Rural island off the coast of a european country:

10g fiber for $65/mo (I don’t even think they cared, I asked for more and I think they made up a number).

House literally down the street from google in silicon valley:

Comcrap $100 for shit cable, I’m paying $250 for actual upload speed.

This country is ruled by the corrupt.

Abortion in the red states, and that was work he did his last term.

Wait till he’s back in office, he’s nothing if not vindictive.

Not founded yet, sent dm.

I mean why not, that worked out perfectly fine for bulldozer…

And there it is, the actual reason the owning class are jizzing themselves over AI:

Finally they never have to worry about their underlings ever again, now they truly are everything and as self-reliant and self-made as they always told everyone from private school.

The main reason I’m quitting where I currently work is because it’s impossible to do the most basic of tasks without having 40 meetings about it and it being delayed by 6 months for no apparent reason.

Similar, one issue for me is that I am not great at all the modern task-tracking systems, I can do them, but they take far more energy for me than the actual work itself.

And the more people I have to work with, the slower I work, I can just go by myself, but when I have to keep coordinating I just bog down and get discouraged.

Easy to say when you live somewhere that voting is easy.

You honestly think Jim Crow restrictions on voting ended? The Supreme Court itself struck down the Voting Rights Act, and now you can have a single polling station for a county.

Yeah :(

Thanks, I am just so… silicon valley has a lot of used-car salesmen around, and I’m nervous about getting screwed over by a co-founder. Not good at the whole “don’t fuck with me” thing, either come off as a pushover or a psycho, never worked out the subtlety of a middle ground :(

Chip architecture/design, etc. Was AI, but also supercomputers in the past, that was fun. Current company is a bit different, but I really liked my boss during the interview, he was cool.

Love the job, not the kind of thing you can do without kissing a lot of ass for a lot of capital.

No, like… talking and dealing with people is not my strong suit, I’m a hardcore engineer to the point of autism :(

Haha, those co-founders got fairly well screwed, but startups are a bit like a lottery ticket to me: huge risk, pretty decent potential reward.

The only difference is if you’re careful, you come out having learned things.

Thanks a lot for the support! I really need to get off my lazy ass.

Social… Anything is not my strong suit, but if I can find some guys who do that good, I should be set.

That’s a resume generating event

Hah, no, but I’m good otherwise.

Talking to friends about starting one of my own ideas, reached an age where digging through the dirt is still fun, but I think I should be doing more.

Thanks for the concern :) , I rarely join startups because I think they have a chance to succeed, it’s just the only place you can get stuff done and have a good time, big companies are… Horrifying :( Google might have been the worst.

I need to get off my ass really.

Thank you, that’s basically how I feel.

Also, the startup I’m at just had 2 co-founders leave, so yeah, this is a real vibe.

No, this is clearly evil and racist and true nazism, and we must reverse it even though it doesn’t hurt anybody but the west, and therefore Russia actually wants it, but not really?

I’m sorry, the talking points are confusing here, can I have my lines again?

So, trying not to dox myself, I worked with the architect twice.

Knights Ferry was derived directly from Larrabee (GPU), P54Cs with pre-AVX-512, .

KNC was a die shrink with more cores. Both of these were PCIe accelerators only.

KNL had full Airmont Atom cores with smt4, basically meaningful cores with proper AVX-512. Also you could boot them with linux, or as a PCIe accelerator.

KNM jadded ML instructions, basically 8/16bit float and faster SIMD.

They cancelled KNH.

I interviewed some of the actual Larrabee guys, they were wild, there was a lot of talk about dynamic translation, they were trying to do really complex things, but when people talk like that it makes me think they were floundering on the software and just looking for tech magic solutions to fundamental problems.

Intel always dies when the software gets more complex than really simple drivers, it’s their achilles heel.

KNL also had the whole MCDRAM on package for basically HBM bandwidth, but that didn’t actually work very well in practice, again due to software issues (you have to pick where you allocate, and using it as an l4 cache was not always effective).

Oof, yeah, they actually had another they didn’t release, based off pentium cores with avx512, basically knights landing with software support for graphics.

They were canceling projects like it was going out of style, which is sad, that would have been amazing for Ai.

True, yet Nvidia was a nobody that arrived out of nowhere with the Riva graphics cards, and beat everybody else thoroughly. ATi, S3, 3Dfx, Matrox etc.

Actually, they didn’t.

This was their first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NV1

Complete failure, overpriced, undercapable, was one of the worst cards on the market at the time, and used quadratics instead of triangles.

NV2 was supposed to power the dreamcast, and kept the quads, but was cancelled.

But the third one stayed up! https://youtu.be/w82CqjaDKmA?t=23