Then what's the point of such an arbitrary comparison? It's normal that plenty of commodities that were expensive when new have been devalued by age and can cost less on the used market than the top of the line BRAND NEW cutting edge GPU today, which itself will be worthless in 10-20 years on the used market and so on.
Presumably, the point is that a working car is more complicated & cheaper (in this case) than the graphics card, while the graphics card can't figure out how to make a connector.
I read it as a kind of funny comment making a broader point (and a bit of a jab at nVidia), not a rigorous comparison. I think you might be taking it a bit more seriously than was intended.
An old legacy car is definitely not more complicated than designing and manufacturing a cutting edge silicon made for high performance compute.
The price difference is just the free market supply and demand at work.
People and businesses pay more for the latest Nvidia GPUs than for an old car because for their use case it's worth it, they can't get a better GPU from anywhere else because they're complex to design and manufacture en-masse and nobody else than Nvidia + TSMC can do it right now.
People pay less for an old beater car than for Nvidia GPUs, because it's not worth it, there's a lot better options out there in terms of cars and cars are interchangeable commodities easy and cheap to design and manufacture at scale at this point, but there's no better options easier to replace what Nvidia is selling.
Comparing a top GPU with old cars is like comparing apples to monkeys, it makes no sense that doesn't prove any point.
>An old legacy car is definitely not more complicated than designing and manufacturing a cutting edge silicon made for high performance compute.
A car is more complicated than a connector, at least.
Anyways, the rest of your comment is again taking a humorous one-liner way too seriously. Thanks for the econ lesson though, I guess. I liked the part where you explained to me the basics of supply and demand like I am in 5th grade.
This is like 90% of what I need to setup on a server for my personal usage. Issue is I don't do front dev at all so I never really start working on it.
Any chance you've open sourced it ? (Or if not opensourced but you're willing to privately share the code, you can reach me at hn [at] manoz [dot] co)
I've contributed in the past to libvirt in order to support some Virtualbox features because some of our customers used VBox.
It would have been handy to have this in the past, and have all of our customers use some KVM VMs ;)
I think it's UX that commonly works differently in consumer software vs pro software. I think parent is talking about professional software.
Pro software made for speed and efficiency, you usually want to be able to do things quickly, even if sometimes people not used to the software might screw up. Holding right-click, selecting menu item and releasing I think is one of those things.
In consumer software, users would be confused because maybe they long-press the right-click, drag the mouse a little while holding down then releasing, and the menu would just appear and disappear. Confusing UX for most users, I bet.
Maybe it depends on the platform? For me, on Windows with Chrome, it only opens the context menu once you've stopped holding down the button. In Blender (on Windows), the menu opens as soon as you hold the button.
Congress bears some responsibility in that case; they should stop calling in the CEO for the hearing, who they know won't know the nitty-gritty technical implementation. They should request documents from the technical team involved, and subpoena a representative from it who can speak confidently on its function.
So let me get this straight: The CEO can't possibly be expected to know what goes on at their company, and we should allow them to incentivize internal directors to simply lie to the CEO so the CEO can say whatever they want in front of congress and pretend "they were honestly wrong"
The CEO’s job is high-level strategy. It’s like asking the President how to process an application for SSDI; they haven’t a fucking clue. (Nor should they!)
> The LUCA is not the first life on Earth; it may have lived among a diversity of other organisms whose descendants all died out. Rather LUCA is the most recent form from which all surviving life on Earth is descended.
If this stuff interests you I would like to recommend Dawkins' 'The Ancestor's Tale', it is pretty accessible and walks you back through time step-by-step.