It makes a lot of sense to me that PV and wind power could have subtle undesirable effects that we don't know about until it scales up.

Taking gigawatts of energy out of the planet ecology and redirecting it to something else seems like it could have drawbacks. Of course, on net it seems likely to still be a significant improvement over burning hydrocarbons.

“…good enough” and why is it that we can’t be a part of the planet’s ecology? it must have happened when we exceeded the beaver and ascended. there’s a cake joke in this somewhere but i’d rather just suggest it than wait for the joke to come to me.

this is what concerns me about geothermal and hydrogen production... the latter more so because clean water is a scares resource as it is.

But It would not surprise me at all if sucking some of the heat out of the earth would have some undesirable effects.

Dang, can you substantiate that this is actually Mr. Farrow like he claims?

Or Mr Farrow can you post some evidence somewhere we can see?

Some of that could be related to the ISA but I'm hoping that it's just the fact that the current implementations aren't mature enough.

The vast majority of the ecosystem seems to be focused on uCs until very recently. So it'll take time for the applications processors to be competitive.

The RISC-V ISA can be fast.

Tenstorrent Ascalon, expected later this year, is expected to be AMD Ryzen 5 speeds. Tenstorrent hopes to achieve Apple Silicon speeds in a few years.

The SpacemiT K3 is about half as fast as Ascalon and available in April. K3 is 3-4 times faster than the K1 (previous generation).

This should give you an idea about how fast RISC-V is improving.

I'd be pretty surprised if Ascalon actually hits Zen 5 perf (I'm gessing more like Zen2/3 for most real world workloads). CPU design is really hard, and no one makes a perfect CPU in their first real generation with customers. Tenstorrent has a good team, but even the "simple" things like compilers won't be ready to give them peak performance for a few years.

>I'd be pretty surprised if Ascalon actually hits Zen 5 perf

Certainly not in the Atlantis SoC, due to the older fab node used. Zen2-3 territory IPC is the expectation, with lower clocks than these actually got.

By the time they have the necessary scale to use the best fabs, they'll be tapping out something newer than the Ascalon that went into Atlantis.

Tenstorrent expects to reach parity with the best x86 and arm chips by 2028.

All RISC ISAs are basically the same thing as far as compiler optimisation is concerned, and there is 40 years of work into that already.

I can't see any reason why the father of Zen and the designer of the M1 can't make a core for the simpler RISC-V ISA with basically the same (or better) µarch than the M1.

Assuming AMD, Intel, ARM, Apple in a few years haven't released new CPUs, otherwise the difference is the same as today.

I guess if you can solve phase alignment then another big problem is grid capability?

If everyone plugged one in, could the transmission network reliably deliver the power generated where it's needed? I thought that was a serious long term challenge for utilities wrt solar.

> blaming them for not accepting email is kind of silly.

I definitely agree - but if the organization creates pain as an externality, then there's no incentive for them to change. Making them realize the cost of their decisions seems appropriate and just and not-even-abusive. Yelling at the person on the phone is bad and doesn't help anyone. Malicious compliance like this helps motivate them to escalate their concerns to people who can change the policy.

Indeed.

If Karen from Compliance cared, she could (and should) inform her superiors of what just happened. Let them know how much their procedure cost, in time and money. Call the IT people and say "I have a fax machine printing 500 pages". Get it noted somewhere. Reported. Make statistics out of it.

It can be as simple as an e-mail. Or she can send the entire stack of pages as a souvenir. If she cannot be bothered to do anything about it, then maybe it's not such a problem for her after all.

But keeping silent about it, is being complicit.

MAGA isn't a political platform, it's a cult of personality.

Witness the abrupt reversal in public opinion on foreign wars in the last month.

Modern semiconductor fabrication is a very narrow field.

As far as monopolies go I don't think it's our biggest concern, like you say.

If we want to continue to wage wars and seek conquest, it's not great to have it located in one/few countries. But instead if we want to work towards peace, we should continue breaking down barriers to trade (while maintaining protections for labor).

The same self-centeredness that drove man to think that Earth was the center of its Universe.

See also: bean soup / "what about me?*

> the world has changed.

It's the effect of a cult of personality. People don't feel like they want or need this. But they're on board with the cult.

There's a stark difference between de jure and de facto here. Executive orders will brazen, tyrannical effects and are often reined in late or never.