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Comment Re:The claim is that it was a router problem (Score 1) 59

A thousand login requests every four to five seconds is definitely something that was considered in the era of floppies. If anything, people thought about that kind of thing MORE often back then because bandwidth was scarce. A common approach would be to use exponential backoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are obviously design issues in the billion dollar system.

Comment Trump on the FAA incident: (Score 1) 59

The below is what Trump is actually concerned about today according to his own official account:

“I am working with Senator Tim Scott and, believe it or not, Senator Adam Schiff and many others, both Republican and Democrat, on the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act. The support and popularity of doing this, and bringing Entertainment back to the United States of America, has been unbelievable!

“Hollywood, and so many other places, have been virtually ‘emptied out’ by the Tax Incentives, and much more, given by other Countries. Everyone feels strongly about the Motion Picture and Television Industry - and so do I, and we all want to save it.

“It was MADE IN AMERICA, and must STAY IN AMERICA. The Entertainment Industry has largely moved to Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and other countries, but the actors, producers, and all others involved want to come back home!

“Importantly, hundreds of thousands of Blue Collar Workers will be positively affected, BIG TIME, by the passage of this Bill. The amount of money spent on these Tax Incentives will be made up tenfold by the money pouring into the Treasury's coffers.

“Meetings are being set up, routinely, with the Leaders of both Parties in order to, GET THIS DONE! It is a very Bipartisan undertaking, especially in that so much of the money being lost to other countries is coming out of the Blue States. Hopefully Republicans and Democrats will get together and finalize this already very actively negotiated Legislation.

“It can be done quickly, accurately, efficiently and, importantly, will benefit all of America. MAKE OUR ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY GREAT AGAIN!”

Comment Re:The claim is that it was a router problem (Score 1) 59

when it clearly wasn't done right the first time

You're making an assumption. Networks like this do not get designed and stay the same throughout their service life. They are built and the systems connected to them change over time. The problem isn't the network design wasn't done right, it is that it wasn't reviewed at every stage of a change in the systems on it.

Comment Re:Midas Project is a political hit piece factory (Score 1) 56

Gee. 100k signatures. ALL stockholders. Gee no morales - all about greed. Who cares if he slept with many women, lies to his wife etc.

Actually no one cares. The reason he was fired was for not disclosing internal relationships (and lying about external ones) which is a major policy violation and a massive legal risk. Literally no one gives a fuck how well his marriage is going or if he is a cheater.

Comment Re:Grassroots as a service (Score 2) 56

He bet on GPU computing when it was a hard sell and got developers to build around CUDA.

Making a big bet-good decision nearly 2 decades ago is not a reason to keep a CEO around. NVIDIA's current wealth is sitting on pushing one idea, and not the result of a continuous churn of innovation driven by leadership. They are a trillionaire company because someone outside of NVIDIA figured out what to use their products for and have coasted on their success. It's very much a right place right time situation. Jensen is no Steve Jobs and NVIDIA will be perfectly fine without him.

Incidentally Apple is also perfectly fine without Jobs. Even clever and/or lucky CEOs are replaceable.

Comment Re:Midas Project is a political hit piece factory (Score 2) 56

I'm not sure what you're saying there. There's a letter with 100k signatures, 7000 of which you've confirmed to have massive bias? Are you saying you haven't figured out what bias and who is pulling the strings for the other 93k signatures?

Here's a hint for you: If a letter concerning the removal of a CEO has 100k signatures on them, you can be guaranteed that most of those signatures are fake as well
Normal people don't give a shit, and there aren't 100k deeply financially invested people, or at least not 100k who care about the CEO as much as they are most likely nothing more than the recipients of a marketing campaign from a few people who have real skin in the game.

The Midas project has more credibility than your letter.

Comment Re:What we made ourselves .... (Score 1) 56

I think they have missed the point. Ai "is" making it ourselves. Some people will be better at using AI to express their ideas, Why penalize them with the mechanics of coding.

Because it's a STEM competition, not an arts college graphics contest. "Vibes" are not part of STEM. The Entire point of the challenge is to display skill.

In other news I'm sure I could beat you at cycling. Let's have a challenge. Me vs you. And when I instead pay some money to have Tadej Pogaar cycle on my behalf just don't complain when I said that "I" was the better cyclist. After all why penalize me in a cycling contest with the requirement of fitness.

Comment Why do we care if was an affair? (Score 1) 65

The news media is constantly talking about the "affair", but an billionaire having an affaire isn't exactly a surprise. What matters is whether he send materials and / or provided information to China. It makes no difference whether that was done through a sexual partner, a golf buddy, his chauffeur, or a bartender.

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