kibiz0r

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If yall haven’t watched The Schneidecker Paradox yet, you should.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 20 points 5 months ago

Freezing inflation wouldn't change the fact that a dollar invested in an asset will have a higher rate of return than a dollar that's just sitting under your mattress doing nothing.

That is a desired feature of the economy -- that people are rewarded for investing their money instead of just keeping it out of circulation indefinitely.

The real problem here is that ordinary people can't afford assets because the wealthy have basically all of them. Tax the heck out of the wealthy, to the point where they must sell their assets.

Then ordinary people can buy those assets.

Probably using financing, which is aided by inflationary currency by the way.

Suppose you buy a 300k house on a fixed-rate 30-year mortgage. Let's check back in 20 years. That house is worth way more than 300k now, but your outstanding principal is something like 150k, which in 2044-dollars is chump change. Your monthly payments at that point are a breeze compared to now.

Yes, assets are protected from inflation more than cash is. Yes, the rich have all the assets, so they're protected from inflation.

No, the solution is not to eliminate inflation.

The solution is to take back the assets which have been stolen from the working class over the past 60 years. Tax the wealthy. Severely.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 26 points 5 months ago (4 children)

So wait, the AI is destroying cat-girls?

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Economic reporting in 2024: “People report feeling ‘homeless’ and ‘starving’ despite plenty of spreadsheets with big numbers in them”

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 8 points 5 months ago

That looks like a pretty good deal. At least on paper. ASUS is having a bit of a consumer care meltdown at the moment, so you may wanna check that situation out before you decide. (Search “gamers nexus asus”)

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In a word: Zoning

In two indirect but perhaps more comprehensive words: racism and capitalism

White supremacy, labor exploitation, rapid expansion, and extreme wealth inequality have been hallmarks of America’s development.

That manifests physically in the shape of our cities.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like they are preparing to “pull an Apple” with more than just pricing there.

Part of the benefit of Apple’s M series is the unified memory model. They’re able to convert that into increased GPU performance because you no longer have to transfer data in and out of VRAM.

But Apple can only pull that off because they control the CPU, GPU, and the OS (specifically the graphics SDK). Writing graphics code in a unified model is quite a bit different from the conventional x86 model.

Intel would need their own equivalent to Metal if they wanted to do a similar move.

I don’t know enough about Vulkan to say if it’s compatible with this kind of approach, but if not then is Intel really up to starting from scratch?

If they got Unreal and Unity on board, I guess that would give them a good chunk of the market right off the bat for new titles, but what about legacy ones?

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 41 points 5 months ago (2 children)

120k is insulting.

If you steal 40mil, you’re staring down the barrel of losing 40mil plus your freedom.

Just breaking even (losing the 40mil) but keeping your freedom would be an amazing deal for you, but what’s your freedom worth?

I figure the overall payment has got to be something like 50mil to be fair. With at least a 5% down payment to show you’re serious, that’s 2.5mil.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

As a developer, my default definition of “slow” is whether it’s slow on my machine. Not ideal, but chimp brain do chimp brain things. My eyes see my own screen all day, not yours.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anglocentric supremacists:

“Stop speaking that weird language! Speak more English!”

Spanglish pioneers:

start speaking more English, make “that weird language” less “weird”

Supremacists:

“Not like that!”

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 14 points 5 months ago

Makes sense as a requirement for online play.

I even understand region-locking all digital PC titles to regions where they already sell digital console titles. (Global consumer care, legal, and tech support is a complex beast.)

Requirement for single player is unnecessary though.

I can’t think of any good technical or business reason for it. Just shoehorning an extra potential marketing channel that doesn’t really need to exist if they just use the PC-based channels that are already available without extra friction.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use Linux because Hackintosh is a dying platform and it only takes about 800 hours to get it almost as good.

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