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  1. Etern4l
    Good link. Obviously it's a huge mess, and by now a regulator should have stepped in and audited the outfit. Instead we have idiotic Microsoft bankrolling this.
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    Yes, if the main issue the amount of RAM available to the GPU and performance is not a consideration then fine. Whether this setup will be viable in practice depends on the use case. For many heavy lifting kind of tasks, it would probably struggle - but if we are talking laptops then those aren't designed for really heavy compute lifts in the first place. Do we have any independent benchmark results or those memory bandwidth specs for that stuff?
  3. Etern4l
    Again, a lot depends on how memory bandwidth intensive those use cases (example: crypto would be mostly bandwidth dependent, therefore absolutely crawl on unified memory). Looks to me like this is mostly to enable those applications which require a lot of memory, but are not necessarily particularly compute-intensive, such as ML inference. Of course that does not necessarily require a GPU at all. As usual with Apple, buyer beware of marketing slight of hand.
  4. Etern4l
    Great point, it's reasonable to assume an underlying character issue. No sane board of a $70B company would make such determination about him without substantial evidence. Then again, very few straight arrows get to hit the "I'm a major global tech company CEO" bullseye - in fact I'm not sure I've heard of any and I'm into archery lol update: https://m.slashdot.org/story/421639 looks more and more like a struggle between the nonprofit/“safe” and for-profit factions at OpenAI, with Altman potentially scheming a spin-off or trying to grab some actual shares if they bring him back in. Must have been quite annoying to have had almost none (reportedly).
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    But why exactly.... looks like some sort of rift at the top, as Ilya Sutskever came out with support for the board, while a couple of lieutenants quit as well. Apparently Ilya is in the "safe AGI" camp (an oxymoron), not sure what Altman stands for, but could be "AGI at all cost" given his recent changes to the internal company ethos. Will be interested to see how this plays out. One obvious scenario is those guys setting up shop in another country interested in replicating GPT and/or pursuing AGI.
  6. Etern4l
    @Bullit Err, what’s the bandwidth of the unified memory, compared to the combined bandwidth of a 3080 VRAM and say DDR5 4800 system RAM.
  7. Etern4l
    True. It's going to be a long wait for TV series dedicated to Director Krennick or Grand Moff Tarkin, although I suspect Disney might get there eventually lol
  8. Etern4l
    The reality is that if the dystopian dreams of Sam Altman and others are implemented, a large part of the population will no longer have an economic reason to exist. This is to some extent true of people living in 3rd world countries, so we can look there to see what kind of income supplements are available. Ah, sorry I forgot - of course we can trust the filthy rich in (temporary) control of the AIs to share their wealth as necessary lol The likely outcomes are neo-feudalism, some sort of communism, or just elimination of the undesirables. Capitalism as we know it would die. Democracy is on its last legs already.
  9. Etern4l
    That disgusting tool Andreessen Horowitz's "billions and billions" argument takes the biscuit. Let's destroy the livelihoods of human creators, and ultimately wipe mankind off the face of the planet to protect VC investment at all cost. The sad part is that I can totally see the US falling for that. The courts probably wont do much in absence of specific legislation anr given the legal onslaught from the tech sector, and most politicians are in the pocket of big business and wealthy donors. Thus capitalism will self-destruct (mendacious Musk came out recently with a happy claim that AI will end work..: cool, then what?) or devolve back to AI-feudalism:
  10. Etern4l
    UK, US, EU and China sign declaration of AI’s ‘catastrophic’ danger The UK, US, EU, Australia and China have all agreed that artificial intelligence poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity, in the first international declaration to deal with the fast-emerging technology. Nothing binding, but it's a start - especially with both the US and China at the table.
  11. Etern4l
    Yes, repasting is most likely going to benefit high-end laptops with top-end mobile or desktop CPUs.
  12. Etern4l
    Well, Enron - being the largest case of corportate fraud to date - was similar although the scandal was much larger. It was a publicly traded US company, with 20k employees who lost their jobs and pensions. Something like $50B in investor losses. Arthur Andersen went down. Crazy stuff. FTX was big too - lost about $10B of investor monies and SBF himself apparently lost $16B, although that’s likely debatable - but not quite at the same level as Enron in terms of impact. Also not sure how eventful the Enron trial was in terms of erratic behaviour on the part of defendants. One guy died of heart attack prior to sentencing, so there is that I guess.
  13. Etern4l
    Sounds like a decent Linux/Mac gaming solution as well.
  14. Etern4l
    Yeah, this looks a bit similar to Ted Bundy”s trial, who was so used to running circles around the police, that in the end he decided to represent himself and personally conduct witness cross-examination, which of course resulted in self-incrimnation.
