My brother decided that Bitcoin was likely to steadily increase in value (in the long term) and spent about a thousand bucks to buy three of 'em. Then he got hit with some surprise money trouble and had to liquidate, losing about a third of his investment.
He was not amused when BTC became an investment hype.
Full stack developer:
The lightbulb is broken. Deploys a lightweight fix that involves 17 metric tons of chandeliers, stadium floodlights, sconces, and the necessary infrastructure to operate the street lights for a city of 500.000. His solution delivers a solid 100 lm of light using only 175 MW of power.
There's a reason why oldschool X-Com players kept coming back to the games despite technical issues like the Groundhog Day bug. (Thank all applicable deities for OpenXcom solving those issues, though.)
Luckily, people research these things.
Apparently the Voyager crew used the Thermos Nissan Vacuum Insulated Espresso Mugs, models JMJ-180 (a smaller one used by various crew members) and JMJ-185 (a larger one favored by Janeway). Apparently these did come with a lid.
They're probably not pivoting but in FY2023 Azure made up 38% of their revenue, followed by Office 365 at 23%. That's a lot of cloud service revenue.
Is it sustainable? Honestly, it might. They sell a lot of stuff under the Azure umbrella and corporations lap that shit up. (Seriously; my employer is about ready to hire consultants to come up with additional eggs they can put in that particular basket.)
Here's my source; I couldn't be arsed to look it up in MSFT's statements directly.
There are models designed to read documents and provide summaries; that part is actually realistic. And transforming text (such as by providing a summary) if actually something LLMs are better at than the conversational question answering that's getting all the hype these days.
Of course stuffing an entire book in there is going to require a massive context length and would be damn expensive, especially if multiplied by 17. And I doubt it'd be done in a minute.
And there's still the hallucination issue, especially with everything then getting filtered through another LLM.
So that guy is full of shit but at least he managed to mention one reasonable capability of neural nets. Surely that must be because of the 30+ IQ points ChatGPT has added to his brain...
That's still not cheap when you account for inflation. Of course there's a world of difference between "not cheap" and what they charge these days.
Shouldn't he be standing with the ROC in mainland China instead of those communist insurrectionists?
When did it just become expected that everybody would upgrade GPU’s every year and that’s suppose to be normal?
Somewhere around 1996 when the 3dfx Voodoo came out. Once a year was a relatively conservative upgrade schedule in the late 90s.
Violent and nonviolent resistance often go hand in hand. They amplify each other's effectiveness, ideally leading to the nonviolent side teaching its goals.
I feel that right now we do see the American people moving in a similar direction – on the one have we have large protests that try to be as peaceful as possible, on the other hand we have people running ICE agents out of town.
This will probably intensify before the government is willing to negotiate, in lockstep with the government increasing its use of force. I hope that the violence will not escalate to an outright civil war before the government relents.
Good luck to everyone over there.
Could also be Blizz, in which case I feel sorry for them.
Because JavaScript and its complete absence of a standard library is a horrible abomination that should've been put out of our misery years ago.