jerakor

You haven't played 1999 I take it?

I see this a lot which is wild to me because I feel like S4 felt like it finally was real Star Trek but just rushed and some of the damage to some characters couldn't be fixed. All the major plot points that make Enterprise relevant to Star Trek happen in S4.

I'm curious where you put Discovery? That is the one I struggle the most with. My primary issue there is that for me I have to actually like and want to be invested in a character but as far as I'm concerned 10 episodes in to Discovery if the ship blew up all hands lost the Federation I can't think of anyone I'd feel sad for. Enterprise though has Trip and Phlox who are S tier, a few fantastic guest stars, and no character that is bottom bin material to me no matter how much fanfic quality writing they tried to force on T'Pol.

I think this looks great. I'm not going to run a 20 foot USB cable accross my living room so wireless is pretty much a must. I think the only concern I have is if it discharges if I store it and if so what the bringup time would be.

You make a lot of good points in here but I think you are slightly off on a couple key points.

These are ARM not x64 so they use SVE2 which can technically scale to 2048 rather than 512 of AVX. Did they scale it to that, I'm unsure, existing Grace products are 4x128 so possibly not.

Second this isn't meant to be a performant device, it is meant to be a capable device. You can't easily just make a computer that can handle the compute complexity that this device is able to take on for local AI iteration. You wouldn't deploy with this as the backend, it's a dev box.

Third the CXL and CHI specs have coverage for memory scoped out of the bounds of the host cache width. That memory might not be accessible to the CPU but there are a few ways they could optimize that. The fact that they have an all in a box custom solution means they can hack in some workarounds to execute the complex workloads.

I'd want to see how this performs versus an i9 + 5090 workstation but even that is going to already go beyond the price point for this device. Currently a 4090 is able to handle ~20b params which is an order of magnitude smaller than what this can handle.

It's not a real problem for a system like this. The system uses CXL. Their rant is just because they didn't take the time to do a click down into what the specs are.

The system uses CXL/AMBA CHI specs under NVLink-C2C. This means the memory is linked both to the GPU directly as well as to the CPU.

All of their complaints are pretty unfounded in that case and they would have to rewrite any concerns taking into account those specs.

Check https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/ which is where I did my next level dive on this.

EDIT: This is all me assuming they are talking about the bandwidth requirements of allocating all memory as being CPU allocation rather than enabling concepts like LikelyShared vs Unique.

Ukraine was the 3rd largest nuclear power in the world, and is famous for it's history with nuclear energy.

The issue here is that them starting the enrichment process is grounds for the start of WW3, and they wouldn't complete the effort in time to offensively defend themselves. You'd have to give them entirely complete nukes and even that would just mean it's nuke launchin time for a number of folks.

Debian tends to be a liiiiitle bit behind Fedora and because gaming on Linux is accelerating in popularity, being ahead can provide big gains in performance.

Can you manually handle all of that? Sure. I mean I have Mint on my side desktop with a custom Kernel but I recognize that I am dropping a V8 into a Mini Van.

Normal for a person, but not normal for him. We see him as a very passionate person before he gets his implant who treats the dulling of his emotions as a boon.

I'd be shocked if the person influencing this writing of his character had never dealt with SSRIs or a similar medication.

No Star Trek show loved Star Trek more than Lower Decks.

I hope this is not the last time we see these characters. Between losing Prodigy and Lower Decks it has been sad for Star Trek as of late.

Rutherford upgraded his implant to be little more like Alternate Rutherford who had a super implant that also blocked out his emotions entirely.

This wasn't a story about how his implant was bad at dealing with alternate universe versions of technology. His story was about how he had always used his implant to protect him from feeling emotions. Cranking it up slightly was all it took to finally block him from loving anything. Himself as he is, the Cerritos, Tendi. As soon as he took it out all of those emotions flooded in.

How is different from Crazy Frog or Billy Bass? Dumb memes turning into toys or dumb meme toys have been around for forever.

In an American vacuum I could see where you are coming from. In comparison with literally the entire rest of the world, it is clearly a flawed standpoint.

The American Democratic party is the oldest standing political party in the entire world. It last changed it's political stances in the 1960's and not because they wanted to, but because they needed to respond to the Republicans flipping the entire south in their favor.

Other countries have real leftist parties that actually get government members elected.