robotnikman

>They were able to poach TSMC engineers because Taiwan didn’t pay as well.

Apparently that was an issue for them when it came to hiring people to work at their US fabs as well.

I'm not sure why you are being downvoted, this is well known knowledge and many hacks in the past decade and a half involved exfiltrating stolen IP from various companies.

>In particular, see their attempts to break into mobile chip land;

I wouldn't exactly say it was a failure, all those chips ended up being used in the Nintendo Switch

With the Steam Deck nowadays there is not much need for a gaming laptop unless you want to play the few games it can't run. Though even integrated GPU's in the more recent laptops nowadays are good enough for running games (usually at low/medium settings, 1080p)

I've learned to take anything said by the experts with a grain of salt nowadays, mainly after seeing the large conflicts of interest in the food and drug industry. It's best to do your own research as well if you can.

That being said, there are certain institutions and experts that I've found are more trustworthy than others (The Electronic Frontier Foundation for example) so I do usually trust them over the opinions of others. Basically there is a lot of nuance, never blindly trust anything.

Regarding the topic of the Tesla door handles, I've always felt uneasy regarding the safety of them.

Now that's what I'm looking for, thank you!

Perfect timing with AI and Robots soon slated to take over most jobs. Not sure if I should add a /s to this.

It would be nice if there were USB-C hubs like there are USB 3.0 hubs to get more ports. But all the 'hubs' for USB-C are basically docks with HDMI, Ethernet, etc, and maybe give 2 extra USB-C ports at most

It makes me wonder, what's stopping someone from flooding the patent office with thousands of AI generated process/algorithm/software patents, and declaring them free to use for anybody? That's one way I could think of to protect games from being stifled by future patents.

This right here. It's not one or the other, its a diverse combination of all of them that makes for the best results.

>and the more strongly I suspect them to be fossil fuel industry plants.

I feel the same way as well. It would make sense for an oil rich country that feels threatened by people not buying oil (or gas) to subvert a movement like greenpeace.

>It makes no sense to source outside of the US when qualified American workers cannot get jobs.

This. It's getting to a boiling point now with so many people out of work who are more than qualified for these jobs being shunned from them, and now they are fighting back. I'm sure there are many here who work in tech that can relate who have gone through hundreds, possibly thousands, of applications and not hearing anything back.

One of the features that was hyped about DirectX 12 was that it had explicit support for multiple GPU's even if they were different models from different manufacturers.

As far as I know very few, if any, games currently take advantage of this feature. It's somewhat interesting that this is the case, when you think of it many PC's and laptops do have 2 GPU's, one as a Discrete Graphics card, and the other that comes integrated with the CPU itself (and over the last few year's these integrated GPU's have become powerful enough themselves to run some demanding games at low or medium settings at 60 fps)

My state basically did the exact same thing, monthly drawing for gift cards included.

> Intel and AMD have had plenty of years to catch up to Apple's M-architecture and they still aren't able to touch it in efficiency

A big reason for this, at least for AMD, is because Apple buys all of TSMC's latest and greatest nodes for massive sums of money, so there is simply none left for others like AMD who are stuck a generation behind. And Intel is continually stuck trying to catch up. I would not say its due to x86 itself.

Remote work means traffic congestion gets better and also helps solves the affordable housing crisis, as people can then choose to live in areas with a lower cost of living but further away from the inner city.

Original title - "Windows 11 cleared of all charges for killing SSDs, the real culprit is faulty firmware"

>2x 3060

Are there any performance bottlenecks with using 2 cards instead of a single card? I don't think any one the consumer Nvidia cards use NVlink anymore, or at least they haven't for a while now.

There does seem to be a grey market for it in China. You can buy cards where they swap the memory modules with higher capacity ones on Aliexpress and ebay.

GIGABYTE recently did this with their new 'AI' box

https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N5090IXEB-32GD

And then if you had the right cable you could connect a Game Boy Advance, and it would download the game to it, allowing you to play it on the go (well until you turned it off at least, since the game was stores in RAM)

That is what the Arm SystemReady Compliance Program was supposed to achieve. Unfortunately not many manufacturers are following it yet

https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/system...

Using a rough estimate where 1B parameters requires 1GB of VRAM, you would need at least 7

Original title was too long (Finally China entering the GPU market to destroy the unchallenged monopoly abuse. 96 GB VRAM GPUs under 2000 USD, meanwhile NVIDIA sells from 10000+ (RTX 6000 PRO) )

>The NSA used to play defence and offence, and has gone full-offence for a generation.

And IIRC most of those people who used to work for the NSA now work at private firms like the NSO group, which is pretty scary when you think about it. It's hard to blame them though, if I was being offered the amount of money they were given, I would probably take it as well.

I recommend the book 'This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends' by Nicole Perlroth, it gives some good insights into what is going on behind the scenes (though with some of the major events which have happened since it was published some things may be outdated. Either way it's a good read.)

IIRC there was an act passed in the early 2010's that allowed them to legally do this. Probably been going on for a decade at least

Would be more difficult depending on where you live. My plan was to talk to others online and see if I could find someone willing to live such a simple life with me, maybe starting with an LDR first (I'm sort of doing that already)

The future seems very uncertain right now and we are living in weird times. Its always a good idea to have a backup plan in case your career path doesn't work out!

That's actually a good idea. Now I just need to come up with an idea for an SAAS app. I was thinking originally or making one of the games on my project backlog and seeing how much I could make off it. Or creating one of the many idea I have for websites and webapps and see where they go.

If it gets to the point where I can no longer find a tech job I am just going to buy a trailer, live somewhere cheap, and just make money doing odd jobs while spending most of my time programming what I want. I don't want to participate in a society where all I have for job options is a McJob or some Amazon warehouse.