I guess you must be single or young....Reasons not to leave your area: owning a house, family, friends, not wanting to pull kids from school during critical times (or mid year), established connections, and a lot more tech jobs in Seattle than 99% of the rest of america, outside silicon valley? "Sell your house" and then you pick up a house that is also overpriced but pay much higher property taxes. Income tax is *zero* in Washington...Also, this is actually Redmond, not Seattle proper.
 
This is a bit of a sensationalist article since every time there's a series of layoffs or any 'economy fear' we start hearing about tech people applying at coffee shops specifically.

Just to be clear since I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, the subject is wrong - they are criticizing the end of support of Windows 10.

Also this is wrong since most of them will end up being resold in poor nations with Linux installed (or old Windows 7 or 10 running without support).
 
And computers that are unusable are too valuable to end up in a 'landfill', which is where you bury garbage. But PIRG has always been a bit...excessive with hyperbole. Most old computing equipment goes to poor countries with no regulation on the industry with children stripping the valuable minerals out and burning the rest. Not sure if that's any better.

I've had the opposite experience with *consumer graphics*, but granted I use linux exclusively. For games and graphics, AMD Radeon *just works* and I have no problems whereas Nvidia does not especially with things like sleep states. Switch that around for ML or compute and I can say ROCm doesn't work at all (again for *consumer graphics*), whereas CUDA *just works* due to AMD's refusal to actually support consumer grade hardware in ROCm. Then again, AMD with vulkan is fine assuming the ML product you're using has vulkan support.

I had to look this up, apparently Entra ID is an evolution of ADFS or Active Directory Federation in the cloud. I guess you get what you deserve if you're using Microsoft security products in the cloud. Also, Entra ID is a terrible name but AD is a terrible product so I guess its an evolution of the same terrible security issues.

Neither - Teams is an awful product. ;)
 
LLM is not some magic wand for data - its an API. You feed data in, you get text out. All of that data you are feeding in is ALREADY IN their api the moment you click 'send', it stored in their storage cloud, there for their parsing. If there's any "IP" or trading data in teams its already being consumed on the backend and processed by LLM, if thats your conspiracy...
 
The only *new* thing it could possibly get is "how are people interacting with an LLM Agent in Teams", which seems like useful feedback for a product that is subpar and given away free if you have 365 already.

Why would they need to do that from Teams? If you're already using Teams its because your organization is neck deep in Windows/Office365. Your Crown Jewels are most likely already in the hands of trust of MS. And I think you underestimate *just how much* interoffice drama and "lunch time restaurant votes" and emojis and memes you'd have to crawl through to get that one piece of insider info that actually had value.... And getting an 'agent' to scour that from Teams? I mean.....the data is *already in* Teams, seems super inefficient to have an AI Copilot Agent do the heavy lifting here.

Pixel? Samsung?

You can do that with any modern phone but people don't do it....
 
Consider this the 'celeron' of Apple. Some people want an Apple product because they want an Apple product, they don't do any real productivity work on it. For $599 it will have a crap (for apple) monitor and something worse than the butterfly keyboard and will probably get 30 hours of battery life, and will give all the fanbois/apologists yet more things to declare 'total dominance' over any other choice.

I wasn't trying to be insulting though I can see I hit a sore spot with you. AMD is not outselling Intel in the DC - they had a good year but I don't know of any DC that is buying more AMD than Intel chips, unless its an AMD only company, and there are a few...Giving you the benefit of the doubt (which google searches easily show is wrong), this STILL means the vast majority of hardware, today, in a DC, is STILL Intel. Enterprises aren't just throwing away their servers. Hell my last gig ~25% of our servers were 10 years old (and buying 5k new every quarter)
 
Nvidia absolutely wants to ensure that Intel remains on top because its in their best interest. On Top doesn't mean who has sold more chips to gamers last year - if you walk into any DC you'll find 75-90% of their silicon is Intel, and if its an AI DC a higher percentage will be Nvidia compute.
 
For the record, I own lots of AMD and think they have much better products than Intel, but that doesn't change the enterprise reality of momentum, though its changing rapidly and Nvidia sees this...

Intel can't even make their own chips at a competitive level when it comes to latest and greatest techniques. ;) If there's some problem where TSMC can't provide chips, Nvidia AND AMD AND Intel will all have problems, along with just about every other chip manufacturer.

You obviously don't work in a datacenter or with enterprise hardware - it doesn't matter what benchmarks you're looking at, large companies are still buying tons of Intel chips because they already have a ton of Intel chips. And you're right, CUDA has more market penetration than ROCm but that doesn't change what I said - AMD is the only *real* rival to the products Nvidia makes.
 
The more DC start to get AMD, the better their automation teams will get at patching the firmware and performance tuning for Epyc, which again is an entirely different skillset than just "rack and run". Should companies start to *actually buy* MI35x en masse, then Nvidia will feel their biggest profit/margin maker threatened.
 
This investment is ensuring people don't run *any* AMD anything in the DC.

More like a frenemy - Nvidia does not have any sort of market in the datacenter where Intel competes, at all, and would much rather see Intel Xeon chips and motherboards running their AI compute stack than AMD Epycs - because AMD is the *real* rival to where Nvidia makes the bulk of their money (hint: its not to gamers)... Intel compute cards cannot compete on the enterprise level at all with Nvidia and in fact there's a synergy there since they both want the same thing - AMD to lose.

It's a neat material, and 90% is a good number but its not 100%. Put this on a robot limb that stretched it and it would quickly lose elasticity.. It also took 10 minutes to fully self-heal. I'm sure there's some good applications for this but anything requiring extreme flexibility will wear this out quickly since a 10% loss in strength after each use isn't great.

One is an internationally recognized terrorist organization and the other is a Chinese equivalent Scientology that threatened their grand leaders popularity contest. I wonder if they did this for Scientology how well the code would be for a 'Western model' whatever that is since there's a lot of anti-Scientology sentiment around...also most of our models have a *lot* of Chinese researchers working on them so calling it a Western Model is silly. Western USA? There's AI companies outside that. West Hemisphere? Most of EU is not in the western hemisphere, that includes the location of Mistral HQ.

Seems more likely this, than some subtle shit like "Code for Tibet, but make it just a little worse!".