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by Mc91 655 days ago
> Nvidia has to keep maintaining this huge footprint of software, keep it going themselves, supporting a vast legacy, while everyone else gets to innovate forward, with much better access to the hardware.

When I hit an input box on my phone, a keyboard pops up on the screen, with the first row saying QWERTYUIOP, just like the Sholes and Glidden typewriter of 1878. I'm waiting for innovation on this first, then I'll look for innovation beyond CUDA.

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Wat. The keyboard you pop up this way will autocomplete your words, autocorrect your typos, and allow you to input whole words by swiping, twirling gestures. It's very much not your legacy typewriter keyboard, even though the order of the letters is the same. Maintaining the order of a couple dozen keys is not expensive or hard.
> It's very much not your legacy typewriter keyboard, even though the order of the letters is the same.

That random order of letters from 1878 still appearing on my screen is the definition of legacy.