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I think the point estimating GPU utilization (the terminology is transcending ), and by extension GPU demand misses the point. Of course they will buy them, they have to because everybody else is.

The questions is whether the GPUs makes money for these companies. When the market sniffs the answer to that question, that's when the bottom falls out or not.

Is Google going to make more money from me than it already does by embedding LLMs into its search product? Am I going to be spending any meaningfully more amount of time using any of these products than I already do by the addition of AI? Because if not where does the money come from?

Don't you have to ask for permission to be white-hat?

Apologies for the bluntness, but this is just extremely naive.

The bank, at its discretion or under order by government, can and will prevent the transfer of funds, so it's really just a case of Murphy's law.

I don't know why there has to be appeal to "fetish fantasies". Is it so hard for you to imagine a scenario where you or others might unjustly be the target of nefarious actions by public or private parties who would wield the bureaucracy of banking system against you? This isn't a hypothetical, one of things opposing counsel does in a lawsuit involving money is to attempt to freeze or restrict your accounts.

You may have never been in a situation where a bank prevents you from moving money, but it happens, and the worldview you are espousing doesn't survive first contact with such a situation.

But you don't have to take my word for it. There's a reason the market for gold ingots exists, and it isn't just to guard against inflation.

What happens when your bank says: "no." ?

I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

Moderna's only commercial product is the COVID-19 vaccine[1]. But hey, you were told to get the exact number of doses necessary to ensure the survival of humanity and no more than that!

1. https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/0001... (see page 59).

"I fail to see a reason to eat a serving that would be sub-optimal for my personal situation", said the 600-pound man before digging into a meal of 50 flapjacks and a Big Gulp.

Do large families only exist in the U.S? Why is this not an issue for people in any other country?

The explosion in vehicle size over the last 10 years in U.S is off-the-scale absurd, while per-capita fatal crashes have only gone UP over the same period[1].

1. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearl...

EDIT: You wouldn't believe how many GMC Yukons I see in my wealthy SF suburb that are used to shuffle 8 year-olds from school to soccer practice. For the uninitiated: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/ford-focus-2013-5-d...

What is the utility of making art?

I don't know why that "word choice" is controversial. The FBI is not in the business of "prosecuting" crimes in the legal sense, they are an investigatory body, it's in the name. The FBI absolutely CAN investigate egregiously, for example by falsifying evidence, or eliding exculpatory evidence, which they have a long history of doing.

The mere existence of an FBI investigation can seriously injure the affected party, and so in that regard the FBI has tremendous power to influence people and organizations, and is an obvious organization to co-op if one wanted to wield political influence nefariously. The natural stance towards the FBI should be one of skepticism and apprehension at a minimum, if not outright deep suspicion.

I think what many people are pointing out is that left-wing politicians openly supporting the FBI, CIA and NSA in any capacity is a blatant about-face, and just downright distasteful, particularly when the most high profile "investigations" of late are political in nature.

Edit:

A simpler way of expressing this would be to point out that the FBI serves the same function as the "State Security Service(s)" of countries that we don't like.

We can’t have a complete conversation about the anti-FBI sentiment without mentioning their very, very long rap sheet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FBI_controversies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

There's no need to analyse things so deeply. It's just human expression.

Japan was already defeated*, how would the bombings have prevented those crimes, since they weren't being committed anymore?

The bombings were justified for revenge?

* It was a formality, the Soviets were about to invade Manchuria, we should have just blockaded the Japanese mainland and let events play out, not evaporate 100k civilians.

(There is nothing particularly special about the use of nuclear weapons here, the bombing of Dresden is just as indefensible).

I still don’t understand your point, destitution is the symptom of the various problems you’ve described, I agree with you. Nowhere do I posit differently.

And it doesn’t matter what the causes are. I’m simply pointing out the most disgusting element of San Francisco’s destitution, namely that it is in cohabitation with some of the greatest wealth ever produced in human history, including the lowest salaried employees of the tech companies who operate downtown.

