iFred

No idea if this is any better than @neurode_labs

All of the excess oil-on-water will be gone by the end of this week. Onshore storage is next.

@KSeattleWeather Woah you’re a published writer now. Congrats!

Check out my list of Seattle’s top microclimates!

@teroterotero Had to do “yanbu oil”, but only a matter of time until that is soiled.

Insta girls have learned to use names of recently wrecked oil wells to spam this app, so if you try to see what happened at Yanbu, it’s just a lot of cleavage. This is our future.

@Rory_Johnston How soon is soon?

I think that a big part of the reason that people still think Trump will be in for the Iran War long haul is that they don’t appreciate how truly, insanely unhinged the energy market is about to get if this doesn’t end soon.

@IanCutress Getting the same feeling of this GTC as I got back when WWDC transitioned from "here is some cool software and hardware for our developers, lets talk tech" to "here are some commercials for this fall's software releases, lets talk numbers"

"No videography allowed"

From the YouTuber who brought you “I did it for the little guy: Why I started a holy war over backpack warranties” and “It’s a cartel!: How my limited understanding of modern DRAM fabrication took a detour to a 20 year old law suit” comes “Slopfest: Why using programmable shaders and tensor cores for anything but gaming is proof that you hate humanity”

@iFred "The man who once called the head of a gaming studio a doo doo head. All he plays is idle games and what sort of games are those anyways. He'd have more street cred if he played candy crush"

"Hey, here's a demo that's still early and unoptimized, coming out end of year hopefully. We're still getting it to work and this is an early alpha." "We shoved it onto two separate GPUs to ensure the base game runs fine and the DLSS works well enough for the demo." "We have 5090s, so why not run it on those. We could have used two GT730s for the lolz, and you would have asked why, but we had 5090s on the desk." Everyone starts screaming 🎶OMG 🎶 🎶 IT REQUIRES 🎶 🎶 TWO 5090s!!1!🎶 🎶 WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN 🎶 I really can't fathom the dumb. You know console games are made on dev kits that are vastly faster than the consoles they run on. It's well documented, especially in early cycle design. To anyone that claims I'm pro NVIDIA or I'm not taking people's complaints seriously, go look at my previous NVIDIA tweets. I don't get passes for events. I find issues with their messaging all the time. This is just one where seemingly most of the TechTube space couldn't be bothered to apply the most basic critical thinking, or didn't ask a basic question or two. Instead, let's jump straight to drama and have it as the cornerstone of the outrage and content. Because clicks, I guess. There are a thousand other things to mention about DLSS5. I gave them a ton of feedback when I spoke to the engineers at the demo in person (most of the time it looks like a repositioning of the light source more than anything else, it was shown on games that aren't that high in graphics fidelity (I'm actually disappointed in modern AAA if this is what we have), half the time it looks simply like the additional tesselation we saw in DX11, and it can ignore a number of doubly-relected shadows). Here's the kicker though. NVIDIA has thousands of employees working on its gaming portfolio. I've seen so many people complain 'why did they work on this when they could have worked on other stuff'. They ARE working on other stuff. You might be able to only think about one feature at a time (make sure you remember to breathe), but these things are all developed in parallel with other features. If anyone has enough money to have teams invested in researching and developing a bucket load of features, it's NVIDIA. Also, you can turn the feature off. Imagine complaining about a TV channel you don't watch, just because it's on the guide and the cable service promoted it and needed two 8K TVs to do so because it was early 3D. I'll say it again. I really can't fathom the dumb. Or rather I can, and I'm just amazingly disappointed on this hardware critique. I'll get backlash from other media just for this post, sure, that much is certain (and thanks for obliging, much appreciated). But perhaps I should just bring @ctnzr on the show for an interview later in the year. He's a really cool dude anyway.

@IanCutress I think they’re doing that whole “let the words playfully just across the screen to cover for the fact that I spent sixteen minutes working on this deck in the locked bathroom of a Starbucks 12 hours earlier” thing. Wouldn’t be an issue if people just smuggled out a video.

@iFred That's a fair point, but I've never seen it do that. You usually get a hybrid of both slides. That looks more like old diffusion model generated / bad ai optimization

These slides look AI generated. Is this where we've got to?

It’s good spaghetti. Not going to end up on Triple D or a Michelin mention, but sometimes you just want some spaghetti for lunch.

@IanCutress Was it weighty? Did anyone say if it was 8-hi packages?

Just held a 256 GB SOCAMM2 LP5X-7500 module. Tasty. There'll be 64 of them in an 8-way Vera blade.

@raywinTX @IanCutress Speaking with architects rather than sales engineers.

@IanCutress other than bad selfies, what advantage does this give you?

The benefits of being invited under NVIDIA's analyst program: access to the chip. :(

@HubGeology @DanDavisWrites Your productions are greatly appreciated, especially when clickbait slop from self described “geophysicists” that fans slovenly call “Doctor” get everyone worked up over some astrological connection that will cause an Italian supervolcano to erupt from the Earth’s third eye.

@DanDavisWrites I am called a robot / ai to this day. Got so bad that I just set YouTube to filter those comments out on my channel. Hurts more since I have autism and can’t help my monotone speech when reading from a script I made. Also annoying since I despise AI slop.

Spent years making myself speak properly, like a real narrator - and spend days on every video to improve my audio quality, - and now people call me a robot.

@IanCutress Going to shove my RTX 6000 Pro in my Mangy Cours system in honor of the mention.

OPTERON MENTIONED. IT NEVER DIES! Oh, here's a roadmap.

16tb of DRAM made up of 256gb SOCAMM modules (Micron only?), each with 64gb LPDDR5X packages, each package with 8-hi 8gb panels. Rough eyeball says each CPU is using four wafers worth of DRAM, so a single unit is using ~16 wafers. So uh… consumer DRAM is probably going to be even more painful in the near future.

@joelgombiner You’ve Come Along Way Baby - has most of the memorable hits and a few good music videos. Better Living Through Chemistry has some amazing tracks and the fact it was made on some second hand gear makes it even better.

@iFred Ok I'm gonna give him another chance. Is there a good album to start with?

This is how I found out it's not the "funk so rubber"

@joelgombiner I guess I won’t be sharing my FBS tablet with you

@iFred That song annoyed me in a deep and lasting way 😭

@joelgombiner Oh :(

@iFred Honestly not a huge fan of his, probably won't