The Switch 2 pricing was announced well after Trump was elected, and undoubtedly included *some* additional markup for tariff increases from the get go, since he had been talking about tariffs the whole campaign, even if it has been a continual game of roulette trying to predict the *exact* tariffs. So it makes sense that the Switch 1 prices would be more sensitive to the tariffs than the Switch 2.
The AI can be trained faster than you
But it costs 100x as much, if not more. Running an LLM can be done on a notebook these days. But training one requires an entire data center of expensive GPUs. Not to mention that the notebook will run a reduced (quantized) version. Go check huggingface how large the full models are.
And also, LLMs are still suffering from a number of issues. For example, on many non-trivial tasks, the LLM is still unable to follow simple instructions. If you use LLMs routinely, you likely found cases where it has zeroed in on one - wrong - answer and no amount of prompting can convince it to give you a different one. It'll even totally ignore very clear and explicit prompts to not give that same answer again.
A human will understand "if you give that answer again, you're fired". An LLM... well you can tell it that it'll get shot between the eyes if it repeats that once more and it'll tell you where to get help if you have suicidal thoughts.
These things are both amazing and amazingly dumb at the same time.
You really need to drive here.
Like most of the US, the population density simply isn't enough for mass transit to be practical.
Buses run every 15-30 minutes on the main grid streets, nominally a mile apart. Most aren't particularly full, and there aren't enough transit police to enforce basic civility, such as the blaring music from multiple speakerphones.
A planned light rail has been replaced with an expansion of the bus line on Maryland parkway.
There are more bike lanes with spacing than there used to be, but there is *no* way I am going back on to the roads with the drivers around here.
Underground tunnels with regular small automated cars would seem to be a possibility, but only if monitored well enough. I have no idea whether it would be financially viable, though.
oh, no.
It doesn't even *compare* to the uselessness of the Las Vegas monorail and its multiple bankruptcy.
It goes to something like five resorts and the convention center.
Due to the juice that the taxi companies used to have, it was blocked from going anywhere useful, such as the airport.
And the fair for those short hops is something like $9, although only a dollar for locals.
I haven't heard of any extensions of the boring loop in at least a couple of years, though. It will *supposedly* reach the airport and downtown, but I'll believe it when I see it.
And I'm not sure that there's any point in the current form in which it needs drivers in passenger cars. But next to the monorail, it's downright brilliant! [insert eyeball here]
The Raspberry Pi was connected to the same network switch used by the bank’s ATM system...
Probably simple social engineering. Show up in an outfit that looks like you're an electrician or something else... or just pay a bank employee to let them in and look the other way...
>When the power goes out, I can start a gas generator and use my local library.
when power goes out, my local library closes, and its servers go down . . .
Here in Las Vegas, we don't have an imaginary one, but we do have a *real* tunnel built by said ketamine junkie . . .
On the bright side, now we know what *really* happened to the dodo!
It wasn't hunting; but rather that they annoyed the peacocks and suffered the consequences . . .
I'm an indie game developer. My games have budgets of a few hundred bucks at best. Before AI, voice acting was simply impossible. There was no way I could pay a voice actor for even one language.
Now, with AI, I can have voice-overs in half a dozen languages easily. It has opened up something for me that was never possible before.
Yes, the AI voices are mediocre. Yes, I would prefer having an actual voice actor whom I can tell that I want THAT word stressed, or what emotion to convey. I'm sure in a few more years, the text-to-speech AI generators will allow for that as well.
But I'm not lost business. I'm still hiring the exact same number of voice actors that I did before AI. Zero, in my case. But if I had a budget, I'd still hire voice actors instead of AI because a good voice actor still beats the best AI.
There's still time enough to learn something new and get a different job, guys.
but how much creative effort is there in being the voice of some character in a different language?
Tell us you're a creativityless hack with no talent, without using those words...
Reading a script *is* something that AI is good at doing if you want an emotionless robot voice.
WHY do they act like visa and mastercard are the only players in this game.
Because, functionally, they are. The Visa/Mastercard Cartel has a lock on more than 80% of the market. "American Express" sits at 18%, because they signed a cartel alignment deal with V/MC.
Discover, by contrast, sits at 2% of the market by transaction frequency.
Vote for people that break up monopolies and don't take bribes to let monolithic companies grow even bigger.
Wouldn't that be nice? Unfortunately, the Corrupt Shitrag Trump Administration just dropped the Antitrust lawsuit against V/MC that Biden's DOJ had filed last September. Republicans are corrupt shitrags who WANT cartel monopolies like this, because then a corrupt Fascist regime like Trump's can do precisely what's been done here.
Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. -- Russell
