I would not hold my breath

Anything bad?

Most people aren’t celebrating the killing of Kirk

I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure

Okay, but what if we just repeal or ignore that rule in order to conduct a pogrom of WrongThinkers?

Basically why the grid exists to begin with. You’re not supposed to be solving these engineering problems on a household budget inside a single home.

You’d be better off simply reducing your consumption or finding alternative methods of power (nat gas or maybe wind or geothermal) during the longer winter nights.

If you really want to go crazy, you should consider investing in a bigger home with better insulation and roommates. An apartment/condo block can at least leverage economies of scale, if you’re dead set on DIY. More people benefiting from the setup dilutes the cost per person.

a few months we’re going to see an article saying China has bought record amounts of H20s and NVIDIA’s stocks are going to go up again. This is because the smaller companies are still going to be buying and at MSRP because the big boys can’t.

I would not bank on it, but I guess we’ll see.

At the moment, NVIDIA and CoreWeave are busy swapping spit while Trump is throatling the export economy at record speed.

But hey, time will tell.

Huawei’s 910c is about 30% slower and 1/3 more expensive.

NVIDIA H100s are currently going for around $25k to Huawei’s $28k. And that’s before you get to the secondary market, where NVIDIA chipsets will inevitably jump in price based on availability and relative demand. Without Huawei in the market, I guarantee NVIDIA’s chips would be even more expensive.

At some point, its just a matter of what is available. American tech companies are demanding more chipsets than NVIDIA can currently produce, which is why the company’s still considered a growth investment play. Chinese competitors aren’t going to be able to import NVIDIA to meet their own internal demand. They’ll buy Huawei units because that’s what is on the shelf.

If no one develops on Chinese chips, then they’ll never actually be competitive.

People will develop on Chinese chips because they’re cheaper and more open-sourced. Also, because their specs are written in Chinese rather than English and that’s their native tongue.

But today, it’s able to run the domestic game Black Myth WuKong at 4k at 40 fps.

That’s not because of a chip import policy the state issued last week. Someone’s obviously working on these things, even without a bunch of state-issued trade restrictions.

What this has rang through out China I am sure is, China has to do everything on earth to fix their software. If that means banning NVIDIA, so be it.

NVIDIA does not have the export capacity to feed the entire Chinese state’s demand for new hardware. Never did. The real reason for a domestic Chinese investment in tech is that China is also a global leading consumer. They need to fab their own chips for the same reason they need to build their own cars and grow their own rice. Their economy can’t work as an import economy when they represent 16% of the global population.

This change in policy will undoubtedly accelerate domestic investment in new software. But it wasn’t strictly necessary.

Thiel’s so high on his own supply that his brain is failing him. Any of the more recent videos of his public speaking show a many who is less and less cognizant of the world around him and more up his own asshole than any human has a right to be.

The guy was always a libertarian-flavored fascist, going back to his early Paypal days. But now that he’s fully enmeshed in the national security state with his Palantir project, he’s getting the weapon’s grade Reagan Era anti-communism directly from the firehose. That, plus the drugs and the orgies and the crazy sleepless jet-setting schedule all topped off with his flirtations in digital immortality. Dude’s brain is cooked like hamburger.

This is more a tit-for-tat with Trump tariffs and trade embargoes. I don’t think the Chinese state leadership cares about going heads up with NVIDIA in the public market, even if they’re hosting the inferior brand (for now). They’ve been operating as a second-best option in manufacturing and tech for decades as they built up their capacity.

But this kind of power move is a kick in the teeth to some of Trump’s wealthiest supporters. It gives Chinese diplomats enormous leverage as they go into another round of trade negotiations with a country whose economy increasingly revolves around making and selling chipsets.

Edit: Incidentally, NVIDIA has $165B/year in revenue and a $4.5T market cap. Just think about that for a minute.

Reddit is in an incestuous relationship with Google. So it’ll remain relevant as long as it’s results keep getting into the front page of the biggest search engine. Add to that, the results getting fed into AI responses.

Influencers and marketers love Reddit at least as much as they still love Twitter.

In Texas, we believe that HPV is a punishment for premarital sex.

Was going to say… Who is out there buying games way outside their machines’ specs? Seems pretty straightforward.

I do get a little annoyed at the folks angry at BL4 using a higher end engine. Like, it does look a lot better than previous iterations. That engine upgrade wasn’t for nothing.

There are a ton of looter shooters floating around that aren’t using the Unreal 5 engine. Just play one of those instead. Hell, go back and play BL1. I’m pretty sure that thing runs on a toaster.

The issue I feel, is we live in a society that equates money with importance.

A guy who can command hundreds of billions is important by way of how much pull he can exert on the overall economy. If Altman says we’re going to build a thousand new datacenters that consume a gigawatt of power a year each, and he’s breaking ground on the project next week, commodities brokers can’t just blink past it.

The headline should be Stop Talking to Technology Executives, Tax Them.

Who is the headline talking to? Unless this is a media journal exclusively consumed by Congresscritters, you’re just preaching to the choir. Nobody wants to tax the Tech Billionaires because nobody wants to get tech billionaire money plowed into a rival’s campaign.

Unfortunately, you can’t just politely ignore people with an eleven-to-thirteen-digit line of credit. That much of a hand in the consumption habits of the richest country on earth commands attention whether you like what they’re saying or not.

The real question is whether you’re going to be a WaPo-style hack stenographer who shows up at these events and whispers “These people are fairy wizards who can do real God-magic and transform the universe into a Science Fantasy wonderland!” Or you come at it from the Ed Zitron / Molly White / Riley Quinn / Any Sane Person at the Financial Times perspective, tearing into the actual balance sheets and analyzing the runways of these bloated economy leeches, and guestimating what future impact their continued operation will have on the rest of the domestic and global economies.

Tech Execs have to be taken seriously but not literally. When Zuck says he wants a trillion dollar spending line on datacenters to supercharge humanity, you have to read that with the same gravitas as a weather forecaster predicting a Cat-5 hurricane making landfall.

How does someone with such a shitty personality and dress sense get so smug?

Lots and lots of money.

If I looked and acted like him I would want to punch myself in the face

He has top of the line security details to do that for him.

marxists are more into the aesthetics of marxism

Sort of a selection bias.

“The only Marxists I ever see are the ones advertising themselves” implies you might not be looking very hard

Maybe Atlas Shrugged

Not many smart people left on the sub. Just yes-men.

They’ve done so many purges in /r/conservative that it’s basically communism