The people who have never done the work love more than anyone else to talk about how the work should be done better and cheaper.
Broadly this sentiment stands for most professions.
A few things.
One is that steam frequently has actually cheap games more readily than the console digital stores.
Another is that if I’m buying a digital entitlement anyway, I’ll go with the ecosystem with the greatest track record for long term compatibility. A game purchased 20 years ago on steam is still generally playable in brand new system. A PlayStation game purchased then is not playable on a new Sony system. It is in fact only playable on PC through emulation, so PCs have been covering for console incompatibly.
Once upon a time, consoles brought some unique values. Easy to plug into TVs, consistent gamepad experience, and just turn on and play.
Nowadays PC operating systems and console operating systems act the same, tv output is just HDMI, gaming controllers are well supported on PCs… The last reason to bother with the console gaming was the physical media. So while sure, they can go digital only, but then why bother with a console at all? They’ve already lost every other advantage.
Worse, they run out of ideas after two seasons but keep going.
Even as they gripe about terrible GOP behavior, they usually say “but at least they aren’t Democrats”.
For reference, a GB300 server is now at about 8.5kw for a single server. A fully populated NVL8 server is about 15kw. Looking online, looks like the ISS is about up to 90kw, so I guess I’m off and the actual number is something like 6 to 10 of these servers per ISS scale facility.
I would still argue this is a crazy overhead for what they would now consider meager capacity, with, luckily for nVidia, a pretty hard deadline where the very expensive equipment burns up without potential for extended lifetime use.
My favorite one was Musk gave.
So he said that the supply of a particular natural gas turbine part was constrained through 2030. Therefore, obviously, the simplest fix is to have thousands of starship launches with ISS-sized payloads and all the attendant crap.
Don’t know why that had to be a picture, but yes, and almost every state’s declaration had the same point in it, usually the first paragraph.
But no, my school didn’t teach that. They only acknowledged that the north had not yet absolutely banned slavery everywhere and the states seceeded before they even tried to come down hard on the insitution. They desperately want to erase the fact that the south very much had the moral low ground.
Yeah my rural southern school drilled the “it wasn’t slavery” over and over.
They conveniently omitted pretty much every article of secession that cited slavery. Instead just focused on how late the emancipation was and how it avoided emancipating slaves in Union states.
So maybe the North wasnt sufficiently abolitionist, but the South sure as hell thought they were.
For scale. roughly a two server datacenter needs to have solar and radiator about as big as the ISS.
Which is possible, but insane. However insane plain old datacenter is, just tons more insane.
Working from memory here
Nowadays that’s a pretty expensive way to work
To show the juxtaposition of two stories in his feed
The apps that didn’t work well were not due to lack of lock-in.
The apps didn’t work well due to lack of maturity in the platform. This app is not failing because the OS is somehow ‘2013-like’, it is failing because Android app developers are going all-in on lock-in.
My solar covers more than my entire electric bills in the mild weather months.
I was thinking of moving to more modern systems with modest power consumption too. One of the systems I picked up is basically a case-as-a-heatsink with no fans.
In my experience if there’s one thing that executives excel at, it is not managing to hear people saying something inconvenient to their world view.