knz_'s comments

I pirate everything. Honestly, the only things I don't pirate are like 1-2 games a year that me and some friends end up playing together. For software I generally just run whatever FOSS thing I can find, and in the case of movies and music I have never spent a cent on them in my life. I've been pirating since I started using a computer.

The same rich people trying to sell predatory subscriptions and vendor lock-in are the same ones trying to raise my rent and food bill every year, so I have no incentive to give them money for pointless entertainment on top of that.

The people working at these camps should be named and shamed.

Companies are already trying to flood the market with H1Bs to suppress wages and pushing people towards CS and STEM degrees in general. They don't need to do anything special, in 10 years the market will be flooded and you will be competing with someone who is willing to work 10+ hrs/day for half the wage.

It's more than $8000/mo take home. Anyone who can't afford to feed and house 5 people on that budget is probably a degenerate gambler or drug addict.

> (Edit: What I also came to think of is that GCC recently positioned itself in opposition to the FSF because of the "Stallman-Controversy". Is this a kind of retaliation on their part?)

More like a necessity to keep the project alive. Half of the top contributors threatened to leave when FSF tried to coup the steering committee.

There isn't any other way to do it. FSF showed their hand and lost.

Well, this is a problem that FSF created. They tried to unilaterally appoint RMS to the steering committee and were forced to renege when most of GCC's top contributors threatened to walk away from the project.

If they didn't get rid of the copyright aggreement there would have just been a fork or those people would have gone to work on other projects.

> What incentive would the US government have to lie about this though?

The US government hasn't even made any statement.

> They were funding research at that lab, I don't understand why they would want people to think lab leak is correct all of a sudden - if that's what you're claiming?

No they weren't? You need to either get off the internet until you turn 18 or learn some serious critical thinking skills. The fact you're even considering the theory that the US is covertly funding virology research in it's biggest geopolitical enemy territory is completely unhinged and is classic schizophrenic type delusion.

This is some propaganda for sure. ho chi mihn was a political prisoner and figurehead of the CCP state, similar to kim il-sung.

The vietmanese state has been an extension of the CCP since the 70s. This isn't up for debate, it's objective fact.

> If left to develop its communist government by itself, it could be like China today - a superpower that's going to overtake the USA by important measures.

Ho Chi Mihm was a puppet of china. There was no 'developing on their own'.

> Lets stop pretending that years of war against a superpower didn't come at a cost for them and the US should have left them alone.

Yeah, letting Russia and China subjugate the world would have gone SO MUCH better. What good has it done for nicaragua, cuba, north korea, afghanistan or the many noname countries in Africa? The USSR left only poverty and death whereever they went.

> I don't know how you think that if GPUs were cheaper then miners would be buying less of them.

It would increase supply by forcing fabs to scale (would take years anyway, but should happen sooner rather than later).

> Miners are a black hole for computing power - they can absorb near infinite amounts of processors since they know (or strongly believe at least) that they'll pay for themselves pretty quickly.

And that isn't going to change even with these limited GPUs. Mining with ethash is still profitable even with the halved hashrate, and other algorithms like kawpow and cn-gpu are not limited at all.

The only thing that's going to get rid of PoW mining is the entire shitcoin market tanking. As long as the bubble continues there's going to be idiots spending money on scalped GPUs.

> I'd dreading Nvidia crippling deep learning for all those not paying X more dollars (as the situation already is for server farms).

This already changed years ago when NVIDIA removed the last non-crippled double and half precision GPUs from their product lineup. The cheapest GPU you can buy for ML now is the titan v, which was $3000 at launch.

> a) let's keep consumer grade stuff stable in price

Consumer GPUs had far from a 'stable price' before the mining boom.

GPUs have more than tripled in MSRP once you factor in that NVIDIA has moved lower-tier chips that previously only featured in their lowest end x50 and x60 tier GPUs up the stack and started selling them for $400+ MSRP. Look at the GTX960, which launched at $150 in 2014, against the 3060 which launched at an MSRP of $330.

It's even worse at the high end. Flagship GPUs like the 980ti and 1080ti launched at MSRPs of $650 and $700 respectively, now the high end GPUs are $1200 (2080ti) and $1500 (3090).

> none of it is malicious.

It absolutely is malicious. NVIDIA is trying to stop a strong second hand market from being formed so that they can continue to charge ridiculous prices for GPUs that should be 1/2 to 1/3 their current price if the market was healthy.

Even worse if you're trying to sync a file that might be actively changed while syncing - syncthing will reread the entire file as soon as only a few kilobytes are changed. On a file >10GiB this quickly leads to a death spiral of IO and CPU starvation.

The bad actors here should be expelled and deported. The nationalities involved make it clear this is likely a backfired foreign intelligence operation and not just 'research'.

They were almost certainly expecting an obvious bad patch to be reverted while trying to sneak by a less obvious one.

And I was pointing out that you just broke that very law by insinuating it was OK to call for Mike Pence's execution by a violent mob.

> but just calling for it seems like it can’t be enough.

Speech that advocates support and action by terrorist groups is not protected by the first amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providing_material_support_for...

> Rocket lake being backported to 14nm is still not a good sign for actual production volume,

I'm not seeing a good reason for thinking this is the case. Server CPUs are harder to fab (much larger die area) and they need to fab more of them (desktop CPUs are relatively niche compared to mobile and server CPUs).

If anything this is a sign that 10nm is fully ready.

There's no reason for disabled people to be taking Ubers. Drivers are not trained nor willing to handle disabled passengers in many cases. They often have smaller vehicles for economy/poverty reasons that not equipped to carry wheelchairs and the like. Service animals are similarly not wanted, because the driver needs to be made whole if they have an 'accident' in the vehicle. The uber cleaning fee does not even come close to the amount of lost time and money that comes when these things happen.

Medicare/medicaid should be covering these people's cost of transportation, the cost should not be forced onto random kids driving uber for side money who are wholly untrained in how to deal with a disabled persons needs.

A bunch of 4chan kids signing a reactionary letter vs hundreds of respected names in the FOSS community.

One of these groups has a negative impact on society as a whole, the other are hundreds of respected people working for free or reduced pay to create FOSS software.