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Had the pleasure of having dinner with Vint one evening. Such an amazing person. So incredibly humble and one of the most genuine people Ive ever met. As an aside, I asked him directly about the Al Gore internet meme and he said point blank that if it weren't for Als work in Washington the Internet wouldn't exist in its current form.

But yeah, just an awesome guy all around. One of the few people I consider to be a source of inspiration for me.

I wish Zach would start making games again. :-(

> What does this even mean?

It means over 18,600 engineering hours have been spent working on vehicle safety. This is a pretty common metric.

This reminds me of being told dogs don't feel emotions by someone who never owned one. Parrots most definitely can talk. Their language is extremely primitive but if you've ever been around a grey and it's owner for some time, they definitely talk to each other. The parrot will readily communicate observations and desires.

There were plenty of them around when I worked at Nvidia. They definitely exist.

I don't expect the ram situation to get any better soon if that's what you're asking.

Sometimes it's because the original mix was for theater surround sound and lower mixes were generated via software.

Never thought I'd say this, but I kinda miss Jobs.

That's not how ethical disclosure works. Both parties should publish and we, the wider tech industry should see this as a good thing both for the hacker and the company that worked with them.

Not exactly. Infra will win the race. In this aspect, Google is miles ahead of the competition. Their DC solutions scale very well. Their only risk is that the hardware and low level software stack is EXTREMELY custom. They don't even fully leverage OCP. Having said that, this has never been a major problem for Google over their 20+ years of moving away from OTS parts.

Bubba was allegedly a nickname for clinton.

I don't recall this in snow crash

It's been like that forever. Makes it very hard to take the NBA seriously.

> The only real solution is strong privacy laws around gov usage and strong courts willing to enforce it.

I don't think this is a solution, personally.

Can a pi achieve the same iops? I'd be highly suspecious of any such claims.