The biggest problem they need to solve at this time is making the thermal tiles more damage resistant. At this time too many ceramic tiles get damaged and need replacement, repair or refurbishment just like with the Space Shuttle. That makes the dream of rapid reuse and lower launch costs unattainable.
I wonder why SpaceX didn't pioneer metal-ceramic or metallic heat shielding.
I believe it has more to do with him force-feeding Microsoft employees on A.I. resulting in slop code and outages.
If this continues the company will see a lot of customers leaving. And they were already in a bind since Europe is finally realizing that its dependence on American tech could be used against them. Luckily most European politicians are corrupt and can easily be bought to prevent them from ditching Azure and Windows.
> Luckily most European politicians are corrupt and can easily be bought to prevent them from ditching Azure and Windows.
They're not corrupt (in a lot of cases), mostly just ignorant. Like, they don't understand the tech, and microsoft is safe, they're already using it so handing over large swathes of their infra to them seems reasonable.
MS have wonderful sales people, and this is why they do well with governments and large enterprises.
There's also a co-ordination problem, in that all of your counterparties (like your citizens, for instance) are familiar with MS and therefore it costs a bunch locally to move, for little short-term reward.
This is actually a place where (good) regulation could derisk a lot of these changes, but you'd need a committed group of politicians who can convince the civil servants to keep at it. It'll happen, but slowly and in starts over the next 5-15 years.
Where does corruption start and lobbying begin? American cloud providers are hosting more than $340 billion worth of European workloads on their infrastructure, including email, videoconferencing, office documents and storage.
If they transfer this to sovereign providers it would cost Big Tech serious money. So they're quietly lobbying to slow down the speed at which European nations are moving away from them.
> If they transfer this to sovereign providers it would cost Big Tech serious money. So they're quietly lobbying to slow down the speed at which European nations are moving away from them.
Yeah, this is definitely really important to them (not important enough for them to comply with the laws, but whatevs).
I literally had a person from IT tell me “Firefox is open source so it’s not secure, that’s why we have to use Edge” the other day. They are beyond hopeless.
And Microsoft is being smart by cultivating this worldview. Open source has no such thing. In general, the company with the best marketing can be expected to win the market. Product quality plays only a minor role.
Microsoft also sells contracts to companies and open source does not. If "open source" does, it's someone like Red Hat who has to take on all the legal responsibility themselves, just like Microsoft does, and that makes the product as expensive as Microsoft's, only it's not subsidized by mass surveillance so it's even more expensive.
i had a very similar experience with a co-founder and ceo.
it took half an hour to even somewhat convince them that academic/postgrad student open source projects with one commit four years ago are not the same thing as linux/ubuntu/docker/etc.
sibling makes a good point tho. what they were probably thinking was “we want to be able to blame someone who is not us if it goes wrong at some point”. that’s 90% of the microslop business pitch right there.
open source, it’s on you. microslop, it’s on them.
Our society is obsessed with sex and that's why there's always so much fuss about it. If we only did it once a year like most animals the world would be a lot quieter place.
A lot animals have a mating season, where females are only fertile and receptive to sex during ovulation--an estrous cycle. Humans, along with a few other mammals (other primates, some bats, elephant shrews, and spiny mice) are unusual in that we have a menstrual cycle instead of an estrous cycle. Sexual desire isn't connected to a estrous cycle.
It has some inertia, but without Huang the company will start to slide into oblivion. The thing they should be most worried about is his tactics for driving up prices and the company's stock price. That could start to haunt (and hurt) them pretty quickly.
I'm not sure about that. Granted, I know noting about his day to day impact on the operation of the company. But, assuming he has run a tight ship and he has hired a number of competent people below him, nVidia will stay relevant for a long time. AMD might rise and challenge their dominance on AI compute. However they're on a cash cow one way or the other for a number of years.
3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATI, and Cirrus were also in the right place at the right time, but there's a reason we're here talking about Nvidia and not them. How much was Jensen vs things out of his control though, few people will ever know.
Yeah, and that reason is that Nvidia managed to achieve vendor lock-in with CUDA - which is not generally regarded as a good thing, but it was certainly good for Nvidia.
I mean, it's just branding. It's had at least three capitalisation schemes that I can remember.
Weird capitalisation schemes are a particularly bad branding approach, as people tend to just ignore them. This is hardly unique to nvidia; any brand which has a weird capitalisation scheme will tend to have it ignored by most people. Especially where it's really awkward/incorrect-looking (in nvidia's case they're trying to get people to use full-caps for a non-acronym).
Since it's at the outer reaches of our Solar System where it's very cold I'd like to officially propose to name this new dwarf planet Boreas, after the Greek god of the north wind and winter.
If you start giving asteroids names then yes, you'll run out pretty quickly. There are millions of them out there.
How about we not use just use numbers or the name of the discoverer for asteroids. Greek names should be reserved for important objects like planets, stars etc.
Hindsight is 20:20. A lot of the time people didn’t know what they were naming. Sometimes they still don’t know - you only need to establish that it’s not a star to get naming rights.
Five asteroids were discovered before Neptune, initially they thought they might be planets, and given Roman names.
I wonder why SpaceX didn't pioneer metal-ceramic or metallic heat shielding.
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