some AI coprocessors, you’re right. they can’t be used.

Most of what nVidia is offering, while lacking display outputs, can still be used for gaming/VDI/vGPU use, and in general aren’t particularly bad at it, usually quite the opposite. might take a bit of work to get them going, and nVidia hasn’t made it easy with their whole licensing thing. Putting aside the challenges, it’s usually possible to adapt their SXM datacenter GPU modules to work with more common frameworks like PCIe, and then utilize those as virtual GPUs in a virtual desktop. This is not dissimilar to what they’re doing with the geforce now platform.

The big benefit of the chips is that they come with loads of memory, so cutting them up as a vGPU is actually a really optimal use-case. Most games are memory limited, which is to say they need more memory than most GPUs have, so the limit in performance is from the memory limitations, not the graphics processing limitations.

The AI processors that are GPU based, like almost everything that nvidia is using, can mostly be repurposed, but those that are ML-only, like AI coprocessors that show up in CPUs like the AI optimized CPUs from AMD and Intel, can’t really be re-used, but they’re usually not released as a standalone product. Those may still be able to perform physics processing offloads… so maybe not useless? I’m not sure.

it’s called “Everybody’s Free”

Listen, I work IT at a managed service provider, which means I see a dozen + small to medium business environments daily.

The number of users that I know of, out of the hundreds or thousands that I support, who are actively using “AI” continually to do their jobs… Well, I can likely count them on one hand

There’s a bunch that use whatever free tool they are allowed to access. Which kind of flies under the radar for me, but I still don’t think you’re dealing with double-digit percentages of people using “AI” that actually spend any money on it.

And these are business users, who work at businesses with rather deep pockets at times…

People are not buying the product. “AI” in the business world, isn’t making any money. So from what I’ve seen, this is less a matter of if, and more a matter of when and how bad.

As a tech person, I am not threatened by AI. It can’t do my job. Also, I’m the one who fixes it when things go wrong. And the only thing I’m looking forward to is being able to pick up cheap RAM, and storage when this all comes crashing down as AI companies cash out and liquidate their inventory. Maybe I can pick up a cheap AI server and repurpose it to be a 3D/gaming virtual desktop, so when my friends come over with their cheap laptops and on board graphics for a LAN party, I can just provision them a virtual gaming computer and we can go ham…

I’m going to save my sheckles until then…

I have limited experience with the market but I see it this way: anyone with AI holdings should liquidate at their earliest convenience. I don’t think they’ll be keeping up this charade for a lot longer. Anyone who has tech holdings, either cash out, or be prepared to have that money held up for a while because it will take a long time for the prices to recover, and unless you want to cash out at a loss, you’re going to be holding for a long time. Everyone else, hold onto your butts. Probably everything will probably dip when the fecal matter hits the rotary air movement device. Non tech areas of the market should recover pretty quickly, so meh?

This is obvious to me that the whole thing has failed. That realization hasn’t hit execs yet.

Aches and pains! Enjoy!

Are we supposed to get a second time through our 20s? If so, I got ripped off man.

43 this year too. 42 was a wild ride and 43 isn’t shaping up to be any less crazy.

If I could offer only one piece of advice, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, where as the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

And no, there was no copying, nor pasting involved, I just remember that “song” very well. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it may be worth looking up, because as I’ve gotten older, the advice in that “song” has only become more accurate, more true, and hit home a whole lot harder year after year.

Fun fact, since November 1998, there’s has always been a small number of humans that do not live on earth.

The international space station was launched November 20th, 1998, and has been continually manned during it’s entire service. So there’s always been a few humans living in space. Less than 100% of all humans that we know of, live on earth.

I would say that the majority of women that I know are more emotionally intelligent than the guys I know…

Most of the guys I know are emotionally repressed because they need to be a man.

I certainly didn’t mean to imply any methods are perfect or without the opportunity to go wrong.

Hopefully nobody got that idea from what I said.

I’ll reiterate: I’m not a butcher, so my knowledge is limited. I do, however, still eat meat despite all that I know about it.

This is the way.

For the CEOs and shareholders, we’re all equally worthless and expendable.

Any one of them would happily leave you to die before losing any of their profits.

Yeah, I think decapitation is fine. I think this guy just cut their carotid, and hung them up to die.

Not a great way to go, honestly.

I’m familiar with some butchering methods, but I’m no butcher. I think that the most common practices in large butcher shops involve either decapitation, or a way of instantly killing the animal. Pretty sure they use a type of bolt “gun” for bovines that basically crushes their skull.

It seems like it is brutal, but their death is so instant, it is considered to be humane.

To be fair, from what I’ve seen if peacock behaviors, they’re dicks.

Animals being dicks is not a good enough reason to kill and eat them. They should also be tasty.

Is peacock tasty? I’ve never had any. Can we ask the guy in the news story?

10/10 reference. Would meme again.

Yay! Congrats!

Fuck cancer.

All the best to you, random Internet person.

I hope you’re doing well now!

It’s not the first few months of the pandemic anymore?

What year is it?

Clearly. Didn’t you read the post?

Also, I’m an ancestor now. Neato.

Us ancestors are also tired. FYI.

When people call me, I have a mini panic attack worrying who is dead.

Usually it’s just someone calling to remind me that I have a balance due.

I’ve been using this.

Most callers aren’t paying enough attention and just leave a message like it’s voicemail.

0/10 effectiveness.