pi is pretty great. Bit unfortunately that it is built on a node stack too, but seems to at least be executed well

They also can’t really tell apart which product are recurring buys.

If I buy toilet paper and a toilet seat I’m not going to be buying another seat next month. I don’t use them up like that.

Always surprises me that Amazon hasn’t managed to incorporate that into their algo

If you hang out in the sysadmin subreddit for a bit you’ll see this a lot. Medical shops somehow have the strictest regulations (HIPAA) yet are the worst run dysfunctional orgs

Their competitor uruky has api and is half the price.

Weaker on actual search features though

That’s a pretty big deal if that 100% is genuinely deep/all the way.

Don’t think any other country can do end to end in house?

If cpu x90, then process smic n+2, probably still ASML DUVs... if not implication profound. Even if domestic tooling, can't imagine this full end to end, they're aggressively indigenizing and validating all the semi inputs, i.e. gases, chemicals last few years but seems too early to have all parts covered. When they do (unlikely now) in which case, yeah probably PRC only country with entire closed loop indigenous semi chain -> hardware -> software stack. On the other hand I wouldn't put past that some very low volume 100% domestic trial line exist.

The CPU is based on ARM and English company that designs CPUs, and the OS is a fork of Android which is American.

no, they just use ARM instructions set, the core design such as CPU, GPU, NPU, etc is all their own, like Apple. OS is not fork of Android, there is no Android code in HarmonyOS. HarmonyOS uses Linux kernel but has its own user space systems.

The instruction set is the value.

Writing a new ISA with a completely different instruction set is a far larger task than designing the silicon. This is also why the horrible ISA that is x86 is still alive and running today.

is it? Creating an ISA is not hard right? Trade off and design choices on multiple simple or complex instructions, or what types of instructions to have, and special instructions for vectors, encryption, virtualization, etc. Still relatively simple if you are just talking about the ISA itself. The hard part is ecosystem adoption, drivers, compilers, existing low-level code written for the ISA. And the hard part is the high-performance CPU core. I have no doubt Huawei can create a different ISA if they want to. They use ARM ISA now because HarmonyOS can still run Android Apps if there is an android app the user uses but has no native HarmonyOS version, and Android apps with NDK are compiled to ARM

> is it? Creating an ISA is not hard right?

Its hard, but the value of the software is a massive effort, that cannot be translated or reproduced under a new ISA.

I think we both agree that in x86 should have been retired a long time ago, but its only alive because of the legacy that accompanies it.

> The hard part is ecosystem adoption, drivers, compilers, existing low-level code written for the ISA.

Exactly. There are so many parts and probably many more. The volume of effort to complete that for a new platform will probably not be done. Apple is a different case because they control the MAC platform in full.

> I have no doubt Huawei can create a different ISA if they want to.

Ive also played tennis with people who said they can win Wimbledon, and until THEY win, i dont believe them.

The only way to know for sure is to have a new ISA, but H have yet to try.

fwiw harmonyos hasnt used android/linux for a few years. they still support apks via an aosp container, though

Except now both Kirin X90 and HarmonyOS are their own thing. Just like Android itself is based off Linux, but is its own thing now too. What matters is that the chips and the OS are developed domestically in China without reliance on British or American companies.

I guess it all depends on whether K and H want to pay ARM in the future for their leading (after Apple) designs...

What do you think will happen tomorrow ? What else is the safe bet ?

  >Don’t think any other country can do end to end in house?

Russia can, France could if they wanted to

If you count Russia then US obviously can as well. If you lower the bar even slightly further to 80s/90s tech even more countries would qualify.

I assumed the US was included as a given, what with Intel here

The US can. There are domestic packaging people and board houses. I think the EU can but I'm not sure and that's not a country.

Im still crying about having sold it at 20

I’m still crying about taking a Dropbox offer over Cloudflare’s pre-IPO in 2016.

Yeah hindsight is incredibly frustrating.

Also owned a bunch of asml shares a decade or so ago. But it didn’t really move so got bored and sold. Good picks bad patience.

If you shut down the stock market the financial system craters. As in stone ages no more than economy.

Modern financial system is less „finite amount of money you can move around in a logical way“ and more confidence based definitely totally not a ponzi scheme

Just pi with some custom mcp for search and web. Oh and Hermes but limited use

Currently on a GLM sub and will need to decide whether to renew in 3 months.

People are complaining about the new plans usage limits but I do have a -50% discount so idk

Yeah they’re crazy. Big space very nice. Two staff. Heated space (with open door).

…we were the only customer there. There is no way in hell there isn’t something dodgy afoot. Would be surprised if they have 50 bucks of legitimate revenue a day

The linked article established that they indeed get a lot of sales that should make them viable businesses. In the given location, at least.

Who is buying pack of cheetos for 12 GBP?!

It's mostly not competitive by virtue of being old, but for specific use cases it still stomps the latest Gen5 nvme drives. Specifically on things that need low latency and fast QD1 performance.

Think metadata in a ZFS array or database writes.

Also crazy endurance - often an order of magnitude beyond even enterprise nvmes.

...and because the things are basically un-killable thanks to endurance you can safely pick up 2nd hand used ones.

So they're a neat trick if used in precisely the right application. Hence:

>some fraction of technologists

>would've been awesome if only Intel hadn't killed it.

Maybe - it would presumably have improved further for niche cases, but doubt it would have conquered mainstream markets.