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by Wytwwww 2y ago
He only got 23% of the votes and wasn't elected yet, though. Also what can they do besides disqualifying him or delaying the elections for months(years?) until he's convicted of fraud (hopefully by that point all of his voters wou
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Why did they wait for the elections to do anything about that, though? Or do candidates only have to report their spending after the voting is done?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
But why would the result of the new elections be different unless they disqualify that guy? It's not like there is a way to somehow force his voters to forget the illegal ads etc.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Why are you even commenting here if you don't believe that people should ever share their opinions on anything? But yeah not a great look for Romania and its political system either way if they have to invalidate the elections and thro
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Not any more absurd than claiming that nobody has the right to challenge the definition of what "free and fair" according the laws of a specific state (regardless if one agrees with that definition or not).
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
So? Do you suggest that some people in Romania (and well.. applies to many other countries just as much) should lose the right to vote because they are too dumb and are easily tricked (I mean I certainly agree that they are)? Because what o
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> if you can become a president by buying TikTok He didn't though and I doubt he could. He got 23% of the vote which is a lot but in no way does it guarantee that he could ever come close to 50% in the second round. He only won beca
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Well hopefully they'll release a A770 replacement as well. I guess they rushed these cards to get ahead of Nvidia and AMD who should release their next gen early next year.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> maybe memory/solid state drives That's a very low margin and cyclical market since memory/SSDs are basically commodities. I don't think Intel would have any chance surviving in such a market they just have way to mu
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Does CUDA even matter than much for LLMs? Especially inference? I don't think software would be the limiting factor for this hypothetical GPU. Afterall it would be competing with Apple's M chips not with the 4090 or Nvidia's
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
We're talking about Apple, though?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Well obviously? I mean you'd be entirely screwed because of the sanctions. Then again Yandex kind of pulled it off.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> is particularly competitive on either processor or GPU architecture nor fabrication. Who is then? Apple is of course still ahead in lower power chips. But Apple is not in the the desktop/workstation/server market and there ar
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
The wars or military conflicts themselves are kind of tangential. It's the geopolitical risks that come along with them. i.e. if you are an American/European company and you are doing business in Russia you must account for the po
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> but overall x86 was clearly on the volume winners track by 1985. By that standard if we exclude mobile x86 has a much stronger monopoly these days than in 1985. Unless we exclude low end PCs like Apple II and Commodore 64. In 1990 x86
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Did x86 have a monopoly in the 80s to begin with? If there is any period when that was true it would be the 2000s or early 2010s. > intended so they're not making an effective argument To be fair I'm really struggling to some
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
I doubt they began working on ARC/XE drivers back in 2000. If the entire driver team being in Russia (i.e. Intel trying to save money) was truly the main reason why ARC failed on launch they really only have themselves to blame...
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
To be fair it's not like there is that much profits in mobile either. ARM CPUs are almost a commodity and the margins aren't that great.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Sure, but if the point is showing how Intel isn't really in such a bad spot as one might think just looking at the install base would be pretty deceiving and semi-meaningless.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Individual Russian software developers might be reliable but that's hardly the point. They should've just moved them to US or even Germany or something like that if they were serious about entering the GPU market, though... e.g. T
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
The existence of an imaginary x86 monopoly in the 80s?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> For that to work, they need a software stack to compete with CUDA. Doesn't Intel have pretty decent support in PyTorch? It's not like most people working on/with AI use CUDA directly. And especially for stuff like LLMs s
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> pricing or other barriers to adoption of their latest. They are just not very good? There is basically no point in buying the current gen equivalent 14900K with current pricing (the only real advantage is lower power usage).
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Didn't AMD start making x86 chips in 1982?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> An x86 monopoly in the late 80s was a thing, but not now And then in the 2000s after AMD64 pretty much destroyed all competing architectures and then in the 2010s Intel itself effectively was almost a monopoly (outside of mobile) with
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> shit circumstances outside of their control. They chose to outsource the development of their core products to a country like Russia to save costs. How was that outside of their control? It's not like it was the most stable or rel
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> He failed on GPU. The product was substandard. Weren't they pretty good (price/performance) after Intel fixed the drivers during the first year or so after release? The real failure was taking so long to ship the next gen..
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Intel needed to be split in two as well Wouldn't that just pretty much guarantee that the foundry business would fail since Intel wouldn't have any incentives to shift most of their manufacturing to TSMC? The same thing happe
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> handhelds from being arm machines is poor x86 emulation Also Qualcomm's GPUs are pretty shit (compared to Intel's and AMDs or Apple's)
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> And ~75% (Intel) vs ~25% (AMD) for data center servers. IIRC their data center CPU revenue was about even this quarter so this is a bit deceptive (i.e. you can buy 1 large CPU instead of several cheaper ones).

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