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>> If 18a is not ready I think the best case scenario for Intel is a merger with AMD.

Aside from the x86 monopoly that would create, I don't think Intel has much of value to AMD at this point other than the fabs (which aren't delivering). IMHO if Intel is failing, let them fail and others will buy the pieces in bankruptcy. This would probably benefit several other companies that could use 22nm and up fab capacity and someone could even pick up the x86 and graphics businesses.

BTW I think at this point the graphics business is more valuable. Even though Intel is in 3rd place there are many players in the SoC world that can use a good GPU. You can build a SoC with Intel, ARM, or RISC-V but they all need a GPU.
I have to wonder if part of this is Intel wanting a Trumpier CEO so it can retain the favour of the US government, while Trump associates Gelsinger with the CHIPS act which he reflexively hates as a Biden thing.
It's always video games that strikes a nerve with people on the internet. Yes I've played and beaten all the games you've mentioned. Sure artistic video genres exist just like artistic porn exists but we're not meaningfully engaging with the activity as it really exists by pretending that's what I'll find if I go to xvideos.

I've sunk 16k+ hours into WoW in my lifetime, you named perhaps the most brainrot game that has ever existed in the history of video games. It's makes Tiktok look like long form essays, doing meth instead would be considered harm reduction.

It's easy to identify when the activity is low status to your in-group. The Big Bang Theory has significant cultural importance but I bet you'd agree it's still brainrot.
Interesting mechanical solution,
The high complexity and current market dynamics makes me wonder if the refinement cycles to make it commercially viable are too far away and not worth the cost.
Still I enjoy knowing there is an efficient CVT solution for IC only vehicles, something like 2 stroke scooters in developing countries could really benefit from a cheaper version of this,
How would you fell about a bike with something like this? (if it was 1/4 or less, of the weight)
I've relied on Tonal heavily to build stringscales.com - it was a very pleasant experience. Much is already present, and extending the lib with more scales and functionality was easy as well. Definitely recommend
Print them how? Am I supposed to type up all the pages of that falling apart book - book scanning helps but still requires extensive effort? What about the page that got ripped out and is missing, how do I recreate that?

While it is likely legal for me to go through all that effort for myself, it isn't legal for me to share the fruits of my effort with someone else who wants a copy so they need to do it themself. Even if they have a worn out copy themself it isn't clear that I can print them a new copy. If I want to share this work with someone else who might want it I'm stuck - I can only do the above for personal use.
I don't know much about typesetting, but I always thought it was quite the opposite, Latex is a proper typesetting system for professional physical printing. It's actually almost everything else that looks "wrong" (besides things like InDesign).

I think it might also be because many things like browsers or MS Word have to use crude, fast algorithms for typesetting, but Latex uses complicated and slow, but much more accurate algorithms for that.

It's like if you compare a printed Word document vs. a printed Latex document it becomes very obvious. Latex looks like a newspaper or magazine, because that's just how printed text is actually supposed to look like.
There's no doubt that the statement is true. Some use cases would absolutely benefit from GPUs with a boatload of VRAM, even if it's relatively slow (~500 GB/s).

The market for that is just not that large, it wouldn't move the needle on Intels revenue, but then again it could get the enthusiasts onboard and get Intels CUDA alternative moving.
If anything, the streams are reversed.

I'd expect Intel marketing and Public Relations to be paying YouTube Influencers to have a particular opinion, the one most favorable to the board.
This is why consulting is such an awesome career path once you have some experience under your belt. It is absolutely possible to be well-informed enough to answer these questions, because consultants see the beginning, middle and end of these decisions!
> it's never been easier to find high-quality info about vegan nutrition and recipe ideas

Veganism is probably too far for the broad population. Ovo-lacto vegetarianism, where you're purchasing eggs and dairy from a specific farm (or reputable brand), is more accessible and close in terms of ethical and environmental impact.
Reminds me of Jobs quoting Gil Amelio at D5[1]:

> Gil was a nice guy, but he had a saying. He said, 'Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom, leaking water, and my job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction.'

[1]: https://youtu.be/wvhW8cp15tk?t=1263
Nvidia makes a lot more sense than AMD; it is better for the market (preserving some competition in x86), and at least Intel does something Nvidia doesn’t.
Apple saw the writing on the wall and bailed years ago, built their own chips and denied them a large customer.

It’s a really bad sign when a customer decides it can out innovate you by internally copying your entire business and production line.
I think this is where your analogy falls apart.

Sometimes being shown the answer to a problem is just what you need to move forward, especially if you are inexperienced. Shown the answer with an explanation as to how you get to it is better.
I actually did email Deepak Patil (head of Intel Graphics division) about this around a year ago, haha. Never did get a response though.

