Felix Louie
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Avid tech, gaming, and culinary enthusiast.
This also contradicts the point of OpenAI developing an in-house ASIC/custom chip to save money. If OpenAI is not able to develop ASICs that are more cost-efficient than Nvidia and now AMD, they have huge sunk costs in R&D right now. I'm wondering if their ASIC with Broadcom will ever be tapped-out.
October 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This also contradicts the point of OpenAI developing an in-house ASIC/custom chip to save money. If OpenAI is not able to develop ASICs that are more cost-efficient than Nvidia and now AMD, they have huge sunk costs in R&D right now. I'm wondering if their ASIC with Broadcom will ever be tapped-out.
There was a rumor from an alleged AI architect at Google that at current usage rates, datacenter GPUs had 1-3 year lifespans. If that is true, that's an insane amount of depreciation costs/e-waste. It's not feasible that Microsoft or Nvidia will subsidize OpenAI long-term without a profit road map.
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
There was a rumor from an alleged AI architect at Google that at current usage rates, datacenter GPUs had 1-3 year lifespans. If that is true, that's an insane amount of depreciation costs/e-waste. It's not feasible that Microsoft or Nvidia will subsidize OpenAI long-term without a profit road map.
Yeah, but KDE is still the most feature-rich DE. Vanilla Gnome IMHO lacked what I considered basic features and I had to install Gnome extensions on it with the exception of Ubuntu's implementation. Since most users will be coming from Windows, I feel that Plasma will be easier to transition to.
September 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Yeah, but KDE is still the most feature-rich DE. Vanilla Gnome IMHO lacked what I considered basic features and I had to install Gnome extensions on it with the exception of Ubuntu's implementation. Since most users will be coming from Windows, I feel that Plasma will be easier to transition to.
I totally agree about, but since Bazzite uses KDE, they still have to deal with the challenge of separate release cycles of Plasma and KDE frameworks; I remember reading a while ago that those were significant factors in why Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Suse still use Gnome for stability in enterprise.
September 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I totally agree about, but since Bazzite uses KDE, they still have to deal with the challenge of separate release cycles of Plasma and KDE frameworks; I remember reading a while ago that those were significant factors in why Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Suse still use Gnome for stability in enterprise.
Earlier this year, Nvidia driver 570 series was so unstable to the point when I updated to it, it nuked the SDDM/login screen on Manjaro. I had to use TTY to rollback to a driver in the 550 series and modify some kernel headers and modules; the GPU of the machine I was using was a 4070Ti.
September 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Earlier this year, Nvidia driver 570 series was so unstable to the point when I updated to it, it nuked the SDDM/login screen on Manjaro. I had to use TTY to rollback to a driver in the 550 series and modify some kernel headers and modules; the GPU of the machine I was using was a 4070Ti.
I think it was extremely arrogant and incompetent of them to think they could outdo Google's TPUs which have been developed for around 10 years or even Microsoft that's still struggling to rollout their own chips for AI.
September 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I think it was extremely arrogant and incompetent of them to think they could outdo Google's TPUs which have been developed for around 10 years or even Microsoft that's still struggling to rollout their own chips for AI.
Since gas turbines are the fastest way to scale up electricity infrastructure, why is nobody asking whether those can be built and delivered within 2-3 years. Tldr; this report says gas turbines can take between 5-7 years to deliver.
www.spglobal.com/commodity-in...
www.spglobal.com/commodity-in...
www.spglobal.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Since gas turbines are the fastest way to scale up electricity infrastructure, why is nobody asking whether those can be built and delivered within 2-3 years. Tldr; this report says gas turbines can take between 5-7 years to deliver.
www.spglobal.com/commodity-in...
www.spglobal.com/commodity-in...
That's not necessarily true when you factor in the resale value of the cards and that Nvidia has better performance per watt (energy costs).
Although LLMs are likely in a huge bubble now, CUDA is still dominant in other ML applications such as drug discovery, image/facial recognition, etc.
Although LLMs are likely in a huge bubble now, CUDA is still dominant in other ML applications such as drug discovery, image/facial recognition, etc.
September 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
That's not necessarily true when you factor in the resale value of the cards and that Nvidia has better performance per watt (energy costs).
Although LLMs are likely in a huge bubble now, CUDA is still dominant in other ML applications such as drug discovery, image/facial recognition, etc.
Although LLMs are likely in a huge bubble now, CUDA is still dominant in other ML applications such as drug discovery, image/facial recognition, etc.
Nvidia is the undisputed leader in performance and features in graphics. For performance and compatibility in ML libraries and containers, AMD's ROCm is moving in the right direction, but is no where near CUDA's level. It's not even a real contest between Nvidia and AMD in most use cases.
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Nvidia is the undisputed leader in performance and features in graphics. For performance and compatibility in ML libraries and containers, AMD's ROCm is moving in the right direction, but is no where near CUDA's level. It's not even a real contest between Nvidia and AMD in most use cases.
