The network hardware usually lasts longer than the servers unless you get unlucky. For example if you bought a Cisco Catalyst 5000 then you only had max 5 years before you probably got rid of it due to y2k issues. (The switches WOULD keep working after y2k, but logging of dates wouldn't work correctly.)
We don't like what Russia is doing in Ukraine, but also, Leftist governments in the West disapprove of Uganda's anti-LGBTQ policies. So they then get to sanction Uganda?
Yeah, that's how it works.
What we are observing is a neo-colonial trend by Western countries to force others to toe their line.
Sure. But is it wrong to refuse to do business with a regressive country? Should a nation be forced to do business with a nation whose goals run counter to their ideals?
If the West has such a problem w/ Russia, greenlight Ukraine to bomb Moscow: that alone should bring Russia to its knees
1) the US promised to protect Ukraine if they gave up nukes
2) Russia still has nukes
Well I'm not an expert on this, but search results say "Monero, Ravencoin, Vertcoin, and Grin" are all still good to mine with CPU or GPU. Also there's no reason they couldn't introduce another coin or ten.
which at least saves us from them being used by miners
My concern is that the companies that bought them to run LLMs will become miners themselves to try to recoup some of the costs.
To some extent, it's always been the case that the value of just about anything is arbitrary, and varies according to context. But the underpinnings of what we call The Economy are becoming more and more divorced from any consistency or standards. Increasingly it's all a dirty exercise in what ranges from misplaced optimism to opportunism, extortion, and fraud.
There seems to no longer be even a pretense of fairness, or duty to society, or basic decency among corporate interests. My Slashdot sig was meant to be thought-provoking, and I used to think it was at least a little bit hyperbolic. These days, in light of stories such as this one, I consider it to be a straightforward and objective statement of fact.
RWNJ is Slashdot's Tucker Carlson. Educated, erudite, pretending not to know things in order to justify the worst possible conclusions. I wonder if he wears a stupid bow tie.
Anybody trying to get a degree in "AI" right now that takes them out of the workforce for 4 years is going to get an incredibly rude shock when they graduate and find that most everything that doesn't relate to fundamentals (like data science, OSI, etc.) they learned is no longer relevant.
Yeah, you've nailed this. This part of TFS made me laugh:
"This is so cool to me to have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this," one 18-year-old told the New York Times.
LLMs aren't new any more, given how fast the computing industry moves in general, though they are still the hot thing. This kid is nowhere near the forefront in any way. This is just the latest development in a field that's as old as computing.
Remember how hot "prompt engineering" was at one point?
It's still relevant. In particular it's how you get around restrictions.
Time for the US to nationalise all things vehicle.
If they did that it would increase emissions a lot. They also have already tried to do that but courts ruled that a) California could still have its own emissions standards because California invented emissions standards as far as the US is concerned and b) other states which previously chose to follow California's emissions standards before the US had them can continue to follow California's.
Of course there's no guarantee that the conservative-owned SCOTUS won't change that again.
Driver licensing (including for trucks, busses etc).
The standards for operation of commercial trucks, busses etc. are already set by the federal government. States implement them but are not in charge of them, except for filling in the blanks left by incompetent and inadequate federal law as usual. Maybe you should educate yourself about the status quo before agitating for changes to it.
To be fair the only company pushing Hydrogen mobility was Toyota.
Also Honda, and GM was also well invested at one point, but they seem to have given up on it.
Catch up to the Chinese on battery tech? They don't have any special battery tech.
Every battery company of note has proprietary electrolyte. The differences between one battery chemistry and another can be significant.
There's nothing special about Chinese EVs components, they're basically the same stuff everyone else is making their EVs out of.
Most of them are using Chinese batteries.
If you want a good example of how quickly these supposedly simple systems can get complicated, look into the CAN bus CRC bug.
It's not simple to figure out what you're talking about, a search doesn't return anything obvious through the flurry of marketing content.
This fault is present on EVERY system that uses the CAN bus
It applies to every CAN standard? There's like five of them.
basically any vehicle since the 1990s
Since after the 1990s, you mean? While there were a few CAN vehicles in the 1990s, it didn't really become popular until the 2000s because the interface chips were still relatively expensive.
Most of them aren't video cards as they don't have video output. A DAC and ports cost money that you don't need to spend to run LLMs. The other uses for these cards are mostly scientific, and there's not enough money in that to justify owning them. Perhaps the AI bubble crashing will lead to a push towards some kind of crypto still efficiently mined with GPGPUs. Eew.
There are 3 wheel cars on the roads now.
Yes, and they suck now.
Motorcycles are all over and often driven by morons; those things are death traps without any other cars on the road.
Generally agreed. They are also slow in common real-world driving scenarios, e.g. on twisty roads. You can't ride them at 10/10 in case you find a little patch of sand or oil as you will then die. I have been stuck behind sportbikes and superbikes in a 240SX with a stock motor a bunch of times, the motorcycles probably have 4 times the power to weight ratio but not enough traction. Also if you lose the front tire at speed you will likely die.
Aptera wants to create commuting vehicles that will be in the crush of traffic going 70+, and can lose pressure in just one tire and end up with just two left which don't naturally track straight. It's an insane proposition right on the face of it.
Theoretical scenario, no?
Yes of course, but realistic in that skimming fraud is still occurring and it is still only really viable when involving the magstrip.
Going that route, the attacker can fill the whole damn card slot with epoxy, and no card, be it magnetic stripe or chip, can be inserted at all.
If you're doing an attack it's beneficial to have it not be noticed. Also most readers I have used have two different slots- an insert and leave one for the chip, and a slide through one for the strip.
Except that all of these older digital formats are essentially just obsolete storage media. You can rip a CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray to a more modern form of digital storage and have exactly the same content.
Media from the analog era, though - that actually worked differently.
True. But that said, I still come across rips of vinyl recordings from... sources. Generally, the quality is obviously inferior; but I've found a few that sound very good, and at least one that sounds more detailed and balanced than the CD. And when an official digital source isn't available, I'm very happy to have a conversion from analog performed by a fan.
Similarly, I've come across some digital copies of television shows from the 60's and 70's which weren't released on DVD. They were converted to digital by fans - sometimes from VHS, sometimes from off-air or CATV. And although the degradation is obvious, they're still quite watchable.
In any case, having the music, movie, or TV show in a quality that's not the best, is better than not having it at all.
Weekends were made for programming. - Karl Lehenbauer