It is something that is easy to miss if you are just looking at typical business strategy and finances. A high memory consumer GPU would undercut their server GPUs, which are presumably higher margin intended golden geese. It's easy to see them chasing server markets and "gamers" being an afterthought.

However there is huge demand right now for a modern, even a crappy modern, GPU with gobs of memory. Make the card and the open source AI tooling for it will start sprouting in days after it's release.

It's an extremely powerful position to have every at-home AI geek's setup to be bound to using intel cards and intel focused tooling. Nvidia and AMD won't do it because they want to protect their server cards.
While defining x/0 = 0 is sound, it has tradeoffs, as OP acknowledges. In "Papers with computer-checked proofs" (2024), D. J. Bernstien wrote:

> There is a claim ... that “dividing by 0 is not allowed in mathematics, and hence this cannot be relevant to their work”, but in fact a mathematician is permitted to deduce b ≠ 0 from c = a/b, since a/b is undefined for b = 0. Redefining the notation to allow b = 0 breaks this. Unless it occurs to the author to state a conclusion c = a/b and a conclusion b ≠ 0, the proof assistant won’t check that b ≠ 0, whereas the reader will think that this has been checked.

https://cr.yp.to/papers/pwccp-20240727.pdf
> ...the best case scenario for Intel is a merger with AMD...

Why would AMD want a merger? They aren't a charity, and certainly don't need the distraction.
Thank you very much for asking this question and triggering the discussion!
I have nothing to add to what's already been said here, I was happy to see your question cause it's something that I keep thinking a lot about. I am not quite a fresh graduate as I have about 6 years of experience, but I do work in a field (embedded systems for MedTech) where mentoring could be quite beneficial in my opinion. I was particularly bothered by the lack of mentoring in my initial jobs and my recent job change has been largely motivated by this. In my current job, I now have engineers with a decade or more experience than me and it helped me in the following ways:
1. The most obvious benefit has been the fact that I can now reach out to my seniors in case I get stuck debugging something and I see no way out.
2. Another benefit, that's quite underrated IMO, is that having experienced engineers around opens up opportunities to observe them closely at their craft and question them (to understand why) about their design choices etc.
3. In my case, there is a strong motivation to compare my skill set with theirs and critically assess where my shortcomings/areas to improve are.
I wonder if the sparse model would perform worse on out of sample test data.
I do AoC first time and use it to try a functional LISP like language (Clojure).

Though it is just a beginning and maybe it is a matter of habit,but I should say, that reading LISP family language is so difficult for my brain.
I wonder how out of norm my AWS experience is based on the comments here...

Said experience being that the very highly paid support team ghosted us when we asked questions guided by their docs (AWS Workspace stuff), probably after finding that there are no answers and that we went with service based on promise of feature that apparently didn't exist
Pat returned as CEO in 2021. I don't think that 3 years is enough time to clean out the internal rot that has led Intel to where it is today and a lot of problems have been in motion for a while. Short-term this might be better for Intel but this move lacks long term vision. Intel also just got a big hand-out from the government that would've kept them moving in the right direction regardless of what CEO is leading the pack.
I don't know why it's so difficult in Firefox to just run each URL domain in its own container unless instructed otherwise.
But 0/1 = 0. So 1/0 must be the inverse/opposite of zero.

And I think if you look at the Riemann sphere, the inverse of zero is the point where +infinity and -infinity meet. I would call that 0^(-1).
Unironically linking to the Heritage Foundation lmao
Part of me is wondering if in an imaginary world, these same people are on AMD's board, would Lisu Su have already been fired a few years ago?
One may easily compile a standalone Julia program binary (or embed it into C/C++).

Keep in mind the overhead of a 124MiB static linked library into your program may take a bit to load.

I have a rough script that auto builds such projects, but it is nowhere near ready to inflict on a stranger yet. =3
+1 to this. I agree with the takeaway that paying for managed Kubernetes is the way to go 9 times out of 10 but I think in life its quite powerful to attempt to do things yourself sometimes. No, you should not go out and buy thousands of dollars worth of tools and do everything yourself but its pretty powerful to be able to do simple things in your life...change oil, replace light switches/sockets. The reason I personally find it powerful is that it helps me quantify what is worth outsourcing and what is not and it also builds mental models for how things work which is important when outsourcing work.
I think the way the US would win wars is by figuring out how to win wars (and ideally not start/join so many fucking wars in the first place) instead of manufacturing national crises out of nothingburgers that nonetheless catch the attention of dinner tables across the country.

Putting it another way: We're losing wars whether we make our silicon toys here or in Taiwan or if Taiwan gets China'd. I want my tax dollars put to better use than Intel.
Pretty much fair game for speculation. The only way this is not bad for the tech industry was if he resigned due to medical or age reasons. That would not be unexpected.

