This is bending the knee

Oh, did you just get the memo?

LLMs are largely worthless (in the context of improving human society).

Neural Nets aimed at much more specific domains (recognizing and indicating metastases or other abnormalities in pathology slides for human review, for example) are EXTREMELY useful and worthwhile.

A firearm is very much a tool in some non-combat applications. Ranching, for instance.

Red Wing Iron Rangers

lol nice, another fellow user of the term “meatspace”. I find the term quite self explanatory, but I often have to explain it to people when I allow it into my vernacular.

They are still bleeding edge. Samsung is making really impressive strides, but TSMC is simultaneously not resting on their laurels.

Their security guarantees involve “we will melt our chip foundries to slag if the PRC invades”. That’s not a joke. That’s an official element of their strategic defense policy. They are pointedly tying the bleeding edge of semiconductor manufacturing - which corresponds to a very fucking big chunk of the global economy - to their sovereignty and territorial integrity. And it’s frankly an extremely shrewd policy.

And it’s gonna get worse, because it’s a very lucrative industry AND it’s highly effective for propaganda.

MS will be sued over this and they will lose. This is not an ambiguous case. They fucked up. It’s essentially an unconsentual/unilateral alteration to a contract, which kinda violates the principle of, you know, a contract.

I would unironically fully support this course of action

Yeah I’m making plans to fuck off to a different country. This place has clearly become completely incongruent with my personal beliefs and ethics.

I’m gonna keep an eye out on the DCS YT channels for this skin lol

In a lot of red states these days, the reason is “the election officials and Secretary of State (for the state in question) have made it extremely difficult - and in some cases impossible - for me to vote”.

I’m not saying the points you’re raising are irrelevant, but honestly, just look at Texas. It SHOULD be purple/swing, the legislature there has enacted swaths of anti-democratic (small “d”) measures with the expressly partisan intent of making it effectively impossible for any party other than the GOP to win anything meaningful in the state.

…what?

So the smart move here for AMD would have been to bin the chips differently according to their tested stability for power usage, like Intel T SKUs. It’s the same chip, but the “X” versions are running at full power (with bios options to turn it down to be more efficient, or aggressively scale power delivery, or what have you), and “E” versions that just always run at lower voltages and currents.

I agree that cutting TDP nearly in half while STILL pulling out a perf gain is remarkable, but also not something most gamers are going to care much about in the context of a desktop system.

+1. Definitely some nuance going on here I wasn’t aware of.

My concern at this point is that a lot of electoral positions in swing states - e.g. Georgia - appear to have been co-opted by overtly partisan Trumpians. And I’m not convinced they’ll abide by the court injunctions of “that’s not your fucking job, just do your job and nothing else”, because Trump would almost certainly pardon all the people pulling electoral fuckery like that if he figures out how to weasel his way into office. That is, in fact, a core element of their plan, and why all the fuckery appears to be kinda proceeding in lockstep. This is also why a lot of them are so die hard for Trump - they are fully cognizant of their guilt, and know that the DoJ is going to take a long, hard look at them if Harris wins, and very likely hang together, as it were.

Most of the companies you’re mentioning do not have their own chip foundries. The only - and I do mean only - companies that have working lithography lines to support bleeding edge chips at massive scale are Samsung, TSMC, and Intel. Several other companies are investing in eventually gaining that capability, but right now, thats it. And these things take a LONG time to spin up and iron out the issues.

TL;DR: the problem is how few companies actually MAKE the chips, not how many companies DESIGN them.