We don’t technically need to retool to go back, HBM could be used by a normal system by having it directly built into the CPU package. Intel Xeon Max CPUs already did this. Of course there are some significant limitations to doing so, and because they were enterprise chips they were horrifically expensive, but it is possible to run them without DRAM.

Especially for something like laptops where there isn’t any significant need for replaceable CPU/ram it could be a cheaper option than retooling. This is especially true if people want to run a local LLM for inference on that laptop, since that kind of setup would be great for it.

It’s not manufactured scarcity, it’s just scarcity that the market can’t (or won’t risk) reacting to quickly.

It costs hundreds of billions and multiple years to build out the capacity to make these chips at scale, and decades to earn back that investment on each plant. If the companies think it’s going to be a short term thing, they won’t build enough new plants because that would risk being over-supplied and not being able to recoup the investment. If they think it’s going to be a long term thing, they will start building. They are clearly building some new capacity, so they must think it’s not entirely a short term thing. However, they won’t build as much as possible, because that risks oversupplying if too much gets built and the demand shifts.

LLMs could shift to an entirely new tech that doesn’t rely on these chips in 5 years, and then they’d be fucked.

All it takes is one crazy ass dude or dudette to build out a more efficient biological processor or something and then we’re all going to be growing AI brains in jars to do our work for us.

It’s already implemented in the game, you can go see it yourself if you pay for the preview. It works fairly well from my time playing so far.

Do the free games count as purchases?

Thank you.

However, the article doesn’t mention whether or not 75% is an abnormal percentage for these cards.

The top cards on the latest steam survey are are the 3060 and 4060, followed by things like the 4050 and 1650, 4060 Ti and 3060 Ti

So they seem like the most popular cards even from before, and likely made up a large portion of sales anyways.

The scarcity isn’t artificial though. The actual objects are not available in the quantities needed to keep prices level.

The reasoning for that matters not at all.

Someone is buying every single chip that SK Hynix and Nvidia are producing. The fabs they’re using are all running at maximum capacity.

Those chips are going somewhere.

Scarcity applies to the things that actually exist, or not.

There are fewer graphics cards being made for consumers right now than there were a few years ago, and they have less memory on them on average.

It’s not really artificial scarcity, there is actually less consumer hardware available at the moment.

I have hope that the developer will address this situation now that 1.0 is released. We will see.

I bought this game in early access.

It’s great to play through once or twice, but it has zero replayability after that. It’s the same order for progression on every playthrough, there’s no “oh this is different this time so I should focus on X first, then do Y”. The only difference is which military units you make based on what spawns on the map, and it’s such a simple choice that it doesn’t feel good.

My wife and I were very disappointed, because most of the actual game mechanics feel great.

At a very near point though, it’s likely going to be impossible to do it without AI involvement, or at the very least without proving you didn’t somehow.

AI is being baked into almost every dev and art tool. They aren’t just talking about using ChatGPT, if your game uses a single texture or model that ever got touched by a machine learning algorithm, you’re using AI.

The vms are for home assistant and a linux distro with a gui. Docker is hosting a bunch of workflow, database, and ai related stuff.

I’m using a laptop, so swapping to 64GB means a pair of 32gig sticks for like $300. It’s likely a better choice to offload the work to a dedicated server, I can probably put together something for less than twice that cost.

Chrome is using 12GB right now, and I’ve got 8GB allocated between two VMs, and another 3GB to Docker. So of my 32, I’m currently at 9GB before I launch a game. Plenty of games want more than that.

About a dozen docker containers and two vms… I really need a dedicated server.

I’m already considering switching to 64, I hate having to close everything to fire up games.

This content occurs in the Bible, should it also be banned from sale?

What about old plays that contain similar content?

What about art that contains it?

The point is that visa and mastercard should not be policing it, if is legal to own you should be allowed to buy it.

Yea, I think the limits are going to top out around that 300Hz mark, it’s going to be really hard to convince people they can see or feel a difference between 300Hz and 480Hz. I have no preference between 240Hz and 300Hz already.

For computer monitors, I also wouldn’t be surprised if we top out at 4k for regular consumers, with a few niche 8k products available.

The simple answer is that the government teams who assess them can’t know the exact market value unless the home they’re assessing sells on the date that their assessment is meant to be for. There’s no other way to obtain the market value other than selling the actual house.

What someone lists a home for is not the market value, what someone bought the home for 6 months ago is not the market value, and about a hundred other things from renos to rezoning to even a murder can change the market value of a property overnight.

So these teams use a “good enough” approach which statistically analyze based on property size, location, age, known building information, etc. and then combine this with historical sales data to try to get a decent number so that property taxes can be applied reasonably fairly.

Valve is one of the profitable companies in tech, it ain’t going anywhere.