Irremarkable

I would say that’s an accurate description for a barbie doll that explodes personally.

I’m sure this varies a lot from district to district, but the districts that I have teacher friends in, they’ve been using Chromebooks almost exclusively for the better part of a decade now

The most common explanation I’ve seen, and imo it makes sense, is that things mostly just work now. Even XP required a helluva lot more troubleshooting and messing with stuff to make it work than today. So you not only have a bunch of people that have no troubleshooting experience, a large portion don’t even know how to properly search for things.

On the flip side, you have a lot more people doing insanely impressive stuff at a lot younger ages because if you have the drive to do it, there’s more material to learn than ever out there.

Cryptobros are mad people have realized they’re full of shit

Some people really don’t think before they speak do they

Yeah this is honestly an order of magnitude less that I would’ve thought

That’s not too insane for a company of their size. It’s higher than many, but far from out of the norm.

The worst part is Intel honestly could’ve have spun this into something of a win if they actually handled it properly. They’ve got over $25B in cash reserves, they could easily afford to do a recall and a big PR campaign about how good they are at accepting responsibility and fixing mistakes.

Frankly? Most people.

Most people are really dumb about this type of thing.

This relies on the assumption that everyone else, or at least a significant portion, in the office managed to do it.

I’m not talking about whether or not they’re actually physically capable of it, of course they are. Im talking about how people immediately shut down and pretend they can’t follow simple directions the second something relates to a compute.

You wildly overestimate the average person’s willingness to do that.

Maybe it’s just because I’m older and more jaded, but that really feels like the last truly good era for GPUs.

Those 10 series cards had a ton of staying power, and the 480/580 were such damn good value cards.

Considering the mining industries for many of the rare earth metals needed? Yeah he does.

Plus there’s the whole apartheid emerald slave mine thing, which is how daddy made the money he got to play with.

Man, I sure do wonder which one is going to shown visible returns sooner? Fundamentally reworking how the models work, or simply duct taping more processing power to it?

Obviously the brute force method is going to show the most returns immediately, you’re just throwing more resources at it. Efficiency gains take time. While it’s absolutely a much bigger deal with AI, that’s pretty much the path all all these things have. Crypto mining, ray tracing, 3d graphics, hell even all the way back to 2d graphics.

There’s no magic “make run more efficient” button.

I’m gonna go off on a limb and say that they’re likely doing both.