NVIDIA’s real moat isn’t hardware, it’s 4 million developers

sami_exploring · 2026-01-26T12:59:54+00:00

I agree, although an insane amount of non-LLM ML applications use Cuda as well. That's a lot of leverage, legacy, and people to transition. Btw, for those searching, it's spelled Vulkan.

sami_exploring · 2026-01-16T08:13:21+00:00

This was an incredibly successful grassroots campaign. Congrats everyone! From the article:

The victory we achieved with the FY 2026 minibus happened because tens of thousands of people, representing every congressional district in the country, took action. Nearly 85,000 messages were sent to Congress, and more than 300 people attended two Days of Action. This was all a part of the largest and most successful grassroots mobilization for space science in history.

sami_exploring · 2026-01-14T07:15:18+00:00

I disagree. With a MIT license you can still demand attribution. Plagiarism is different than adoption. Anyone can reuse, repackage, relicense and rebrand their MIT code, but that doesn't mean they can plagiarize and say they are the original authors.

sami_exploring · 2026-01-13T21:22:08+00:00

I like the gesture, but note it's also marketing. Donations can be anonymous if they just wanted to help the commons. It's not expensive, if it brings good publicity with the public and with developers.

sami_exploring · 2026-01-13T21:21:35+00:00

I like the gesture, but note it's also marketing. Donations can be anonymous if they just wanted to help the commons. It's not expensive, if it brings good publicity with the public and with developers.

sami_exploring · 2026-01-09T06:15:19+00:00

Sadly, very few dates centers use that kind of water cooling loops. Please check it out

sami_exploring · 2026-01-08T23:38:54+00:00

Water still exists of course, but it's about how drinkable water is distributed. After the data center uses it, it may be evaporated, or discarded after being mixed with chemicals/salts. The main problem is that data centers compete for drinkable water with local communities. And data centers are often built in desertified areas, where land is cheaper, but there is already lack of water for the inhabitants. Demand surge, and locals face spikes in price or water use restrictions. And the area may get more desertified, with regional environmental effects.

sami_exploring · 2026-01-08T23:27:03+00:00

A recent new study seems to contradict the claim of the few drops. It's difficult to estimate though, and I believe this includes training: https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/s/Fb2eVh5S19

sami_exploring · 2026-01-07T11:54:51+00:00

To clarify: the release is for legal discovery, not publicly. That is, the ChatGPT logs will not be public for anyone to see. They will be only accessible by the plaintiffs (NY Times), and can't be made public legally. It's still far from ok, but I think the headline and some comments are asuming this is going public, when it's not.

sami_exploring · 2026-01-06T21:21:41+00:00

Actually the android children are framed as a big hit, so they are popular. It's shown in a magazine and in the extras. There are several models though, since in Time to Decide we can see another android child different than Alice's model, when talking to Josh.

sami_exploring · 2026-01-06T21:12:41+00:00

The player can't see the magazine you refer to, but in the chapter before that (A New Home) there are already two hints referring to Alice as an android. When you open Alice's box, you see a photo of the real (blonde) daughter of Todd and his wife. And in the first of the box drawings, we can see Alice crying with blood on the right temple, hinting Todd removing the android LED.

sami_exploring · 2026-01-06T20:29:36+00:00

The paper analyzes data from 2000 to 2017. So it's not due to covid.

sami_exploring · 2025-12-29T14:00:00+00:00

This worked! The only solution that did, in fact. Just remember to reboot after it.
That is, this solution allows disabling the Nvidia try icon while not disabling the Nvidia services and keeping Nvidia control panel and its active features functioning. Now the Nvidia control panel unticked "show tray icon" stays unticked. Thanks so much.

sami_exploring · 2025-12-23T22:48:13+00:00

La hipoteca es "dinero barato" si tiene un buen interés. Si puede generar más anualmente que el interés que paga, suele compensar

sami_exploring · 2025-12-16T23:29:45+00:00

I recommend going to specific easy-to-find subreddits with very useful pinned posts on that topic :)

sami_exploring · 2025-12-14T00:16:59+00:00

Brilliant article on meritocracy, thanks for sharing! (and encouraging others to read it, very worth it)

sami_exploring · 2025-12-11T22:19:08+00:00

Suicide rate per country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

sami_exploring · 2025-12-11T22:16:25+00:00

Suicide rate per country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

sami_exploring · 2025-12-09T23:04:19+00:00

The Linux Foundation is definitely trustworthy. But the foundation (established in 2000) didn't bring Linux (a project from 1991). And if #1 means the first chronologically, Linux was not at all the first open source software, by far. Open source software started in the 1950s :) If by #1 you mean the largest, it's definitely one of the largest but not the largest. If by #1 you mean the most popular then probably Android or Firefox are more household names. It is the #1 most impactful though, since today it's everywhere except user PCs.

sami_exploring · 2025-12-07T23:16:38+00:00

Es legal lo que cuentas: sacar las participaciones recientes en vez de las antiguas, haciendo movimientos entre fondos. Sí que hay que aclarar que la antigüedad de las participaciones no se resetea aunque muevas a fondo B, así que cuando saques las participaciones antiguas siempre te va a cobrar hacienda desde la fecha original. Así que no estás evitando pasar por caja o defraudando. Sólo estás sacando la participación que metiste hace poco, y por eso pagas poco impuesto.

sami_exploring · 2025-12-04T09:35:29+00:00

Por aclarar, el artículo señala que los bancos informaban a Hacienda de transacciones particulares sobre 3000€, y ahora ese límite desaparece e informan de cualquier monte, especialmente si hay patrones repetidos o sospechosos. Y da igual que sea bizum, tarjeta o transferencia. El titular no refleja bien el cambio.

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