“That’s one fully functional orbital gigawatt every week if I feel spicy”
- Discussing Blackwell’s Shortcomings
Having said some nice things, this chapter will discuss some shortcomings, mainly to dispel the mystique.
While a thousandfold increase in compute capacity sounds ambitious by itself, Vahdat noted some key constraints: Google needs to be able to deliver this increase in capability, compute, and storage networking “for essentially the same cost and increasingly, the same power, the same energy level,” he told employees during the meeting. “It won’t be easy but through collaboration and co-design, we’re going to get there.”
McMaster is able to provide such intuitive searching and filtering because everything that they sell is highly legible – it’s all defined by quantitative specs. There is nothing intangible to deal with, like brands, product photos, or other marketing fluff. Even still, they do a much better job than other industrial websites like Grainger, DigiKey, or Home Depot.
In 2025, business podcast Acquired evaluated its success to date while determining if, and how, it should change its well-established and revenue-generating processes to continue to scale. The podcast had doubled its audience year-over-year since its founding. The hosts controlling all portions of its operations, but they lacked indefinite capacity. They needed to determine a way forward.
What you are actually doing here is to bribe nokia to put these jobs into Canada by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per job from taxpayer money. What this does is to lower the cost basis of nokia per employee. This has been going on for decades, called FDI which all civil servants think is a good thing. I spent a lot of time explaining to civil servants in ottawa that its not good for our economy that American and Oversees branch offices can employ Canadians at half the cost to all the canadian companies around them due to these subsidies. We should not do them at all, they are toxic, at least in the tech sector.
Someone just uploaded a 6 hour recording of the court martial of Xu Qinxian, the Chinese general who refused to take his army to Beijing in 1989. Astonishing stuff.
It’s cool to finally see 3D printing become capable of this sort of high-scale production. The shift to 3D printing also provides a significant benefit for sustainability nerds like ourselves: Apple reports that this process saves 33% to 50% in material consumption over traditional forging methods. At a time when overconsumption is a major concern, efficient resource use is a welcome development.
Under a state law signed by Gov. Brian Kemp earlier this year, defendants in dismissed cases in which the prosecutor was disqualified because of improper conduct maybe reimbursed for “all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred by the defendant in defending the case.”
The bill originally focused solely on allowing criminal defendants to recover attorney fees and legal costs if the prosecutor of their case is disqualified for misconduct and the case is dismissed. any defendant in such circumstances and initially won unanimous support in the Senate.
I am beginning to realize what a gift this was. The world, the flesh, and the devil are working very hard to conceal or blunt the bad news. Sick? There’s a pill for that. Aging body? There’s a nip-and-tuck. Lonely or worried or restless or afraid or heartbroken? There’s shopping and sex and bourbon and YouTube. Anything, anything rather than facing the bad news that I will, that I must, sicken and die and decompose and be forgotten from the face of the earth because of my inheritance of Adam’s curse, and my complicity in that same curse by my sins.
Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.
This dataset can be used to walk through the design, sizing and performance aspects for a large scale, real world vector search application built on top of user generated, textual data.
Meta transferred the Hyperion data center project into JVCo, which is owned 80 percent by Beignet and 20 percent by Iris Crossing LLC, an indirect Meta subsidiary. JVCo, in turn, owns Laidley LLC (Landlord). None of this is unusual except for the part where Meta designs, builds, guarantees, operates, funds the overruns, pays the rent, and does not consolidate it.
“I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset. Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies. A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.”