If Nvidia was actually smart they'd increased production enough that these companies don't wanna do all this. Instead they're producing the conditions for 50 new competitors to not only rise up but be able to to print money. And the gaming community they are burning in the process will happily jump ship.
They are worried because prior to 2022 50% of their revenue was tied to gaming and now that division has actually dropped further cause it's not affordable. Meanwhile there's a dozen competitors working on asics for models. What point is there to run your model on a GPU when it's been made into an asic? None. So eventually when the models hit 99% on all the benchmarks you hit end game and the GPU becomes the worst way to run the model.
Instead of being snarky at random people online, I would suggest reading about land value tax. No worries if not, of course, but it's usually something that conservatives brand as 'communism' and progressives brand as 'capitalism' as an easy way out of any discussion.
Anyone supporting it will most likely support removing other taxes, such as stamp duty or council tax, or lowering income taxes to compensate. A net zero change would be massively positive.
I live in California where real estate taxes are 1%. I currently pay $915 per month in real estate taxes alone. I'm not really sure why I should agree to increase that.
I find all these conversations dumb. Real estate taxes after paying for roads and schools are entirely punitive in nature. They grew from real local needs but now I find people saying that we should increase them only to encourage the current owner to sell to those deemed more worthy somehow. Because our taxes are tied to real estate value the budget has actually ballooned far greater than inflation. The schools here are extremely well funded and the roads get repaved long before their natural life time.
I think our balance works really well right now. So I find suggestions to just fall flat.
Oh the funny thing is we already subsidize healthcare so much in this state that it basically is socialized healthcare but surprise surprise that's actually part of the reason we have a deficit right now.
Any single model at this point can do the basic type of CRUD coding most people were doing for the past 20 years.
Even a 4 bit Qwen model running locally beats me manually putting React components together by hand. But even that is too slow so we've all started using paid models in one form or another.
So I would urge these folks to calm themselves and realize Oracle made a lot of money selling managed RDBMS to people who could have easily just downloaded MySQL.
I don't get how it's constitutional for them to levy a tax on an officer of a company that does not live in the state just because one officer of the company does live in the state. Even weirder the law does not require the one officer that does live in California to have a company car. In other words they are trying to tax out of state cars with no proof those cars were ever in the state. This is gonna cause a mess in the courts.
They only tax the assets that are held in the state. I don't know where you're getting that they will tax out of state cars.
> If anyone running the business is a California resident (by the updated definition outlined above), then the whole business is a California resident, and any assets (including Lamborghinis and Bugattis) held in the state are subject to California taxation.
They're not levying a tax on an officer of the company, they're levying a tax on the company if the company brings assets into the state within 12 months of purchase (so the whole point is there is proof the cars are being used in the state). But since a company can't go to jail, the California officers operating the company are on the hook if the company happens to have weirdly empty balance sheets and can't collect what is owed. And this bill specifically only targets any-share owners of just "shell" companies, which tend to have those weirdly empty balance sheets. Normal companies fall under existing california laws.
I mean, we can continue to pick apart the legal language, or we can acknowledge that if people invent elaborate loopholes to avoid paying taxes, the State will adapt and create elaborate corrections to collect those taxes. This is just a cat and mouse game of greed vs. fairness being played out in real-time.
We're only a few years away from your electric car self driving itself to a helipad and flying you straight across a city in a pre-planned route on a quad-copter that just docks on your car.
Don't worry, the moment you get it, it won't be anything special and people will act like it's always been around. Or at least that's what I've come to expect after watching new technology show up in my lifetime.
We need OIDC tokens generated at the SSO placed on the dev environment upon user authentication and then have those OIDCs reusable among multiple mcps. People don't wanna login to 10 different mcps every morning.
I've never had a Nix user actually able to explain why they use it in a way that coherently makes sense because it's a cult. You buy into it before know anything about it.
On many operating systems you keep accumulating junk around your system which become ever harder to clean up. Many techy people re-install their system every few years to clean it up, many non-techy people simply watch their system become ever slower and filled with cruft until they end up buying a new device.
This is the main issue NixOS solves for me. I don't have systemd units or cronjobs or random config files spread across the system. I have one config file/directory, which contains everything.
You're overstating the problem to the point I have more doubts than before I read your argument.
My beef with nix is the arcane syntax to get anything done. Yes, it's documented. No, it doesn't help that it reads like one of those strict, convoluted standards written by a committee of experts.
1. It's not a assumption. Only americans use terms like "classical european"
2. "Those Europeans with their opinions" are the problem and not the manchild elected in place? yeah, so point 1.
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