end goal is everybody just has phones with locked bootloaders

Right?! Steam is great if you’re willing to wait. I basically don’t buy games anymore unless they’re 80% off or really cheap anyways.

I’d love to see that 30% go to 15 or 10, but this lawsuit is a stretch

steambox is rumored to be $650 us but that could be bullshit. we’ll see.

it probably wont pop in the way a lot of online commenters are predicting. big companies like google, microsoft, apple, amazon, etc will be fine. a bunch of startups and small-mid sized companies will go under. a few big ones will get bought by bigger ones.

even without ai they’re going to need more datacenters. there’s a lot you can do with a shitton of compute beyond generating questionable ai-slop.

NFTs didn’t directly need GPUs really. eth did, but that’s not really the same thing. NFTs didn’t increase demand, the price of eth did. Same in how the price of bitcoin increased demand.

Either way, prices never came down from that, and I suspect they’ll never come down from this.

plummeting

I just checked and at least the ones I have are all doing fine, mostly only a bit down from their aths

the strawman further polarizes me away from your perspective. if i didn’t know better I would say you’re trying to make things worse.

Even the 2 dimensional compass is a simplification, though orders of magnitude better than the binary “left or right” simplification, and also better than the 2 dimensional gradient as well.

No, I get it, you don’t like nuance.

A good point! In London,

1918 – Representation of the People Act This is effectively when universal male suffrage happened. All men aged 21+ could vote

1928 – Equal Franchise Act Full equality: women could vote at 21+, the same as men.

People keep making this a men vs women thing, but that’s a distraction. There is no war but the class war. Don’t let the owner class further divide the proletariat.

Ok. Everybody can get back to meme’n now.

Similar to me. My passport got wet when I was in the rain. The lady at the Canadian passport office literally yelled at me for damaging it. I was surprised, but they seem to take it very seriously.

You’re absolutely right, but you also need to accept that most people think ai means transformers (as in, LLMs and generative/image synthesis)

It sucks, but that’s how language works unfortunately. How most people use a word ends up defining it.

Recommendation systems, search and ranking algorithms, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice cloning, audio noise reduction, predictive analytics, forecasting models, fraud detection, anomaly detection, robotics control systems, self-driving path planning, robot navigation and mapping (SLAM), reinforcement-learning agents, game-playing AI, warehouse optimization, dynamic pricing models, object detection, face recognition, license-plate recognition, medical image analysis, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, spam detection, classic machine-translation models, personalization engines, matching algorithms, logistics route optimization, scheduling algorithms, resource allocation models, algorithmic trading bots, risk scoring, market-making AI, healthcare diagnostics, disease-risk prediction, protein-folding models, music analysis, beat detection, autonomous drone navigation, industrial monitoring, and smart-traffic systems.

Valve understands that sometimes less is more

Friendly reminder that China isn’t a country, it’s a region. PRC is a country. And follow-up reminder that India is absolutely not properly allied with the USA, and China and India’s wars had nothing to do with the USA.

Free Tibet!

Lots of indie games yes, but not so many of the AAAs

Money, I guess. GabeN needed a new yatch

Zero sympathy for anybody who owns investment properties. Zero sympathy for landlords.

Highly skilled locals, too. Anecdotal, but all of the smartest people I graduated university with have left. It’s a lot easier to land 400k salaries outside of Canada.