As long as some little bitch keeps modding down my factual posts

It's pretty important if you're working in a developing field. The original TPU couldn't do floating point so it wasn't really useful for training. IIRC they also work best with matrices that have dimensions that are multiples of fairly big numbers (128? 256?) with later generations working best with bigger matrices.

That's great for the current focus on gigantic attention matrices but not so great if the next big thing can't be efficiently shoehorned into that paradigm.

I tried to install Platform IO to try it out, but the multi-gigabyte Visual Studio won't work on my old macbook. The Arduino 2.0 IDE isn't exactly fast and efficient, but it at least installs. A plain old text editor is fast, efficient, and installs no problem.

Arduino is powerful because it's a collection of device drivers and other libraries written to a reasonably uniform standard and mostly cross platform too. You can write firmware for an ATMega hooked up to some obscure sensors and an old RS-485 driver then (mostly) have it also run on an STM32, Pi Pico or ESP32.

Lowering prices won't help. That would lower GDP. Raising pay and raising prices would, although raising pay relative to prices is a bit of a double edged sword. The more money you've got the more you're likely to save.

The real answer is that GDP is a pretty shitty measure for this kind of thing.

You mean every 33 minutes.

All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.

All the extraneous bullshit Microsoft added to the start menu is always lurking in memory for performance reasons.

Fear of facts is a sign of cowardice

School issued devices often don't permit installing arbitrary apps, only those on the approved list.

Most iPhone owners didn't buy them outright. They got them "free" with their plan. Consequently out in the real world I commonly see people with old iPhones with cracked screens. They can't afford to replace them, we don't have an Apple store anywhere near here, etc.

The tariff revenues are needed to cover the tax cuts for the wealthy instituted at the same time, so no.

"An employer can only pay the workers what their output is worth, so if your industry is producing things that are difficult to sell, then you're not going to get a good paying job"

You're blaming the victim. If the employer's plan doesn't include paying a reasonable wage then their plan is crap and they need to go out of business so that someone with a better plan can succeed them.

"The experience of Detroit should be a warning to those who believe that this economic law can be avoided; the car makers sold the same stuff year after year whilst Japanese and German producers made ever better stuff."

That's not because they couldn't do better. They chose not to and depended on regulatory capture instead, preventing others from bringing more superior products to the market. Again it's the employer's fault and no one else's.

Now we know why they are hell bent on destroying the lives of half a million employees and their families.

You assholes have been throwing a tantrum for ten fucking years because "grab the pussy" was supposed to disqualify Trump's candidacy.

Nobody has ever been more thoroughly defeated in all of human history. It's embarrassing.

The real question is whether SEGA or Phil Collins's label will sue first.

Much of the DOGE commission's responsibility had been moved to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for the past several months. See "DOGE 'cut muscle, not fat'; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts" by Ashley Belanger