Lovely stuff

bohbeh

I've watched the movie first without knowing anything about the book, I thought it was fine

Snake hiding in your pantry call that a larder snake

You're out of time!

And I'm out of my head when you're not around

"In French-speaking cultures, particularly in developing countries, the meaning of the term "tontine" has broadened to encompass a wider range of semi-formal group savings and microcredit schemes. The crucial difference between these and tontines in the traditional sense is that benefits do not depend on the deaths of other members.

As a type of rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA), tontines are well established as a savings instrument in central Africa, and in this case function as savings clubs in which each member makes regular payments and is lent the kitty in turn. They are wound up after each cycle of loans. In West Africa, "tontines" – often consisting of mainly women – are an example of economic, social and cultural solidarity."

I copied this off wiki, I understood it to be a more informal "mutual aid scheme" but idk where I heard about them first

They're still legal in EU..

this is delightful. thank you

this is delightful. thank you

An investment that pays off when all but the last member.... have DIED!!!

A classic investment that's been illegal for decades but is a very common trope in books and media for obvious reasons.

What's a tontine?

snake transporting the goods via horse n' wagon call that a carter snake

snake selling goods call that a barter snake

i don't have any advice on specific keyboards but they're called "scissor switch" keyboards if you want to shop around more

this does not surprise me lol

it looked like <==========:>~~

This is a very good video which I like a lot, thank you for sharing

i mean, the chain here is still "AI" so it's not linked to anything real

I wouldn't link a stock price to anything real tbh

Even if AMD would still sell all the GPUs they make, I still think the "invest in AMD and make it worth more by improving its libraries" is still an easy path to make a profit, right? If AMD GPUs could suddenly run all the models that Nvidia GPUs could do, then AMD stock would just be worth more?

This would fuck the buyer even more (making the GPU shortage even worse, I think) but I do like the idea of having a Linux machine with an AMD GPU in the next 10 years.

that's backwards --< wow

So at the moment AMD is selling through as many graphics cards as they can make, so they don't specifically need this business. On a deeper level, for AMD all the silicon that goes into a consumer GPU is silicon that could have gone into a more profitable product. This is also true of nvidia tbh, but for AMD it's specifically their mobile products, consumer CPUs and enterprise CPUs.

So why does AMD make graphics cards at all? Shiping a high performance graphics architecture pays off down the product line, and eventually makes it into laptops, handhelds, and game consoles. I suspect this is why Intel is making graphics cards now, like I'd be shocked if there's any profit for them there at all but it could pay off in other products.

But yeah the bottom line is that the buyer is fucked. There's not a good reason for AMD to match nvidia on this type of spend (and it's gigantic, AMD does spend a lot and can barely handle gaming Lol. It's more than a dozen engineers!), so nvidia can charge what they want and screw over their partners as much as possible. I'm gonna hang onto my current parts for dear life.

wow <-- sdrawkcab s'taht

Ah, gotcha.

Not if it's part of the filesystem spec; in that case, the other OS's driver should transparently en/decode it. That's why I said filesystems, not having this as a userspace conversion.