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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Is it? e.g. EPYC 9754, the equivalent to Neoverse ARM servers seems to have significantly better performance/power than Ampere's chips. Gravitron 4 seems to be slightly faster than the AmpereOne A192-32X, I don't know how muc
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Yeah, but presumably mainly because it's just much cheaper for Amazon to make their own (technically inferior but it doesn't matter if you don't care about single-core perf) chips than having to pay for Intel/AMD's
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Qualcomm did for the Snapdragon X and Apple did for the Mx series haven't made it to the Graviton yet Why would they, though? Neither Apple nor Qualcomm have any incentives to share their designs with ARM anymore than they do with
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> I want my servers to be 30% cheaper. Sure, I mean I agree that ARM can outcompete x86 there but mainly Amazon can just cut out Intel/AMD and make their chips themselves which can significantly reduce costs. Not because Neoverse i
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Apple has already caught Intel in single core. If power didn’t matter to Apple they could surely optimize for pure performance But that's Apple, not ARM. AFAIK Neoverse/Gravitron's main advantage is price (not having to
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> even the iPad I’m typing When did it switch to ARM from x86. I don't really see any reasons why can't x86 and ARM just coexist long-term. Porting software is relatively easy or not even necessary these days and ARM main advan
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> After that, the last refuge of x86 It's not like ARM has taken over those markets yet. Snapdragon X is fine but nothing special compared AMD/Intel chips. I think we just might have a pretty distorted view of ARM vs x86 becaus
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> market segment So I'm just curious what is that segment and how large ($) can it be? What cargo exactly would it be transporting?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Even if they solve most of the technical issues could this ever be competitive with planes/ships/trucks? Under what circumstances? It just doesn't seem very practical, basically you'd need to transport freight to places
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> their history is as bad or worse than Columbus Really? That seems like an absurd statement.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> So if I “discover” a house down the street I’ve never seen before, I “achieved” the title of “discoverer” as well! No, but if you find a house nobody else in the city, country and even the content you live in have ever seen or aware of
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> and there wasn’t anything like anxiety as its experienced today You know that how exactly? We really do not have even remotely enough data to be able to make such boldly absurd claims.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
What would be the point of that? I'm pretty certain that almost any physician would tell you not to consume psilocybin (especially if you are suffering from mental issues).
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
There are certainly reports and some research showing that developing psychosis is certainly a risk as least for some people.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> You sure can just pop in to discuss options for your crippling depression though To get a prescription for one of the the handful of drugs are are available and are considered to be effective. What else can you learn by just "popp
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Why? I mean it certainly depends but as far non severe mental health issues go physicians are just going to checklists since there is hardly anything else they can do (besides long-term therapy).
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> it is possible to overdose I'm not sure that's a good metric though. Paracetamol is more dangerous than most highly regulated pharmaceuticals in that way.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> society and the other as the pharmaceutical industry The market is huge and executives usually care much more about short-term (or at the most medium-term) growth. A company that actually found some magical cure for depression they wou
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> few dozen in the room with you is an adequate sample It's not, though? Unless you're fine with a very high margin of error... Also the sample in studies like this is hardly ever close to being random anyway. > it should n
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Used GPU prices still seem to be pretty high and availability is low? But yes, if the GPU compute rental market is highly unprofitable (I'm not sure it is, though) while HW prices are still high that indicates a clear inefficiency in t
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> In old photos you see people in huge crowds in streets as they walked to their everyday errands Because they were poor and didn't have a choice. Making driving extremely expensive and inconvenient and prohibitively high taxes on p
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Perhaps it's necessary to have self-control to lose weight > it's not so simple. Presumably people who have good self control and are not prone to developing addictions (due genetic or various semi-immutable cause) do not
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> feeling/impulses are artificially suppressed. A lot of people are less capable of controlling those impulse on their own and are inherently more prone to developing addictions than others due to genetic/etc. reasons. Yes they
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> That's horrifying for so many reasons Why? AFAIK Ozempic seems to work by "modifying" behaviour and reducing the appeal of overeating and possibly engaging in other addictive behaviours. It's not some magic pill tha
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> chemical dependency from eating two cheeseburgers for dinner Wouldn't the initial dependency be almost purely psychological for opioids as well? Most people certainly wouldn't develop a chemical dependency after just two dose
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Nvidia's quarterly income statements?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
I don't think the why matters as long as people are buying them at very high prices, which they seemingly still are.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Then how come you can still get several last gen EPYC or Xeon systems that would use the same amount of power for under $1 per hour? For datacentre GPUs the energy, infrastructure and other variable costs seem to be relatively insignificant
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> I assume that they pay more to service their debts than for power. Well yes, because for GPU datacentres fixed/capital costs make up a much higher fraction than power and other expenses than for CPUs. To such an extent that power
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Yes, thankfully modern liberal(ish) democracy(sort of) and the rule of law allowed us to exit this circle (well.. at least brought us much closer to that point than we ever were).

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