If only that was cheaper than hiring a human to do it..

I purchased a used Radeon Instinct MI50 with 32Gb VRAM on eBay for $360 — in December. it is quite usable with llama.cpp under FreeBSD inside an older (DDR3) workstation. I use it to filter incoming email (with a plugin to SpamAssassin).

That same model is now being sold for over $500. On the one hand, this is the first time in my life a witnessing a piece of computer hardware costing more seven month later.

But on the other limb, it is still cheaper than simply providing a Western developer with coffee for a few months — much less than actually hiring him...

The incident raises questions [emphasis mine] about supply chains, audits, and cybersecurity in the British armed forces

Raises questions? No, boys and girls — who slept through the journalist lecturer's implorations against cliches — it does not raise questions. It provides clear and obvious answers...

They stopped recycling here for years, but I think recently they brought it back, BUT you have to pay extra for it, and I don't really see anyone in my area apparently paying for it, as that I don't see anyone recycle bins out for pickup....

This means you're likely throwing some things in the trash that shouldn't be there.

Well if they take it away, then it is OK to throw it away with them, eh?

You might be surprised how many women actually enjoy porn.

Err...as the old saying goes..."real" men don't care what women want...

;)

But seriously.....sure there are women that like it, but not nearly enough in numbers to drive content made and published at least not the general masses.

I think most would agree, porn would be a lot better for society if more "real people" were in it. Instead of a LA fitness instructor with huge breast implants, like we saw in the 80s and 90s and 00s...what if it was actual women and men who are actually in love with their partners and have imperfect bodies? What if lonely people watched healthy, positive, loving sex instead of impersonal performances?

Err...because that gets old and boring REALLY REALLY fast.

No one is watching pr0n to learn relationship lessons....people just want to get off and get back to their day....

And, everyone has a different body type they prefer, etc......there's niches for everyone....

I like in a large suburban/urban area and I have to go to the dump for certain kinds of waste (batteries, UPSes, eWaste, etc).

Yeah...we just throw all that stuff in the "regular" trash and they haul it away.

Where you live, do the garbage men actually slow down and stop their jobs to "inspect" your trash, open up bags, etc...to see what you are throwing away in there?

I'd think even where you live there is some limit to what the garbage men will take?

Not that I've found yet....garbage, old CRT monitors, pretty much any household waste chemicals / agents, oil...etc. Ive thrown out whole beds (mattress, boxsprings, frames....old bookcases....

I've heard some areas make you sort your trash...I've never lived in such a place as having "trash police" sifting through what you throw out.

recycling was halted years ago, but I think recently they started again, but you have to pay for it, but if you do that program, they do pick it up for you weekly I believe.

I would have to think "intent" would weigh heavily on on the charges and outcome of events like this tho...especially with new technology....

mass incarcerations and deportations for mostly non-criminals (being in the U.S. w/o permission is a civil, not criminal, infraction), etc... Did I miss anything?

You're wrong about the illegal alien crime levels...

Generally, someone that OVERSTAYS a visa, is indeed not a federal criminal offense, but the person IS removable / deportable at that point.

But a persona that has improper or unauthorized access (crossing illegally) indeed violates Federal criminal statute (USC 1325).

Illegal REENtRY after removal: That's a bigger more serious federal crime under (8 USC 1326).

So please quit trying to make all these folks here as illegal aliens as no big deal....many/most of them are guilty of criminal offenses JUST by being here.

And ALL of them here illegally are subject to immediate deportation.

We are already stopping this. In my state when I run to the landfill I'm required to drop electronic items off at one station, chemicals at another, recylcing like wood or plastic at yet another. Only when I am down to the misc crap not worth recycling or salvaging or handling differently for safety purposes am I allowed to go dump it in the actual landfill.

Go to the dump?

Is this something you do often?

Where you live, don't the garbage trucks run through your neighborhood 1-2 times a week and just pick up what you throw out?

If not where do you life they don't do this in the US? Are you somewhere extremely rural?

I've never heard of anyone in modern times having to haul their own track to a dump.

I'm curious as to what the "pollution control" measure are that the article alludes to being the possible reason for the fires ignition....

What are these measure....should they be stopped/altered?

A mistake was still made

Yep, it happens. And it was not even a mistake by Flock, apparently — not that it matters. Mistakes will continue to be made — they don't mean, Flock is doing anything wrong, or that police has to be "defunded", or Capitalism overthrown. But Slashdot is running multiple anti-Flock articles every day, it seems — like they did against Walmart some 15-20 years ago.

Can't shake off the feeling, this is a part of a propaganda campaign...

The argument against it was in the summary.

The argument, that participants can influence the outcome — if financially motivated by the betting — is but a tertiary afterthought. That may have some merits, but it is not new — regular financial markets have learned to deal with insider trading, and we have criminal laws against such activity. It is not a reason to ban the betting outright.

But the original journalist, the submitter, and BeauHD obviously emphasise the "ghastly" aspect... And this appeal to emotion is, what I find contemptible.

I'm 99% sure somebody has already been killed because of Flock

But you don't have evidence, do you? Just like those January 6th "insurrectionists". Only they don't get any "Insightful" moderation for some reason...

Flock does not pull any triggers — it only informs police, that a suspect (or, more likely, the suspect license plate) has been spotted in a certain location. That's all. The actual reaction is than up to the officers.

If anything, it is only more certain, multiple murders — and other crimes — have been prevented by the timely(ier) detention of the criminals. And, additionally, by successful prosecution of them thanks to the video-evidence. But Grok could not find any comprehensive stats for me, so I'm not including any evidence either.

Fuck Trump Musk AOC Sanders far right n' left tech bros ICE Islamophobes antisemites mullahs pedopriests nationalists

Some libido you've got there!!