megopie

Yes, because, as we all know, no generation defining historical events have happened since the Vietnam war, the beetles and the hippie movement. Anything that has happened since then has actually solely been the life experiences of boomers, and only their interpretation of such events actually matters.

That’s why everyone since then has been named after a unit of time or letters. Not like, you know, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the GWOT, the global financial crisis, or the rise of the internet as a central pillar of society merit naming generations after. No, those are actually all just subsets of the life experience of boomers, and other generations who don’t matter.

Now pronounce worcestershire sauce.

It’s also closer to a uh sound than an oo sound in the first syllable, and the er sound is shifted towards and ah sound, like chowdah

It depends on the type of productivity TBH. Like, sure some productivity use cases need CUDA, but a lot of productivity use cases are just using the cards as graphics cards. The places where you need CUDA are real, but not ubiquitous.

And “this is my personal computer I play games on, but also the computer I do work on, and that work needs CUDA specifically” is very much an edge case.

I’d say in general, the advantages of Nvidia cards are fairly niche even on windows. Like, multi frame generation (fake frames) and upscaling are kind of questionable in terms of value add most of the time, and most people probably aren’t going to be doing any ML stuff on their computer.

AMD in general offers better performance for the money, and that’s doubly so with Nvidia’s lackluster Linux support. AMD has put the work in to get their hardware running well on Linux, both in terms of work from their own team and being collaborative with the open source community.

I can see why some people would choose Nvidia cards, but I think, even on windows, a lot of people who buy them probably would have been better off with AMD. And outside of some fringe edge cases, there is no good reason to choose them when building or buying a computer you intend to mainly run Linux on.

From what I read, it sounds like they were supporting a bunch of different projects based on “oh hey this is kind of neat and could be useful” and didn’t really look in to the background of the relevant devs.

The thread on their forum reads like them wandering in to something, reading the objection as some obscure beef and running the standard PR approach without really realizing what a mess they just stuck their foot into.

Hopefully their cage will be rattled enough to look in to it and pull back.

terrestrial isopods are a thing.

So about 70% of Nvidia’s earnings this last couple years has been from selling specialized GPUs to data centers. And their valuation has grown significantly more than that under the assumption that those data center sales will continue to grow.

So say, it turns out, that these big models that need data centers to run fail to ever be profitable. And all these companies have massively overbuilt the infrastructure for a demand that fails to materialize and Nvidia’s sales crater as everyone ceases to expand the data centers. Their stock value will crater in turn. Nvidia is about 8% of the value of the S&P 500, and other companies heavily invested in such data centers account for another 10%. S&P 500 index funds are the most performant index funds, and thus the ones most heavily invested in.

Right now, the wealthiest 10% of the US population accounts for the majority of consumer spending, this a weird situation that’s been going on since the end of the pandemic. A significant portion of the wealth they can easily draw on to fund that spending is in index funds based on the S&P 500. If 10% of their portfolios was to just poof over the corse of a month, and then… not shoot back up. Think they might start… cutting back on spending? And then all those companies they stoped spending on start letting people go…

… and we’re already in a low hire no fire kind of jobs market with high unemployment (the U-6 rate is at about 8 percent and that’s probably an underestimate) and record breaking underemployment (people who are employed but not working full time, or working a job they are overqualified for) .

Yah, probably not a 2008 kind of situation, but maybe an early 1990s kind of situation. This is gonna fucking suck. Hey at least we have an incredibly stable and well run federal government right now that will handle such a situation with the grace and care needed, definitely won’t panic, have a stroke and shit their pants the moment they have to deal with a real situation.

There are a lot of issues with it still, like, I like it, but so much lost potential, and very clear issues that can’t be fixed without major overhauls of some very big systems.

Simply, The city is to empty and underutilized, traversing it is boring due to the frustrating driving mechanics and lack of options to go from area to area on foot (or like, some kind of subway that’s more than just a fast travel system). Exploration is unrewarding as the content that comes with it feels shallow and undercooked. Like sure, some of the random contracts you get from the fixers are fun, but they don’t add anything to the game, they’re just empty “content” most of the time.

I could go on. Don’t mis understand me, I like the game, I enjoyed it, but I enjoyed it when it first came out, and what they have now still has much of the same issues that I had with it initially. The bugs have gotten fixed and a few of the side quests have gotten their due, but the main issues are fundamental to how the game was made and would need rebuilds of core elements to truly fix.

TCP in action.

Invite Xenia in, give her full access to all the computers on the premises

I’m writing a story based on this premise ironically.

Fun fact, the supreme leader has so far always been dead, the title only having been given to Sung and Jong upon their deaths, yet the title is officially the leader of the party, state, and army.

Making it the world’s only Necrocracy (rule by the dead)