The profit margin isn't that hidden. Distributors pay groocery stores for shelf placement, and big US brands have deeper pockets and can outbid Canadian alternatives. The winning play, then, is to find any excuse to label US brands as Canadian, and collect from both sides.
Kichae
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No, no. There's little evidence that LLMs could do your job. That's very different from the LLMs "taking" your job. All business owners need is the belief -- grounded or not -- that the LLMs will eventually be able to do your job, and for way less than you were being paid.
Neither will be true, of course, but business decisions are not based on truth.
Is Brave actually blocking ads noe, and not just inserting their own?
Are they still installing crypto miners on people's computers?
Separatist leader accused of misusing Alberta electors list refuses to co-operate with investigators
The investigation is being run by Elections Alberta. We should be lucky that they don't just hand over more records to the separatists.
You mean the AOSP project that only supports hardware sold by the assholes we're trying to get away from?
Hard pass.
It's going to be bad, too. These companies are repportedly selling tokens for 1/10 - 1/15 the actual processing costs. Companies are already spending significantly more than they would junior developers (to generate an un-revewable amount of code). Raising peices by a factor of 20 will kill the whole project dead. They'll need to hold out until there's no one left who knows how to write anymore to survive that kind of price hike.
I'm not late. I always arrive exactly when I mean to!
Which is always at least 10 minutes later than I said, and 20 minutes later than I expected to.
Probably Super Mario Bros. Wonder or LoZ Echoes of Eisdom. I will continue to buy physical games from local stires until it's no longer an option.
Yes, but federation isn't really about enabling one singular discussion space. Network splits are ultimately healthy for the communities, because it allows for self-governance and actual community building, rather than unmanageably large masses screaming into themaatically named voids, controlled by a handful of super-mods and super-admins.
Distributed networks are meant to be, well, distributed, not quasi-centralized with some fun URLs used as dumb terminals.
Yup. And costs right now are rising while they're still in the "get everybody hooked" stage of things, in no small part because they can't survive at current prices. Anthropic is desperate to get to their IPO so they can have the warchest they need to actually become an established integral part of development pipelines and not just a fad.
My Haswell 4770k died last year after 13 years in service. I replaced it with a used AMD 5800X with 32GB DDR4 for $100. As soon as I heard about the RAM shortages, I grabbed another 64GB.
Not only am I ready to ride out this bubble, buy I'm fucking around with local LLM models just to be a snot about it.
Crazy how the only one of these airing criticism that says the budget isn't doing enough is the publicly owned one.
Hey everyone, just an update to my last post from Sunday night.
The eclipse went off without a hitch -- thankfully, I am not personally capable of interfering with celestial events -- and I have to say, nothing could have ever possibly prepared me for the experience. No photo has ever actually captured what I saw Monday afternoon. I don't think any of them have come close.
Picture of my own attached for total lack of effect.
As I looked down at my camera screen and watched the last light of the crescent Sun disappear from my view, I felt totality occur. The umbra of the Moon swept over me while I looked down, and the world got noticeably chilly. The wind died down. The world was silent for a hiccup. I immediately and excitedly looked up, and I think my brain broke.
Hovering in the sky over Potato World was an black, alien orb, surrounded by a thin ring of brilliant white and pink shimmering fire. It was something straight out of a science fiction movie, and not necessarily a good one, either. It looked so incredibly fake.
It looked downright cartoony.
And it hit me like a ton of bricks. I wept as I stared at it, completely unable to maintain composure. I gawked at how bright the solar corona actually was -- I had completely expected to have to strain to see it. I marveled as I realized I was seeing, with my own two, naked eyes, solar prominences arching over the limb of the Moon. And I just sobbed through the whole experience.
My fiancee, whose interest in this had seemed to be primarily a mix between modest curiosity in a significant natural and cultural event and support for my interest, also cried at seeing it, while her son sat on the ground with his mouth hanging open.
It was both the longest and the shortest 3 minutes of my life. When it was over, I just stood in the field in a daze, periodically pressing my camera's shutter button. In just a few minutes following the end of totality, the field, in which hundreds of people had gathered, was nearly empty. Only a handful of us remained, and most of the others had heavier equipment than my DSLR and tripod.
At the end of the day, I didn't quite get the pictures I wanted. I had hoped to get bracketed exposures during totality, and I had assumed that my camera's settings for that when using the LCD display as digital viewfinder would be the same as when using the optical viewfinder, and they weren't. But I'm not too fussed about it. The pictures still turned out significantly better than I could have hoped for.
I'll be posting the rest of my photos -- including some pictures of Potato World itself -- to my PixelFed account, which can be found here, if anyone's interested: https://pixey.org/i/web/profile/384533916920271164
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The thing is, what a lot of people mean by "the old, weird internet" is Twitter in 2012 and YouTube before it became professionalized. They don't mean usenet, Geocities, and perl-based chatrooms because they didn't experience the Internet prior to the iPhone app store.