To be fair, most higher density areas in Sweden have fairly good infrastructure for public transit. The national railways are a disgrace, but that mostly affects long distance travel. Mostly. Short to medium distance commute works fairly well everywhere I’ve tried it.

And then I store the encryption key in another repo to ensure the compliance checkmark gets checked? (/s)

Unacceptable risk to you. I’m guessing Elon is fully prepared to take the risk and minimise the consequences.

I guess we can formulate a law:

• Stable
• Easy to use
• Up-to-date

Pick any two.

I’m using ”Commercially deployed” in the context of ”company you interacted with had an AI represent them in that communication”. You don’t use AI for that to increase costumer satisfaction. (I wonder why I haven’t seen any AI products targeted at automated B2B sales?)

I won’t argue that GenAI isn’t useful for end consumers using it properly. It is.

(As an aside, I hope you and your grandfather get better!)

But why use money to innovate when there is profit to be made and laws are just made up?

AI is the new kid on the block, trying to make a dent in our society. So far, we don’t really have that many useful or productive deployments. It’s on AI to prove it’s worth, and it’s kinda worthless until proven otherwise. (Name one interaction with a commercially deployed AI model you didn’t hate?)

So far, Apple is failing with consumer products, Microsoft is backing off on GPU-orders, research showing commercial GenAI isn’t increasing productivity, NVDA seems to cool off and you expect the benevolent commercial health care industry to come to the rescue?

Yeah, I’ll keep my knee jerk reaction and keep living with my current socialised health care.

LLM training is expensive, so are prompt ”engineers”. This will be the cheapest off-the-shelf LLM they can find, prompted by someone’s nephew. People will be eating glue.

Look, this is the reason people pay RedHat money. Go install Rocky Linux, turn on all the automatic updates and ignore it for the next five years.

On the enthusiast side, NixOS seems to be working fine if you want newer versions of software or larger repos.

Used to? It’s standard practice like everywhere.

If you can have NAND-gates, a clock and some wires, you can build anything.

Go visit https://nandgame.com/ to try it out yourself!

I’ll extend your RHEL corpo parents with the other children in the family. The majority of their revenue comes from completely legal oxycodone sales, any (alleged) trafficking is just a side hustle.

Rocky: The rich corpo parent’s least favorite child. Chill dude. Gives hugs to his parents victims. Still intends to take over the family business and run an oxycodone-empire - but ethically.

Alma: The other reasonable estranged child. Wants to take over the family business, but considers high quality ”herbal remedies” the only pain medication anyone would ever need.

Oracle: Wants to pivot the family business into more potent opioids and possibly world domination. While it’s obvious he has access to ”stuff”, you suspect he has ties to multiple cartels and possibly the yakuza. For some reason has direct numbers to several heads-of-state in his phone.

Exactly, if you need shelf life, you use tape. Shelf life isn’t really a consideration for hard drives or SSDs in real life scenarios.

See for example the storage systems from Vast or Pure. You can increase window size for compression and dedup far smaller blocks. Fast random IO also allows you to do that ”online” in the background. In the case of Vast, you also have multiple readers on the same SSD doing that compression and dedup.

So the feature isn’t that special. What you can do with it in practice changes drastically.

The flaw with hard drives comes with large pools. The recovery speed is simply too slow when a drive fails, unless you build huge pools. So you need additional drives for more parity.

I don’t know who cares about shelf life. Drives spin all their lives, which is 5-10 years. Use M-Disk or something if you want shelf life.

I agree with you, mostly. Margins in the datacenter are thin for some players. Not Nvidia, they are at like 60% pure profit per chip, including software and RnD. That will have an effect on how we design stuff in the next few years.

I think we’ll need both ”GPU” and traditional CPUs for the foreseeable future. GPU-style for bandwidth or compute constrained workloads and CPU-style for latency sensitive workloads or pointer chasing. Now, I do think we’ll slap them both on top of the same memory, APU-style á la MI300A.

That is, as long as x86 has the single-threaded advantage, RISC-V won’t take over that marked, and as long as GPUs have higher bandwidth, RISC-V won’t take over that market.

Finally, I doubt we’ll see a performant RISC-V chip from China the next decade - they simply lack the EUV fabs. From outside of China, maybe, but the demand isn’t nearly as large.

I get the analogy, but it’s more like you have an old version of the software that can’t defend you against the newer fancier stuff. Continuous cat and mouse game.

Not economical. Storage is already done on far larger fab nodes than CPUs and other components. This is a case where higher density actually can be cheaper. ”Mature” nodes are most likely cheaper than the ”ancient” process nodes simply due to age and efficiency. (See also the disaster in the auto industry during covid. Car makers stopped ordering parts made on ancient process nodes, so the nodes were shut down permanently due to cost. After covid, fun times for automakers that had to modernise.)

Go compare prices, new NVMe M.2 will most likely be cheaper than SATA 2.5” per TB. The extra plastic shell, extra shipping volume and SATA-controller is that difference. 3.5” would make it even worse. In the datacenter, we are moving towards ”rulers” with 61TB available now, probably 120TB soon. Now, these are expensive, but the cost per TB is actually not that horrible when compared to consumer drives.

Tape will survive, SSDs will survive. Spinning rust will die

Nope. Larger chips, lower yields in the fab, more expensive. This is why we have chiplets in our CPUs nowadays. Production cost of chips is superlinear to size.

It’s not the packaging that costs money or limits us, it’s the chips themselves. If we crammed a 3.5” form factor full of flash storage, it would be far outside the budgets of mortals.