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Comment Re:Advantages and disadvantages (Score 1) 231

change time two times per year

What are you under the impression happens two times per year? The time of sunrise and sunset changes 365 times per year (366 in leap years).

Why not change the clocks four times per year? Or monthly? Or weekly? Answer: because that would be stupid, just like changing the clocks twice per year is stupid. Just like the US and Europe changing the clocks weeks apart every spring and every fall is stupid.

There is no natural event that happens twice per year that corresponds to changing clocks twice per year. Sunrise and sunset times change every day and every latitude. It's absurd to think that there's a particular day in the spring and another particular day in the fall when the clocks need to be changed by exactly one hour.

Many countries do not change the clocks at all, so every year we go through this sequence of Europe changing their clocks, offsetting meeting times with the US and Asia, then the US changing their clocks, resynchronizing with Europe while simultaneously offsetting with respect to Asia. It's just stupid. And twice every year, the people in Asia observe the stupidity of Europeans and Americans (though I suppose they probably observe that more often than twice a year, just in different contexts)

Comment Re:Lol (Score 1) 74

[...]economics grads[...] May explain why they are near universally bad at it.
Because economics usually has nothing to do with running the business they are employed in.
If they would love their job, they would pick up the trade and figure how their economics skills fit into it.

However they lean back and tell everyone if the oil price is increasing, everything gets more expensive.

Well ... not sure if I need an Master of BA or Master of economics to grasp that.

The next thing is: we can fire half the people, the company will roll on its momentum for half a year, and has a huge profit increase, and then we rehire and see how to go on.

Comment Re:Giving your bot an allowance... (Score 2) 28

The blockchain is to know which person once owned the coin, that is all.
Not sure if that is an ridiculous overhead.

Otherwise I agree with you.

The first time I went into a business via a web site where I wanted to use "microtransactions", I wanted to sell stuff for 50cents. The fee was $2,30 per transaction.

No idea how that is in our days, Germany just introduced a new payment platform that is supposed to be fee free ... lets see.

Comment Re:But... (Score 1) 110

But they do not have a "Share to my friends" option.

Can not be so hard to grasp.

Better option would be to group message everyone details to your event.

I do not know all your friends and friends of your friends and their friends who might be interested in that event: so, I can not reach them. Without a platform that works similar like facebook, or TikTok etc.

In other words: without invading your account, stealing all your friends and grouping them into:
- likes Aikido
- likes Tango
- likes Surfing

etc.

I have no idea how to reach anyone of them for an Aikido event.

Comment Re:good self awareness (Score 5, Interesting) 61

Good question. Their POWER series of CPUs were not insignificant in capability, their chip designers were clearly technically sophisticated, and GPUs are just specialised vector processors with a few extra bells and whistles - stuff IBM is extremely familiar with.

It would not have been difficult to release a GPU or other LLM-specific processor to go along with the POWER11. They'd been working on the POWER11 for 4 years, they knew in 2020 that LLMs had a strong potential to be significant for Big Data processing - an area you use big iron for, they're not rank amateurs, they have plenty of reserve, they could have assembled an emergency team to build a vector processor that was custom-designed for just LLM work, and released an LLM processor card that could run circles around nVidia.

They didn't. Because, as has happened before, their management is simply too stupid and too slow.

Comment Re:Gee, I wonder if Trump invested in Intel? (Score 1) 66

There is nothing to wonder about.
Basically everything that happened the last 2 years under that administration was playing and gaming the big markets.
And my it just be selling Patriot missiles to Ukraine on a loan.

Unfortunately some stuff big misfired.

Tax on Solar panels from China.
Invade Venezuela and cut Cuba from oil.
China just gifts the Solar panels they can not sell to Cuba.

Stupid American idiots.

Just as if America has no people in its country ... and they are aghast that people from China help people from Cuba with a gift.

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