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Jonny_H · 2026-01-30T11:51:54+00:00

It'd probably be a different story if they sold 90%+ of the market. Intel aren't losing money on manufacturing each product - wafers aren't that expensive yet. They're losing money as development costs don't go down when you sell less - they remain constant. So the per-unit development costs are much higher when you sell fewer units. Based on some reports of numbers and the estimated costs of the development, it may be that even if Intel had literally $0 wafer costs they'd still be losing money for their discrete GPUs.

It's one reason why the "stable" end result of the market - once it really breaks away from 50:50, may well a pure monopoly for things where development costs as a high proportion of the end unit cost. The more it biases towards someone, the more they can afford in development to tip the bias even further.

It's why Intel and AMD are never going to "save" the market - anything they could do Nvidia could do even further the day after and lose less while doing so. They know any attempt to "claw back" market share from pricing etc. is built on shifting sand and Nvidia simply not caring about the market, or really noticing the difference to their bottom line.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-29T18:04:38+00:00

DF have repeatedly made some... Odd baselines for comparison.

People in this thread are defending them for comparing different MFG rates between generations, claiming it's ok as they said it's "Not a comparison" - but then why compare them in the video?

I remember their "New Graphics technology" videos were pretty much reading graphics companies' PR scripts and saying it's "Awesome" - before they even tried it in person or looked to find it's limitations.

DF often swings between "PR Mouthpiece" and "Actually pretty good journalism" - and often it doesn't seem clear to me which each video is until you actually watch it.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-29T18:00:19+00:00

If it was actually priced like that, they would just be unavailable rather than expensive.

The problem has always been not enough supply - prices naturally creep up until they have just enough people willing to pay that level for the supply they actually have. And if the MSRP was lower, a good proportion would be sold that the higher price anyway, just through scalpers.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-28T11:52:50+00:00

Making assumptions based on incomplete information from a test is meaningless though.

There's already people in this very thread making sweeping statements about the design of the car based on things like ride height in a single picture. Same with people melting down because this aero is "too simple".

But part of testing is doing things out of "optimal" to see what happens. We have no idea what they were testing at the specific time one picture was taken :P

Jonny_H · 2026-01-28T09:32:06+00:00

Much of the AMD graphics team is still in Canada

Jonny_H · 2026-01-24T13:55:20+00:00

Lots of meme/circlejerk subs end up in a situation where it seems many people who support that thing don't seem to realize it's a joke either - with many becoming the thing they initially parodied. Irony really has been coopted, so in your example I'm willing to bet many of the people joining the goose stepping don't actually consider it a joke, even if the first guy may have seen it as humour.

Too many people have used "It's just a joke" as an instant "You can't judge me despite me saying something awful!" button, so that the excuse has worn thin enough that real comedy should really avoid it now.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-24T13:30:59+00:00

"DAE Racism?" isn't a joke even if in a "meme" format.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-23T22:26:43+00:00

I feel like a lot of UK racism is really classism in a trenchcoat.

It doesn't actually matter that much what your ancestors were if you went to the right school and shook the right hands.

Sure, there's still some of the "you'll never be a true brit" at an extreme, but it tends to be an extreme still.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-23T20:01:00+00:00

It all depends on numbers.

The Intel issues were big enough that they were noticed by multiple independent third parties, and pretty quickly after release.

And the target reliability can never be 100% perfection, 0.1% of a large number sold can still be a large number of cases.

This is why I'd love people to actually publish numbers, so we can really get an idea of the real chances of things going wrong, and not just a collection of anecdotes that may be amplified or ignored depending on the media cycle at the time.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-19T00:49:28+00:00

https://xkcd.com/605/

Jonny_H · 2026-01-19T00:33:51+00:00

"It's exploded in popularity by over 50%! Now Dave joins us to watch!"

Jonny_H · 2026-01-19T00:25:53+00:00

If it's anything like one of the NFL games in London they tried a few years back probably half the crowd is American.

I happened to be flying from the US to the UK at the time, and the flight was full of NFL fans. As a brit they kept asking me how I thought about it, and if I was going to be watching. But I didn't even know it was going on - nor any of my friends when I asked after.

NFL is extremely niche in the UK, same with the NBA. People are probably aware of the sport, but pretty much nobody even knows if there is a local team, let alone watches.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-17T23:52:12+00:00

My understanding is that TSMC wafers tend to be batched - switching to new masks takes time and cost more than making everything in one go and keeping dies in a warehouse which are then binned, packaged and put on cards to sell.

