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devtesla wrote (edited )

Reply to Is getting a current-gen Nvidia GPU just always impossible now? by twovests

yeah don't expect to get an nvidia card for months. it's a paper launch, where they technically have cards available for purchase but are so under demand that almost no one can get one. it's not even a scalping problem really, it would be a problem even if they weren't around. the scalpers couldn't get them either.

there's been launches like this before, 2020 was notorious, but this is bad even by graphics card standards.

gamers nexus did a video about it. they can only guess about why nvidia even launched in this state, I think the most likely reason is that they didn't know what the tariff situation would be in a few months so they're getting as many cards as they can into market now, even if it's not nearly enough.

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devtesla wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in When I finish nytimes connections without errors it's because I'm big brain genius. When I don't it's because they've put some americoid slop reference in there by neku

I always get a little lol about how a perl script made by a snooty mac blogger in 2004 is the de facto way to write text on the internet, and every single implementation has its own quirks and bugs. there was an attempt made to standardize it as commonmark but everyone involved was kind of incompetent, and it has never reached 1.0 despite being used by almost every internet user. "fixing markdown" is a quest only for a foolish and everyone agrees it's better broken

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devtesla wrote

Reply to comment by I_got_killed_one_time in When I finish nytimes connections without errors it's because I'm big brain genius. When I don't it's because they've put some americoid slop reference in there by neku

Haha you've been markdowneded

If you want to have simple line breaks, instead of paragraph brakes, you can put two spaces at the end of a line

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devtesla wrote

Reply to I want to indulge in dooming. There is nothing wrong with the catharsis of screaming. Doom in this thread with me. by twovests

I took a lit class in high school, and I forget the term they used but there was a unit that was basically all just depressing short stories. Like bad things always happening, there's no light at the end of the tunnel, ending somehow worse than you thought it could get. The teacher made a point for us to take a look at the people struggling in these stories, and how they kept going despite the pointlessness. It's something that's weirdly stuck with me.

I'd like to think I'm someone who would keep doing the next right thing even as all the lights go out. Like I'm on a dying planet just crawling through the muck because it seems like the right thing to do. Or being Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia.

I'm not like an optimistic person but I think this attitude keeps me from really dooming out.

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devtesla wrote

Reply to I just really think the whole tech industry is going to implode soon by flabberghaster

The boom-bust cycle of tech is well known, and the AI one we're going through is one of the most clearly prepared for I've ever seen. Microsoft in particular is set to cash out once the bust goes through, the terms of their investment in OpenAI is such that when they bust they essentially get the whole company with no fuss. Meta is the only company that seems to be hugely exposed to failure once the bust happens (massive investment but little to show for it, the rest of their company is hurting very badly) but they're the only company I can see actually being hurt. And I'd be surprised if they actually disappear, I'm sad to say.

The only thing that could actually hurt these companies is if Chinese technology is allowed to flow freely into the US, and the government is going to step in before that happens. This will fuck over everyone but major tech companies.

I will always wish for consequences, but I'm not expecting them this time.

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devtesla admin wrote

Reply to If you STILL aren't organizing, then you're part of the problem. by cowloom

Who are you talking to? There's like five people here and we're all saturated with things we're doing to help other people. I'm not sure where this is coming from.

If you're thinking about people in general, I think you're expressing a kind of general dislike for people in the world that I don't think is good for you or your activism. People right now are very isolated from one another, and you're not going to break through that with... whatever this is. If this is something your org is presenting to you as a normal way of thinking I'd be concerned.

Consider this an admin warning, you're at a level of aggro against others that we don't really want to be for jstpst. Please think before posting again and have a good evening!

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