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Gnome has stagnated significantly.

eating their own dogfood

Yes they did. Reduce, reuse, recycle.

While recycling is last in that mantra, it is overemphasized more than the other two. It shifts the onus of stewarding our environment to the individual rather than the corporations and militaries, which wreck our planet more than any individual can. They'd rather you not look at what they're doing to the environment, and instead look at the individual.

Moreover, companies don't want you to reduce your consumption, they want you to keep buying their products. Reuse? Nah, here are products that are obsolete, buy the new model.

Can you draw arrows easily yet?

> It seems you have to decide, do you want to learn Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, Quranic Arabic, Modern Arabic...

Why do you want to learn Arabic? Answering this question will point you to which dialect to learn..

Do you want to read Arabic? Learn Modern Standard. Do you want to watch television and movies? Learn Egyptian. Do you want to study Islam and the Quran? Learn Quranic. Do you have a particular interest in a region and speaking with the people of that region? Learn the dialect that is predominately spoken there.

> The other group (increasingly large) just wants to `git push` and be done with it, and they're willing to spend a lot of (usually their employer's) money to have that experience. They don't want to have to understand DNS, linux, or anything else beyond whatever framework they are using.

lol, even understanding git is hard for them. Increasingly, software engineers don't want to learn their craft.

The ChatGPT, LLMs, generative AI, and other hyped usecases have been the driving force for Nvidia: it injected huge sums of money into their R&D, which also stimulated the economy as developers ran to build build build in order to keep up with the demand for datacenters, which in turn required more infrastructure building to satiate the thirst and power needs of datacenters, etc. Before, ChatGPT, I recall the hype was blockchain, crypto, and NFTs; and maybe before that, it was "big data."

As the LLM, generative AI, etc. bubble begins to deflate due to investors and companies finding it hard to make profits from those AI usecases, Nvidia needs to pivot. This article indicates that Nvidia is hedging on robotics as the next driving force that will continue to sustain the massive interest in their products. Personally, I don't see how robotics can maintain that same driving force for their products, and investors will find it hard to squeeze profit out of it, and they'll be back to searching for another hype. It's like Nvidia is trying to create a market to justify their products and continued development, similar to what Meta has tried, to spectacular failure, with the Metaverse for their virtual products.

After the frenzy that sustained these compute products transitioned from big data, to crypto, and now, to AI, I'm curious what the next jump will be; I don't think the "physical AI" space of robotics can sustain Nvidia in the way that they're hoping.

Profit doesn't care about legality.

In the video:

> It just rolled off the runway behind you.