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The upcoming shortage was public knowledge before the prices rose.

Just like an investment though - you need to have the money to play. I wasn't buying a computer at the time because [snip a long list of other toys I bought instead].

My current plan is to stick with my existing computers for a couple more years and hope this blows over. Time will tell.


That’s for toy GPUs, like the 5090.

there are many tasks (increasingly more each day) where small models are more than enough

ETH Zürich is up there high, particularly for computer science.

The LLM they were involved in last year (Apertus) still was a letdown.

As someone who actually went there, my impression is that Europe in general is complacent when it comes to computers, and any bright eyed student will get their motivation choked out of them in academia here.

If you want to do things with AI in Europe, you can have a bigger effect by working for a consulting company than being at a university. That's … not a good sitatution.


It should be though.

Even native AI gallery uses smaller Gemma models. I guess whatever Chrome is using for WebGPU compute on Android is just adding too much overhead.

Imagine buying stuff they want for your kids?

He bought YouTube ads with his companies corporate credit card for his kid because his kid was complaining he wasn't getting enough digital attention… there’s so much wrong with this scenario and a couple steps beyond “my kid wants a new stuffy.”

Imagine buying a new luxury car's worth of virtual currency for your kid on your company's dime. sure, I wanted a Viper as a kid, but I don't think that would be a good enough reason for this.

That's literally not what happened.

Nothing literally happens.

Cue both of them sending you a weekly newsletter from now on, from which you can't unsubscribe from, for the next 30 years.

Don’t forget outright intentional.

And given the performance jump from Intel to Apple Silicon, the perceived difference is 10+ years even.

Sure, but 2019s Intel Macs are aboslutely usable for most tasks, and given much of the agentic dev. happens... somewhere remotely, it is more an opportunity to reuse this equipment for various tasks, rather than pollute the already dirty Earth with more electronic waste.

1) usable for most tasks != pleasent to use for most tasks

2) using an Intel Mac as your main computer, for most tasks != using it as a home server


Don't mind this, they'll definitely be fished to extinction now.

Indeed, and because of that, I argue it's not just the crime of hacking, but crimes against humanity, due to endangering the existence of the species.


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