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Geohot/Tinycorp gives up on AMD
- lyu07282 3y agoMore context: https://youtu.be/Mr0rWJhv9jU https://youtu.be/Mr0rWJhv9jU
- brucethemoose2 3y agoThats quite a freewheeling video...
- lyu07282 3y agoIt's on brand I suppose, relevant part starts at 2:06: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0rWJhv9jU&t=126s https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0rWJhv9jU&t=126s
- ftxbro 3y ago> "It's on brand I suppose" is this really how he rolls? any normal person would delete this video EDIT: I got to 22:55 when he fired up the meditation youtube video with the calm narration after his unhinged rant lmao it was like a bad character development scene from a movie. if tinybox takes off and geohot completes his hero journey and someone makes the next 'social network' type movie about these new titans of industry, i demand this scene goes into the film
- wmf 3y agoAny normal person wouldn't become a famous/infamous edgelord.
- ftxbro 3y agoi don't doubt it lol, it's just the first time i saw him in action
- re-thc 3y ago> any normal person would delete this video Without the drama, what's left? I thought that's the whole point...
- operatingthetan 3y agoPeople take geohot seriously, should there be a disclaimer on everything he puts out that they should not?
- ftxbro 3y ago> "... aww shit they have alignment, ok well, we don't want any alignment. our AIs are unaligned" lmao https://youtu.be/Mr0rWJhv9jU?t=2750 https://youtu.be/Mr0rWJhv9jU?t=2750
- ftxbro 3y ago05:31:00 need to merge speedups for realtime 05:31:40 thank you for watching 05:32:00 prison hierarchy
- wmf 3y agoTen days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065175 I thought he was going to write his own driver because he already knew AMD drivers are garbage but I guess that wasn't the plan. In the video he said that he assumed AMD's userspace was broken but the kernel driver worked and he later discovered that it's much worse.
- thdespou 3y agoI thought the same too. He seems very suspicious and volatile.Just like the Java keyword.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoexplain
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- tredre3 3y agoGeohot is a smart guy full of hot air. He keeps claiming that problems have simple solutions and vow to fix it as a proof of how easy it is. Then he meets reality and silently gives up within a few weeks. Every. Single. Time. See comma that still hasn't produced anything. See his stint at twitter where he claimed he'd turn everything around within weeks but gave up after 2 days. See the absolute bullshit that went on with his shitcoin, cheapETH. Now see this.
- boringuser2 3y agoHis Twitter shit was ridiculous, imagine ever having beaen a software engineer and thinking you alone can universally out-compute MILLIONS of man hours of human brain compute into a project. Fucking audacity beyond words.
- giraffe-flavor 3y agoIf you were a composer, you’d be Salieri.
- boringuser2 3y agoThanks!
- foul 3y agoSalieri was a master of his craft in his era, the artistic father of Schubert and Beethoven. He had nothing to envy Mozart for, and for most of their lives Salieri was preferred for a lot of gigs for the emperor. Salieri's portrait in media is crazy because historical documents tell a very different story (the Mozart family was very much convinced of the existence of an Italian cabal putting down composers and directors who weren't Italian) until Salieri's senile delirium of stating that he poisoned Mozart, so you should call him Mozart, but I sense he doesn't fit neither of them.
- boringuser2 3y agoNot much of a put down, nobody fits "neither of them".
- camdenlock 3y agoWell, that didn’t last very long, did it.
- moralestapia 3y agoWhoops, 5M down the drain. Easier said than done, I guess.
- wmf 3y agoIt looks like he's pivoting to Intel (but for how long).
- moralestapia 3y agoIf I were him I'd pivot to ARM, like, really. I wouldn't be surprised if there's more PFLOPS in all ARM devices combined than any other arch. But I reached out a few days ago and the guy is a dick so good riddance.
- wmf 3y agoOrin is overpriced and Altra is weak sauce compared to GPUs.
- nubinetwork 3y agoTo be fair, amdgpu can be a dumpster fire at times... I've also seen cases where I get that sdma ring buffer timeout, and rather than resetting the GPU, it spews garbage continuously in dmesg before I have to power cycle it. On the other hand, that 2950x system is cursed. Half the time I boot it up, it downclocks the memory to 2400, won't detect USB devices... or part way through booting the kernel decides that it doesn't want anything to do with the pcie bus and panics.
- djmips 3y agoHe has a point. If you have been following AMD for years you'll see there's something inexplicable about the quality of their drivers. <shrug> I guess it's the culture. I don't know but something seems wrong.
- unixhero 3y agoIt has been going on for 23 years. My rage128 card, which I bought as a youngster, in 2000, had the worst drivers that 80% of the time did not work.
- nubinetwork 3y agoI don't know if that's a fair comparison... AMD might have bought ATI, but they're not exactly the same company anymore... Plus back then the concept of needing drivers for hardware was rather new... prior to SVGA, DOS games talked to the hardware directly or just dumped data into a chunk of memory for the video card to display.
- unixhero 3y agoI don't agree. The Windows 2000 drivers were critical to get the card to work. However almost all the time the card would not work, it would not give you dvd mpeg-2 playback as the product and ATI promised.
- malermeister 3y agoI thought his whole pitch was that AMD drivers suck and he was gonna write new ones? Now he's giving up because AMD drivers suck?
- teruakohatu 3y agoIt was generally assumed the point was to sell to AMD, I guess that wasn't the goal.
- red-iron-pine 3y agointel's challenges are doing more to sell AMD than anything. geohot is there to sell himself