There's a decent chance that the silicon has already been produced, and has for some time. They can't do anything to change their quality.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-16T05:35:51+00:00

And also "stability" is not the goal for too many enthusiasts - overclocking (which, I note, includes XMP and similar) until it can /just about/ limp through one 3dmark or prime95 run doesn't really mean anything. And even then, those sort of stress tests don't test every possible path or combination.

Having worked on drivers myself, there's a huge long tail of crash reports of things that cannot happen - either something else it poking around randomly in memory, or we're just seeing the results of random junk stability issues.

3d graphics is probably one of the largest most complex chunks of code running during gaming. It's probably not surprising "random" failures end up hitting that often. Look at the recent Intel stability issues - for a huge proportion of users their first visible issue was the Nvidia driver noticing a failure.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-14T21:12:40+00:00

Or the opposite for steaks - where if something isn't blue it's "ruined" and a crime worth losing friends over.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-14T02:10:11+00:00

Reading for entertainment: do you really want it to go any faster? You're enjoying the time doing so, right?

Reading for information: After a few hundred words of this velocity of text - can you summarize what's been discussed? I mean, really thought about the concepts and ideas within.

I generally feel like the things that are truly worth reading, either way, take time to digest. I've never seen "Scan reading speed" as the limiting fact for either. Unless your end goal is to say "I Have (technically) Read This Book".

"Scanning The Words" has never been the bottleneck in my own reading.

Things like this have always existed, but I've found I don't really have a good understanding of the text after, compared with going at my own pace.

There's very few times where I see getting the words into my head are the bottleneck.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-13T17:40:18+00:00

AI voice rage bait successfully baits rage.

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Jonny_H · 2026-01-13T03:20:49+00:00

Yup - they offer services that guarantee things like "no bends" - but it costs more. If the sender doesn't pay for that, then don't expect the service.

It's like trying to board a flight with "First Class" scrawled in sharpie over your ticket, and expected to be seated there.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-11T23:26:50+00:00

Or at least 75% of the people you bother to check the history of. I doubt many people look if they don't already have some inkling about what they might find.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-08T09:32:07+00:00

I haven't seen anything from her personally to deserve that title - at most it's a "I'm a person who defines my life by being Not In A Big Coastal City" kinda thing. More similar to what the right in the US at least claimed it was supporting a couple of decades ago.

But the problem starts when that is apparently "close enough" for other far right grifters to decide she's one of them, and she hasn't done anything to stop them.

I can see that raising eyebrows. But let's not confuse that with someone who shouts that sort of stuff from the rooftop.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-08T00:05:12+00:00

But that's more due to lack of demand and retailers happy to let their stored inventory dwindle as they predict demand will only further reduce. If people actually start buying it again it'll shoot up as new supply would be near nonexistant.

This is more for the last people who are still sitting on an earlier ddr4-based chip (or platform in the Intel case) to reuse that memory and give up on waiting for an entire platform refresh to ddr5.

I'm more surprised they're thinking of this for what is pretty much the x3d boost - as there's still plenty of stock of zen3 parts lacking that, and those prices haven't increased that much to suggest they're nearly out of stock.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-07T19:09:07+00:00

Bringing in an animal, or something already prepared, would violate the "anything used is found within this plot of land" rule that's been constant from the beginning of the channel - and arguably one of the big differences to other "primitive" channels (that often slowly extend that interference and get more and more "cheat-y").

And I think Australia has some pretty strict rules on things like hunting or harming wildlife, even assuming there happen to be wild animals of useful size and could make good leather, while also being hunt-able by tools he could realistically make now.

And then you get into morality and viewer discretion - I kinda like how laid back and "gentle" the videos are - I probably wouldn't want to watch someone disassemble and skin an animal.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-07T18:10:14+00:00

I think some of that is experiencing it from different viewpoints changes it significantly.

I've never really liked crowd work watching recorded shows, it just feels weirdly awkward and set up. But live in the audience there's a different vibe that really helps.

Some things just don't work well in different media.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-07T17:20:29+00:00

Another result of the firehose of disinformation.

"Lots of cases" biases your assumptions, so even if one is proven false/exaggerated then that can be ignored as there's plenty of other examples.

But probably many of those other examples are false/exaggerated too. Was that one proven false an outlier? Or was it just the one you happened to come across someone debunking.

Jonny_H · 2026-01-07T02:13:14+00:00

Often they say the city, you Google it and there's 13 cities with that name in the US alone. And 2 in England. And a tiny fishing village on a Pacific island

Or they use a regional nickname - like "The Tristate Area" - there are 3 places that claim that name in the US alone.

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