Yes. Apple used PowerPC, and PowerPC was also in the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and Wii U. It was also widespread in embedded sectors like networking, automotive, and aerospace.
IBM eventually stepped away from the embedded market and eventually lost their foothold in consoles as well. While Raptor did offer Power9 systems at a somewhat accessible price point, the IBM-produced CPUs were still fundamentally enterprise-grade hardware, meaning they retained the high costs and "big iron" features of server tech.
Sort of, in the form of PowerPC, which was an Apple-IBM-Motorola (“AIM”) collaboration. It’s closely related to IBM’s Power line, but more like a predecessor than a sibling.
Anyone who can't get any better AI accelerators elsewhere? Last I heard, these things were sold out for years on end. And anyone who can make one, can sell them.
Also, though not a benefit to you in particular, apparently any creator you watch with Premium gets a way bigger payout for your view. Only heard about this anecdotally but it seems to track.
You can do this manually on the free plan. Mouse over the playhead and you'll see a graph. You can click the highest point in the graph which is where most people clicked through to.
its crazy lengths ppl will go to avoid paying few dollars a month. i dont belive ppl commenting on this website are that squeezed for money. kind of bizzare.
Like 95% of my investing money ends up going to fairly-low-risk ETFs like VOO or VTI, not too different than from an index fund.
Still, that last five percent is more or less my gambling money. I put it into individual stocks with the hope they get huge. Sometimes it works out well, like when I bought $700 of Nvidia in 2022. Sometimes it goes badly, like when I bought a bunch of Sears stock with the hope they'd bounce back.
I think I'm still technically "up" with my gambling money, though it's in the budget of "stuff I'd be ok going to zero".
Well, if it comes out of your gambling budget and you treat it as entertainment, then there's nothing wrong with that. At least the expected average payout is way better most other forms of gambling.
> This is one of those levels of monitoring that only gets put in place after such an event.
For a website, yes. But honestly the credit card people and their infrastructure should probably _also_ watch out for this. They'd be in a much better place to detect these.
In a perfect world sure but in the real world if a processor catches something they will disable your processing and freeze any funds while making it a nightmare to remedy, so you really want them doing as little as possible.
Yeah, it seems like the site's processor should have noticed this one site sending thousands of $1 charges and refunds in a small window much more easily than the site recognizing it was being done. The processor has much more to loose multiplied across all customers making it worth their time
They do, but they’re also just as aware that you could be the fraudster. So they put the punishment where it’s optimal for them. You are not inside their trust space.
If IBM runs them into the ground, there's a niche for a copy-cat of the original company that you can just found again. Rinse and repeat.
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