otherotherchris's comments

Nvidia is the only credible buyer for ARM.

Everyone that wants an arch license has one (Intel, AMD, Apple, QC, Mediatek, Broadcom, Marvel, Huawei, Samsung, etc) and doesn't have to put down cash, they can just poach ARMs best chip designers away from them. ARM gets to strangle the $10 landfill router market until RISC-V takes over.

Ammonia burns fine in a diesel engine with almost no modification, just swap the fuel pumps and injectors.

If electrolysis can be made cheaper (E-TAC looks promising) you can run it at a reduced duty cycle on excess solar and wind power whenever they are available.

You can also produce hydrogen at the point of generation if water is available, and store it using the now obsolete natural gas distribution network.

Many aeons ago librarians told Google that sources cannot be trusted equally and that they needed to build a manually reviewed and ranked corpus before their index filled with machine generated shit.

But techbros put trust in the algorithm because they knew best...

>Yeah, I know this violates the policies, but sheesh

Polite meta-commentary doesn't violate policy, the rules only apply to jerks.

To answer the question, people wouldn't be complaining on HN about Google Search multiple times per day if they could still find what they were searching for on Google. Search has been a revolutionary world changing product for two decades, and now it's completely stopped working for complex queries. Something is up with Google. Something big is up with Google.

Nothing to do with it. Since around 2018, Google is no longer searching for the keywords a user inputted into the search box, it's running them through an AI that rewrites them to maximize ad yield.

Google's results for nearly every query are the pages that contain the most Adsense. That's how most results became "Best X in $CurrentYear" and top 10 listicles.

Google is going to slowly lose the powerusers first, and then like what happened to Metacrawler, Dogpile and Altavista, the decline will be RAPID as they convert their families and friends.

Google since Page and Brin bailed has become a highly political organization interested only in short term revenue growth, and is no longer an engineering organization focused on product excellence. Anyone that has used their messaging products over the years has noticed this.

This type of business attracts a different class of talent and nearly all of the old guard has cashed in their stock and left.

I have a late 2006 Core 2 Duo Macbook pro with 4GB ram and a 128GB SATA SSD running Mint 20. Same deal, everything but video runs fine.

Youtube crawls on anything older than Haswell due to a lack of H.264 hardware acceleration. Youtube has made a business decision to not waste bandwidth and disk space on older codecs.

ChromeOS currently has a 3% market share. Microsoft had 95% during the end of the Clinton administration.

Google's consumer hostile behavior is kneecapping any chance they have at future market dominance, it's entirely self correcting.

Google did this with Android. It's GPLv2, 'standards bodies' (and Linus, but he seems to be cool) can go pound sand.

8. Google produced a cleaner, faster browser than the buggy, slow and bloated Firefox.

Mozilla began addressing performance issues with Firefox 57 and future releases, but for almost the entire decade prior Firefox was unstable trash.

I didn't notice a rapid decline until early 2019, when the search results stopped containing the keywords I used. Before then there was a blend of synonyms and actual keyword matches.

This was roughly when Google's new AI began "interpreting" the "meaning" of the specific jargon and product serial numbers I was inputting, and then decided what I actually needed was song lyrics.

Common crawl already exists and is nearly as good as Google's index.

In Australia, Google is being blackmailed into boosting Fairfax, Newscorp and Seven West Media content higher up in their index. It's reached a point where most queries are useless if they contain a word or even a synonym for that word that has been recently used in a major media site owned by those three.

I use Google through a VPN to avoid it. That breaks maps integration.

Ten years ago Google Calculator used to work perfectly. I don't understand how they've broken it and why no one is responsible for fixing it.

Perhaps everyone who understood the codebase has left?

Don't be "fair", instant answers have been useless misinformation in every instance I've triggered them. And they've been broken for years.

No one at Google is responsible for these half baked and largely irrelevant widgets or wants to stake their career fixing them.

Some people actually need that reminder. Particularly if they're on a keto diet and don't get glucose withdrawl.

I'm a bit absent minded and some days I start to feel tired and a bit anxious around ~3-4pm. I feel awful, and I'm wracking my brain for what I'd forgotten to do that day. Oh wait, it was breakfast and lunch...

Downtime in one of these EUV fabs is going to cost in excess of ~$1m worth of product per hour. So yeah, you keep it staffed full of very talented maintenance technicians 24/7.

Bullshit article. Intel rosters it's staff onto 12 hour shifts in their fabs too.

95% of automotive chips are being manufactured on 90's era i-line and KrF steppers that China can manufacture locally.

Only missing piece domestically were the excimer lasers, but they've had that solved (probably through industrial espionage) for three or so years.