And I thought that it was related to Doom. Disappointing. (tongue in cheek)

Crazy difficult, but I guess a RL AI could learn how to beat it

Current LLMs are in the Pentium IV Netburst stage: hypertrophy of components on old archs have gotten to the limits of what is physically feasible. Get ready for the next phase of leaner models.

I remember how it was in 2008 on Linux desktops/laptops: AMD laughed straight in the face of their Linux customers. NVidia did support them, although at its own rules (closed source). When the need to run scientific computation over GPUs arouse, NVidia was there, ready. AMD got what it deserved for ignoring a market of scientists and researchers

Vim is a very good editor in the simple task of editing text files of every size. Wrote master thesis with it

I don't get this: the Transformer dates back to 2017, the patent is from 2018. This should be invalid as prior art by default.

Fabien Sanglard is an ace, his 3dfx posts are legendary. Very enjoyable reading

+1

I very much enjoyed his Game Engine Black Books on Wolfenstein 3D & Doom.

His books are all also fantastic value!

But this is not the point. The point is not to engage in meaningless or easy stuff only. The point is to recognize that you should not dedicate more than 8h per day because for many jobs (including software engineering) there are no deadlines or most are made by people that are not involved in the actual process so they are artificial limits imposed to make you fret.

I think the author is not stating "don't bear any responsibilities", but rather "work is infinite, do not try to finish it by dedicating 10 hours per day", which is a fallacy many people fall in (myself included)

> Why should that be so? I'd expect the all-in cost of a cloud machine to be less than my own hardware

Because cloud hardware doesn't have all the burdens of physically managing a real server. Replacing SSDs. Upgrading RAM. Logging to a iDRAC to restart a crashed server. All those things don't exist in the cloud and make you loose so much operational time. That's why clouds will ALWAYS cost more than bare metal. The cons is that with cloud you keep paying for the same servers: there are no assets anymore, only costs.

Not to mention keeping spare parts around for when something breaks, or having to drive out to the DC to fix/replace the thing that broke or won't restart. Hell, even something "simple" like managing the warranties for the gear you have is no fun at all. People tend to forget all those little things when espousing the evils of the cloud, but I'm here to tell you that they all add up and they are all a major pain in the butt. Cloud gets rid of all that.

There are also discussions around CapEX versus OpEx that apply here, and depreciating costs over time. There is a trade-off of agility, cost, and maintenance, but the markup on cloud is quite high.