We have AI to summarize the AI slop articles.

Isn't Uber still losing money?

Amazon had a plan for profitability, so much so they took on more debt in the early days to scale up. A gamble that paid off because they had a solid plan to begin with, not a "hope the magic beans drop into our laps before we run out of money" type of plan that AI companies have. Uber's business plan was "lets keep doing illegal shit that our competitors cant and just hope we become big enough not to fail".

Erm... that's the whole point of a T&C/EULA/et al. To limit legal liability and as a defence against being sued. Which is one of the reasons most countries do not treat them as binding contracts.

I'm the same, always use a good credit card, but the occasional hassle is worth it. The prices are 1/10th the Amazon ones.

Used to be, but Trump has kinda ruined it for the rest of us. He complained that they were charging Americans more, so instead of reducing their prices, they just increased them everywhere else.

As an example, Mounjaro went from around £180 in the UK, to around £300.

I saw a YouTube video from a guy who bought a mini excavator from AliExpress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's surprisingly good. Japanese Kubota engine, everything else looks decent quality, especially considering the incredibly low price. I've seen similar videos from other people who bought heavy machinery like farm equipment and lathes.

On the one hand it's a shame that our domestic manufacturing is finding it hard to compete. On the other, they aren't doing themselves any favours with things like DRM to stop you working on your own tools. The price competition is a good thing for consumers.

Take Germany luxury/performance cars, for example. The Chinese ones are every bit as luxury and well made, and often exceed them for performance. On top of that, the German manufacturers can't resist screwing their customers with bullshit like subscriptions for heated seats and no owner access to the engine bay.

I regularly buy from AliExpress. Their customer service isn't as good as Amazon's, but the prices are 1/10th of the Amazon ones so even though the odd things gets lost or is of poor quality, I'm still well up on what Amazon would have cost me.

Occasionally I need to do a credit card chargeback. Had to do that on a computer case that got damaged. For small stuff costing literal pennies I don't bother with the maybe 1 in 20 items that is lost or no good.

As you say, it's the same stuff they sell with a hefty mark-up on Amazon, and in every other shop.

If chasing ratings is taken too far, you end up with Fox used to be, where shows would get cancelled a few episodes into their first season because they were not instant mega hits. Netflix is nearly as bad, cancelling stuff days after it premiers.

A lot of shows took a season or two to really find their feet. A lot of shows that struggled early on ended up doing very well in syndication, or started a long running franchise.

They will probably charge a much fairer price for their treatments too, which will be very welcome.

Slightly misleading.

1) They also agreed to the terms when they purchased their tickets- though they likely did not read them, that makes them no less binding.
2) The restaurant was independently owned, and Disney is included as "the owner of the property that the restaurant is on".

Why drain a turnip for $1M, when you can drain Disney for $100M?

Christ, this site really is full of fucking morons.

What measurement would you prefer, since FLOPS is literally irrelevant to them?
It's like measuring cars in a race by the amount of iron in their motor.

The usefulness of a GPU to one of these companies is not measured in FLOPS, because no GPU can do inference anywhere near their peak FLOPS.

Then allow me to fit theOpenAI number into your perspective: $52.25B

Not that bubbly looking anymore, is it, chief?

No, they're not. They're literally meaningless.

erm, lol.
They're literally meaningless. That's all there is to understand.
AI inference has zero dependence on FLOPS. None.
It does have a dependency on power, even if there is a hidden factor in the middle.

This is imply math.

"FLOPs are a better metric than Watts, though."

You're so fucking stupid- it's amazing, lol

Because it's the primary bottleneck for datacenter capacity.
GPUs are cheap. Hauling mobile megawatt generators to datacenters because utilities can't provide the power is not.

It isn't. But it's more useful than FLOPS.
FLOPS are meaningless. At least power has some meaning.

lolwut?
"I *completely* missed when we converted over from gigaflops to gigawatts" That's what, lol.
I suppose I'll repeat myself: FLOPS are meaningless.

lolwut?
"I *completely* missed when we converted over from gigaflops to gigawatts"

You are so fucking illiterate, lol