Yggstyle

We do not steal hats. We share them. We teach fraternity and knowledge. We are balance. We are believers in open and free markets. We remain curious, unbridled, and fly no colors.

In time: we may be the only capable navigators of a sea rife with giants and uncouth countries.

We privateers may well be stealing history back from those who would destroy it.

Yo ho my hearties.

Take what you can …

Making your own is absolutely awesome and might I recommend this guy to get you started: Brad Leone - somewhat related: do be aware that botulism will fuck your shit up if you play fast and loose with homemade stuff. Store / prepare stuff as recommended.

This. Before a shot was ever fired the natives in most “undeveloped” regions were being decimated by pathogens refined in our “civilized” cities. This was long before “smallpox blankets” ever made an appearance.

And remember: losers complain about woulda and coulda. Winners clear the jam and finish the job.

This is 100% correct.

A few suggestions that would incentivise actual growth and improvement rather than market fraud and personal enrichment.

Cap CEO compensation to a reasonably “fair” multiple of their workforces average. Compensation type must match that average as well (cash/stock/scrip.) Bonuses follow the same rules.

Stock buybacks require the company to commit to both workforce and r&d budget increases of the same value before they can be done again.

Mass layoffs require issuance of new stock that match the % of the workforce cut.

Just remember: every statement he is making isn’t to gamers or the consumer market. He’s addressing shareholders. Every new keynote and public interview just demonstrates it more clearly.

Nvidia wants you to be cool and buy whatever castoff cut down parts they couldn’t figure out how to sell to the military or datacenters. If anyone hadn’t noticed by now: generational gains aren’t anything but software generated bullshit now. Its just there to bilk users into staying “loyal” as they exit this sector.

Companies aren’t your friends.

And nothing of value was lost.

Thats a weird way to use an ice scraper.

Is this one of those divide by zero programmer jokes?

What morality is there to impose when you lack it?

I’d also not be surprised to see some more 9/11 shit in the US. They disassembled a lot of our security infra and put idiots in charge of things.

I’m reasonably certain that was the goal. They need to manufacture a crisis so they can get as close to a full government bypass as possible. I only hope if it happens, it isnt nuclear or dirty… And if it has to be anywhere… Somewhere directly responsible for the renewed hate.

Yup. It pains me to say that this AI bubble has something for every facet of this industry. Anyone looking to make a fast buck at the expense of the end user has this new blanket “reason.”

So we have AI confidently spewing bullshit… And conmen CEOs selling snake oil. Its almost too perfect.

I’ll be honest. If it were mulvad that’d be a definite plus… But I’m still pretty opposed to a browser building in hard coded things that should be leveraging their extension / plugin function.

It reduces attack surface, bloat, and base resource usage and I’d imagine would simplify code. It improves visibility on what has been “added” for users not reading patch notes and neatly dodges potential regulation issues to boot.

I daily drove firefox right up until the AI issues. It was efficient, transparent, and reliable. I have no issue with them taking money from wherever they can get it. I do take issue with bloatware being opt out: especially when I need to go digging through settings for a new toggle… Only to find out its still wasting resources until you dig in about:config for several more flags.

Looking forward - I think regardless of our views on where features go and what they do… We all can agree that especially now we should have developers looking to make their apps as efficient as possible. Because at least for the foreseeable future - resources aren’t getting cheaper.

It is good business. Shit for the consumer (unsurprising) … But really aside from Jensen’s apparent ego - I’m curious why nvidia has any interest in the gaming sector. I feel like they accomplished the perfect transition.

Dont get me wrong. Its absolutely a very novel and useful feature. It made shit look great. I’m not down on the tech: I’m just saying the push for it wasn’t for the industry. It was to kill framerates and sell cards.

Gotta let the man take a shot at the crown…

This is long winded but I firmly believe this explains a lot about the industries frenzied push into all these odd directions… All of it. Here seems as good as any place to dump this mess I’ve been stewing on:

I really think it’s important that raytracing, while novel, wasn’t created to improve visuals. It wasnt created to make a programmers life easier. It was created because it was computationally difficult and could be optimized for. It was a fantastic play by nvidia. They created a feature that functionally did very little but they could get an entire cycle ahead of the competition in that optimization. Differentiation of products, in a duopoly, is a big deal. Amd dove right into it - knowing full well that this would leave them brutally behind… But this was a fortuitous event: despite the disadvantage.

Why? Simple. GPUs have been struggling against Moore’s law. Framerates were exceeding ranges even monitors can refresh at. And worse yet there was another hard limit: our eyes. How do you sell cards that have no perceivable value?

Reality is we may well be reaching a point where additional resolutions and framerates dont matter. Badly optimized games only buy so much time.

These companies aren’t stupid. Crypto? They loved it. Computationally expensive. Always need faster… Until we didnt. What now? Demand was plummeting for overpriced high end cards.

Go back and look at when AI and nvidia got in bed. The earnings call was due to be a bloodbath after all these cards were rotting on shelves, unpurchased, and depreciating daily. It was coming ro light that they had been selling cards to miners under the table and that was going to get ugly fast. I have never, in my life, heard a company talk so much about a product on a earnings call – that wasn’t theirs. Not a word breathed about unsold cards barely any numbers discussed. ChatGPT referenced so many times that there was confusion as to whether nvidia actually owned it. The Q/A at the end was comedy gold. People were so confused.

AI was the perfect save. AI is a power virus. Want to fix the black box? Train a black box to mangage that black box. Its a computational sinkhole. They’ve extracted value from gamers to dimishing returns. Meanwhile they can sell the ultimate snake oil to investors: virtual slave labor. Unpaid workers. In floods private equity. Gamers stopped mattering immediately. All of these advances are software. From a GPU design company. Why? It shuts up the peasants while they continue rebranding the “snake oil” to get whoever is buying. Weve nearly achieved the panacea. Just a bit longer!

Behold: we have dressed our industry in the finest of the emperors newest clothes. You can either start selling them or be the only one who doesn’t.

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I’m pretty sure Samsung (?) Is on record for saying they have no interest in ramping capacity. Historically they’ve [memory manufacturers] done this before.

Announcing a shortage this long serves no purpose but to stoke fear and speculation … Which drives prices up and hording.

Exactly. The more compititon the better. Imagine what we’d get if nvidia was split into 3 new companies and had to compete. 5 total companies suddenly would be very motivated to make a substantial product to bring to market at a competitive price. We as consumers need this diversity to keep the market honest and moving forward.