OldTimeCoffee

I'm pretty sure that is about banning bad actors across the whole ecosystem.

You know, because Minecraft is a game targeted at kids. And maybe you don't someone spouting racist/sexist garbage at them all day.

It's no longer a native app, it was rewritten in 2015 to be non-native. It's the same story everywhere, they're using Electron (or similar) so they can maintain one codebase for everything written in HTML/CSS/JS.

>Comparable-scale private projects don't exhibit the same horrendous inefficiency ... Apple's $256B of spending per year

Literally Apple's HQ was $2 billion over budget. Private enterprise has these exact same problems. Government isn't any more or less incompetent than your average US business, unless you completely ignore how your average business operates.

> (just look at our infra costs)

It's the private sector completing these jobs, not government employees. Those jobs are routinely bid out to contractors, who complete the job with a profit margin.

It's both sides of the coin coupled with a relentless need to profit off everything possible at every opportunity.

I think the problem is that it wasn't low maintenance. The moderation of the links for malicious links was becoming an increasing drain on resources. It's the same problem most large tech services run into eventually.

This ignores the elephant in the room that in the 90s insurance companies just wouldn't pay, claim pre-existing condition, and bankrupt the patient.

Public service means government run. A newspaper isn't a public service (in the US), but official notices can and do appear there. Even if no one reads the newspaper anymore. Same thing with private broadcasters like CNN, Fox News, etc. Public service has a specific definition.

Pretty sure Olly Moss is still at Valve

Novo Nordisk (the maker of the newest insulin Levemir) spends about 17.8b kroner a year on R&D (or about 12.6% of their revenue). Levemir was introduced in 2005; they've long since made up any R&D costs. The first synthetic insulin (Humulin) is from 1978. These aren't new medications, even Lantus is over 20 years old. The R&D costs don't factor into the price they charge at this point.

You would see USENET posts back in the 90s about C/C++ vs ASM basically arguing that C/C++ was better than ASM because hand tuning ASM wasn't worth the man-months of effort required to extract the small amount of additional performance. It's basically the same argument, writing in a higher level language provides more benefit than the performance losses that aren't really that big to begin with.

If you file in small claims court, they might settle. Saying you're going to file doesn't work like that (because people say it all the time and very few people follow though). At most large companies, the script if you threaten legal action is to notate it in their file, refer them to the legal department and stop communication except through legal.

Long story short, don't threaten lawsuits. Just file the suit.

The A64FX has way worse performance per watt than an AMD EPYC and an A100. The A64FX's density per U is higher, so you can get a lot more cores in the same datacenter, even if the TFLOPS/watt is far worse.

For example, if you look at the TOP500, #1 (A64FX) gets about 14.78 TFLOP/watt, #5 (EPYC/A100) gets 27.37 TFLOP/watt. Most of the A100 based solutions are similar performance per watt. Nvidia is already beating ARM in power efficiency. This looks closer to the 3dfx acquisition from Nvidia's prospective.

I read 'dedicated security chip' as something akin to an external chip like a TPM chip as opposed to dedicated transistors in the CPU die (which is more secure). So it sounds like we're agreeing.