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foxandmouse commented on Ask HN: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 arrives May 19 at $299 revive PC builds?    · Posted by u/byte-bolter
foxandmouse · 4 months ago
8GB of VRAM just doesn’t cut it for new AAA games, and the 5000 series had a bunch of driver issues, which kind of kills its main advantage over the 9060 or B580
foxandmouse commented on Canada votes for Mark Carney as prime minister   npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/nithinj
aborsy · 4 months ago
Liberals will increase the damage caused by Trump. Carney is escalating the rhetorics for political gain at cost to Canada, and is taking an antagonist position with respect to the Trump administration.

It seems illogical that people vote for liberals in response to Trump’s remarks. That will worsen the situation. A more politically aligned government might better manage it.

foxandmouse · 4 months ago
You clearly aren't Canadian, We are no fans of the elected liberal party but we have zero tolerance for the hate filled, anti-trans, anti-woke, anti-indigenous, anti-Palestinian bullshit spewed by the conservative leader. I could go on... So, while I wouldn't say I'm excited about the results I'll will - today at least - feel slightly more at ease.
foxandmouse commented on Canada votes for Mark Carney as prime minister   npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/nithinj
ZeroGravitas · 4 months ago
I can believe Trump changed it this drastically.

He was talking about annexing the country! His post on election day was full on syphillitic mad-king stuff, asking Canada to vote for him!

I could go on, a long list of stuff that would have been considered implausible in a comic book satire only a few years ago.

foxandmouse · 4 months ago
It's so interesting how few Americans are bothered by his talk of annexing allies like Canada or Greenland. Do people here think that the tariffs on Canada are about fentanyl? or Greenland is essential for "national security"?
foxandmouse commented on Canada votes for Mark Carney as prime minister   npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/nithinj
aborsy · 4 months ago
The results achieved by the policies of the liberal party of Canada have been disastrous in the past decade. I can’t imagine people voted for them again. It’s counterintuitive.

What’s the reason people vote for those outcomes?

I know trump played a role, but it’s hard to believe that he reversed the outcome so drastically.

I think the conservatives in Canada don’t have strong leaders. You couldn’t have a better hand.

foxandmouse · 4 months ago
National Sovereignty? I know a lot of Canadians who were lifelong liberals who were planning on voting conservative this election... until trump opened his mouth.

I wanted change—but the choice was between someone who ignores the cost of living crisis and someone who would actively make everything worse. Poilievre couldn’t even pass a security clearance. I didn’t support all of Trudeau’s policies, but Carney isn’t Trudeau—and pretending they’re interchangeable is just lazy politics.

foxandmouse commented on Canada votes for Mark Carney as prime minister   npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/nithinj
beloch · 4 months ago
One of the cool things about how Canada conducts its elections is that it's still hand-counted paper ballots. Other levels of government sometimes use machines to lower costs, but federal elections remain old-school. Votes are physical objects that can be counted and re-counted as needed, reducing the risk of fraud. The count is still done quickly, with a government declared before the day is done. At the time of writing, only a few seats remain up in the air.
foxandmouse · 4 months ago
Elections Canada is simply amazing!

Funny story from last night: the Conservative leader’s own riding had the longest ballot in Canadian history — 90 candidates! Even though it was one of the earlier ridings to close, the results weren’t confirmed until this morning. I’m guessing the sheer size of the ballot had something to do with the delay.

foxandmouse commented on Pope Francis has died   reuters.com/world/pope-fr... · Posted by u/phillipharris
foxandmouse · 4 months ago
Though I’m neither Catholic nor especially religious, you don’t have to be devout to recognize that Pope Francis has been a powerful force for good. From his warm outreach to refugees and the homeless to his landmark environmental encyclical Laudato Si’, he has consistently championed the poor, fostered interfaith dialogue and empathy.
foxandmouse commented on AMD's Strix Halo under the hood   chipsandcheese.com/p/amds... · Posted by u/kristianp
nrp · 5 months ago
We have both Max 385 and Max+ 395 versions.
foxandmouse · 5 months ago
Any word on putting that in a mobile device? So far there’s only a hp business laptop and a gaming tablet… none of which appeal to the “MacBook crowd”
foxandmouse commented on AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards   amd.com/en/newsroom/press... · Posted by u/pella
zokier · 6 months ago
The hardware itself seems like it will be welcome in the market. But I find AMD GPU launches so frustrating, the branding is all over the place and it feels like there is never any consistent generational series. Instead you get these seemingly random individual product launches that slot somewhere in the market, but you never know what comes next.

In comparison nVidia has had pretty consistent naming since 200 series, with every generation feeling at least somewhat complete. Only major exception was (mostly) skippin 800 series. Not saying they are perfect by any means in this regard, but AMD just feels like a complete mess.

Checking wikipedia, Radeon has recently gone through (in order):

* HD 7000 series

* HD 8000 series

* 200 series

* 300 series

* 400/500 series

* RX Vega

* RX 5000 series

* RX 6000 series

* RX 7000 series

* RX 9000 series

Like what happened to 8000 series? And also isn't it confusing to partially change the naming scheme? Any guesses what the next generation will be called?

foxandmouse · 6 months ago
They've got a pretty amazing apu that just came out and competes with the M series macbooks based on early benchmarks. The name of this APU: AMD Ryzen AI MAX 300 "Strix Halo"
foxandmouse commented on Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
foxandmouse · 6 months ago
Coincidentally, construction isn’t set to start until late November 2028—convenient timing. If this mess blows over, they can quietly backpedal and carry on like nothing happened.
foxandmouse commented on Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code   github.com/ValveSoftware/... · Posted by u/davikr
ender341341 · 6 months ago
from various interviews I've seen of folks in the games industry apple has historically been actively hostile to working with game companies, it seems to have softened with the iphone appstore.

People make fun of "devs devs devs" from Balmer but he was heavily right, Microsoft spent a ton to court developers and they got a monopoly on PC gaming as a result.

foxandmouse · 6 months ago
Don't think that's the case anymore, "Game Porting Toolkit 2" seemingly opened the floodgates on gaming on a mac.. It's up to the developers if they think it's worth the time/ effort; but with how great apple the hardware is, and how easy it is to port a game, I think we're going to see a huge influx of mac gaming.

u/foxandmouse

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