Phi was cool, I think it could have been leveraged into something great. Imagine all consumer CPUs coming with 512 little pentiums in them or something like that.
And ahead of GPUs in some ways at the time. But that was entirely squandered by their idiotic recompile and run marketing. There was some serious denial that thread blocks that could synchronize without thunking back to the CPU along with the intuitive nature of warp programming were pretty much a hardware mode against anything that couldn't do the equivalent.
But good luck explaining that to technical leaders who hadn't written a line of code in over a decade and yet somehow were in charge of things. People really need to consider the backstory here if they want to do better going forward, but I don't think they will. I think history is going to rhyme again.
I saw zip adoption before CD-RW, flash drives much later. But maybe it depended on how much data you needed transferred. Early flash drives were much smaller than CD/DVD.
I miss my first 128mb usb drive. Cost nearly $40 and survived a dozen wash cycles accidently left in my pocket all the time. Now days I've got 64gb drives that seem to shit the bed after a few rounds as a Live-USB linux environment. At least they only cost $15 or less.
What are you talking about? Greens are neither pro-gas nor pro-Russia. They were amongst those warning previous governments of energy dependence on Russia, and were basically the most decisively pro-Ukranian party in the previous government.
They also weren't the ones who made the decision to shut down the remaining nuclear plants, despite what "conservatives" would like you to believe.
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