My conclusion is that the US is getting what it wants out of the importation block regardless of smuggling or “fell of the assembly line”.

Universities (China and the US) want a warranty on that hardware. They can’t get a warranty on smuggled hardware. That’s where you would have researchers building models. The GPUs they have are getting old and they don’t have replacements lined up.

The other place to build models is corporations, who might choose to ignore the warranty issue, but they can’t possibly get enough high end GPUs to actually do that. Not while using mules who can only bring in one or two at a time. Maybe they can find a way to smuggle things en masse, but they’d likely just make themselves a target to US trade authorities.

That leaves Chinese gamers as the only ones who want smuggled GPUs at all. US trade policy doesn’t give a shit about them.

So yes, there’s smuggling, Nvidia certainly knows about it, US trade authorities certainly know about it, but nobody has any reason to care.

I doubt it. Bringing it into the country would be illegal, but even if he brought it home, bringing it out isn’t illegal.

I have. I quickly learned not to.

Tk is overlooked, though. It’s not pretty, and its approach is archaic, but it’s one of the few GUI toolkits that Just Works on every platform I tried it on with minimum fuss.

AFAIK, the only language that ever implemented M-expressions was Logo.

And it’ll be just as impactful to mass culture as self-hosted FOSS software. That is, not very at all. My mom isn’t hosting her how Jellyfin server, and she isn’t hosting an LLM, either.

Well, yeah, that’s how you do it. No reason to have one AAA sized team for ten small games.

You can do that, and I can do that. Companies don’t want to provide that, because there’s value to having you feed their data. That means there’s no incentive for them to make it easy for people to run local models.

So sure, it can technically exist, but not as a mass market tool.

“If you don’t use NFTs AI models, you will be left behind”.

I swear it’s the exact same people.

Bitcoin needs ASICs to run it. GPUs haven’t been viable there for a long time, and ASICs aren’t useful for anything other than the thing they’re designed to do.

Ethereum used GPUs until it went proof-of-stake, but it was always smaller than Bitcoin.

Nothing else is big enough to have caused a bubble.

Most of the AI training is being done in brand new datacenters on brand new GPUs. Those Ethereum GPUs mostly got dumped on eBay.

I’d also say the way sex is portrayed throughout Cyberpunk 2077 is important to the setting. Sex is everywhere, but none of it is particularly fulfilling. That the PC can find a healthy sexual relationship at all almost seems like a one in a million chance in Night City. Capitalism pushes forms of sexuality that can be monetized. Capitalism can get you laid, but it can’t get you happiness.

(I totally get the criticisms that the game is a mediocre experience. It is, but it’s not without value, either.)

It’s what indie games already are. Following Sturgeon’s law, 90% of indie games are garbage. We venerate the 10% that aren’t.

Average US driving distance is about 14k miles per year, or about 1200/month. At 30 mpg, you need 40 gal per month. Current price per gal in the US (according to AAA) is $3.193/gal, which gets us $130/month in gas.

Wouldn’t have to be crazy above average to get to $200/month. Or have a car with kinda bad fuel efficiency.

Large studios could make smaller games. Fund 10 games for the price of 1 big one. Expect at least one or two to be absolute gangbusters.

It has rules in the exact same way that YouTube does.

I once thought a service like YouTube would bypass the stupid censorship rules of even basic cable TV (which are looser than broadcast TV in the US). Oh how wrong I was.

They’ll give it to everyone because nobody will be around to buy their shit otherwise.

Don’t mistake this for a positive outcome.

It’s UBI, and no, UBI is not a real socialist plan. It keeps the rest of us poor with little possibility of social mobility.

In theory, it could pick up on subtle signals that humans usually miss.

In theory.

The patient who experienced the latter affront, a 31-year-old Los Angeles man that Tech Review identified only by the first name Declan, said that he was in the midst of a virtual session with his therapist when, upon the connection becoming scratchy, the client suggested they both turn off their cameras and speak normally.

Instead of broadcasting a normal blank screen, however, Declan’s therapist inadvertently shared his own — and “suddenly, I was watching [the therapist] use ChatGPT.”

“He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT,” the Angeleno told the magazine, “and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”

There has got to be some HIPAA issues with that.

Transistors aren’t getting cheaper, and the industry doesn’t know how to deal with that. They’re still in the mindset that Moore’s Law has continued and will continue.

Then some clown convinced a bunch of people that he should be in charge of things, and he thought tariffs were a valid economic tool.