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Is Rivos Building an RISC-V AI Chip?
How the fuck would I know?! I thought you were supposed to be the reporter.
Is Rivos Building an RISC-V AI Chip?
How the fuck would I know?! I thought you were supposed to be the reporter.
If by "ads" you mean movie trailers then I gotta say *I* like that part of the "theater" experience. I look forward to it, arrive before show time and get annoyed when people chit-chat or turn their phone in to a "glow worm" during the trailers.
You must have a good cinema. Over here if the film start time is given as 6pm there will be adverts - not film trailers, adverts for products, one of which will be for Coke or Pepsi - for 15 minutes, maybe 5 minutes of adverts for the cinema that I'm literally fucking sitting in, then about 10 minutes of trailers. The film won't actually start until 6:30.
If you have reserved seating you can safely turn up twenty minutes after the posted start time, but even then you have to worry about some dickhead deciding that your seat is better than the cheap one they bought.
Going to the cinema just isn't what it was. The only mercy is that the idea of cheering at what happens onscreen hasn't taken hold here yet, much less applauding at the end, which is just plain silly.
I often piss people off when I say this, but without humans being killed, war has very little purpose.
Just point out to them that even an army general thought so too. And Captain Kirk, if those people are so inclined.
Do they have good visuals though? Yes, Villeneuve can do âoebigâ but when I saw Part 2 last week I found myself wondering where the opulence of the Emperorâ(TM)s palace was, why he was content with a throne room decked out in bare concrete and why the panning shot of the Harkonnen arena looked like a cutscene from Dune 2000. Speaking of the Emperor, whoever designed his costume needs a kick up the arse if they ever make a Part 3. (Seems likely to me given how they left things with Chani.)
Maybe itâ(TM)s just me put there were a few parts - in both films - that resembled alpha versions of games where most of the map geometry was done but the art department still had half of the assets left to do.
You don't actually want a payout. Do you not understand the point of insurance?
This is life insurance, not health insurance. You absolutely do want a payout, it's just that the money will go to whomever you leave behind.
How do we ensure storage is stale?
You don't. You use ECC and read multiple strands. In fact, with a lot of DNA sequencing methods you have to do this anyway, because they only grab fragments of a longer chain and have to be pieced together by matching the ends up where the sequences overlap.
Data density for one. One estimate for DNA storage has been put around 200 PB per gramme.
My question is "why DNA?".
Is there a particular reason why we are looking at DNA?
Is it simply because it's evolved to be a stable (comparatively) way to store information and we've already been experimenting in ways to read and write it for decades, or are there other, simpler, candidate molecules we could be looking at?
As to cost, you only need look at how much easier and cheaper it is to sequence a strand of DNA now compared to when the Human Genome Project first started. There are machines available now that you can fit on a desk!
(From The Grauniad)
Most of the rock samples collected by Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission were retrieved soon after the canister landed in September, but additional material remaining inside a sampler head that proved difficult to access.
I can't speak to American bars but on the other side of the pond we have "pubs", which are places where you can go to just drink to excess or to have a family meal that may or may not be accompanied by a glass of wine or half a lager. It's such an old tradition that we have buildings with a bar that stretches across two rooms: one room has things like pool tables and dartboards, another with tablecloths and children running riot. Do you have places like that?
When I was at uni there was a local company called "Dial-a-Drink". This was back when Facebook was still new, people were still wondering what the point of Twitter was. There was no such thing as calling an Uber. There has been a market for delivering booze to people for a very long time, but the difference between takeaways and off-licences is that people can have a preference for the former while a bottle of whatever is the same no matter which shop you buy it from. It wasn't a large company because the selling point was delivering alcohol to people after the shops and pubs had closed, but it was expensive to the point that we poor students seldom used it.
COVID changed things; lockdown caused a massive increase in the market for home delivery of groceries as well as takeaway food. The nascent gig economy expanded hugely to fill that gap and now delivery drivers employed by a single business are becoming a minority.
tl;dr: Ordering booze by phone is not a new thing, the new army of "freelance" delivery drivers has just made it more common and so less expensive.
Is there a way to detect the slowness, to at least tell the users this is happening to them?
Try watching a 4K video. It will stop shortly after you hit play, as though it were buffering (remember that?), but won't actually buffer anything if you hit pause. If you go down to 1080/1440 the video will play. I've also seen instances of the page itself not loading completely: missing images for likes, channel logos, that sort of thing.
fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.
