Im embarrassed how long it took me to get the first panel. Im like, why did she take him to the vets house instead of his office? What if the kitty needed a shot? Lol, im baked.

So… the cat is named Eric? Or his the cat just the messenger?

Living his best life. A man worth emulating.

Yeah, man, I get the feeling you’re talking about. There’s stuff to talk about, but no one wants to talk about it anymore. But it’s hard not to think about that shit though…

Nerdcore.social. Ha! Sounds like i need to peruse that instance.

Is anyone else getting usenet vibes with this domain structure? I wonder if there’s anything we can learn from that past experience that we aren’t doing with lemmy right now. I wonder how many people were active on usenet in its heyday, and are hanging out on lemmy now.

Oh man, this is a cool feeling. It feels like fresh air after 20 years of using all those other corporate run sites. We have a future to look forward to, because the now is pretty chill with you lemmings!

That’s the one sub I’ll still peek in now and then. Especially since my guys won it this year. Lol.

Hey, I see you too, buddy. We’ll be ok.

I just turned 40. My mom passed from cancer 3 yrs ago. I got mine out of the way early.

Fuck my dad.

Tor for one, it rides on top of the internet.

I’ve heard the same about Starbucks, too.

You dont have a relationship with Costco. Trusting a company is like trusting an appliance. Eventually, it’s going to let you down.

I mean, this was sort of a rhetorical question, but in case it wasn’t clear before, I believe trusting a corporation is a silly thing to do.

No one that works at Costco is looking out for you, and if an employee did, that would likely mean not following the instructions they are given by the corporation.

The why is important.

Because they dont want to be held to that standard themselves. They have monied interests in Israel and the status quo. Democrat politicians are small c conservative, with the exception of some token liberal social planks in the platform.

Name a corporation you can trust?

You want something different. That’s cool. Some people want something familiar. That’s cool, too.

I think every successful linux journey starts with an enthusiastic user. Whatever the newbie is excited about is a good choice. That’s what carries you through solving the tough issues, feeling like you’re winning the whole time, and that means different things to different people.

Im a lonely man at the dinner table with my wife and extended family.

Make them say it out loud. I want to hear all the bigots sing their approval full throated so I know who they are.

What is China making that is competitive with NA design houses in the gpu space? My understanding is that China is buying Nvidia parts nerfed by US law. Do you think there is not a big pile of funding that these Chinese efforts have been provided? The European union and Chinese government have very different economic levers they can pull

There’s a reason why modern nodes are used. If you manufacture in a node old enough to get cost in that ballpark, you will miss out on power efficiency and performance that just the technology gets you, and it won’t be a salable product. Gpus are high performance products. Older nodes are usually relegated to support chips.

You are also not likely to be able to reuse the work you did, on literally anything physical. You will perhaps be able to reuse logic in vhdl or verilog. Nothing synthesized, though.

This isn’t software. In software, you can write architecture agnostic code and compile and run it on processors that span decades. That ability is intentionally baked into the languages and processor architecture.

None of that is true in semiconductor manufacturing. There is no guarantee that you can close a design with the same logic just by rerunning synthesis and routing in a new technology. As a matter of fact, ask a physical design engineer. They’ll laugh at you. You’re acting as if they don’t do anything for a living.

Overall, I dont believe you can show a viable option on a node that old, and attempting to do so would be additional work that needs redone to be able to sell a product in a more recent node.

Incumbents have other advantages too. They have long term relationships with fabs, that helps with pricing and scheduling. There are also reciprocal licenses for patents between incumbents. You’d potentially accidentally run afoul of patent laws if you use covered techniques. You will want to use these techniques if you want to be competitive.

I understand the desire for a free and open option, but there are different obstacles in hardware than there is in software. Hardware requires heaps of money to get off the ground.

If you are getting a wafer fabbed for 5k, you are either on very old technology node, or you are talking about bulk pricing. You cannot get single wafers made for 5k on a modern node.

Rarely are full designs respun. That’s a huge waste of NRE cost. Lithography masks are millions of dollars.

Devices are characterized and techniques are explored on mpw designs. Multiple Pattern Wafer. Many customers design a small test die, and they are stitched together to make a single wafer and then you’ll get a few dies for evaluation. This way the cost is shared between many customers and experiments.

If even one mask (out of dozens) needs rework after a full design is getting fabbed, its considered a big error.