With a 52% percent mortality rate, this might well be the last such opportunity. One way or another. 😬
Her lawyers
That's assuming she can hire any. Her case is far from clear cut, I'm not convinced anyone would take her case for a proportion of a potential settlement.
She probably has no recourse.
Damn, now I want part 2!! 😶
(Thanks for posting!! 🙏)
I think we can all agree on that... But without the entire article, one can only parametrise their answer... I was hoping someone with a full version could do an HTML dump. 😅
Or at the very least a markdown dump in here.
Is it using XLR?
Is it just me, or is everyone here commenting on a half article, the other half being behind a paywall? 😬
But use the widows version and the proton layer. The Linux version is horribly coded.
I think you're overstating the compute power [...]
I don't actually think so. A100 GPUs in server chassis have a 400 or 500W TDP depending on the configuration, and even if I'm assuming 400, with 4 per watercooled 1U chassis, a 47U rack with those would consume about 100kW with power supply efficiency and whatnot.
Running those for a day only would be 2.4GWh.
Now, I'm not assuming Amazon would own 100s of those racks at every DC, but they probably would use at least a couple of such racks to train their model (time is money, right?). And training them for a week with just two of those would be 35GWh, and I can only extrapolate from there.
So I don't think that going to TWh is such an overstatement.
[...] and understating the amount of cardboard Amazon uses
That, very possibly.
I have seldom used Amazon ever, maybe 5 times tops, and I can only remember two times. Those two times, I ordered a smartphone and a bunch of electronics supplies, and I don't remember the packaging being excessive. But I know from plenty of memes that they regularly overdo it. That, coupled with the insane amount of shit people order online... And yes, I believe you are right on that one.
Even so, as long as it is cardboard, or paper, and not plastic and glue, it isn't a big ecological issue.
However, that makes no difference to Amazon financially, cost is cost, and they only care about that.
But let's not pretend they are doing a good thing then. It is a cost effective measure for them, that ends up worsening the situation for everyone else, because the tradeoff is good economically, and terrible ecologically.
If they wanted to do a good thing, they could use machine learning to optimise the combining of deliveries in the same area, to save on petrol, and by extension, pollution from their vehicles, but that would actually worsen the customer experience, and end up costing them more than it would save them, so that's never gonna happen.
IMHO the issue is two folds:
- The makefile were never supposed to do more than determine which build tools to call (and how) for a given target. Meaning that in very many cases, makefile are abused to do way too much. I'd argue that you should try to keep your make targets only one line long. Anything bigger and you're likely doing it wrong (and ought to move it in a shell script, that gets called from the makefile).
- It is really challenging to write portable makefiles. There's BSD make and GNU make, and then there are different tools on different systems. Different dependencies. Different libs. Etc. Not easy.
Yeah, it is one of the least bad uses for it.
But then again, using literal tera-watts-hours of compute power to save on the easiest actually recyclable material known to man (cardboard), maybe that's just me, maybe I'm too jaded, but it sounds like a pretty bad overall outcome.
It isn't a bad deal for Amazon, tho, who is likely to save on costs, that way, since energy is still orders of magnitude cheaper than it should be[^1], and cardboard is getting pricier.
[^1]: if we were to account for the available supply, the demand, and the future (think sooner than later) need for transition towards new energy sources... Some that simply do not have the same potential.
Fuck yea!