I have made many video games in my free time and usually after 6 months or so I start feeling that this is the worst video game I have ever played, it makes no sense and I cannot relate at all to the me that start working on it. Sometimes I look at them a year later and like (or love) them again. I agree it's maddening.
I have very little knowledge about chemistry and biology, but I have the impression that there is something wrong with almost all artificial sweeteners. Even if there is nothing seriously wrong with them, like with Aspartame, some people still get headaches or similar. I guess that this can't be an accident. Is there a "reason" for it? Why is this such a hard problem to solve, especially since there are gigantic financial incentives for every company that produces sugary goods (which is many - large ones too)?
They are an exclusively business-to-business company and their customers are major telecoms. I would guess the whole telco market is not affected much generally, especially not one more link down the chain. I already have trouble believing people use mobile networks less in a recession (or pay for them less by a considerable degree) and telecoms mainly pay Ericsson for goods and services to provide a certain capacity, which I also have no reason to believe would go down.
It's definitely not like Ericsson went on a hiring spree during covid, like most other companies that are now laying people off. Their employee numbers have barely changed since 2019.
Of course old networks are still operated and maintained. 5G is exclusively "cloud-native" (i.e. microservices on Kubernetes) and most common core components are written in Java, Go and Python. So while Erlang is still being used and ran, most new code is not written in Erlang, as far as I know.
Interestingly I work at Ericsson Germany and we only got notified of this today. Just six days ago I commented:
> Oh no. Since a large part of many medium-large sized tech companies' management style seems to consist of "copy what Amazon and Google are doing", I am scared of what silly decisions in other companies this might inspire.
I feel that my model of Ericssons upper management has been validated with one more data point, which is one reason why I would not be all that bummed if it turns out to hit me.
They make the software that runs mobile networks and part of the hardware (as in radio towers, even chips in the past), various special purpose hardware used in the past is also still in use. They also operate these networks as a service to telecom providers. The goods and services they provide are spread pretty wide.
At the end of last year I decided I would look for a new job at the beginning of this year, but I think I have to put it off for a while. The big companies, who just laid off thousands, probably aren't to eager to hire me right now and the rest of the market is flooded with people with better CVs than me (because theirs say Google or Microsoft or something like that). Is that correct? Should I wait half a year or so?
It's not just the economy. A large, old population needs care, which needs to be provided by younger people. It's a problem if these younger people do not exist. The population decreasing as a whole is probably good, but a population that has many old people and few young people will be struggling.
Afaik you actually need much more. About 400GB just to load the trained model according to this tweet thread: https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/160019698195510069...
I am not quite sure how reliable the source is, but it makes sense that you at least need to store the 175 billion parameters that define the model in VRAM. I know that for a short-ish while GPUDirect storage is a thing, so that could help for sure, but it would definitely impact execution time as well.
Oh no. Since a large part of many medium-large sized tech companies' management style seems to consist of "copy what Amazon and Google are doing", I am scared of what silly decisions in other companies this might inspire.
It totally does. I am from Germany and I cannot use my bank card for online payment and most people I know can't do it either. Especially if they have bank accounts at banks you can go to in person. Some online-bank accounts provide cards that can be used with online payments, but it's far from the most popular option.
The other answer to your comment says that you can't, so it's possible the the feature is broken or something? But you can configure a recovery email, which is supposed to be used, if you forget your password. But I have not used it yet.
This is clearly a bad idea, because credit cards are not as ubiquitous everywhere as they are in the US. If they don't want to do their research properly to figure this out, then they should at least ask, e.g. by giving a proper, timely notice with some option to back out. A month is clearly not enough. It's not even enough time for people to look for other income streams as the current ones will inevitably be affected.
I really have trouble understanding decisions like this by companies that put so much focus on diversity and inclusion, but never really consider that other places outside of the US exist for many of their decisions. It frankly makes no sense to me to spearhead the effort to rename the master branch to main, but ignore that people outside the US can't sponsor projects without a credit card. The actual harm done by the latter is arguably larger and definitely more clearly measurable. It's very disappointing.
> Again, it’s crucial to recognise that this is not an AI having an existential crisis. It’s a language model predicting what should come next in a sequence of tokens... but clearly a language model that has absorbed far too much schlocky science fiction.
How do we know there is a difference? I can't even say for sure that I am not just some biological machine that predicts what should come next in a sequence of tokens.
I don't fall into any of the camps you mentioned specifically. I have been using C++ as my main programming language for a good 15 years and am a big fan of modern C++. I tried Rust for a month (every day) and I just feel like it gets in my way too much and it's just not worth the extra friction. A friend of mine (using Python as a physicist) wanted to try system programming recently and I told them to just try Rust and not trouble themselves with C++. I think Rust is the easier language to learn and probably just as powerful, but C++ just gets in your way less. It's not as hard to use correctly as people pretend it is (though I admit that years of experience and studying are required) and if you can use it relatively well you can write safe code without much trouble and you can also have a very high (higher than Rust) level of control seamlessly at the same time.
I don't know many people with similar preferences, but most of them do game development, if that helps to contextualize a bit. There safety is not as important and development speed is much more important than for other applications.
There was no way to implement a smart pointer in even a halfway usable and reliable way without move semantics, so C++11 is absolutely essential to use them well. Also I fully agree with the general sentiment. I have not produced a memory leak in many, many years in dozens of hobby projects or in a handful of professional C++ use. It's truly is a giant game changer. You can produce a leak with shared_ptr, but only if you do shit that looks dangerous and stinks to high heavens (a bit similar to the unsafe keyword).
Music and movies are very, very different. While there is no site I know of that provides purchase of DRM free downloads of popular movies, there are many alternatives for music. I purchase most of the music I like from Bandcamp and I think even Amazon allows purchase of DRM free downloadable music. I feel ZERO regrets about pirating movies, because I am not given any option worth purchasing, but I would feel bad pirating music and I think you should probably too, if you could afford it.
I think the point is rather: if they keep releasing stuff, it means they held stuff back the last time they released more stuff. It's natural to assume there is even more stuff still being held back.
More likely people might criticize that Planet Fitness does not exist in every country. Or it might not be close enough to everyone. Where I live the cheapest gym membership is 24€/mo and that gym is shady as hell (really bad reviews everywhere).
Though I have struggled with this quite a few times, I have never considered that preventing your code from being called from multiple threads is a great feature to have. I have written comments stating that certain functions should not be called from multiple threads many times. And I myself have called these functions from multiple threads by accident before.
Just another comment about this:
> Basically all languages except C(++) have an async mode that transforms code into state machines that can be interleaved on a single thread of execution.
C++ has coroutine support since C++20. It's not pretty, but it's there.