Moore's law is over. TSMC 14A node is pretty much the end of the road with the current 2nm node close to it in terms of performance. nVidia has also got packaging quite good, so the chips can't really get packaged much closer. In other words, compute capability per rack is not going to increase very much beyond the next couple years, and even from now to then there won't be a whole lot of improvement. I think old data centers will still have some value, just less than the final ones a few years from now. If the AI hype holds, they will all be needed. When the hype dies, they will all be worth less.

>> The analysts project $300 billion in high-grade bonds going toward AI data centers next year.

I'm not sure who is rating these bonds "high grade" because it's the worst investment around.

If OpenAI fails and that causes collateral damage that's on Altman and the idiots investing trillions of dollars in it. Let it fail and be a lesson in hype investing.

Supporting "Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and other PC storefronts" feels similar to how an Amazon Fire Stick supports Prime video along with Netflix, Hulu, Paramount, Disney+, etc... Not sure how it will go for gaming, but that plethora of "services" has really soured me on streaming video along with a lot of other people. Microsoft probably sees this as a way to dilute interest in Steam boxes and Linux as competitors by "supporting" them - an abundance of them.

My advice: Get Steam on Linux and never look back. Don't compromise for a game or two that you "can't live without".

Bitcoin may not have a means to reverse a transaction (other than making another transaction) but it also has no mean of minting $300 Trillion of bitcoin. Mining is the only way to create new bitcoin, and that process was designed to get exponentially harder over time. Not only that, there are only a few million BTC left to be mined. I'm not advocating for bitcoin - I think it's essentially a scam at this point since all its "benefits" will go away when mining is no longer profitable - but it is fundamentally more secure in that these accidental money printing incidents are not possible with it.

If there are that many thermal incidents in a year on aircraft, how often do these events happen in peoples homes, or in their pockets?

>> In 1999, the median age of IPOs was five years. In 2022, it was eight years, and today, the median age of IPOs has increased to 14 years.

>> The rise in the age of companies going public is not only a result of the Fed raising interest rates in 2022, but also the consequence of more companies wanting to stay private for longer to avoid the burdens of being public.

Interest rates were a bit higher in 1999 than they are now. Other policies and tax rates have changed since then, but everyone keeps demanding interest rates need to be lower to "fix" things. Honestly the 90's were a pretty good decade for the economy. We even had a balanced budget by the end of the decade. I feel like that period should be a sort of benchmark.

A few years ago I had a problem with a broken official Fedora package in the main repository. It was weird considering the have a 3D printing SIG and it was a very common app for 3D printing. Like the official package *did not work*. IIRC I complained and got nowhere. I then traced it to an issue with a dependency, found a workaround, posted that to IRC or something and a few days later the package got fixed using the workaround. The whole thing made me realize that some of their maintainers are either not paying attention or don't have the required skills for the job. Given a maintainer shortage, it makes sense to use Flatpak or Snap so they don't have as many packages to maintain - because (and this annoys me) Flatpak and Snap are just ways to push the packaging job upstream and away from the distro - but in this case it begs the question: If upstream provides a Flatpak, why does Fedora have their own?

BTW I love Fedora, been using it since 2003. Yes there are issues from time to time, but everything has issues. It how they get resolved that matters.

>> Stallman is more like the kind of political extremist who would tell everybody not to vote because it perpetuates the system. I think he's more like a person telling you to vote libertarian. Unfortunately real-world libertarian candidates are more like BSD than GPL.

Very little software existed under what we now call a free software license, and none under a copyleft license. He defined the list of user freedoms and crafted a license to propagate those freedoms. He was also the first one to release software under such a license.

What do you think about RISC-V?

I believe only civil engineers have those requirements. I know a lot of people who design all kinds of things and none of them are licensed. That ranges from every day products to cars to people who have moved on to SpaceX. But yes, if you want to design a bridge you're going to be required to have certain credentials. Does that mean none of the other people doing engineering work are engineers? I think they are. Does that extend to software? IDK, does it matter?

With the removal of very old hardware support, and the reduction in the number of interfaces - we're really down to SATA, USB, and HDMI - do you see the size of the kernel starting to go down in a significant way at some point?

People will indulge in homeopathy, chiropractery and crystal healing.

I take exception to the inclusion of chiropractery in there. These people are actually helpful to a lot of patients. Insurance companies actually cover them too, so it would be nice if people looked into it rather than just calling them quacks and lumping them in with crystals and homeopathy.

Just sayin

The Light Sport Aircraft category was supposed to help with the cost by creating a new category of plane that is a bit smaller and hypothetically cheaper. What I've noticed is a very large number of manufacturers in the market which seems good, but none can get enough sales volume to reduce cost.

The cheapest route of course is to build your own, put an engine on that can run car gas, and be your own mechanic. This is not appealing to everyone, and not everyone whom it would appeal to even knows it's an option.