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by monological 1049 days ago
what are you talking about. George has been working on comma.ai for years. It's shipping actual products and has revenue.

We need more people who "think different" and push back against the status quo instead of carrying out ad hominem attacks on public forums.
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ImprobableTruth 1049 days ago
They're talking about the meltdown he had on stream [1] (in front of the mentioned pirate flag), that ended with him saying he'd stop using AMD hardware [2]. He recanted this two weeks after talking with AMD [3].

Maybe he'll succeed, but this definitely doesn't scream stability to me. I'd be wary of investing money into his ventures (but then I'm not a VC, so what do I know).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0rWJhv9jU

[2] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec...

[3] https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/166980346408248934...

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rohit89 1049 days ago
If his grievances actually got through to the AMD CEO, I'd say he's already had a bigger impact than most.
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latchkey 1049 days ago
It is good press at a time when AMD is very visibly looking like they lost out on the first round of AI. His project is open source, AMD likes that and can benefit from the free developer feedback. I'd say this is less about George and more about Lisa being the insanely smart and talented business person that she is.
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rohit89 1049 days ago
Lisa is smart but this only got to her because George got publicly upset.
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latchkey 1048 days ago
He emailed her after he had his meltdown. It wasn't like she saw the meltdown and wrote to him. He is nowhere on her radar.

By the way, I also got a bug in the AMD drivers fixed too [0]. That bug fix enabled me to fully automate the performance tuning of 150,000 AMD gpus that I was managing. This is something nobody else had done before, it was impossible to do without this bug fix. We were doing this by hand before! The only bummer was that I had to upgrade the kernel on 12k+ systems... that took a while.

I went through the proper channels and they fixed it in a week, no need for a public meltdown or email to Lisa crying for help.

[0] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/470297/?series=99134...

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latchkey 1049 days ago
It is certainly possible to "think different" and not be a wannabe steve jobs.
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