I bought one of this system back when you could get one for $1800 (the GMKTek Ryzen AI Halo 128gb machine). It's a very good dev machine, the 16 core CPU is quite good for development work. I find this is a useful configuration for local LLMs with plenty of RAM left over for doing actual work on the system (split something like 64 system, 64 dedicated to LLMs).
I don't think I'd pay $4k for it today though, 2 years ago and less than half the price feels like a good machine. I'd be very disappointed in it today for $4k.
Nuclear lifecycle calculations include mining. The human cost is terrible, but a separate problem (we could theoretically have ethical mining practices that don't produce more CO2).
Literally anyone with the access to these people would be someone making bank. Do you think Cheryl Sandberg would bother to talk to a poor person?
That's kinda the nature of whistle-blowing. You're complicit, you have inside knowledge and THEN you choose to do the right thing. Snowden worked for the NSA before he exposed their lies about spying on US citizens, you think he did literally no work towards that end before blowing the whistle?
I really hope not, but I wouldn’t bet against it. The nature of products that take high capex to build and then have nearly zero marginal cost to reproduce is monopolies.
As a game developer, I'm really rooting for open source game engines.
Unity and Unreal are dinosaurs that target the shrinking console market. Godot is being built in their image. My hope is that something more versatile like Bevy becomes common so that we have something that could potentially compete with the next generation of Roblox.
Worse than that, the main vehicle it compares everything to is the Model Y. There may have been one or two things related to Tesla this year, and not other EVs, that might have hurt resale values for some reason...
The only use-case I've heard for cryptocurrencies that doesn't just sound like a get-rich-quick-speculative-betting-scam is providing financial services to the un-banked.