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Comment Re:Once More el Bunko strikes (Score 1) 42

This just in, part of the investment group of Paramount/Skydance is......ta da.....Jared Kushner, who is backed by the Arab Gulf regimes. So el Bunko is sticking his dick into the Netflix deal so he can benefit Kushner. And that's not the only property they want, they want CNN as well.

This would leave major media companies controlled by Arabs. Netflix is an American company. el Bunko will have many avenues for accepting "tribute" for all his "hard" work.

Comment Re:What's wrong with an accounting trick or two? (Score 1) 36

It's still the exact same silicon and it's got the same problems. Not all of them burn out but some of them do.

The real question is how long until it's replaced by newer or better hardware. Basically will we see custom hardware replace video cards soon for llm acceleration. Similar to what we saw with Bitcoin.

That Won't help consumers because the Fab capacity is just going to go to different silicone, but it does mean that a whole shitload of these gpus will become worthless. I guess some of them will show up on eBay. I got a lot of use out of an old rx580 that was a mining card. I think it did eventually die on me but I got about six good years out of it.

That's a one-time Bonanza though. And it's assuming we get it. The real loser there would be Nvidia since if they get replaced on the AI market with custom hardware then their market value is going to crash harder than I think any market value has ever crashed

Comment "A" cryptocurrency? (Score 0) 60

Money laundering is the backbone of the entire cryptocurrency market. Although Trump has made corruption into a strong contender.

The greatest rap channel on YouTube, Patrick Boyle's, has a video about one of the major scams collapsing because the big boys have integrated crypto into sectors of our economy so there isn't enough excitement about it anymore to keep some of the financial scams going.

Also with the economy collapsing due to incompetent mismanagement from on high the stock market's going with it. And a lot of these scams were riding the stock market.

Still as long as we refuse to regulate the money laundering crypto isn't going anywhere. You'll Still lose your shirt when you invest in it and desperately try to hide it from your wife. But the big boys are in the pool now and so they're going to suck up all the scam money

Comment Netflix is the epicenter of anti-woke (Score 3, Interesting) 42

No, you dumbass, the whole idea here is that with Ellison taking over Skydance / Paramount, the idea is that there is some balance being injected into the business.

Half of Netflix's standup specials are anti-woke marquee comedians, very few of which are actually funny. Take Andrew Schultz...shitty edgelord whose comedy persona is throwing the R word around and shitting on people different than him. Offensive comedy is like hot sauce...a little bit of offensiveness can be spicy and edgy....Schultz's material is just boring...it's like sriracha on saltines...gives the burn, but no good flavor. But hey, he interviewed Trump for some reason...not sure why Trump wanted anything to do with that boring moron.

However, their most famous is Dave Chapelle...TBH, I don't find his anti-trans stuff all that offensive. He's just made himself a figurehead for the anti-trans movement...at the expense of actual comedy. He USED to be really funny. Now his specials are just kinda long and tedious with few laughs.

Beyond him, there are tons of others: Hingecliff, Rife, etc....comedians who just aren't that funny, but hey, they say the R-word, right? They make fun of feminists, right? They're not afraid to make fun of the disabled, just like you did in grade school!!! They hate or shit on the same people. you hate!!!! Then there's Joe Rogan...producing a bunch of these. Famous?...yes...funny?...eh, certainly not to me. I don't get the sense people with more conservative leanings are laughing either.

Fortunately, this anti-woke comedy scene seems to be imploding. Comedy is supposed to make you laugh...not clap. You can inject politics into standup, but...if there are no laughs, it's just a Fox News commentary. For awhile it scratched an itch...a need for those who found the world going crazy and lacking common sense to be seen...who were frustrated with all this "woke-ness" that's not really a thing beyond a few corners of Twitter of conservative commentary. I live in the belly of the beast. I am among the liberals they're talking about. The "woke" movement was just loud randos online, not an organized movement. It wasn't a political movement. There are "woke" individuals, but they're mostly people, completely outside of power, with some undiagnosed mental disorder....just like the conservative prepper crazies stocking up on MREs and ammunition and building bunkers. However, the number and influence of "woke" individuals was greatly exaggerated.

Turns out if your comedy doesn't make people laugh, it just doesn't have a huge audience....hence why no one cares about the jackasses Netflix has been promoting so heavily. However, Netflix is anything but woke. Like all entertainment companies, they're focused on money, not politics. They'd never risk losing money for their beliefs, whatever they are.

Comment Once More el Bunko strikes (Score 2, Insightful) 42

Ellison's sprog is an el Bunko favorite, a right-wingnut. So naturally, el Bunko figures he can destroy the Netflix deal and throw the remains to Ellison's sprog, for which there will be a trail of bread crumbs back to his pockets. He never does anything except for himself.

Comment Re:Overthinking it... (Score 2) 59

super-careful about applying good development practices

That works, until bean counting MBAs are allowed to control what should be an engineering process. In the case of the 737-MAX it was because the MBAs that run Boeing see programmers as a fungible input like aluminum, so any old programming team will do if the price is right. In that case the programming team which won the low bid normally worked in the financial industry.

process and quality assurance teams who know what to look for

Those guys were too expensive for Boeing's management, they've all been laid off years ago.

Submission + - The Escalating AI Chip War: Hyperscalers Mount a Challenge to Nvidia's Crown (buysellram.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Google is making its proprietary TPUs (Ironwood) available to Meta, directly challenging Nvidia’s 90% dominance. The massive cost of AI compute is forcing tech giants to turn from Nvidia's biggest customers into its fiercest competitors. This strategic shift will wipe out $150B in market value and signals the end of a near-unbreakable monopoly. Can Nvidia's software moat (CUDA) hold up against the combined might of hyperscalers?

Comment Remember, the problem AI solves is wages (Score 4, Insightful) 22

Paying wages. That's the problem AI is designed to solve. It is not a consumer product it is capital that will be used to replace you.

And remember they do not need to replace all of us. Doing something like 15 to 25% would completely hollow out consumer spending which is already under threat because massive income inequality means that 80% of our consumer spending comes from baby boomers and those people have about 10 years left before they are pushing up daisies.

And they will not be leaving any inheritance to speak of. What they don't spend on RVs and morning mimosas is going to be eating up by collapsing healthcare systems.

The system of capitalism is being dismantled. It's not breaking down it's being broken down. And if you are under 65 you are going to experience that process. And if you have less than 100 million in your bank account it's not going to be fun.

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