Doubtful that is the issue with Intel's track record. Curious when we will know if 18A is competitive or not.

> If 18a is not ready I think the best case scenario for Intel is a merger with AMD. The US Govt would probably co-sign on it for national security concerns overriding the fact that it creates an absolute monopoly on x86 processors. The moat of the two companies together would give the new combined company plenty of time to ramp up their fabs.

No way other countries would allow that. If A-tel (Amd-inTEL) can not sell to the EU the merger will not happen.
I agree with you, failed on that one
> How is that different from calling <struct_name>_free(<struct_name> *p)? That can trigger a cascade of thousands of other tiny destructions.

You don't call 'struct_free(obj)' (there isn't even such a function), instead you call 'arena_reset(arena)' once. Stop thinking about individual object lifetimes, start thinking about arenas as 'lifetime buckets' :)

> I sure hope you are aware that this is a fringe opinion shared by very few people

It's really not a fringe opinion in areas of the industry where performance matters (like video game development).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality

An example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42294894
"Flattening" organizations by removing middle managers? That could work.

Middle managers are there because it's difficult for one manager to be able to communicate effectively with that many workers. But you could maybe pull it off if you had better communication... or better technology to enable communication.

So, do we or don't we? We've got all these fancy technologies to help us communicate, but do we actually communicate more effectively? More effectively in a way that lets one manager adequately control more workers? (Note well the word "adequately". Sure, you can blast an email at 100 underlings just as easily as at 5. That's not enough to be adequate communication for a manager, though.)

I predict that a few organizations will pull it off, and the majority who try it will fail.
Thank you so much for linking this paper. I've been looking for stuff like this for a while.
Traditionally if you wanted SOTA semiconductors you'd go to IBM for the technology and then build your own fab. I'm not sure how true that is today but I wouldn't be surprised if it is.
> The moat of the two companies together would give the new combined company plenty of time to ramp up their fabs.

I'm not convinced of this. Fabs are incredibly expensive businesses. Intel has failed to keep up and AMD spun off their fabs to use TSMC.

There is also ARM knocking at the door for general computing. It's already gaining traction in previously x86 dominated markets.

The model for US based fabbing has to include selling large portions of capacity to third party ASIC manufacturers, otherwise I see it as doomed to failure.
Depends entirely on what is your starting skillset.

K8s is my tool of choice when I am that boostrapped, because a single server with k3s thrown on it will cost me maybe 80 EUR a month and hold all environments plus CI/CD plus various self-hosted business components (with backup sent over to separate provider, just in case), and I'll be free to build my project instead of messing with server setup or worry about cloud bills.
Pirate services are laughably better and easier to use than anything else. No tech skill required.
I've seen that happen a lot. When you're the only real "tech person" in a non-tech company, especially if you're above-average talented, you become the go-to for anything tech-related. This often gives you plenty of visibility and earns you a lot of goodwill from the company’s management
In ANNs pruning helps prevent over-fitting. With the discovery that transformers lack reasoning capabilities this research really comes at a great time. It's a miniscule chance, but we might see this improve performance over the long term and further research.
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I re-listened to Malcolm Gladwell's podcast episode about Nobel prize winning Howard Temin on the weekend. According to his student:

> “At one point, Howard Temin wrote Francis Crick, Sir Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner of Watson and Crick, the co-discoverers of DNA, the authors of the central dogma itself. Temin writes Crick a letter, gently suggesting that an amendment to the central dogma might be in order. Crick writes back: "I'm sure you think this is true, but you must realize you are wrong".

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-obsc...
> I think the best case scenario for Intel is a merger with AMD (…) it creates an absolute monopoly on x86 processors

If this happens, couldn’t they force them giving out licenses as a condition? The licensing thing has been such an impediment to competition that it seems like it’s about time anyway.
> It’s a really bad sign when a customer decides it can out innovate you by internally copying your entire business and production line.

Not necessarily, at scale, especially Apple's scale, vertical integration can make a ton of sense - for control, innovation, price, risk hedging.
We have a very fluffy orange guy who is... not dumb, exactly, but I'd say he operates on a different plane than the rest of us. He often stares at things that aren't there -- or, at least, that none of us can see -- and he tends to puzzle things out more slowly and differently. For example, he didn't vocalize much at all as a kitten but has picked up sounds from other cats in the household. He didn't purr at all until very recently (he's six). He can jump like a champion, but hasn't figured out he can leap up to a spot with another cat's kibble. (Instead he sits and looks at it longingly while his sibling jumps up there and eats it if it's left unguarded...)

