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Comment Re:Huge problem (Score 2) 132

Nvidia is therefore a bubble. This article is complaining that Europe is an obstacle to further bubble inflation.
No amount of Nvidia etching IP onto wafers is worthy of a 4.6 TRILLION market cap - bigger than the 4.2 Trillion market cap of the ENTIRE name-brand pharmaceutical industry.

Comment Re:As if "leading" in frequent bugs to fix was goo (Score 4, Informative) 107

Updates aren't necessarily bug fixes - I had a lot of functionality upgrades on my cars from them as well. And also, you're fooling yourself if you think the other cars don't need bug fixes - it's just that they don't get them until the service. This is the "we never needed updates with cartridges" fallacy - yes we did, we just never got them. I can name 8 bit games for the Spectrum which flat out didn't work, and there were plenty of ROM or even EPROM revisions shipped on older computers before downloadable patches became the norm.

There's now a LeapMotor car in my family too. That LeapMoter also had a slick OTA update without any hassles whatsoever. They're not quite there though - registering the car with their app requires dealer action on order numbers or something, and that's still not sorted out. The OTA stuff though - couldn't fault it at all.a

Comment Good on the 2025 leadership (Score 1) 33

That's really not a good look. We're saying that until the 2025 leadership, an institution for information professionals didn't have information about its own professional organisation.

I don't know any of the background here, but well done to the 2025 crowd who dug in, found it and acted according to reality.

Comment Re:Can we get 64 bit for Linux? (Score 1) 39

It's mostly WINE though isn't it? Well, Proton but still. That has the 64bit-32bit thunking layer required. Native Linux builds would need to be 64 bit true, but that's where I was going with the "10-20%" bit.

I run 32bit Windows games on ARM via Rosetta/MacPortingToolkit. So long as the game itself is tricked into believing it's in a 32bit universe, it's happy.

Comment Re:Can we get 64 bit for Linux? (Score 1) 39

That's chicken and egg though. I use Bazzite, Fedora Kinorate with some gaming tweaks. Fedora wanted to drop 32 bit and there was a lot of noise as things like Bazzite or any gaming usage at all from that distro would break.

But, if Steam went 64 bit then that's 80%-90% of the issue solved straight away, and the last 10-20% would quickly sort themselves out in response. Summary is the distros have already indicated they don't want to do the work, and it's userland that's holding them back right now. Would be mutual benefit to lose them, but userland has to move first.

Comment Re:Everybody knows where the pipelines are (Score 1) 138

Everyone online knows that. The vast majority of the population doesn't - it's not general knowledge outside of people that spend a lot of time online. That where you get this 'the famed hacker 4Chan' or 'CEO of Bitcoin' nonsense in reports, it's simply not their world and they don't swim in these waters.

I mean, I've been online since about 1989 and even I don't know that much about actual 4chan, to me it was always the Lion King's "You must never go there" scene (and then came 8chan - my god).

It doesn't surprise me that those who aren't immersed in this environment daily don't actually know that much about it.

Comment Parallels with a thread from May on the UK (Score 1) 159

This one in fact, saying that survey response rates for official UK data had collapsed from 35% to 5%.

Survey fatigue is one, but I think people are also more wary about having their opinions attached to data these days. At least for formal, official data anyway, obviously social media is still going strong. I think a factor is that people aren't sure how it's going to be used and if it could come back to them in some way.

Comment Re:Taylor Swift is a 1%er (Score 1) 26

Because for music, we're in a post-scarcity future. The world is not short of new music, and the tools for producing it get better and better and better. There's no shortage of people wanting to write, you can reasonably easily self-publish (and on a completely unrelated note...check out my two albums and my singles...)...there's no scarcity here.

The problem isn't availability. The problem is gaining an audience.

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