Yeah was going to say, its hard enough for a *human* to get around in a car in a european city, between unmarked lanes and non-standard road sizes and sudden changes and super narrow one way streets through the medieval part of town, its not really a priority here...you can use a french city as a torture test for your self-driving if you want to see if it 'really works' I guess..
- Tesla is posting lower revenues than before his 'bad detour into politics' as you say. Though I would argue there is no bad detour into politics, just bad intentions, attitudes, and philosophies.
- Twitter aka X is posting lower profits than before the takeover and has seen users slowly leaving the platform.
- SpaceX is set to lose government contracts due to, as you put it, his 'bad detour into politics'.
No one is saying Musk didn't have innovative ideas in the past, but saying somehow he is a skilled businessman is somehow laughable in the year 2025. People change, their skills change, and their attitudes change. He is now a liability for any organization he is a part of.
Though I agree in principal, it could never be a $1.712 billion USD return since they have not developed these satellites with magic. There will be plenty of R&D and deliverables.. and after plenty of searching I could not find either a government source or whether it was a fixed cost contract, so it remains to be seen if this will be profitable, let alone even awarded to SpaceX, since all the articles say "appears to be" or "set to win" or something that is vague and not actually done and signed.
Also Blue Origin is getting contracts and there's questions if SpaceX will even go to the moon for NASA, so that $288M investment could actually end up *costing* Musk profit from his companies. It surely has affected the bottom line of Tesla for the worse.
The ironic part is that ASML is a dutch company. The most advanced lithography process is created in the Netherlands, but its just not economical to *make the chips* there.
Every human after the last generation could say the same thing, for thousands of years "life has been getting better than the previous generation".
The big difference now is most of the civilized, educated world is just that - civilized and educated, taught that life is different than it really is, disconnected from the death and disease of yesteryear, taught that life is 'fair' and people are treated fairly, that people care.
And, again, you missed a big difference - the word "disconnected". When in the past life was hard I had a village or community rally around me. That doesn't happen for most people today outside of some small village types and religions. Many, many, many people live their quiet lives of desperation *completely* disconnected from reality, from care, from touch. THAT is new, and if you don't think it is, you haven't really studied history. Did people have shit disease that made life miserable with no medicine and no hope in previous generations? OF COURSE but you had hope and prayer and community. MOST (not all) do NOT have this today. If you think they do, *you* are the one who is disconnected from the reality of modern life for most of modern humanity.
I am not looking only at my part of the job - again, I *actually* worked there on the team that did this. Let me reiterate - the first generation macintosh to use an x86 chip was a Mac Pro workstation with 2 processors, designed and built entirely inside VSD by ~30 people. The look and feel, specs, and design all came from Apple. The actual server board used was more or less "off the shelf" with some slight modifications for multi gfx support and EFI only bios - it wasn't until the 3rd gen of x86 designs that apple took this in house and stopped using a BTX layout. There was no tech marketing, no benchmarking teams, no one testing games or lots of SAS RAID cards in this thing, no in house design or UX 'experience' psych tests....
Want to include the teams that built the xeon processor and the intel networking chipset and the pre-release chip/board testers and etc? Ok sure its a *LOT* more, but none of them signed an NDA and worked in the closed secure lab that had this board and case, but at that point you may as well include Linus Torvalds since we used Linux on large parts of the pre-release validation.
The world is more broken and disconnected than ever before. There's less human interaction, community, and peace than ever before. There's more social pressure to be a certain way, to act a certain way. There's less ability and knowledge to feed yourself and the factory produced foods are more expensive than ever. Human work is being devalued and we're losing the battle against the oligarchs.
I'm sure a small percentage are trollers who want to see how GPT responds to talk about suicide but 1 million *in a week* are signs to me of societal illness, if you didn't just need to look at the newspapers to see this. Even if they are just trolling....suicide is a strange thing to try and troll a chatterbot with, fixating on this topic and talking about it, even as a joke, are subconscious signs of struggle.
Are you sure those weren't 8"? The first single side/single density 5.25" I thought had 90KB. What system had such a non-standard amount of storage for 5.25"?
Not really lots of groups, just VSD - the first x86 Mac Pro took just a few months to develop and was a relatively light-lift for Intel. It was a dual processor workstation motherboard that was slightly repurposed, using a slightly modified off-the-shelf EFI bios with the legacy side removed (EFI aka tiano was really new at the time), and a few ATI graphics adapters. The laptops didn't come until later and leveraged our initial work.
Apple - Apple never changes. Their focus on secrecy was paramount. We all had to sign NDAs to even know about it, and it was kept in a locked lab inside the locked lab. Out of the 10 people on my team I was the only one working on it, and it was the same for most of the dev/validation teams. There was even a re-work station built inside the locked lab for this and the boards were not allowed to leave the room.
Most of the heavy lifting (software side and case design) was done outside Intel as OSX was shipped to us for testing already compiled and running for x86 around half-way through the project testing. We used test platforms until we got the chassis, which was more or less similar to existing powerpc mac pro workstations but adapter to size/power reqs. We had to recompile and adapt our stress/testing tools and modify the BIOS code to fit what apple wanted. Before we received the actual OSX code, most of the testing was done using Linux, I'm sure Redhat or Suse since those are what we tested with in the lab.
We also did a project around the same time for Google with a stripped down headless serverboard, but I remember less details about that, and it was even less people required to get that one off the ground and never really took off since google took the design in-house after that. I think we did the first two iterations for Apple before they took over designing their own boards and bios stack.
When I worked there 15 years ago they had around 85,000 employees, and there was a lot of bullshit teams, tech marketers, and desktop gaming promoters that literally did nothing. A team of only around 30 people or so in the VSD (volume server division) helped usher in the first x86 Mac Pro...so much bloat in so many places that didn't make money.
At a recent count they are up to 125,000. Now they've fired 35,500. They really don't have that many more products than they had back then (they were working on failed compute and GPU back then too), so it sounds like they could trim some more and still be bloated.
Regardless, in NYSE terms, this means their stock should jump by 5-10%, right?
My floppy only had 360KB, you insensitive clod!
There are sooo many external USB bluray drives to choose from, and literally the first item I searched for was a 4k bluray player (with software included). Some even have built in USB hubs if that's your thing. A quick search for internal drives finds plenty from Asus, Hitachi, and Liteon - do you have some weird specific thing you are looking for that limits your options??
All three are separate even with the same base language. I can understand a great deal of a language due to having lived in this foreign country with fluent children for a long time, and can read the language very well, but can barely speak it because speaking is a different part of the brain than understanding, and I work in english all day....And writing? My spelling is atrocious and I hear words I think is a single word but its really 3 words said quickly together so when I write said words as a single word, and spelled badly to boot, no one can understand what I just wrote. But I certainly understand them when they are questioning my ability to communicate. I have known the opposite too - people who can speak english with high fluency but cannot understand half of what is said to them. And those who can read and write but can't understand when it is spoken.
In France, not only was it day time, it's a holiday week for much of the country's school kids.
THAT was the part you focused on instead of "drive an EV you built from scrap" ?? LMAO!!! It was an exaggeration meant to portray an overly net-negative carbon person, not a play on reality.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca
