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Okay so they're still better for rasterization but not when considering raytracing, which would be something I'd want from a creative standpoint (blender rendering). As such AMD's options just aren't appealing to me anymore, and this divide, or I suppose monopoly even, with both AMD and Nvidia effectively specialized in two different forms of rendering, might have caused more harm than good as neither company has considerable competition for what their gpus are best at.

I admit I've not been following GPUs much lately, but while I have heard of what Nvidia is up to, AMD just seems like they've fallen behind completely at this point. I don't have a clue what they're best GPU is or how it compares to Nvidia's options, but perhaps that lack of performance from AMD is partly behind this decision? Of course I really wish AMD was doing a lot better. Since the lack of competition is at least in part behind GPUs becoming so insanely expensive these days, but why would MSI bother making an inferior product that'd get less sales. At least assuming Nvidia has objectively better products and more market share, which based on how much more aware I am of Nvidia's top cards vs AMD's, seems to be the case. So I think it's just a sensible business decision for MSI. Not that Nvidia doesn't conspire behind the scenes in an anti competitive way, but here it seems unlikely that they had to do that for this outcome.

Thank you Nintendo for letting me know about this cool open source emulator! Can't wait to see what future developments from other teams/individuals will be like. Especially now that there won't be any reason to try being legal or even ethical in how the emulator is setup. Considering Yuzu tried to be legal, but that clearly didn't stop Nintendo from going after them.

I'm gonna press x to doubt on this one. Computer science was never really about writing code, that's software eng. In CS, writing code has always been more of a means to an end than an end goal in and of itself. The true focus since Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz has always been on creating algorithms and furthering our understanding of computation. Suggesting that computer scientists will not be necessary anymore because we have AI is like suggesting mathematicians will not be necessary because we have calculators, WolframAlpha, and so many formulas for so many different things already so why would we need another formula or proof when we've already discovered so much. The point is, there's still a lot left for humanity to learn in both math and computer science and Jensen is completely wrong if he thinks computer science can be replaced with AI.

My concern with this is what the shareholder percentages are now. Tencent's got like 40% last I checked, Tim has 51%, and the rest is divided up among a bunch of other investors. 1.5 billion is a sizable percent of the 22 billion so I'm most curious who gave up their shares or if new ones were created or if investors in Epic Games have no influence over the company's direction. Basically as long as Tim has more than 50% ownership I'm not too concerned about Epic Games becoming terribly awful. He seems like a fairly sensible person with reasonable and not overly exploitive business practices. Obviously it's difficult thriving in business without being sociopath so I wouldn't argue he's completely perfect, but it is rather nice that he's using his fortune to buy up forests in order to preserve them. Either way, as much as I despise Disney, I prefer them to Tencent so if Tencent's grasp on Epic Games decreases because of this that will only be a positive imo.

I mostly agree. Being allowed to be forgotten can be a good thing as it's the only way to really prevent an implicit social credit system, but it can also be really misused. Scammers will obviously want their past scams forgotten and if they have the ability to do that it may result in more victims. Although punishing normal people because something may be exploited isn't a good option either which is why I mostly agree rather than disagree. That said, from a historical sense, it is really nice how the internet can be a permanent archive for pretty much everything like nothing else before it.

It keeps confusing me how they intend to enforce that. VPNs exist. European expats exist. Buying phones from abroad is a thing. And so on. For example, I'm technically an EU citizen that's living in Canada. Would that be enough to qualify me as an European customer if was to buy an iphone in Europe and bring it back with me to Canada? Not that I have any intention of giving such a terrible company any money.

A smartphone but worse.

This is an anti-competition law pretending to be a pro-consumer one. The effect of this will be that large existing tech companies with the resources to provide 5 years of software support will happily comply and support this law. Meanwhile new or smaller companies that are unable to guarantee software support for that long will no longer be allowed to sell their products in Norway. Starting a hardware company is already difficult enough that very few companies try and this will lower the amount of those companies even further. Of course, I don't think it's okay to make a hardware product with a major software component with the expectation that it won't be supported after some number of years, but I don't think there should be an expectation that it will be supported either.

Well this seems as useful as the windows or caps lock keys. Even the menu key gets more use for me than either of those useless keys.

That's a genuinely impressive backdoor! Difficult to find yet grants unlimited access to those who know about it.

A blow to gambling mechanics is always a positive. Not sure about all the other stuff but glad that's being nerfed.

My expectation is he'll get offered a nice government job as soon as he's sufficiently forgotten about. It'd be crazy not to recruit someone of his skill level.

This budget cyberpunk dystopia sucks! We've got all the awful stuff without any of the actually cool tech.

Geoblocking is beyond stupid. Thankfully the internet has multiple solutions for that. Just by making those solutions legally okay, geoblocking would cease to exist. Companies have a choice to either directly encourage customers to not use their services at all, or to actively convince them that doing so is worth it. Currently companies can hide behind their tos to claim that using a vpn or alternative means to bypass geoblocking is bad. Making it impossible for companies to hide behind their tos or government laws, would be the most effective way of killing off geoblocking overnight without there needing to be an actual ban on geoblocking content.