An A100 40GB costs $8,399.00. Renting it ranges from $1200 to $2682 per month.

How bad does the failure rate and/or power consumption have to be for it to make sense to spend 1/7 to 2/7 of the purchase price to rent it for a month? Yikes. That makes rental car rates look downright reasonable, and you don't have to worry about people totalling a GPU on the 405.

That's not really an accurate way to describe it. As people get older, they become less able to adapt to change. Becoming more conservative is a natural part of the brain aging process.

Conservatives always say this, but that doesn't make it true. There are plenty of very wealthy people who earn real money and still pay lots of money in taxes. To them it is about responsibility — from those to whom much is given, much is expected. And while being wealthy does make some people more fiscally conservative, the wealthy also tend to be more socially liberal, i.e. their politics are not aligned with the U.S. right wing at all.

People become more socially conservative with age only because they become less able to adapt to change, not because of wealth or because they're "becoming wiser".

That casual phrasing stuck out like a sore thumb for me. The idea that everyone who actually creates new material for the web is somehow doing it just to help out Microsoft seems like peak arrogance, except that with most Big Tech companies I'm sure they'll find a new way to be even more arrogant next week.

Unfortunately this is the logical endgame of "information wants to be free". If you contribute new information then you are simply feeding the huge players and may never get any sort of reward or even credit for your contribution. With the ways that IP laws are currently being interpreted, that includes content you put on a personal website even if you don't choose to grant a liberal licence permitting reuse elsewhere.

The answer, of course, is that training on other people's data without consent should be prohibited, certainly for commercial use. Blocking this form of exploitation might be the closest act to the original spirit and purpose of copyright that we've encountered in many years. Failing to do this will just result in a vicious circle of low-quality, mass-produced content designed purely to game the system and probably itself written by AI and then the big players training their huge predictive models on an ever worsening data set. Anyone actually doing anything useful and creative will be systematically deterred from sharing that work.

Hardly the "river of aid" that Time wrote about in 1967 that flowed from Russia to those North Vietnamese "farmers".

Nor is Pillow Python. However, Pillow routinely has significant changes from one major version to the next. Installing a newer version of Pillow than some system package expects could easily break that package. (This is why PEP 668 happened.) Likewise, installing from source a newer major version of a library than some C program expects could break that library.

HTTP has the "If-Modified-Since" request header, which instructs a server to process a request only if the requested document has changed since the provided date. It also has the "If-None-Match" request header, which does the same thing for "ETag" values.

(I did not use the <code> element in this post where the HTML spec states that I should have because Slashdot issued a diagnostic "Filter error: Invalid HTML tag usage".)

I don't understand how C is any different in this way. SDL major versions 1, 2, and 3 all have serious breaking changes.

SF is no different than any other city other than having a climate that makes it easier for the homeless to not die of exposure. Cities are dirty, cramped places. I don't understand why people willingly choose to live in them, but they do. They vote liberal because they lean young, and young people lean liberal.

Their politics have almost zero to do with cities being s**tholes. Republicans manage to turn beautiful places into s**tholes just as quickly. They just ruin things in different ways — Democrats by not mandating psychological treatment for people who are wandering the streets because of severe mental health problems and by allowing them to ignore the rules of society without consequence, Republicans by cutting funding for the mental health services that they need to keep them off the streets and by throwing people into jails where they don't get adequate mental health treatment and end up coming out even more screwed up than they were when they went in.

Both parties absolutely suck, and people who claim otherwise are kidding themselves.

Are these American militias being massively supported and aided by China and Russia?

I suspect most of these people will just shit themselves and downplay their involvement or go the way of David Koresh if it actually escalated to a real confrontation with the government, who have a much more legitimate claim of representing The People anyway.

Until they use their tablet to browse the website of the game they want to buy and see "Linux and Windows: Buy Now / Consoles: We are seeking a publisher." A newly established indie studio's games aren't on consoles until the console maker approves a studio's request for a devkit. That in turn doesn't happen until the studio brings two or three games to market on a competing platform, which usually ends up being Windows.

And write long-form articles for a website on what? Learn concepts of computer science on what?

The same way you've done it since Mac OS 7 in the 1990s. Open the Applications folder (usually pinned to the dock) then open the program.

Hoover. Dyson is a sphere, and you can't have a spherical cow in a spherical vacuum.

VHS wasn't that far behind Betamax in picture quality especially after VCR manufacturers implemented the HQ revision. VHS also had the deciding feature of much longer recording time per cassette.

Frontier, a major fiber ISP in the United States, is one of the "ancient ISPs" that still doesn't do IPv6 in 2024. T-Mobile Home Internet does IPv6 but blocks all incoming connections. In my city, that leaves Xfinity by Comcast.

This is true of all system Python in GNU/Linux distributions since PEP 668. Ostensibly, it's to protect the user from installing a new major version of a package whose breaking changes cause other packages installed on the system to stop working. Creating a venv solves the problem.