RISC hasn't been new for decades.
RISC V isn't new either. There are many players already.

Neither can be the foundation for a major new player unless the founders are idiots and I doubt they are.

So, whatever wrinkle will set them apart is something not disclosed in TFA or any other source I have found.

RISC killed it when a small team could crank out a more than competitive RISC processor on a gate array.

By the late 90's cpu chips had become much much larger in terms of gate count. This created enormous opportunities for microarchitecture optimisations but exploiting this opportunities required huge expensive teams and enough demand for the finished product to pay for it all. Only the PC market was big enough and that was owned by x86. Other architectures, RISC and CISC alike, starved. ARM survived by serving a market where big, power hungry, uncustomizable processors were not suitable.

Everyone here is reading the comments page of a Slashdot article, speculating about what will or won't happen at an upcoming Apple WWDC.

I think we can take 'incredibly dull lives' as a given.

That seems like short-term thinking. A better approach would be to figure out how to do the future-prediction optimizations in ways that malware cannot exploit, so we can reap the benefits of the optimizations.

Hell, what stops one of these rich people from using his money to take care of those who need it now? The only one who tries is Gates, and he gets routinely villified for trying.

Cockroaches are free.

And as a bonus, farming them saves you money on insecticide.

Make America Gobble Arthropods!!

Sounds like you understand my point

If you only stop people from pissing in the shallow end, they're only going to relieve their bladders in the deep end, and in the end, you have just as much urine in the pool. You either need to control the entire pool (global) or you need to make it very expensive to swim for people who piss in the pool at all.

Unless it's done at a global level or enforced carbon emission based tariffs, a market solution is only going to move the problem outside of California.

The *real* problem is with people who aren't skilled enough at operating a motor vehicle

That is where your sentence should have ended. There is a large majority of people who do not know how to drive a motor vehicle. Braking at green lights, not turning right on red, braking going down the most insignificant hill rather than coasting, not accelerating when the light turns green, not yielding when entering a roadway, driving below the speed limit, making a turn from the middle of the lane rather than the edge, etc.

If I had a dime for every person I've been around who has done any one of the above, I'd never have to work again.

but every astronomer's shy friend. Statistics.

Making wild assumptions about the prevalence of 3-body star systems with the requisite properties, you could come up with fat error bars on the prevalence of this scenario as a Type Ia progenitor?

Journal article!

There was a cohort of grad students living in university housing at a small institution of higher learning in the Greater Los Angeles area in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains who stayed up that late to watch a certain TV program because they all lacked a normal social life. This television program from Canada featured members of the Toronto Second City improvisational comic troupe, and this program was shown in Los Angeles following NBC Saturday Night Live. Several of the actors went on to appear on Saturday Night Live and later in movies. It is the shared culture of those grad students, and at least one of them, who happened to be from Canada, went on to contribute scientifically to astronomy.

This program, if you can believe it, was even more out-of-the-mainstream, subversive and edgy and not ready for prime time than the Saturday Night Live of the late 1970s. Toronto was a "second city" to the Canadian cultural center of Montreal, and Canadians I have known carry a resentment that Canada is a "second country" to the U.S., and the television program, originating in a fictitious "downmarket" generic North American city named "Melonville" built heavily on those themes.

One of the sketches was called Celebrity Blow-up, which parodied the sort of TV content that could be developed at a downmarket, North American TV station, featured a pair of actors dressed in denim coveralls who spoke ungrammatically. Their guests were other comics doing character impressions of well-known Hollywood actors who were known to over-act or otherwise have a high opinion of themselves as actors and be ripe for comedic parody. Each "guest" was encouraged to "blow up" on screen, where they literally exploded, which in turn was a cheesy video special effect within the budget of a downmarket TV station originating this fictitious TV program. Lacking cultural refinement, the denim-wearing hosts would find this entertaining and yell, "he blowed-up, real good!"

Your astronomer colleagues, who just might include my Canadian friend from over 40 years ago, are excited about the prospect that a nearby recurrent nova would "blowed-up, real good!", which is as realistic as an overacting Hollywood actor vanishing in an explosion on camera, but since you are from a time, a place and a different cohort of students in graduate school, one perhaps not reliant on watching a low-budget Canadian-import TV program as a shared cultural experience, the reference doesn't have any context, for which I apologize sincerely.

The difference is that tech companies used to feel like they had to at least maintain a polite fiction that they were ethical and in some way serving a greater good. Now we're in the Trump/Musk era, where being unethical is considered morally superior to being pointlessly encumbered by ethics/morals/empathy/etc, so there's no need to pretend.

If you can steal music, video, and software by claiming nothing was stolen, you can use publicly available data without issue.

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