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HHockeyJon replied to the thread RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR.That's fair enough, but a lot of companies are coming out with solutions to a problem a large number of (largely Nvidia fanboys) are claiming doesn't exist. Not wanting something to exist doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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HI'm just saying your assertion of "things could be worse" isn't a valid defense for a poor engineering decision designed to pinch pennies on thousand dollar cards. You have absolutely no numbers backing up your assertion on the failure rates...
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HThey already have invented things that work better, think connecters for LiPo batteries in RC cars as they are built for the amperage. They just cost a bit more than what Nvidia chose to use.
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HHockeyJon replied to the thread RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR.It's not up to the consumer to fix the problems of the manufacturer of a product that shouldn't have been mass produced in its current state in the first place. That said, there are obvious solutions and some manufacturers are already...
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HHockeyJon replied to the thread RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR.We do have numbers from engineers who have demonstrated, using ammeters and thermometers, that the power through the connector is often poorly distributed and this is leading to potentially problematic situations (melted connectors, in some...
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HTrue. That said if there wasn't an issue then I doubt Asus and the likes would not bother with special monitoring hardware and special cables where, if I understood correctly, the individual cables are bridged together (basically shorting the...
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HHockeyJon replied to the thread RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR.There are tech youtubers that have shown the poor current distribution running through the connector using ammeters and published the results. Regardless of how much you want to defend it, this is signaling a clear problem with the design...
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HHigh-temperature long-term corrosion of copper in aerobic environment Just for the reference. Officially, probably yes, but what goes to unofficial service centers isn't included.
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HIt's not rare, way to many people have had the issue. It probably affects 3% of the cards sold so far, which would be triple the defect ratio you normally want of 1% or less. However their is no way to know when it will happen and if the older...
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HBecause you need to trade me your RTX 5090 with my RX 9070 XT... But seriously, what was your score before?
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HHockeyJon reacted to Zarathustra[H]'s post in the thread Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers. with
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Same, I remember having lab reports in high school blow up on me due to shit like this. Luckily in the last decade or two it has become rather rare of an occurrence, if it even happens at all anymore. -
HHockeyJon reacted to Ididar's post in the thread Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts? with Like.
That is, of course, because some stupid employers set dumb goals for their employees and then are shocked I tell you, shocked! that those employees found a way to game the system.
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HHockeyJon replied to the thread Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?.It's a problem of incentives. AI companies need to convince investors that this is the next industrial revolution in order to raise enough capital. That's easiest to do when you make bold claims like we're on the path to replacing the entire...
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HHockeyJon replied to the thread Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?.This is something that isn't getting discussed enough, in my view. AI replaces a lot of the mundane tasks that are assigned to younger employees, but the negative side of that is those are the tasks that get young people familiar with company...
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HHockeyJon reacted to sleepeeg3's post in the thread Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts? with Like.
I do know how quickly you can burn through tokens. It is not equivalent to one or several employees that it can replace, for actual work. There are also other AI tools out there that cost a fraction as much. Copilot is $30/month and now supports...
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HHockeyJon replied to the thread Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?.A lot of that is due to misuse of the tokens by employees, to be fair. There are companies reporting employees are literally using AI tokens to check the weather. Also, there is a trend in the industry called "tokenmaxxing", where employees are...
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HHockeyJon replied to the thread Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?.This 100%. There was a lot of over-hiring during COVID. On top of the funding, there was also a tendency to "warehouse talent". There was so much money available that a lot of the big tech companies were hiring people because they didn't want...
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HHockeyJon reacted to Lakados's post in the thread Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts? with Like.
Without reading the article the answer is yes. There was a crapload of funding made available to businesses during COVID to hire staff. That funding is gone and a lot of workers just don’t provide any actual value and much of their work can be...
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HHockeyJon reacted to Zarathustra[H]'s post in the thread Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers. with Like.
I know this one liner is totally cliche at this point, but this is one place it probably belongs: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
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HHockeyJon replied to the thread Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers..Thanks for the correction on that. I haven't used Word in quite a while to be fair, my work is essentially limited to Excel (which is great), and PowerPoint (which everyone has to use because, yay slideshows!). Glad to hear they fixed that...