The thing is that the overwhelming majority of gamers use Nvidia GeForce video cards and Nvidia doesn't port their software like Nvidia Broadcast or new features immediately on Linux or at all. Outside of compute/CUDA, Nvidia stuff often has bugs/requires more maintenance, especially from KDE.
September 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The thing is that the overwhelming majority of gamers use Nvidia GeForce video cards and Nvidia doesn't port their software like Nvidia Broadcast or new features immediately on Linux or at all. Outside of compute/CUDA, Nvidia stuff often has bugs/requires more maintenance, especially from KDE.
Oracle doesn't have a track record of dealing with consumer products; in the enterprise software place, they're notoriously known for shady/complex licensing rules. If they flex their power on TikTok, it's quite possible they'll destroy the user experience and rot the platform.
September 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Oracle doesn't have a track record of dealing with consumer products; in the enterprise software place, they're notoriously known for shady/complex licensing rules. If they flex their power on TikTok, it's quite possible they'll destroy the user experience and rot the platform.
Right now, Nvidia is ~7% of the U.S. stock market in terms of market cap. Although not as crazy as Samsung being 20% or more of South Korea's total GDP, this is heading in that direction, though I doubt it'll ever be that extreme. Nonetheless, this is creating another "too big to fail" IMHO.
September 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Right now, Nvidia is ~7% of the U.S. stock market in terms of market cap. Although not as crazy as Samsung being 20% or more of South Korea's total GDP, this is heading in that direction, though I doubt it'll ever be that extreme. Nonetheless, this is creating another "too big to fail" IMHO.
Keep up the good fight! If we get another pandemic, we'll be totally fu****; having universal healthcare will serve as the best first line of defense against that. Also, Trump admin is gutting our federal health agencies right now including CDC, they just removed info on STIs on the CDC website.
January 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Keep up the good fight! If we get another pandemic, we'll be totally fu****; having universal healthcare will serve as the best first line of defense against that. Also, Trump admin is gutting our federal health agencies right now including CDC, they just removed info on STIs on the CDC website.
Yeah, I hate walled ecosystems; I've had a bad impression of HP ever since they were destroyed/merged with Compaq by Carly Fiorina in the early 2000s. I'm still using a 14 year old Canon multi-function printer; nice thing about that printer is that it even works with Arch Linux & derivatives.
January 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Yeah, I hate walled ecosystems; I've had a bad impression of HP ever since they were destroyed/merged with Compaq by Carly Fiorina in the early 2000s. I'm still using a 14 year old Canon multi-function printer; nice thing about that printer is that it even works with Arch Linux & derivatives.
I like how it comes with a good assortment of themes for eye candy.
January 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I like how it comes with a good assortment of themes for eye candy.
Plz have it well polished in terms of adjustable graphics settings like FFXV rather than being half-baked like in FFVII Remake-Intergrade.
January 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Plz have it well polished in terms of adjustable graphics settings like FFXV rather than being half-baked like in FFVII Remake-Intergrade.
Yeah, Elon Musk made the kind of degenerate online behavior that was mostly confined to sites like 4chan, 8chan, etc. become normalized on a mainstream platform.
White supremacists, incels, misogynists, grifters, etc. reign freely on that platform.
White supremacists, incels, misogynists, grifters, etc. reign freely on that platform.
December 25, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Yeah, Elon Musk made the kind of degenerate online behavior that was mostly confined to sites like 4chan, 8chan, etc. become normalized on a mainstream platform.
White supremacists, incels, misogynists, grifters, etc. reign freely on that platform.
White supremacists, incels, misogynists, grifters, etc. reign freely on that platform.
Both men have the "Greed Is Good" mentality; people with this tend be like "I got mine, f*** the rest." Sadly, Milton Friedman normalized this around 40 years ago in academia; it eventually propelled a huge generation of dou**ebag business executives and think tanks to promote this.
December 25, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Both men have the "Greed Is Good" mentality; people with this tend be like "I got mine, f*** the rest." Sadly, Milton Friedman normalized this around 40 years ago in academia; it eventually propelled a huge generation of dou**ebag business executives and think tanks to promote this.
Yes, we should since it's a gateway to FOSS that's very tangible, and it'll help mitigate the ensh**ification from Big Tech in terms of turning everything into a paid subscription.
December 24, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Yes, we should since it's a gateway to FOSS that's very tangible, and it'll help mitigate the ensh**ification from Big Tech in terms of turning everything into a paid subscription.
A thing that never made the headlines during the last election cycle was that the person who propped up JD Vance (Peter Thiel) tried to start his own floating city-state/country in the Pacific, but failed; Dems should have tied JD Vance as being funded by a traitor.
phys.org/news/2018-03...
phys.org/news/2018-03...
TSI Conference 2009 - Peter Thiel
YouTube video by seasteading
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December 18, 2024 at 4:50 AM
A thing that never made the headlines during the last election cycle was that the person who propped up JD Vance (Peter Thiel) tried to start his own floating city-state/country in the Pacific, but failed; Dems should have tied JD Vance as being funded by a traitor.
phys.org/news/2018-03...
phys.org/news/2018-03...