Sell pickaxes (during a gold rush).
Go out of business after gold rush ends, because market is flooded with barely-used pickaxes being sold at a loss by failed miners.
Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
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Re: Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
#52I'm legitimately worried about the long term future of my hobby (PC gaming) at this point. Prices like this have a cascade effect because when less people can afford to build a PC and/or upgrade there's less incentive for developers and publishers to spend time on the platform. Consoles are shielded by the ability of Sony and Microsoft to take losses which will be absorbed by online fees and higher game prices but no…
Are there any non-VR games that even push the 1080ti? It seems like you'd need some giant 4k monitor to make it sweat. But also Steam doesn't seem to be releasing a ton of graphics-intensive games. It seems much more cost effective to get away with a lower price and less intensive art requirements and focus on gameplay. And less graphics puts you in a safer place as far as ports to consoles and tablets/mobile (e.g. S…
1080TI can take heavy hits at 2560x1080 even, Battlefield 1 max settings can see 90 FPS at times. 2560x1080 @ 200hz it can't even come close to consistently with high-end games and settings. PUBG? frames are meh. Even with an overclocked card it can be rough sometimes in my experience.
Personally i'll be upgrading to the next card that trumps the 1080 ti and moving from 2560x1080 200hz (for all but CS, cs is 1280x960 @ 144 on another monitor) and going back to 1080p @ 250hz.
ultrawide is god-tier for movies and productivity work, though.
Re: Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Gamers are complaining about why can't nVidia just ramp up their production. I don't see too much of that in gaming circles. It's understood that it would be risky as crypto will crash sooner than later. The anger in the PC community is almost exclusively directed at miners. Threads about it pop up on the daily, but what can we do? We could lobby NVIDIA/AMD to somehow implement restrictions on what the Gaming SKUs…
I wonder if Nvidia et al could short Ethereum as a hedge while expanding production.
This is why futures exist. They would sell the futures to hedge their crypto exposure.
Re: Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
#54I'm legitimately worried about the long term future of my hobby (PC gaming) at this point. Prices like this have a cascade effect because when less people can afford to build a PC and/or upgrade there's less incentive for developers and publishers to spend time on the platform. Consoles are shielded by the ability of Sony and Microsoft to take losses which will be absorbed by online fees and higher game prices but no…
Are there any non-VR games that even push the 1080ti? It seems like you'd need some giant 4k monitor to make it sweat. But also Steam doesn't seem to be releasing a ton of graphics-intensive games. It seems much more cost effective to get away with a lower price and less intensive art requirements and focus on gameplay. And less graphics puts you in a safer place as far as ports to consoles and tablets/mobile (e.g. S…
I have a 4k monitor with two GTX 1080 in SLI and I usually don't get 60fps if I play on max settings. Annoyed by this I got another monitor at 2560x1440 @ 144hz and I can't max that out either. The games were stuff like rise of tomb raider or witcher 3.
I think 1080ti situation is similar.
Re: Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Proof of work is about consensus among mutually distrusting parties. It has approximately nothing to do with entropy. Of course there is some connection, but the simple "exchange" you're looking for does not exist.
>> Proof of work is about consensus among mutually distrusting parties. It has approximately nothing to do with entropy. Think more abstractly - at the end of the day, Energy is being consumed to compute some problem. That solution has intrinsic value precisely because it took energy to solve it. Extrinsic value is the market economy of CC, and that's where the 'proof of work' and 'consensus amongst distrusting parti…
Energy is consumed and that is why there is a cost. I'm not sure there is any such thing as "intrinsic value", but there is a cost.
Because of that cost, the larger system works, because that is how the system keeps itself honest, by making it expensive to lie.
But there are other ways to have an honest system that don't involve wasting energy, so there's no direct connection between the energy that's wasted and any value the system has.
If energy was free, silicon would be more expensive, mining difficulty would go up, and bitcoin would still "work" just like it does today.
Re: Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
#56I'm legitimately worried about the long term future of my hobby (PC gaming) at this point. Prices like this have a cascade effect because when less people can afford to build a PC and/or upgrade there's less incentive for developers and publishers to spend time on the platform. Consoles are shielded by the ability of Sony and Microsoft to take losses which will be absorbed by online fees and higher game prices but no…
"... ML is at least useful to humanity (sometimes), smartphones and tablets are tangible products, and price fixing can be investigated and punished." I'm amused that you're qualifying the worthiness of a project by its usefulness to humanity. In comparison to PC gaming, to me, revolutionizing the financial world seems a lot more "useful to humanity".
> revolutionizing the financial world seems a lot more "useful to humanity".
1. Citation needed.
2. Revolutions aren't always positive changes.
Re: Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
ASICs aren't saving the planet either - people are incentivized to burn up to $BLOCK_REWARD of electricity per block, the number of hashes it takes to do so is irrelevant. If you come up with a better ASIC, people will buy more of them, the network difficulty increases, and you're back where you started. It's just another stage in the Red Queen's Race. The only thing ASICs do is centralize control (because economies…
Though there is some benefit to cryptocurrencies that rely on ASICs for mining: it means that someone with a significant amount of CPUs/GPUs under their control (such as botnet operators, or government groups like the NSA) can't waltz in and trivially 51% attack the blockchain with their existing general-purpose hardware, and then go back to using it for other things. An attacker would have to commit to buying/buildi…
Unrelated - did you used to frequent a Halo tricking forum called HIH?
Re: Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
#58I wanted to buy 2 1080 for deep learning experiments, but that's going to have to wait. I picked up a used 32core 128gb server for $1000 recently... It's only a matter of time before these 1080 will be sold for pennies on the dollar. If your lively hood doesn't depend on it, wait.
from where might I ask did you buy that server
Re: Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is Cryptocurrency a form of entropy exchange from Energy (increasing entropy via heat) to information entropy (decreasing information entropy by hashing)? I am thinking more broadly in terms of thermodynamics. I understand classical Thermodynanamics but I don't understand information entropy well. From the standpoint of physics, Energy is the ultimate currency and it seems like we are trading it to decrease informati…
Proof of work is about consensus among mutually distrusting parties. It has approximately nothing to do with entropy. Of course there is some connection, but the simple "exchange" you're looking for does not exist.
> It has approximately nothing to do with entropy.
Err.. it's removing surprisal from bit sequences. That's exactly what Shannon entropy is. There's even a boundary trade-off (which we're obviously trading well, well above) between Boltzmann and Shannon on this.
Re: Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recently learned a really fascinating stuff about semiconductors: as they heat up, the doping atoms tend to move, by diffusion. Heat = more diffusion.
Yep: atoms in general move more with more heat. In solids, the energy required for movement is higher, but it still happens. The more heat available, the more energy you have to break bonds, the more diffusion (movement) you have. I have a feeling that's not the main reason for heat failure of semiconductors though. (Not to put your comment down, it's an interesting fact and I'm glad you mentioned it.)
The weak link on a lot of hardware is the capacitors - I'm not sure about GPU cards, but if that's the case then you sure won't be replacing that surface mount stuff when it fails.