  15. Etern4l
    Why wouldn’t he testify? Was a legit outfit, just bad luck. /s
  16. Etern4l
    To be fair, changing an OS is not necessarily straightforward, or possible (even if someone is really keen on doing it), so no wonder people stuck with a "live OS" - which is mutating into something they did not originally sign up for - are being vocal about their concerns. There is an unintended point above though: no amount of loud complaining is going to change much in confrontation with a megacorporation like M$. One of the last concrete tools at people's disposal are their wallets.... until the tech industry achieves the Holy Grail: replace people with AIs and send them on Universal Income thus eliminating the pesky voting wallet issue. Think that's a sick joke? Watch some talks on AI featuring Sam Altman and related tech industry leaders. Unfortunately, it's either people pick up the fight and accept some compromises involved in avoiding offending companies and products, or it's a humiliating surrender with all the long-term consequences.
  17. Etern4l
    Those characteristics got us to where we are: at the brink of destruction of the home planet and getting ever closer to self-made extermination. Not sure how it follows that they are necessary for our survival and prosperity in the future.
  18. Etern4l
    Yep. 7958 SP paste seems to be holding water on the desktop side (die+IHS) under severe load as well. I’m not sure, 2-3 months now which more than anything else has ever lasted for me.
  19. Etern4l
    Quick check at Law&Crime Network... nope, not televised - too bad ;)
  20. Etern4l
    LOL. Joe doesn't pull any punches, although his reviews tend to err on the harsh side. For instance he slapped CP2077 with 6/10.... The review was hilarious through, with EA, Activision and Bethesda portrayed as bad crowd trying to get young CDPR into drugs in the school yard :D
  21. Etern4l
    Right. An alternative to going by the average is to follow the reviewers that seem to have had similar taste and preferences before. When I see 10/10 from PCW, arguably the most crooked reviewer, it doesn’t mean much to me personally.
  22. Etern4l
    I wouldn't get worked up about it to the point of calling reviewers trolls. Major reviews (including the 7/10 ones) are written by people who had played through the entire game and review games routinely if not for a living. They are critics who should possess a broad perspective, and deep knowledge of the genre etc. Taking just all this into account, inevitably there will be differences between individual opinions (especially if it's really just first impressions) and particular reviews. BTW if we don't trust critic reviews, we can peruse gamer opinions on Steam itself. "Mostly positive", which means a fair number of negatives pointing out the familiar issue with most contemporary Bethesda games: a weak main story. For you it may not matter, or you may actually like the story once you get to the end, so you will end up rating it higher for those reasons. Have fun and let us know the final verdict once you beat the game.
  23. Etern4l
    Fair commentary on the absence of support for Intel GPUs, but, unsurprisingly, the PCW piece looks like sponsored anti-AMD garbage. Statements made without any reasonable source or data to suggest validity. How many distinct reports related to Intel CPUs, how many to Ruzens? How many Starfield players own Intel and Ryzen CPUs respectively? We don’t know, and neither does PCW who just took the FUD piece money. There is one laughable link to a tiny Reddit thread when one user at the bottom mentions they have a Ryzen CPU and has some crashes but nothing major. We don’t know if his machine is OCed, crashes outside of Starfield etc. The game likely got rushed out (most games are) and some bugs may remain.
  24. Etern4l
    Kind of a blatant strawman attempt by electro there, I’m disappointed you fell for it. Nobody is talking about government intervention there (yet).
  25. Etern4l
    No, and I stated that explicitly earlier at least once before. In this particular case, the only way to achieve that balance without state intervention is for people to make strategic purchases in support for the underdogs, if possible. If you don't, you are adopting a myopic/greedy strategy which will reinforce the status quo. That's it. If not for people like @Raiderman, AMD's GPU business would have been dead long ago. As intended by whom exactly? What kind of idiots would intend for one company to gain basically 95% of the overall GPU market (compute + gaming)? It is an effective monopoly, and a market without a meaningful competition is broken. I guess that's why you do have antitrust regulations, although they probably have too little teeth to grab NVidia yet, and what would they do anyway? Split the company? Controversial and brute force, but it could come to that. They don't have a strict monopoly in gaming, but they do have a lion's share (80% or so), and they do have an effective monopoly on the compute side. Yes, they have technically superior products, but they also have most cash to spend on further R&D, they have patents, they have talent, there are potentially deals with developers requiring them to favour their GPUs. I'm worried you have insufficient concept of how difficult it is to compete in this business, and how easy it is for the dominant player to thwart opponents, and this semiconductor sector is particularly crazy. It's not as easy as saying "make better products, then we will buy them". It's not a market some XVIII century theorist could have remotely imagined. Well yes, so that's a very interesting topic, unfortunately those things rarely come to light. How many games support DLSS, and how many support the AMD equivalent, and why is that exactly? I wonder what percentages of games support upscaling technologies from: 1. NVidia, 2. AMD, 3. both. What about deals with OEMs preventing or limiting their use of competing GPUs?
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