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Comment Re:McKinsey clowns give results they were paid for (Score 1) 104

This doesn't sound like the result Big Oil would want in the report - only in reality. The report saying this will drive politicians to make efforts to increase renewables deployment, and lower data center electricity usage. What Big Oil would want is for the report to say "don't worry, you don't need to do anything, fossil fuels will be dead in 10 years anyway."

Comment Re:Battery life sounds great, but AI? (Score 3, Interesting) 75

Wait... Apple doesn't come to mind for AI? You clearly no absolutely nothing about buying hardware for running AI.

In order of speed, your options are:

A server with $5000 nVidia GPUs with lots of VRAM on board.
A Mac, preferably with their highest end chip in it
A desktop PC with a high end desktop graphics card

Thanks to their unified memory architecture, Apple's neural engines are the fastest thing that doesn't cost $5000 for the GPU alone that doesn't instantly run out of memory running any vaguely serious model.

Comment Re:Is people really using notebooks for AI? (Score 1) 75

Apple ones - yes. The unified memory architecture makes them the fastest things you can buy for running AI outside of $5000 nVidia AI GPUs. Every desktop GPU is going to run out of memory on any serious model, and nothing else is as fast as these.

I mean, sure, you're likely wanting the M5 Ultra or M5 Max for doing that, rather than the base M5, but given that they're the same architecture, just with bits chopped off or doubled up, yeh... they're gonna need that.

Comment Re: Go woke, go broke. (Score 0) 92

Letâ(TM)s take a look at some woke stances then.

- Black Lives Matter - ah yes, very oppressive.
- Womenâ(TM)s rights - yup, still sounding oppressive.
- LGBTQ rights - yup, same theme.

â¦

Iâ(TM)m not seeing where the oppression comes in?

The right seems to think that it comes in when you get

- Cancel culture - meaning âoewhen we stop listening to you when you say horrible thingsâ
- Race based silencing - meaning âoewhen we put black peopleâ(TM)s view points on an equal footing to white peopleâ(TM)sâ
- Critical Race Theory - meaning âoeteaching people that weâ(TM)ve historically been pretty horrible to black people in the USâ

Sorry, Iâ(TM)m not seeing how any of that adds up to oppression unless you think itâ(TM)s oppression to no longer be treated as superior.

Comment Fucking idiots (Score 5, Insightful) 184

Every study out there says that weâ(TM)d be as productive, or more so if we worked *less* in a week, not more. But noooo, mr âoeyou canâ(TM)t win at life if youâ(TM)re not a burnt out wreck by 33â canâ(TM)t deal the idea that he doesnâ(TM)t control you for the maximum possible number of hours.

Comment Re: Well, that's new...I think (Score 2) 58

The trick is that to compete in that segment you need to nail the gameplay. Nailing the gameplay is something much harder to pin down and understand than whether it looks pretty. While itâ(TM)s much cheeper to release a good game in this segment *if* you nail the good game part, itâ(TM)s very unreliable as a source of income if you havenâ(TM)t nailed it yet.

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