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by paulmd 3y ago
how much longer do you think google is going to allow that?
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by paulmd 3y ago
do you want godfather's pizza? that's how you get godfather's pizza
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by paulmd 3y ago
> With TB, you know exactly what are you getting. On the connector, there's a flash icon (meaning: thunderbolt) and a number (if > 3). That number says, which TB version it is. that's absolutely not true at all - for example
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by paulmd 3y ago
Honestly it is a trust issue. I almost bought a framework laptop last year. People pitched it as a seriously viable alternative to the MacBook and applied social pressure to give it serious consideration. I realize now that it would have be
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by paulmd 3y ago
> The ultra-wealthy do have a disproportionate impact on resource consumption and carbon emission (lots of air travel, fancy cars, large houses and more) but it’s not 10000x like their wealth might imply. it's actually around a mill
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by paulmd 3y ago
No. Non-profit hospitals can accumulate endowments just like non-profit universities. And that endowment usually goes into real estate or other investments, just like any other large pool of money.
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by paulmd 3y ago
it probably would - you saw exactly that outcome with mining. for a lot of these demand bursts, demand is so high it cannot be sated even consuming 100% or 200% of typical GPU production. cards like RX 6500XT that simply don't have the
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by paulmd 3y ago
Can you please outline how you think measures to increase occupant-ownership/disfavor rentiership could lead to mass starvation? That’s rather a take.
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by paulmd 3y ago
It is too late, for I have already notated you as the physically unattractive attorney.
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by paulmd 3y ago
Those exploits have existed for 10-15 years, they are as old as the hackintosh community. There is a difference between commercial exploitation and hobbyist usage - just like with legacy emulation vs pirating. And no, apple really hasn’t co
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by paulmd 3y ago
> Go watch any live broadcast of a band past 20 years. You'll notice they use wired, not wireless. Why would they do that? Because the latency is lower, the sound quality is higher, and the bandwidth is higher. Not seeing the wires,
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by paulmd 3y ago
I think GP understands that and just disagrees with it. Brew looks pretty much like a package manager that has to handle binary distributions alongside ports-style source distributions across a range of OS versions and releases and two inst
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DRAM mfgrs stop publishing contract DRAM prices after quake, price hike expected(tomshardware.com)
46 points by paulmd 3y ago|14 comments
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by paulmd 3y ago
> You clearly never witnessed Qualcomm's MO. They're the kings of manufacturing proprietary bullshit say no more https://semiaccurate.com/2023/09/26/whats-going-on-with-qual... https:/&#x2F
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by paulmd 3y ago
transition need only happen when there is some potential consequence of failure. The US is militarily inassailable, it's not going to fall in the same way that, eg, the polish sejm did with the liberum veto. sure, it can crumble econo
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by paulmd 3y ago
80W elite 10C cpu is faster than the passively-cooled 10W 4C CPU? you don't say
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by paulmd 3y ago
It’s not even just current games tbh, one of the things that cooked their goose was trafficking in pre-release games, which is legally relevant because it demolishes the “we’re just innocently emulating hardware/supporting homebrew
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by paulmd 3y ago
fair, I do the 2.5% (no international fees) and that does require keeping a $1k balance too... but that's doable. Although of course the value proposition of that has changed a bit now that CDs are paying >5%, too. But the extra 1
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by paulmd 3y ago
> AI models do not need coherent memory, the access pattern is regular enough that you can make do with explicit barriers. response to both this and the sibling: even for training, I remember some speculation that explicit synchronizat
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by paulmd 3y ago
Unfortunately, as Lord Governor Supreme of a proud and prosperous micronation, I am disappointed to report that SWIFT does not recognize my sovereignty and regulatory authority.
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by paulmd 3y ago
So get one of the cards that offers 3% on everything / 2.5% and no international transaction fees, and just cash it out monthly or whatever? You’re not being cool or whatever, “ my big brain is too full for such trivialities! ” you’re
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by paulmd 3y ago
Absolutely. Jeez, it’s amazing they did this much already. My first reaction was more along the lines of “he can’t keep getting away with it!!!” lol, the connection to the demands is undeniable. And yeah they probably can’t open source firm
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by paulmd 3y ago
I don't think anyone's under any illusions that people are going to upgrade more frequently, but the lack of predictability is pissing people off and miscalibrating expectations on what they "should" be getting every gen
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by paulmd 3y ago
> Why would I or anyone else care what the tech review community has to say about anything? like, are you asking why thought leaders matter? > What kind of idiot wants technological advances held back so they don’t get disappointed an
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by paulmd 3y ago
Because the money isn’t a bailout, it’s to incentivize intel to do a financially suboptimal thing that the US finds strategically desirable. If building and running the fab in Arizona versus Ireland is going to cost intel $8b more, the opti
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by paulmd 3y ago
> Let’s just hope that this time around the they don’t intentionally hold back innovations in favour of slow-dripping a predictable fixed X% gain per year like they did 2014 to 2020 in the absence of competition. idk why you would cite t
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by paulmd 3y ago
this is going to be impossible to prove or disprove, but given the state-sponsored nature of the attack (which seems fairly likely at this point)... I also wonder if maybe there wasn't some tips pushing Andreas Freund down the path of
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by paulmd 3y ago
people literally built their own compatible World of Warcraft backends to do exactly that. Running a couple different docker containers for a couple necessary services is nbd and i assume that everyone involved understands that’s how cloud
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by paulmd 3y ago
well, it's the bazaar vs the cathedral, isn't it? bazaar moves a lot faster. Everyone likes that part, except when it breaks things, and when they have to chase an upstream that's constantly churning, etc. but most people
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by paulmd 3y ago
Yes, this is the counterpoint to the “ 55.58% Net Profit Margin last quarter isn't consistent with a functioning market” thread above. Sure, selling shovels during a gold-rush is very profitable… and nvidia invested a long time in buil

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