I disagree that the tariffs were a surprise, he had definitely been campaining on that platform before the elections.

I guess what was a surprise was the completely haphazard way they ended up implemented: 30% tariffs! no 50% tariffs! no 10% tariffs! etc.all within a timespan of months and then they ended up being declared illegal anyway because he couldn't be bothered to do it properly via the Republican- controlled congress.

I'm not sure the Biden administration itself was abnormal, but the circumstances certainly were. With COVID causing a global major economical rollercoaster as companies first have to lay off or furlough workers only to run ino a massive peak of pent-up demand and not being able to meet it (resulting in inflation) - no administration in the world could have gotten through that unscathed.

Meanwile the issues related to Trump's second term seem to be more or less entirely self-inflicted.

But I think the US doesn't even want "normal" anymore. Just holding steady won't resovlve issues related to the AI boom (and maybe bust), corrpution or the ever increasing income gap.

You can do that for your own use as much as you want, but your fair use doesn't include publishing it. Different countries have some exemptions for educational use etc. but as a general case, I can't take a photo you published, make it black and white in Photoshop and publish it as mine.

Switching overnight was such a douche move, it would have been better to spread it out over a few month. Lorries swithch first, then buses some weeks later and smaller cars a few weeks later still.

It's not about uniqueness. If you take a photo of a pretty tree and post it online, you obviously own the copyright to that photo. If I find that same tree and take my own photo of it under very similar circumstances, and publish that, then my photo is still mine and I own the copyright to it, even though it's not very unique.

On the other hand if I take your photo and edit it with Photoshop to be subtly different, and publish it, I am in breach of your copyright. Even if those two hyopthetical photos I produced end up identical, one is in breach of copyright and one is not.

The question is whether I copy your work or not, and as you don't own any IP related to the subject (a tree), I am perfectly in my rights to take my own photo of that same tree.

Nvidia for sure.

Agreed, it's basically equivalent of trying to maximise the amount of billable consultancy hours you buy. It never made any sense.

Even if it's not really old yet as such, you can pretty much count on being able to run a car for at least 20 years unless the manufacturer goes out of business.

Recent news leaks have suggested that Nvidia has stopped manufacturing the 5090 and are using those GB202 chips only for their PRO line of models instead. For pricing reasons, the 5090 has really stopped being a consumer level GPU anyway. It's now used primarity for workstation use for use cases where you need a beefy GPU but 32Gb of VRAM is enough, which is what Nvidia wants to stop apparently by making businesses buy the PRO models instad.

The next step up in GPU power (not counting VRAM) in Nvidia's lineup is the RTX Pro 6000 which costs like 3x as much even at today's inflated 5090 prices. It uses the same GB202 chip but with all cores unlocked.

If these leaks are true, and the 5090 is in fact no longer being manufactured, that menas the top consumer level GPU available from Nvidia is in fact the 5080 (which is slower than the 4090), and Nvidia may release a 5080 Super with 24Gb of VRAM to compensate, by switching the 2Gb VRAM chips to 3Gb chips. That certainly will mean more price increases, so we may be looking at the updated 5080 at $2k and the 5070TI slowly creeping up towards $1.5k.

It's a pretty bleak outlook for gamers, but also a lousy situation for users and small businesses who want to run local LLM models without breaking the bank.

I think they are referring to "we used Rust to ensure memory safety first"

Well it aims to please after all.

"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity, error, or ignorance."

In this case there is a simpler explanation: 1) There is misinformation on the Internet, 2) AI models are trained with huge masses of text indiscriminately scraped off the Internet 3) AI models are therefore trained on misinformation and will sometimes pass this on to their users.

You failed to notice that they had no problems selling their oil until America went and royally screwed things up, lost a war and is now unwilling to do anything else about it that turn it into another forever war with no resolution in sight?

At this point Europe's plan is to defend itself, because America first proved that it won't and now it has further proved that it can't. It just takes time for most European states to build up their armies to something more than support companies for the US (which is what the US wanted them to become in the first place).

Woosh! and get a life and all that.

Google "trans suicide rates" to find out.