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They sleep under the desk. Everyone knows that

Surely the corruption isn’t unprecedented. It’s the Trump administration, so the corruption is entirely precedented. If they were competent, that would be unprecedented.

It just lists facts. You go on there and try putting on a political opinion that isn’t actually facts based you’ll be shut down within seconds.

No it’s not largely because of Google mocking around with it.

Just install Linux stop trying to make Android desktop a thing. It’s not going to be a thing and no one really wants it to be a thing anyway. Move on.

If I were shareholder I would want answers as to what the actual hell Cook is doing right with Apple. Every decision just seems to be intentionally designed to lose money.

From all the messing around with core products, to the bizarre decisions that led to the updated vision pro, a device no one is interested in, been upgraded to the latest version of the device no one is interested in, now with tungsten. Nevertheless I’m sure the iPhone sock is going to be a rip roaring success.

They could replace him with a goldfish swimming around a tank to make decisions, and it would lead to more coherent outcomes.

It’s a lot better than the practise of posting basically every news story because it tangentially involves a computer.

You think Russia cares?

That’s what the priests are for.

Just think, if Mary hadn’t been sleeping with the mailman we wouldn’t have to be dealing with this shit.

Oh, no, I wasn’t cheating on you this baby came from, er… God yeah, god, it’s a virgin birth honest.

I mean the US actually does all of those things.

The US space program was literally started by Nazi scientists

Usually operation names are a bit cleverer than that so I’m guessing he came up with those names himself.

Also is a member of the international community I can safely assure you that no one is worried about trump’s “business” skills.

Not as in physically leftover chips. The rumour is that Microsoft or some other company but probably Microsoft we’re looking at making a gaming phone or something so they needed a powerful APU that was power efficient and didn’t generate a lot of heat. So AMD went through the whole designing process with them only for Microsoft to decide at the last minute to pull out.

Very few chips wherever actually made, but AMD still had to eat to the cost of the design process, so they were casting around looking for someone who wanted the chips so they could make their money back. Somehow Valve found out about this said to AMD that if they turned it into a CPU (because they wanted a laptop GPU not a mobile GPU) and made some other tweaks, they’d put in an order for tens of thousands. So that’s what AMD did. It’s unclear if they got a deal on the GPUs or not, whether or not they did will have a big impact on pricing.

This would explain why it’s a mobile CPU, as there’s very little reason you would go that route unless that was your primary constraint. So the theory is that they had a CPU and they had to build a computer around that. Which would mean that the Steam Machine was probably never actually going to exist, and we would have just had the VR headset and the controller.

If this is true then this would have all happened around 2021 so the run will be basically complete now, but valve can still putting orders for more if pre-orders exceed expected values.

I thought the steam machine was the one that used the arm chip

Which is why all these analyses are stupid. We don’t need to do anything anywhere near as complicated as looking to market interactions and equivalent cost pricing. Because it’s obvious that at $1,000 it’ll flop and presumably valve know that.

I like the theory that they got the CPU and GPU at bargain basement prices because it was left over from some previously scrapped project of Microsoft or something. That would explain why it’s such a weird architecture.

If you install windows don’t you lose FEX? You’d probably have to run it as a virtual machine so you were still getting x86 instruction code translation. But it’ll be able to run Windows applications via wine anyway so there isn’t a great deal of point.

Why is the two terabyte model $300 more expensive than the 512 GB, a 2 terabyte storage module definitely does not cost $300. Also the steam deck is quite old now, so for the same price as what they paid for the steam deck chips they could get a more powerful chip, so there’s no reason to necessarily believe that they are paying considerably more for the chips in the steam machine than they paid for the chips in the steam deck. Also if you look at pricing for equivalently capable hardware you can do it for about $450 retail, and obviously Valve are not paying retail.

I can’t really see how we could measure that. How do you distinguish between people who are alive because they’re just alive and would have been anyway and people who are alive because the AI convinced them not to kill themselves?

I suppose the experiment would be to get a bunch of depressed people split them into two groups and then have one group talk to the AI and the other group not, then see if the suicide rate was statistically different. However I feel it would be difficult to get funding for this.

It’ll certainly take you to websites where people will do that though so I’m not sure if there’s really any distinction.

Can’t read the article because it’s paywalled but I can’t imagine they are actually building power stations with AI, that will just be a snappy headline. Maybe the AI is laying out the floor plans or something, but nuclear power stations are intensely regulated. If you want to build a new reactor design, or even if you want to change an existing design very slightly, it has to go through no end of safety checks. There’s no way that an AI or even a human would be allowed to design a reactor, and then have it be built with no checks.

Dot know can’t access it.

Is this story available from a news website that anybody is actually heard of you could do with some verifying.