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The fact that it is a Molly White project means take it with a basketball sized grain of salt. She has deeply held beliefs and keeps cherry picking until the data supports them. I'm not sure the data supports crypto spending more than
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Unless that design violates Apple trademarks or patents. Apple notarizing an infringement would be used by Epic to defend their infringement. Epic isn't the victim here, they are acting like spoiled children.
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No they don't. https://seanmiller.us/blog/parody-laws-by-country/
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> So why aren't there more entrants in the CPU cloud area? Because the market is saturated with players. AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, IBM Cloud, Digital Ocean, Tencent, Oracle Cloud, Huawei Cloud, that Dell/VMware thing, Linode&#x
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VCs in general hate core AI because it is dominated by large players that don't need VC money to be successful. If someone was taking Sequoia money to buy GPUs they'd be singing a completely different tune.
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The calculations here seem to depend on a few false assumptions: 1. That all datacenter GPUs being purchased are feeding AI. You might be able to argue that some are or a lot are, but you don't know how many just looking at Nvidia sale
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If Netflix doesn't work in the browser users aren't going to lean back in their chairs and think fondly of the freedom fighter jchw that protected them from working against their own interests, they are going to open Edge and watc
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Adversaries live by the saying "if it works it isn't stupid."
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It says it is normalized against actual published lost baggage statistics. You can calculate a ratio of social media complaints to lost bags for airlines you have data on and then infer a loss rate for airlines that don't release data.
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> If you have two race cars going in around a track and at one from the other, it still appears to be moving relative to the stands. Right. Now put the stands on another planet and you start to understand the problem. We need to be able
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What exactly was political about it? He committed a crime against the United States, they empaneled a grand jury, and handed down 18 federal charges of espionage and computer intrusion. The US sought extradition just like they would in any
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He leaked enough CIA materials that your wish is almost guarenteed.
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> That isn't really true. There is no concrete threat to Australia for the foreseeable decades Except, you know, the giant obvious one. https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/ch...
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> Rejecting it and remanding him to custody would cause a diplomatic incident. Why would it be a diplomatic incident? When you are a fugitive from justice taking a plea deal is always a gamble because you have to show up in court. Should
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> It makes me wonder about designing "lambda-client-friendly APIs" If your hammer fails to drive a screw into wood, you don't need to contemplate a new type of low friction wood.
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Speed limits in California are capped at 65 mph by state law (or 55 mph for undivided roads). Any agency wanting to set a lower speed limit has to conduct a speed study and cannot set the limit lower than the 85th percentile of measured tra
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Waymo has a partnership with Avis Budget Group to use their fleet cleaning and refueling facilities. I imagine if a user reports a dirty car someone can pop in on a camera, check it out, and divert the car to a depot.
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> taking a copy licensed I'm curious what license applies when I buy a physical book, as a library does? Do you have a resource where I could learn more?
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https://libgen.is/repository_torrent/ If you are upset about this, commit to seeding as many of these as you can until the IA service is restored.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT We have almost a million people holding a TS or higher clearance, and have on average one incident a year of someone attempting to spy on a spouse or love interest, to which t
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by mike_d 2y ago
Don't hire anyone who is a certified scrum master or has an MBA and you tend to be able to get a lot done.
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> They didn't build the Utah Data Center because of their extremely limited amount of data. I love that people point to one of the smallest NSA data centers as if its going to prove some sort of point. Regardless, this is exactly th
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> American brands are much, much more aggressive about making you connect to the internet, install our apps, create an account This whataboutism ignores one very important point. When you connect a device to an American company they migh
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If you build a nice enough tank, the fish never know the difference.
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A Juniper EX4100 ticks all your boxes. Adding a sound requirement is stupid and ridiculous. You're wanting to take the power supplies from 48 90W devices and put them all in one dense little box and then complaining that it needs to be
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Since you have thrown ISO/IEC 8877 out the window, which is referenced by 100BASE-TX, you surely can't call it an "ethernet switch."
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> but deploying "racks" of 4090s for AI tasks is (frankly) flat-out stupid. You seem to be trapped in the delusion that this was anyone's first, second, or third choice. There is workload demand, you can't get H100s,
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ChromeOS literally defined a whole market segment of low cost tablet/laptop devices that could be distributed in mass to schools/employees/etc. The security model was the best of any operating system option. Android has its p
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Both of my Nest devices that got the update were bricked into an unrecoverable state. Forums and Reddit are full of similar stories. "Shipped" is a very generous label. I don't know anyone outside the Fuchsia team that takes
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Fuchsia is just a parking lot project with lofty goals to keep talented engineers from going to other companies. The only thing it will ever ship to is EOL Nest/Hub devices.

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