Why would paying dividends not be like throwing money away for Nvidia, considering the alternative is to reinvest it into Nvidia's R&D, hiring & training, etc. Investors are already happily making money on NVDA stock appreciation, so what more would they gain from paying dividends?
I thought the microwave beeps several times to ensure the radiation has completely dissipated from the chamber before you open it. I always let it beep and then some.
To be fair, Woz wasn't just a “friendly selfless genius inventor engineer”, he was also the co-founder of one of the most valuable tech companies in the world. And YC is, in their own words: "The Y combinator is one of the coolest ideas in computer science. It's also a metaphor for what we do. It's a program that runs programs; we're a company that helps start companies.". They're not entirely unrelated.
I'm not sure it would matter. It doesn't seem that graphics are the limiting factor in games anymore. Plenty of popular games use variations on cartoon-style graphics, for example - Fortnight, Overwatch, Valorant, etc. Seems gameplay, creativity, and player community are more determining factors.
That said, things like improved environmental physics and NPC/enemy AI might enable new and novel game mechanics and creative game design. But that can come from AMD and others too.
This is an interesting insight into the challenges of porting a TSMC fab from Taiwan to Arizona.
There are hundreds of variables that differ, even just based on geography, any one of which can kill nano-scale wafer yields and mean the difference between 90% ("printing money") and 30% ("bleeding cash") yields.
For example, the harder stone bedrock in Arizona has a higher natural resonant frequency than in Taiwan, requiring the fab design to be adjusted to that variable.
Other variables are local air, water, power, suppliers, and culture, all of which differ from Taiwan and require modifications to the original fab design.
It had to do with lack of internal controls that safeguard the organization and its custodied assets from both employee mistakes and fraud. That's a part of engineering high-assurance high-integrity systems and SOP at big exchanges, banks, and similar orgs.
That's been my impression of SBF since FTX collapsed. Quite book smart, but zero experience in building a major service that custodies billions in other peoples' money.
Raw intelligence is not enough in that context. Ideally you want to have apprenticed for at least a few years at a real exchange or custodial service. Somewhere you learn all the engineering details about how to architect it with proper financial controls, safeguards, and correctness guarantees so that this kind of failure cannot happen, either via human skullduggery, mistakes, or system bugs or security vulnerabilities.
Sam never had any of that. He probably got caught up in the moment, implicitly assumed he was smart enough to compensate and not need it, that money is fungible and free-flowing and he can move it around and always make more, etc. And his investors were all finance guys overly impressed with his trading ability and ignorant of the above. This is the unfortunate but unsurprising result.
Mostly agree. The screenshot in the top right looks good, like professional app I might actually use. But I want to actually browse the site and check it out without first slogging through a registration process. If it’s free to view/browse anyway, then enable doing that without registering. Register and pay if you want to post.
Edit: You can browse without registering after all, here’s the link: https://non.io/#all (didn’t see it on the landing page or OP post).
There was some discussion and links about it in the “Building a Better Rust Community” post yesterday. The post is inaccessible today due the protest against reddit, but will be back tmw.
Seems there are complaints about both dev teams - Kbin devs are apparently fascists or something in that vicinity, and Lemmy devs are apparently tankies or something in that vicinity.
Don't sweat it, this is just a blip. I for one have wanted an SEL4 + Rust based OS for a long time, really cool that someone is finally doing it. It's clear what the aspiration is, just keep working toward it.
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/4167