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> I think it's what led to Google's downturn.

What downturn is that exactly?


> "We're sorry, what we were able to give you for $100/mo before now needs to be $200/mo (or more). We miscalculated/we were too generous/gave too much away for too little. It's a new technology, we are seeing a ton of demand, we are trying to run a business, hope you understand. If you don't want it, don't pay for it."

Anthropic's thing has always been that they are perceived as slightly ahead of the competition, if they 2X their pricing then the competition that used to be "slightly worse" suddenly becomes an absolute bargain and guts their user base.


Essential services (banks, government services, public transport) generally still support SMS as an alternative to their mobile apps when there's no completely offline process.

Wild guess, touching this with a 10-foot pole risks validating his claims. If they sue for breach of NDA, it means his claims are factually correct, and if they sue for libel and it goes to court, they may be forced to submit documents they don't want to.


I could've sworn I saw a comment like this in 2016 when Tesla was blowing up


The EV market share and outlook looks a bit different now (depending on the market).


If you hold the belief that the Trump administration (and Trump himself personally) have not commited a rather long list of crimes openly, you are either willfully ignorant or complicit. I do not care if this statement irritates you in any way. After a certain point, we are firmly in the realm of personal responsibility.


> A connector of any kind reduces signal quality.

Like the M.2 connector?

> Data lines need to be longer

Like the data lines going all the way to an on-motherboard storage device?


Soldered stuff is still dramatically better than the M2 connector (than any connector really). You've never wondered why RAM doesn't use PCI Express?


> Like the M.2 connector?

Yes, though likely something with a higher pin count since memory access is more likely to be random and can be parallel versus block storage.

> Like the data lines going all the way to an on-motherboard storage device?

Yes. Why would a GPU manufacturer/packager take on that cost, if it’s presently served well enough for most people by offloading it onto other parts of the system?


The current DIMM and SODIMM modules cannot be used for much higher speeds than are available now.

This is why there are several proposals of improved forms for memory modules, which use different sockets, like LPCAMM2, which should be able to work with faster memories.

However even LPCAMM2 is unlikely to work at the speeds of soldered GDDR7.


Can't they make it easier to solder / desolder?


It is not very difficult to solder/desolder, but you need suitable tools, which are not cheap.

Moreover, when you do this manually, unless it is something that you do every day it may be quite difficult to be certain that soldering has been done well enough to remain reliable during long term use. In the industry, very expensive equipment is used to check the quality of soldering, e.g. X-ray machines.

So unlike inserting a memory module in a socket, which is reasonably foolproof, soldering devices is not something that could be used in a product sold to the general population.

When I was young, there still existed computer kits, where you soldered yourself all the ICs on the motherboard, so you could get a computer at a much lower price than for a fully assembled computer. My first PC was of this kind.

However, at that time PCs were still something that was bought by a small fraction of the population, which were people that you could expect to be willing to learn things like how to solder and who would be willing to accept the risk of damaging the product that they have bought. Today PCs are addressed to the general public, so nobody would offer GPU cards that you must solder.


Yes and yes. NVMe storage is very slow, so it can get away with such things.


Freedom without supervision vs supervision without freedom, both failures of parenting.


How is the supervision without freedom a parenting failure if they've turned out great in every regard?


A failure of management can still lead to a successful business for a variety of reasons, ranging from an in-demand product and lucky timing to great employees. Bad parenting with a great child or a great school might, too, lead to positive outcomes

I'd call an approach suboptimal or bad depending on how likely it is to lead to bad outcomes, given what the parents know about the child at the time of course (sheltering or other special approaches may be needed in some cases, depending on behavior or health circumstances). It doesn't have to turn out bad in every single case, or even a majority, there just has to be consensus about the evidence and the parents must have been able to know of it. It would have to be really bad (like complete neglect) before I'd call it a failure though


That’s usually coupled with a lot of anxiety. Some level anxiety could be useful, as it can make a person look responsible. This can come at a heavy cost though, which they may not let others see, and might not even realize themselves until later in life.


Because they don't. In order to do anything successfully you need practice. You're just depriving the kid of practicing the single most important skill - autonomy.


Supervision is only one of many factors that impact a child's development. Good genes alone can make up for a lot of crappy parenting.


Apple has their high-bandwidth chips, the rest of the commercial desktop market is effectively running Windows, and Microsoft has no incentive to move towards local AI, their ideal case is that you use their cloud-based services and pay for them forever (you being enterprise clients with thousands of PCs).


> I thought Republicans were for small government and were anti-censorship.

They are against very specific parts of big government and censorship


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