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That is not terribly significant at all.

I still maintain that the biggest proponents for this tech are unable to set up a wifi router without help.

I don't think it is because the biggest proponents are at the top - either in Science / Academia / Professional software development. But even if the people who are the weakest advocate for the tech, whats the issue?

> The same people that shout "Capitalism sucks, free us from our labor" are the exact same types that hate AI. The exact machine that will free you from your labor, when harnessed correctly, is the exact thing you hate.

No way. The people that run these companies all watched Star Trek and learned the exact wrong lessons from it. If you meant by "free you from your labor" that you will get laid off from your job and have to take up residence under an overpass, I would agree, that is what the want to do.


I'm guessing they become pets.com within the year. At least I hope.

I was gonna say, I still use an AMD Vega that uses HBM2.

My main system still uses a Vega 64 and it plays all the games I'd care about. Undervolts like a champ! Will use it until it dies..

Mine is a Vega 56 that thinks it's a Vega 64. It plays Hitman pretty well, and thats really all I need it for.

Vega was a card with decent perf/$ for the consumer, but from a pure technical point of view (perf/mm2, perf/BW, perf/W) it was a major failure. Both Vega (and Fiji before it) showed that excess memory BW alone is not sufficient to win.

> Both Vega (and Fiji before it) showed that excess memory BW alone is not sufficient to win.

That's correct if you're targeting gamers, but local AI inference changes this picture substantially.


Oh I never said it was a great card. It does work for what I need it for though.

They announced a Tesla with no steering wheel a while ago. Don't tell me that was vaporware.

The more money you have, the more you can get away with, and he has the most money. Capitalism baby.

"Everything I don't like is capitalism."

I don't like it either, but it's not capitalism. Nothing Musk has done would have been possible without active support from governments putting their fingers on the scale.


Right right right. You're going to argue that Crony Capitalism isn't Capitalism. Heard that one before.

I hate that we are in the era of Millennial dictators feeling the need to own things that they thought were cool when they were kids. I don't see how owning SNK could be considered a great investment opportunity.

The payoff for MBS was to use SNK's brand recognition to promote the esports World Cup (run by another of his foundations). He even got to buddy up with some celebrities (Christiano Ronaldo and some famous DJ) when he shoehorned real people into that new Fatal Fury game.

I don't see how owning SNK could be considered a great investment opportunity

It’s not. It sounds much more like a vanity or passion purchase. Like how Neil Young once invested in the Lionel model railroading manufacturer.


Yep. I guess owning Metal Slug is better than his previous hobby of hacking up journalists.

This is kind of cool, but is there an actual market for this? I kind of understand the Analogue FPGA based N64 systems that were released given that there are a lot of people with N64 carts lying around their house, but who just has a bunch NeoGeo carts besides collectors? I guess a multicart is an option, but at that point, why not just go with MiSTer?

This is what I do. There is also an overclocked core that drastically reduces slowdown on Metal Slug games.

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