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by chii 11mo ago
> I really find these "in 2025" takes tiresome exactly. This isn't a new problem. But what has been new is the recent growth in funding to "help" those who are deemed helpless - at someone else's cost (it co
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by chii 11mo ago
because device makers will not care for the DRM, but will care for the hardware decoder they need to decide to put into their devices to decode netflix videos. By ensuring this video codec is open, it benefits everybody else now, as this sa
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by chii 11mo ago
Those controllers are first gen stuff - for the enthusiasts. They're expensive but not unduly so, not to mention that VR is still a niche, and is unlikely to expand the steam store. The first steam machine (steam box iirc) had both pro
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by chii 11mo ago
which is why the price in electricity isn't truly being reflected properly by the cost of distribution. If it costs less up north, then there would be incentive to move demand there (for data centers, which is more location agnostic).
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by chii 11mo ago
> suss out how competent people and the organisation are. how does one do this, without first having the job and being embedded in there? From the outside, it's near impossible to see these details imho.
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by chii 11mo ago
> that could be much better for them in the long term. i agree. Valve's money machine is with the steam platform, rather than any hardware sales - breaking even on hardware is sufficient imho. Valve's existential threat is from
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by chii 11mo ago
As an avid player of farming simulator, this is very interesting and i can see so many potential applications for it.
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Why are Transformers replacing CNNs? [video](youtube.com)
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The Math Crisis at UC San Diego [video](youtube.com)
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by chii 11mo ago
i dont mean consumer market for video cards - i mean a consumer buying ai chips to run themselves so they can have it locally. If i can buy a $10k ai card for less than $5000 dollars, i probably would, if i can use it to run an open model m
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by chii 11mo ago
> Mozilla would effectively collapse. given how bloated it (the org) is, i think that may be a good thing. Return firefox to good old community contributions, and donations from users.
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by chii 11mo ago
> that people retired their hardware in way less than 5 years. those people are end-consumers (like gamers), and only recently, bitcoin miners. Gamers don't care for "profit and loss" - they want performance. Bitcoin miner
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by chii 11mo ago
> the secondary market is still alive. this is the crux. Will these data center cards, if a newer model came out with better efficiency, have a secondary market to sell to? It could be that second hand ai hardware going into consumers&#x
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by chii 11mo ago
> Is the loss of potential income really the same as rent? yes it is. The term is called cost of capital, and sometimes imputed rent. But it's not an "expense" per se like it is when you pay liquid cash to somebody for use
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by chii 11mo ago
> What we need is for people to be happy that is irrelevant to company management - in so far as that happiness has negligible effect on productivity. However, from anecdotal evidence i've gathered (only sample size of 5-7 or so), i
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by chii 11mo ago
> these are bad-faith actors. what i'm trying to imply is that every single actor, as an individual, are "bad-faith" actors. That's why it's only when collectively can each bad-faith actor be "defeated"
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by chii 11mo ago
> I would not want to live in a society of these kinds of people. of course not. Nobody does. However, what happened to your civic responsibility to keep such a society to make it function? Why is that not ever mentioned? The fact is, go
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by chii 11mo ago
> overarching conspiracy theory. it's because it's so easy to simply blame the ills of society on some illusory few pulling the strings behind the scenes. It used to be the migrants, or blacks, or the chinese (still is apparent
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by chii 11mo ago
> housing is a consumption expense only the building portion. The land is not consumed when you live there. It only appreciates due to the developments around that land, making it more desirable and thus, more valuable. And if the land i
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by chii 11mo ago
> beat MS's proverbial posterior because the browser was better not via marketshare. The fact is, only developers (and adjacent) were using firefox. IE, during those days (pre-chrome) was still such a dominant browser that you had
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by chii 11mo ago
you have to show this 'future-illegal' action is harmful first by demonstrating harm. That's why i used the sugar example - it's starting to be demonstrably harmful in large quantities that are being used. I am against p
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by chii 11mo ago
> But if "ads" are woven into the responses in a manner that could be more or less subtle do you realize how much product placement have been in movies since...well, the existence of movies?
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by chii 11mo ago
> It'd be so much more efficient to just stab-stab-stab and take the money directly. which is exactly what the law of the jungle is. And guess who sits at the top within that regime? Humans would devolve back into that, if not for t
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by chii 11mo ago
> It's like saying that Maximizing Shareholder Value is always the right thing to do. No, it isn't. it is, for the agents of the shareholders. As long as the actions of those agents are legal of course. That's why it&#x27
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Let's Break Down the 45nm Process Node [video](youtube.com)
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by chii 11mo ago
Until the bottom has passed, you can't know.
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The Journey to the Edge of the Infinite Chess Board [video](youtube.com)
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by chii 11mo ago
> in this situation is to give the manager some form of metric to describe the problem how do you have a metric to measure a future issue that got prevented by having good maintenance? Either you cannot actually imagine nor describe the
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by chii 11mo ago
The only "downside" is that the format is an open spec, which allows anyone to modify the contents without going through the specific application. And it's only a downside if you are using the format as an obfuscation to prev
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by chii 11mo ago
> “You’re a senior engineer - why did fixing this take so long?” exactly! If a senior engineer is responsible for the problem, but he wasn't given room to develop a proper solution in the first place, then he cannot be blamed for th

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