qwytw

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by qwytw 2y ago
> overtakes ChatGPT That's arguable, though. I mean it's much cheaper and reasonably competitive which is almost the same but IMHO DeepSeek seems to get stuck in random loops and hallucinates more frequently than o1.
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Their debt to GDP ratio was 14.6% at the end of 2024, a decrease from 2023 Allegedly almost half of their defense budget since the war began was funded through private forced loans issues by banks directly to (effectively state owned?)
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by qwytw 2y ago
I guess Proton/Wine/Linux gaming wasn't mature enough back then. Also a handheld wasn't really an option because there weren't any powerful enough yet energy efficient and cheap x86 chips available either.
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by qwytw 2y ago
However private individuals or companies deciding not to offer certain products is an expression of free speech. i.e. denying someone who is running an online platform/community or training an LLM model or whatever the right to remove
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by qwytw 2y ago
Because fundamentally it's the same type of censorship as someone deciding to not sell porn magazines, videos or the the Anarchist Cookbook in their newsstand/bookstore/etc. back in the day. They judged (probably quite rightl
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by qwytw 2y ago
> they became #4 GDP PPP That doesn't mean much on its own. Their per capita GDP is still low. Also arguably their GDP figures are worth even less than Ireland's. A huge proportion of Russia's economy is tied in military p
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by qwytw 2y ago
Isn't most debt incurred by graduate students, especially those in med or law schools? Surely 4 years of higher education should be enough for someone to figure out basic maths?
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by qwytw 2y ago
If you mean consumer GPUs, the it obviously does not.
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by qwytw 2y ago
This is not for consumer GPUs, though. I don't think you can that easily order large numbers of H100s as a random company. And presumably at some point Nvidia will stop doing business with you (at the very least) if you keep reselling
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by qwytw 2y ago
So that companies in less reliable countries like Lithuania couldn't purchase high numbers of GPU and resell them to Russia/China/etc. through countries like Kazakhstan etc. (like they do now with other products). > if dem
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by qwytw 2y ago
Perhaps. But this is a hypothetical situation you came up with that does not seem to be relevant. Nobody is or is planning to restrict Polish consumers from buying GPUs from Germany. The export regulations we're talking about: > or
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by qwytw 2y ago
Why are you bringing nationality into this? Don't see how is this relevant. The company in Poland might be owned and run by a German national and a Pole might be the owner of the German company. The AI chip export rules would apply ex
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by qwytw 2y ago
> EU currently imposes a 10 percent tariff on US cars And it's 45% on Chinese EVs. 10% isn't that high and it's not like there is a lot of demand for American cars in Europe anyway (American companies besides Tesla hardly
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by qwytw 2y ago
> with the sole purpose to buy chips and sell them to a Polish company You can. Good luck getting Nvidia/etc. to sell them to you though.
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by qwytw 2y ago
Exports are obviously not banned... They added a cap and some additional restrictions on Poland and similar countries though Specifically: > Those on the tier two list will see the number of AI chips - called graphics processing units (G
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by qwytw 2y ago
Are all companies in the EU legally required to do business with any company in any EU country whether they want to or not? Seems hard to believe...
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Or Lithuania, arguably[0] the most anti-China Also one one of the biggest resellers of various products to Russia and other economically affiliated countries they don't even produce locally. e.g. https://www.tridge.com
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by qwytw 2y ago
The plague and climate change probably also had a massive impact. The latter giving an edge to decentralized nomadic societies.
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by qwytw 2y ago
> but at least Arc is looking decent with the most recent release To be fair that really remains to be seen. It took them how many years to ship a single decent card? Sure it's very competitive with last gen Nvidia and AMD GPUs but
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by qwytw 2y ago
> which is part of why the stock fell off a cliff Was it? Their GPUs sales were insignificantly low so I doubt that had a huge effect on their net income.
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by qwytw 2y ago
Enthusiast/Prosumer/etc. market is generally still usually highly in most markers even if the revenue is limited. e.g. if hobbyists/students/developers start using Intel GPUs in a few years the enterprise market might be
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by qwytw 2y ago
Not the laptop RAM. It costs pennies, Apple's is just charging $200 for 12GB because they can. It's way too slow though.. And Nvidia doesn't want to cannibalize its high end chips but putting more memory into consumer ones.
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by qwytw 2y ago
Tides of History is probably the best history podcast I've ever listened to. Instead of a sequential retelling of events it focuses much more on cause and effects and presents a holistic analysis of archaeological findings, anthropolog
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by qwytw 2y ago
There are some hints that Nvidia wants to seriously enter the ARM CPU market (again)? Switch guarantees high demand/volume regardless of anything else. Not clear how lucrative the contract is on its own, though. Presumably it will red
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by qwytw 2y ago
> prioritizing backwards compatibility Backwards compatibility is very "cheap" these days though? With no arcane architectures and chip designs. PS5 and Xbox are basically just generic PCs running a restricted OS and Switch is
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by qwytw 2y ago
> patent extension Is that a thing? Patents are only valid for 15-20 years. I'm sure Intel couldn't care less if you made your own 8086 ...
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by qwytw 2y ago
I'm sure you're free to make an 8086 clone. Maybe even of an Athlon 64. It's just that nobody would buy it... Even without the patent issue (I assume AVX etc. are still restricted) hardly anyone has the talent and resources t
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by qwytw 2y ago
> PC gaming was always a niche market relative to the consoles, and it will probably remain so. The difference is not that huge though. Supposedly 43:57 by revenue: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-pc-vs-conso
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by qwytw 2y ago
> The EU is structurally difficult to effectively, ah, lobby Also the EU doesn't have almost any any successful consumer tech companies (and the entire sector itself is small and has little real influence). On the brightside this l
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by qwytw 2y ago
They reformed the civil service system in 1853. I'm not sure it was something that the EIC came up with on its own, rather it was the British government/parliament, possibly trying to fix the arbitrariness/mismanagement/

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