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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Cellular radio infrastructure in the UK has been cobbled together in such a poorly executed way.

    We should have had an Open Reach style organisation (or even just Open Reach) to own and manage the infrastructure as a public monopoly MNO and all commercial operators act as MVNOs on that infrastructure.

    Instead we have situations where some operators are better than others depending what technology you connect using (5G great for 3 customers in Manchester, whilst 4G is entirely unusable) and some areas of the country that basically don’t get service at all from a subset of operators.

    Unfortunately, we’re allergic to public infrastructure investment in this country for some reason











  • Con man? CEO? Hedge fund manager?

    But seriously, generally anything having an exponential return in this world is pretty unusual and generally not guaranteed if it’s a desirable outcome.

    Particularly in a capitalist economy, the business only has to pay you just enough to not leave for a competitor, they don’t need to pay you the true value of your ability unless you’re basically the only person on the planet with the necessary skills.

    On the flip side, in booming industries that require specific skills such as tech, you can generally get a pretty linear progression for a while before it plateaus in a good number of organisations.







  • I’d say we never actually had the x86 monoculture, we did in the desktop space for the most part (though Apple were rocking the 6800/68k/Power architectures for a large chunk of that too). But the server and workstation space was all sorts of weird and wonderful through all of that with Alpha, SPARC, mips, PowerPC hanging around until the 00s. The last SPARC processor was released less than a decade ago by Fujitsu.

    Fujitsu’s current gen chips are based on ARM.

    Apple have moved to ARM

    More and more AWS compute workloads are getting deployed to ARM servers

    Microsoft are getting closer to making windows on ARM actually useful for most people.

    The entire mobile devices market is effectively all ARM.

    I know RISC-V is coming along, you can buy Dev boards and it’s being deployed in some niche areas. But it needs to blow up like ARM has yesterday, I fear we’re rapidly approaching a situation that could be worse than the x86 one ever was.

    Though I’m fairly confident it’s going to take a long time before Intel actually abandons x86

    Edit: typo