However, some of that might be explained by the fact that he was a very, very sickly kitten who almost didn't make it, and he seems to have a mild case of cerebellar hypoplasia.
Strongly agree here. IMO libraries should try hard to return sensible error codes (within reason, eg null pointer access is unrecoverable imo) but application code should just crash. And when a library returns an error code, default to just crashing if it fails until you have a compelling reason to do something more complicated.
What I imagined from the provided description was definitely at least two steps cooler than the actual "a pen plotter writing on horizontal glass" solution, though I guess it's better to have a prototype in hand than 1500 sketches in the cloud.

Hope you get the resources to build a wall mounted version with a less intrusive drawing mechanism!
Yes, I agree, but they were talking about RAD tools and Delphi was the posterchild for RAD tools. I was solely responding to the term RAD tools (and their abuse/misuse).
Dandelion juice is the same I think. Always leaves hard-to-remove stains on your fingers.
I was about to write, "yeah, but Intel has good long-term-oriented leadership now in Pat Gelsinger, so while it'll take time, it'll eventually bounce back. Because, under him, it's finally been investing in R&D instead of coasting and doing stock buybacks."

And then I Googled (to check the spelling of "Gelsinger"), and found this:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/02/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-is-o...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-re...

The man's retiring.

Hm. Damn.

So who are David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus? They seem to be money and product people, not foundry people or architects? I'll need to look more closely, but to my mind this doesn't bode well for the long term.

I see that the stock is up 5%, but I don't trust investors to think long-term enough. Investors are also happy when you Boeing the shit out of a company.
> Go ahead and play the war games, but stories I've heard indicate that the Chinese military is at least as corrupt as Russia's.

Maybe so, but Russia is still winning in Ukraine.

> Taiwan produces the world's most advanced semiconductors and many of America's most profitable businesses are dependent upon it.

> The Chinese do not have a deep water Navy. We can blockade their oil supply with a couple destroyers in the Malacca strait. No oil, no food. China starves in six months.

China is building ships far faster than the US is, and they don't have to operate halfway around the world in this conflict scenario. Also, they're working on building a blue-water navy right now.

> Consider this strategy. If China tries to invade Taiwan, The best strategy may be overwhelming conventional defeat of the Chinese forces so they get back in the global trade game rather than extended blockade and disruption of the geopolitically extended supply lines.

The US/NATO has avoided a direct conflict with Russia for a very important reason everyone understood during the Cold War, and that reason also applies to China. I think the US is more likely to lean on Intel and let Taiwan go than engage in a full-on direct conflict with China (which the US would also likely lose).

Also, China's not stupid. They have high-priority projects, to reduce the vulnerabilities you cite, which they are making progress on, e.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqzryHGQ1RQ

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-pledges-24b-coal-oil-11...

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-food-security-law-...

When the US tries stuff like that, business interests undermine it, then it gets flogged as a boondoggle and never repeated. China just does it. If it doesn't work the first time, they try again.

> US businesses should be encouraging Chinese companies there depending upon to open satellite manufacturing branches in Mexico or South America. A lot of Chinese industrialists are concerned with the increasing authoritarianism in China and are probably desperate to diversify internationally.

US business interests have the US government by the balls, so they were allowed to sell out the US industrial base and have been able to freely throw wrenches into attempts to address that problem. Chinese business interests don't have that kind of pull, and I don't think the Chinese government will allow them to pull the same kind of shit. I wouldn't be surprised if those industrialists would get thrown in prison if their business actions threatened Chinese state interests, and they most likely know it.

My message here is: don't get cocky.
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It turns out that Linus has repeatedly shared his personal opinion on these matters, so you can judge for yourself whether he sounds "forced by corporate masters", or whether that's conspiratorial FUD that exists only in your own mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvuEYtkOH88&t=6m07s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM_8UOPFpqE&t=8m30s

He's even given briefly opined that Rust looks much better than the "disaster" of Ada: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2247741/linux-at-25-linus-...
Say I have no idea how to complete day 12 of AoC. Racked my brains, done some searching, researched as best I can, can't find anything that makes sense. I'm stuck.

By your logic I would gain absolutely nothing, learn nothing, but either looking up the answer or getting AI to give me the answer. I don't accept that.

Reason being? I've been in the exact same situation. Guess what, I learned different approaches to the problem I could not solve. I improved and can now solve similar problems as a result. Is it cheating? Maybe. Do I care? No. Why? Because I'm not doing AoC for the struggle, I'm doing it for fun, and I know my limits too.
I thought the opposite was called cargo cult.
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I used to read an Eastern European world traveler photoblogger who’d been to damn near every country (even a lot that most folks from even semi-developed countries would consider far too dangerous or boring to be worth going out of your way to visit—he’d surely been to at least 150 countries, several more than once) and according to him the specific behavior of posting regulations and signs all over the place is practiced nowhere as much as the US, with only Australia coming sort-of close.

I was a bit blind to it, being a born American, but once he pointed it out I can’t un-see it. The land of the free really does love posting regulations everywhere.