The-Protomolecule

The-Protomolecule t1_jea5tg1 wrote

Yes, some alarm bells went off for me too. 23 is a bit young to lose track of someone and have to fly to another country to blindly search them out.

If this is a romantic interest OP. take a long look at your situation before you do this. There are better ways to find someone than stalking them to another continent.

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The-Protomolecule t1_jdw8qmy wrote

ITT: People that forget that it took Apple 20 years to get back to launching hit products. Most of their life they’ve tested niche products at high prices before pursuing mass market. The frequently launched products too early for the market and abandoned them.

Even if these fail, I’m happy to see apple taking some risk instead of just printing money with incremental improvements to watches, phones, and iPads for the last decade. They can afford a miss but the upside is huge if they get it right in 2-3 generations.

If you think these are too expensive, you’re not the target audience.

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The-Protomolecule t1_jajzg8d wrote

How does anything I said make the US the good guys? It’s irrelevant to my post about long term resource scarcity planning. If anything it makes the US the bad guys lol.

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The-Protomolecule t1_jahpi3k wrote

It should be noted, as with oil, the US policy on this stuff is to be the last country with reserves.

Edit: In case it’s unclear, the US prefers to import oil and precious metals instead of digging ours up first. It’s not ONLY environmental or cost, though these are significant factors. We can always extract finite resources in the future when other countries have sold theirs or during wartime.

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The-Protomolecule t1_j7256br wrote

Of course not, but to say it’s 1% performance hit is just as much a random guess based on that guy being cool with voice software causing clock issues on GPUs, which it should NEVER do. If you’re running memory bandwidth constrained tasks it absolutely can be MORE than 2.9% if you’re starving the GPU.

Source: I build AI/ML training clusters for a living.

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The-Protomolecule t1_j4wbcci wrote

I don’t disagree, I regularly buy $200k servers for work. My point is you can’t feign surprise that a high end device depreciates aggressively. A $50k desktop has 30k of premium. A 10k desktop would likely have 80% of the performance. You made the deliberate choice to buy a system way above and beyond the price/performance curve that will be shredded by the $2500 midline system a generation or two out.

It depreciates faster when you buy that far off the curve. You’re throwing a lol like I don’t know shit here, when you can’t see beyond the context of them existing.

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The-Protomolecule t1_iy8ld9w wrote

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