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Crypto bros ruin every single thing they touch.

by miah_ 2y ago

solardev 2y ago
Except Nvidia stock prices (Edit: Not anymore, obviously!)
- pavlov 2y ago
  Are GPUs still used for mining at scale that would be meaningful for Nvidia’s earnings? Ethereum switched to plutocracy, I mean proof-of-stake, years ago.
  - byteknight 2y ago
    Have you missed the LLM wave?
    - pavlov 2y ago
      That has nothing to do with crypto.
      - MrGilbert 2y ago
        Well, it's AI Bros then.
  - solardev 2y ago
    No, no, sorry. That was all years ago. Crypto's come and gone.
- JohnFen 2y ago
  Nvidia is riding on the AI bubble now.
  - sidewndr46 2y ago
    From a business perspective, they seem to have done pretty well in that regard. Basically surfing from one bubble to the next. I seem to recall during the dot-com boom, somehow their share price was never hugely affected. It probably helps that NVIDIA is underpinned by technical competence and their products have some basic utility outside of the bubble we are currently in.
    - solardev 2y ago
      They made an early bet on CUDA (17 years ago!), long before it was cool to use GPUs for general computing. It paid off handsomely and soon overtook all their gaming profits. I don't think anyone else was really trying that back then, except maybe Sony with their Cell processors in PS2s (but that was never really popular aside from a limited few supercomputing experiments).
      - sidewndr46 2y ago
        I recently compiled some software using CUDA for the first time. It's a surprisingly easy experience. The tooling is easy enough to work with. I had to tweak one compiler setting so it would produce output that would work with my particular card. That's it.
rob74 2y ago
Or, to put it more generally: corporate greed ruins everything it touches. I was a big fan of the original Lemmings games as a teenager, and installed the "free to play" app version (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sadpuppy.lemmings https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sadpuppy.l...) a while ago. It's a shadow of its former self! You have new "tribes" every month with "special" Lemmings you can collect (just one more way to try to get money out of your pocket, because you will never get the "full set" if you don't pay) and other such nonsense, but the level design barely changes (the levels of the original 1991 Amiga Lemmings game are more varied graphically than the levels in this app!) and it only has 3 (count'em!) songs which are played in the background. Sad...
- malux85 2y ago
  The same thing happened with the Tetris app, it turned into a money sucking pay-to-play shill. I wish indie discovery was a bit better so it was easier to find works of passion based on love and craftsmanship rather than ranking-gamed money extractors
- rachofsunshine 2y ago
  There's a port called Lemmix that is exactly what you're looking for. Has a level editor, a bunch of fanmade levels, some QOL features. Not mobile, but if what you're looking for is to get your nostalgia on...
  - rob74 2y ago
    I don't mind that it's not mobile, unfortunately it's also Windows only. Interestingly enough, it's written in Delphi, I wonder how much effort it would be to port it to FPC/Lazarus?
- seba_dos1 2y ago
  I have fond memories of playing Pingus - FLOSS clone of Lemmings - on my phone in school some 15 years ago. Suffice to say there were none of the issues you mention ;)

Crypto bros ruin every single thing they touch.

by miah_ 2y ago

Crypto bros ruin every single thing they touch.

solardev 2y ago

Except Nvidia stock prices (Edit: Not anymore, obviously!)

pavlov 2y ago
Are GPUs still used for mining at scale that would be meaningful for Nvidia’s earnings? Ethereum switched to plutocracy, I mean proof-of-stake, years ago.
- byteknight 2y ago
  Have you missed the LLM wave?
  - pavlov 2y ago
    That has nothing to do with crypto.
    - MrGilbert 2y ago
      Well, it's AI Bros then.
- solardev 2y ago
  No, no, sorry. That was all years ago. Crypto's come and gone.
JohnFen 2y ago
Nvidia is riding on the AI bubble now.
- sidewndr46 2y ago
  From a business perspective, they seem to have done pretty well in that regard. Basically surfing from one bubble to the next. I seem to recall during the dot-com boom, somehow their share price was never hugely affected. It probably helps that NVIDIA is underpinned by technical competence and their products have some basic utility outside of the bubble we are currently in.
  - solardev 2y ago
    They made an early bet on CUDA (17 years ago!), long before it was cool to use GPUs for general computing. It paid off handsomely and soon overtook all their gaming profits. I don't think anyone else was really trying that back then, except maybe Sony with their Cell processors in PS2s (but that was never really popular aside from a limited few supercomputing experiments).
    - sidewndr46 2y ago
      I recently compiled some software using CUDA for the first time. It's a surprisingly easy experience. The tooling is easy enough to work with. I had to tweak one compiler setting so it would produce output that would work with my particular card. That's it.

rob74 2y ago

Or, to put it more generally: corporate greed ruins everything it touches. I was a big fan of the original Lemmings games as a teenager, and installed the "free to play" app version (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sadpuppy.lemmings https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sadpuppy.l...) a while ago. It's a shadow of its former self! You have new "tribes" every month with "special" Lemmings you can collect (just one more way to try to get money out of your pocket, because you will never get the "full set" if you don't pay) and other such nonsense, but the level design barely changes (the levels of the original 1991 Amiga Lemmings game are more varied graphically than the levels in this app!) and it only has 3 (count'em!) songs which are played in the background. Sad...

malux85 2y ago
The same thing happened with the Tetris app, it turned into a money sucking pay-to-play shill. I wish indie discovery was a bit better so it was easier to find works of passion based on love and craftsmanship rather than ranking-gamed money extractors
rachofsunshine 2y ago
There's a port called Lemmix that is exactly what you're looking for. Has a level editor, a bunch of fanmade levels, some QOL features. Not mobile, but if what you're looking for is to get your nostalgia on...
- rob74 2y ago
  I don't mind that it's not mobile, unfortunately it's also Windows only. Interestingly enough, it's written in Delphi, I wonder how much effort it would be to port it to FPC/Lazarus?
seba_dos1 2y ago
I have fond memories of playing Pingus - FLOSS clone of Lemmings - on my phone in school some 15 years ago. Suffice to say there were none of the issues you mention ;)