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by sofixa 4mo ago
It doesn't matter, because people are adopting AI now , and even if the restrictions are lifted tomorrow, it has been proven that relying on an American SaaS is risky, because you can just lose access. So why would you get that instea
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by sofixa 4mo ago
No no, the remarks were pretty damn fucking serious. And the fact that the US could elect such an unserious and demented criminal, twice is proof enough that there is a lot to worry about. Who's to say who will be next? Or after that
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by sofixa 4mo ago
> Right now, this has become a risky decision that can tank my business overnight. If your business-critical systems rely on SAAS that doesn't have a solid SLA and breach-of-contract provisions that more than cover the damages in th
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> We’ve had export restrictions on different chips and even cryptography software in the past. But not on a SaaS whose continued availability you'd rely on. In any case, your optimism is bordering on naivety. The world has seen how
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> Not while the hardware required to run a local model at an acceptable speed costs way more than $200 It's $200/month. You have to take into account energy costs and all the rest of a system, but if you break even within 1-2 y
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The Sony WH-1000XM series and the Bose QC35 were the standard quality headphones years before AirPods were a thing, and both retailed at $300+.
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That's not true, they even sell in direct competition with the US (MLRS systems or tanks to Poland)
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by sofixa 4mo ago
Not the OP, but for me it's a simple matter of not wanting to use typescript and the whole swamp on fire that is NPM.
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by sofixa 4mo ago
Never going to happen at such a platform. They prefer waiving the occasional DDoS / misconfiguration over giving their customers to cause outages with something so trivially forgotten about and so disconnected from the tech and actual
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Okay, but that's not at all what this thread is about? We're talking about having a VM intermediary between containers and bare metal. Not applicable to cases where you don't have containers because your workloads aren't
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I'm not sure I follow. Ideally your bare metal machines have an easy bare OS with some config that is easy to repave, and are ephemeral-ish (not a lot of state). Your "machine for testing" would be a container. Decommissionin
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> It’s being able to over provision, dynamically reallocate hardware resources, or do things like live migration and entire system snapshots. That hardware/system management aspect is what VM’s give you and containers don’t. None of
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> More than half of the workloads we see being migrated are Windows. Many more are odd/ancient RHEL versions running some very specific software where the manufacturer won't offer a newer version / went out of business &#x
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> I know plenty of Enterprise customers who cannot move easily and just renewed 3 year VMware licenses for their cluster at insane rates Also known as incompetence. Broadcom's business model is public. Their plans for VMware were pu
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Why are you conflating and equating "useful" with "sells for profit on the free market"? There are many areas of research where profit is not a goal, and cannot be one. Understanding how and why climate changes is extrem
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by sofixa 4mo ago
The price difference isn't 2 or 3 times though. We're talking about x10 easily.
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> For example, I'd love to see the source for this one. How do I prove the lack of something? Prove there have been any Russian military exports. What you're missing with the polls is "if there are Western military guarant
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It's not "AI light bulbs", the point is to use smart meters for load shedding and load rearranging. Why wouldn't you want for people and companies to be able to use cheaper electricity in off-peak hours?
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by sofixa 4mo ago
Why not? You can run Google Meet, Zoom, Teams in the browser, including screen sharing with audio sharing. The browser APIs are there (e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capt...
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by sofixa 4mo ago
> Wait really? I honestly would have thought this was a solved problem by now, especially high quality transcriptions bit, just out of curiosity, is the problem that the quality isn't high enough? If I had to guess, all of those app
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by sofixa 4mo ago
Since your other comment got rightfully flagged, I'll respond to you here. The numbers from 2024 are reflective of the complete disappearance of russia from global markets. For instance, there have been no military procurement deals af
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> I wonder if open source licenses will start to include "not to be used for LLM training" clauses As if the LLM trainers would care. They've ignored every single license and copyright policy out there because "fair t
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The numbers since 2022 are to be taken with a bucket of salt. And it's undeniable that the whole country is falling backwards - the economy is in tatters with high inflation, high interest rates , severe economic and kinetic damage to
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I mean, there is no nuance to be found here. Let's call a spade a spade.
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> I would say that this government "takedown" of Mythos is great free advertising This only works if you are American and think only about Americans and American companies. Which may or not be the case for Anthropic, and for su
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Iran, Haiti, Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Argentina have been at the "worse and worse" stages for decades and there is no "better" in sight.
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Why do you think the R5 was developed in China? Renault have been quite open about all the improvements they had to make to their processes, development centres and factories in France to make it. The Twingo was partially developed in Chi
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Which "older" ones? The original 5 is kind of a tank.
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Under the terms the current democracy at the time, yes, that was the will of the (voting) people. It's of course ridiculous it had to get to the courts to force the last canton to allow women to vote, but now that everyone can vote, I&
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> There's currently no real democracy on earth. That's a claim. Switzerland is so democratic they refused to let women vote until the 1990s (in the last canton) because the voters (men) didn't allow that. It's my go-t

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