BlueLightning

SurvivingNotThriving said:

Warren Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway should be ashamed of themselves. A contractor, covered by Berkshire Hathaway, damaged my home. According to the Berkshire Hathaway claims inspector, $57k worth of visible damages to my 1200 sq.ft. home. The itemized estimate of all damages such as scratched kitchen cabinets, broken/cracked granite kitchen countertop, leaking plumbing that the contractor hooked up causing water damage, etc.  Berkshire Hathaway only offered a payout for damages of of $7k (cost to replace granite for my kitchen alone is $4k) $7k?? It's laughable and disgusting and disheartening. Berkshire Hathaway covered this contractor who did the damage.  

No one can imagine the enormous  stress of trying to deal with the damage to our home. This has taken a toll on our well-being, our physical as well as mental health. We are surviving rather than thriving. 

My son has a hard time staying focused on his studies as we stress daily 24/7 just trying to manage. Most people would say by the damage the contractor did to just tear the house down. Yeah, easier said then done since the contractor took my savings and my account isn't lined in gold.

I've called and called and the adjuster at Berkshire Hathaway and left many messages. I still have not received a return call. I emailed Berkshire Hathaway and no response. What kind of bologna is that? And that in itself exhasorbates the stress we feel. 

Great job Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway! You must be very proud! 

While Warren Buffett makes money off the stock market, I feel he's needs to look into this. But will he? No he won't! Why you ask? Because Berkshire Hathaway's 2023 revenue of $364.5 billion dollars. Talk getting rich off the poor! 

Message to Warren Buffett

A home is supposed to be a sanctuary for family and friends and a peace of mind. Please kindly have the adjusters return my calls? I pretty sure with $3 billion in revenue the adjusters have telephones and email. 

Sincerely, 

Surviving not thriving in Indiana.

You may have better results sending a written or typed letter to either the CEO or Chairman of the Board of Berkshire.  You can find the name and street address on sites like Morningstar, Bloomberg, or many online investment trading platforms.  I've had a 50% success rate.  Keep the tone of the the letter factual and calm, and state specifically the outcome you would like to see.  I've written letters to executives at Ford, GM, IBM,  Met Life and Volkswagen.  If you carry homeowners insurance, you may want to talk to the carrier.  Last resort would be to talk to an arbitrator or attorney (which may incur fees).  If you signed a contract with the contractor, you may be limited to arbitration.  

cgWerks said:

BlueLightning said:
Remember that TSMC makes the majority of CPUs/GPUs for AMD, Apple and NVIDIA (and many others).  

Samsung makes most of the remaining leading edge chips.  
Intel is way behind, and any high performance chips they have are not good candidates for laptops that are GPU intensive.  
Intel laptops have to be plugged-in to achieve high GPU performance, with large amounts of heat and suck batteries dry rapidly.  

True, though this mainly means they'll just use more power while doing it... but at least they can do it.
Apple seems a bit ahead on the CPU front, but quite a way behind on the GPU end.

Like many home users, I use more CPU than GPU cycles.  
There are also hardware video coders and decoders, as well as the 16 neural/AI cores that are used for video functions.  
Apple is mostly a consumer electronics company.  
Compared to my former late 2013 13" i5 2-core mbp (with no dedicated gpu cores), the 2023 14" M2 Pro mbp (10/16/16 cores) kicks ass.  
4k video playback caused full fan speed on the 2013 i5 (and lagging video).  
Fans aren't even activated on the 2023 M2 Pro (and I see short parts of video that were skipped on the Intel chip).  

Later comment from White House was that 25% tariff also applies to Samsung cell phones, which are also expected to be made in US. Good luck with that. Expect to keep your smart phones for 2-4 more years, when Democrats take over the House, Senate and White House.

Suspect a large amount of rack hardware may be included within third party lease agreements.  At the end of the lease, racks can either be bought-out for residual value, or returned to the leasing company (depending on the type of lease).  

With improved performance (and likely less heat output per unit of processing), cost of electricity for processors and cooling could be substantially lower.  Very few things use as much electricity as a major data center.  

Suspect a lot of audio/talk podcast listeners opt for $5-10 wired, lower-end Koss or Sony headphones. A $10 Sony sounds better than the $5 Koss, and is a bit more comfortable. I believe the main target audience for lower end Koss and Sony models (from Amazon) is for use by schools and businesses (and "thrifty" folks like me).

When AI gets closer to answering simple questions correctly 90%+ of the time, it may have general usefulness.  For now, it should be called artificial (that is "FAKE") intelligence.  

Recently, I ask Google for the fear index (vix) value.  It replied 13.  I looked it up, it was 20 (and was around that value for hours beforehand).  I think it may have pulled some historical value.  

There are often very strange assumptions made by AI, especially for questions about people or products old enough to lack much coverage on the internet in the last 20 years.