contractual obligations under THESE circumstances? If they stop doing that, how long before all of Azure
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by vaxman 3y ago
No, OpenAI will not survive as a company with more than one shareholder. At the end of the day, MSFT has a fiduciary duty to its own shareholders. MSFT has set certain expectations for its own financial performance based on its agreements
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by vaxman 3y ago
No Chinese on-chip malware in the N100. Theoretically, N100 could have some extra surveillance bits added by Intel, but Intel is ultimately an American company, you can be at their HQ within 20 minutes of landing at SJC, and in America, we
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by vaxman 3y ago
> you need to spend time to keep the thing up to date and get latest features That attitude isn't really conducive to custom software development, but Gitlab has many other purposes.
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by vaxman 3y ago
Until/unless people start writing their own operating systems, developing their own hardware again and educating Congress to force interoperability AND SECURITY standards, this will definitely remain a Thing. [ There is a pervasive fee
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by vaxman 3y ago
Step one: Give all your bank passwords, employment and payroll information to some VC-infused startup run by foreign nationals who think of you like a farm animal and let them begin maintaining a record of your income, account and work hist
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by vaxman 3y ago
I was senior level but unable to shave yet when the movie War Games came out. That movie changed things socially and eventually at work. Young Bill Gates rise in celebrity also changed things. Quite a bit later, the dot-com boom started and
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by vaxman 3y ago
I want you to download Unity, crack open a Safari book and go heads down until you can download and integrate 3D objects and write scripts. Make some tribute to something you like and then market it along side your grey beard. Remember me w
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by vaxman 3y ago
ROFL (we had well over 100K other engineers at DEC when I worked there and connected via a pre-Internet system called EasyNet and were managed in a matrix)
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by vaxman 3y ago
Translation: "This post on a Venture Capital website implies that the legacy of Jay Miner's greatest engineering accomplishment is running a Michigan school's heating and air conditioning system, making Jay spin(); in his gra
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by vaxman 3y ago
Nebulous? When TSMC can no longer economically cram more transistors onto the dye, Apple will need other ways of increasing performance to keep the upgrade cash coming in. Apple previously co-developed PowerPC with Motorola (and IBM) for th
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by vaxman 3y ago
JayMiner.beginSpinning();
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by vaxman 3y ago
RE: 9000 --All of the non-Alpha VAXes from the 8000 onwards were to support cash flow during the planned transition to what would become Alpha. I should say that is a generalization as I'm totally certain some non-Alpha systems were st
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by vaxman 3y ago
What a surprising RISC-V investment strategy! I mean, I can see a business case for Apple doing this, but Sammy and Intel? Maybe they will keep buying up all the non-Chinese FAB capacity indefinitely and rely on import restrictions to keep
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by vaxman 3y ago
If you want to track, charge or close-source your code, it is okay, the Streisand-effect from all the freeloaders will save you.
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by vaxman 3y ago
I disagree. This isn’t Mac System 6 vs Windows3 The Apple brand carries the day now. It’s called “aspirational luxury”. Even PhD students who could solder together a laptop with parts off Alibaba still want a MBP because: sex. PS: What’s mo
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by vaxman 3y ago
1. Younglings will gain by reading Maddog's article because it contains a lot of insight that was not previously available online. 2. Maddog didMiss a major point (which I'm certain he is aware): THE ENTIRE COMPUTER INDUSTRY WAS P
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by vaxman 3y ago
Firing squad. ..and no more sourcing SoCs that are fabricated in mainland China or ANY mainboards that come with UEFI not digitally signed by an American or EU country!
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by vaxman 3y ago
Oh alright, no more quoting Duran Duran lyrics ("The Reflex", 1984) on Hacker News, even if Nick Rhodes did mainstream audio samplers hah Hacker News is for serious discussions only --wow, already up to 119 comments already at ht
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by vaxman 3y ago
The RISC projects began flying even back when the VAX 8000 was rolling out --in other words, the later VAXes were not seen as final solutions, but pretty much to keep revenue flowing from incredible demand while they were methodically engin
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autocorrect rofl

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