A reminder that tariffs are actually a thing.

A 25% tariff on a $600 item is $150. Even taking into account the tariff applying to the import cost instead, sales margins aren’t the majority of the cost. The tariff is applying to the wholesale cost to import the product, sales margins are then added on top of that.

I haven’t seen a single thing from AMD about whether the MSRP was set taking the tariffs into account or not. If not, then that should only apply to the devices imported before that went into effect. And everything after would be at least 25% more, more like 30% taking into account sales margins are based AFTER import costs.

No, right article. Grants, tuition, etc., all of it is used as justification for those inflated salaries.

Do people actually think that inflated salaries have absolutely nothing to do with the overall funding going through the University, including those grants?

Ah yes, of course the massively inflated admin salaries aren’t on the chopping block at all, gotta gut the school instead.

That doesn’t require the patriarchy, just the fashion industry in general trying to sell as much as possible. Adding an entirely different and otherwise unnecessary article of clothing is a brilliant idea honestly.

I mean, when you sell parts of your business to others you sort of give up control of them. That’s the way it works dipshits.

How can investors take any of these corpos serious when they constantly fuck things up everywhere they go.

Tesla used to famously not have commissioned sales. It’s one of the reasons the buying process was so much better than a dealership honestly, no pressure to buy, and they had absolutely no control of the pricing or need to inflate a sale.

At one point they received general bonuses based on overall deliveries, but not on a per-vehicle basis that they interacted with.

Before I bought my Model 3, the “sales” person literally just took me on a test drive, then showed me the standard Tesla.com website to configure what I was looking for. And based on my experience in retail sales myself at the time, they clearly were there to advise and had no ball in the court when it came to whether I bought it through them, or even if I bought one at all.

Not sure if that changed in the last 5 years or so, but I doubt it switched to that type of system since that would mean Tesla having to implement an entire process to handle commissioned sales when they clearly would prefer people just buy them online.

If I remember right, TSMC requires their highest capability fabs to be in Taiwan, anything international must be less capable.

The downside is that it requires a user account.

Most large US supermarkets make you have loyalty accounts to get their real prices anyway as it is, in exchange for your buying habits, otherwise everything is marked up.

Gotta love the Streisand Effect.

I probably never would have even heard about this book without their attempt to stop it.

A significant part of NASA may be in Alabama, but If bet that’s not where most of those educated engineers are coming from.

There is one major catch: Zeus can only beat the RTX 5090 GPU in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads because it does not support traditional rendering techniques.

So it doesn’t really work for gaming despite their claims?

As Zeus is aimed at path tracing rendering technique as well as compute workloads, it does not seem to have traditional fixed-function GPU hardware like texture units (TMUs) and raster operation units (ROPs), so it has to rely on compute shaders (or similar methods) for texture sampling and graphics outputs.

Or does it, just badly since it’s meant for scientific workloads, which the GeForce RTX cards aren’t directly targeted to.

Their claims seem to be that it’s great at everything, which is extremely unlikely. These are obviously meant to compete against Nvidia’s DGX systems, not the consumer grade GeForce cards.

And was the second time that window had the ball bearing thrown at it. They’d tested it backstage but didn’t replace that window for the on stage demo, so it was already weakened.

That’s what happens when you design laws around the shit mega corporations do instead of categorizing and regulating that directly.

Urban Dead is being shutdown by a law clearly intended to target websites like Facebook.

Avoid populated areas, and fly low. The exact same techniques that they’ve been using for decades. Radar is dumb, it sends back a return when it bounces off objects, but you can’t tell what it is returning, that’s why planes have transponders to supplement more info. If you just don’t do that and fly low it will get filtered out with the terrain most of the time.

At least that one is clearly displayed with it’s source.

The previous ones like the glue on pizza were pulled out of the context and directly recommended by the AI response.

Blackberry being a viable market player died when Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie left in 2012.

Is it actually happening, or are they trying to make it seem like that’s happening?

Lying about being a victim is a core part of fascist practices. But it’s also a huge part of their demonization of the current system which isn’t filled with fascist leadership yet.

Sadly, that’s actually a decent choice, as much as I hate to admit it.

Bed at 7am, up around 2pm.

I work the midnight shift 6:45pm - 4:45am, so it kind of dictates the schedule more than anything else.

I was always a night owl though, so the shift works for me. I’d be up until 4am or later anyway.

Correction, LLMs being used to automate shit doesn’t generate any value. The underlying AI technology is generating tons of value.

AlphaFold 2 has advanced biochemistry research in protein folding by multiple decades in just a couple years, taking us from 150,000 known protein structures to 200 Million in a year.