(e) Thousands of person-years wasted bickering over how real climate change is and what the magnitude will really be, when it ought to be obvious that renewable energy sources are preferable to non-renewable ones.
Are there really significant use-cases which require both a higher performance processor and GPIO pins? I imagine at this point there is value in splitting the product line to tailor towards "mini Arm server", and "IoT/robotics" users separately.
I love that Google are willing to such a big swing at Microsoft in the text of this announcement - I just wish AWS wasn't so badly shackled busy it's marketing and PR people these days.
This seems like an opportune moment to remind/notify any fellow UK dark-dwellers that the NHS recommends taking vitamin D supplements here in the winter.
> Is it just a big power play that keeps rolling in the expectation of bottomless/infinite talenent and pepetual inflow/attrition?
This has always been my interpretation. The "everybody is replaceable" mindset comes from Amazon retail warehouses, and bled into the rest of the company.
The manager wasn't the one doing the forcing - the overall stack-ranking system was, and the manager was just employing the required level of doublethink to convince themselves the employee was both suitable for firing and also worth trying to retain.
- Pay the tax we think you owe, or go directly to jail
- if you can prove later that you overpaid, we will give you a rebate on taxes over the next N years
- if the government is consistently getting your tax estimate wrong (in your view), then perhaps your tax-avoidance games aren't such a good idea after all
Regarding the linked page about containers: a major gripe of mine is when people make content which includes "don't do this part in production!" - but then never bother to explain what the production equivalent is. If it's out of scope for your guide then fine, but at least provide some keywords and links.
> It feels like one of these days, if they keep trying, they'll manage get it past the experts/lawyers
I felt exactly the same way about Brexit; it was clear that if we voted Remain that Nigel Farage would still be there - alongside Maxwell's Demon - to shove us towards the door at the next opportune moment.
Seems like this is one of the hardest problems in modern politics - populists only have to win once, due to us having a complex system of preferential arrangements and one-way door decisions.
I am torn between wanting to read something which seems genuinely interesting and not wanting to waste time on a crackpot wall of text.
Whenever content related to Wolfram comes up there are mixed opinions about his genius - I wonder how much more impactful he could have been if he had a smooth-talking PR person filtering and shaping his output into a more digestible form.
As a HPC guy, I really like the idea of one or two of these racks serving as the cluster front end, providing the login nodes, controllers, etc. You would still need generic servers for the main bulk of the compute for density and cost reasons, but it would basically make the back-end part of the cluster into an interchangeable blob of cores, allowing us to focus on the interesting bits of running a service.
3 years ain't what it used to be - A100s were launched over 3 years ago and lots of people are still happy when they can get hold of some on AWS. People buying H100s now will very likely still be getting good value out of them in 2027.
We might be the world champions of pilfering stuff, but we really dropped the ball when it comes to teaching the rest of the world about the finer points of "finders keepers".