Pup Biru

which part? it’s still transmitting right? and they got useful and interesting data from it only a few years ago

let’s not forget the agency that launched the probe that passed the edge of the solar system and is still functional and doing valuable things…… in the 70s

for me, switching to dvorak about 10 years ago has made me absolutely useless at typing qwerty… i get used to it after 5min, but much slower than i used to be and wow is it paiiiiiin (both literally in my wrists, and figuratively in that i feel like im fighting the keyboard for every word)

… or perhaps you mean the differences in physical layout

tax all wealth above the nth percentile of the populations wealth

the concept of currency is absolutely not the problem… barter systems are hugely complex and incredibly inefficient

currency is (should be) an abstraction of the value of something… to support the population as big as we have we need a system that’s able to manage that complexity

currency unlocks immense amounts of human effort and allow people to do what they want instead of just the things that are wanted in their local area. you can’t really have grants with a barter system, complex supply chains are impossible (so say goodbye to advanced scientific research and most modern technology), large scale planning is over because you can’t guarantee whether you can get the resources you need for the things that you’re able to trade in months or years time (just because your iron supplier wants toilet paper now doesn’t mean he will want it 2 years into the future when you need more iron)

it’s also a multiplier, on top of just reducing work required for every single trade. to do a lot of those large-scale things there will always be cash laying around somewhere - you get given it, and then you need to plan or get it from multiple sources until you have enough to request the resources you need… whenever currency is laying around like this, it’s wasted effort. currency works; currency gets things done when it’s moving; currency sitting around is wasted… when you put that currency in a bank, they’re able to loan it to others, who then put it to good use by being productive. you get that currency back when you’re ready, and all of a sudden there is more done that what would have otherwise been able to be done: that’s what the “made up paper system” allows (and there are many more examples of this)

it could be arguable that there’s plenty to go around and that if everyone is happy living with equality and not extravagance then we wouldn’t need to barter or trade anything… perhaps that’s true person to person (ignoring human behaviour, sociopaths, power over people in and of itself becoming the currency, doing the work that nobody wants to do - some of that can probably be tamed with societal norms and punishment, and technology) but humanity’s understanding of the universe needs to progress to improve everything for everyone, and the more we progress the more complex and large-scale the needs of the projects are that are required to do them… if you have a bundle of resources, how do you allocate them to projects without knowing how much of a dent they’ll make? how do you say which will take more to complete: ITER or the LHC? it’s already impossible for us to comprehend everything about our system of trade without removing the abstraction that simplifies it all so we can reason about it

don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of tweaks to be made to make sure currency again becomes representative of value, but currency in and of itself absolutely makes people’s lives better every single day. unrestrained capitalism is absolutely the problem with currency - currency is just its tool of choice

They specifically pointed out that Nvidia GPUs have less than 16GB of RAM on their lower and mid end cards

… as a bracket at the end of their comment indicating their distaste for nvidias shitty practices

you always argue in bad faith, and whilst downvotes don’t “mean” anything, they do prove at the very least something you’re doing or saying is not likeable… that that on board, adjust your tone, admit when you’re wrong (which is most of the time)

there was no mention of desktop, OR RTX

and VRAM limitations almost certainly don’t apply to chinese GPUs: the process node is the only limitation in chinas manufacturing capability

i would absolutely not be surprised if they have a 256GB+ card that is equal to an 8yo nvidia/amd card at 1/5th the price and just dump more in… for the same reason that GPUs are better than CPUs for models, many GPUs is better than a single fast GPU

and that’s still only barely relevant because as i said previously, workstation GPUs etc don’t need that - there are plenty of workloads that fit the bill for a card from 8 years ago, and they never mentioned anything about large cards or ML workloads or gaming

that is literally what you’re discussing… they never said anything about gaming: they just said GPUs… just admit you made an assumption mate

right and this is a public message board in which multiple people can carry on a conversation

i’m saying that 8gb GPUs are still useful as workload accelerators in workstations etc

no, they are not

the entire topic is an article about geo tracking cards to avoid china getting around bans, and the larger context of that is AI; not gaming

DLSS is entirely off-topic and irrelevant to workloads other than games, and thus the discussion here

The word Data was originally a plural word

and because of that its not “data is beautiful” it’s “data are beautiful”

i mourn the loss of full fibre NBN

every

damn

day

… fuck the liberals

DLSS and RTX are not why these bans are happening bud

Davinci Resolve has to be one of the most jam packed free software packages available… seriously, it absolutely trounces Premiere at evvvverything

the model of free for everything except if features you’d want for producing a professional movie, and financed by hardware sales - that you don’t need unless you’re a professional - is absolutely incredible for home users

all of the above listed counties have very solid healthcare and are not entirely socialist. what’s your point?

socialism is not a requirement for being a place that treats people with respect and dignity; nor is it a silver bullet

and you believe a revolution in the US will help the third world?

socialist countries are plenty capable of being exploitative too. a revolution doesn’t change the people - it changes the power structures

the nordic states seem to be doing pretty well at riding a good line, and whilst australia is far from socialist, what we have is working great too

accident? no of course not… but consistency… a big bang “revolution” is the easy way out… it’s so easy to say you’ll fight for what you believe in when you don’t have to see what it’ll entail or what will come out the other side of it but the reality is far more bloody and is absolutely not what you have in your head afterwards

perhaps, or perhaps it could be replaced by something worse. there are no guarantees