Your question could be generalized to “Do members of a community have a responsibility towards that community.”

The answer is obviously yes.

Responsibility assumes that conditions can be changed by those responsible, otherwise the concept of responsibility is void.

I can direct this reflection at myself in various domains and come to the conclusion that I am falling short of my responsibilities in many ways, but it’s also true that people who walk by the worst of SF’s blocks everyday to pick up there 200k+ salaries are telling themselves everyday “not my problem”.

I don’t understand your point. Destitution is the outcome of the various factors you’ve just listed, not the cause.

That block (corner of 8th and Market) is particularly nasty.

What I find even more perplexing than the city doing nothing is how the large tech companies and their brood that work right next door tolerate it.

For those that work in those offices, do you just get bused in everyday, eat all your meals at the cafeteria, and get bused back out, observing the outside world like a snow globe?

How do you reconcile the money you make with the destitution at your literal doorstep.

Could you elaborate on your method? That's quite impressive considering it's widely believed to be untrainable past a certain age (at least that's layman my understanding).

Did you start with a complete inability to identify notes, and now are able to identity them immediately (i.e like acquiring a new language?).

More of a reflection on the state of the West in general. Where the flame is lit doesn't really matter.

Totally totally insane. A revolution is coming, and it will be bloody.

I drive a Ford Focus, my neighbor drives a new F150. Our parking spots are next to each other, this is what is looks like:

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/ford-focus-2022-5-d...

I laugh every time I walk to my car because I don't want to cry.

Bigger vehicles by volume are taller vehicles, they impact pedestrians closer to the vital organs in the upper torso and head. Pedestrians are also more likely to be swallowed / run over by cars with higher ride heights.

Yeah, but you quickly counteract with direct steering after you initiate the turn, so the overriding sensation is one of direct steering at low speeds, even through the physics is the same. This is what I think most people are referring to when they talk about high speed / low speed steering.

Ride a motorcycle for 5 minutes and you'll believe.

EDIT: To answer your question more directly, you are steering in one direction to initiate a lean in the opposite direction. E.g. if you are attempting to turn right, you first steer left which generates force in a left-sided contact patch in the front tire, which causes the bike to lean right. The bike then assumes a stable right lean angle (you have to do some work with your body, but the bike naturally wants to do this), and the front wheel comes back into alignment, and you are now turning right.

A good explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgUOOwnZcDU Some more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering

EDIT 2: I misread your point. You are correct, counter-steering still applies at low speeds but the "feeling" is masked by lack of momentum.

If you need to quickly swerve out of the way of an obstacle you push hard on the handle and you will immediately initiate a turn (you could just as easily say that your are initiating a lean). It's also well understood that handle bar input allows you to increase / adjust the lean mid-corner. I ride and never knew there was a debate about this.

"Binance currently offers a "Battle Function" that "allows users to compete with each other and earn points" by trading Binance derivative contracts in a "head to head battle to see who is the most profitable" in "a one-minute battle period"".

LOL.

For some (myself included) the high speed and efficiency of proficient modal editing serves as a thinking aid, like sketching with a pencil and eraser. I tend "play" with the code: chopping it up; splitting lines and inserting a bunch of white space; duplicating lines dozens of times to act as placeholder values (e.g filling an array literal); renaming variables across a file many many times before settling on the right name; moving helpers functions to the top, then to the middle, then next to their first invocation etc.... All doable with other editing styles, but at a higher cost, and the cost of manipulation has to be very low in order to reap those meditative qualities.

Manipulation far outweighs input. And manipulation is fundamentally thinking, at least for me.

点 means 'point', or 'spot', 'speck', 'tiny thing' etc... The "o'clock" meaning is a derivative, colloquial use of the word 'point'. So here it simply means 3-point, eg "3-point system".

Well,

First: I'm looking for something like this: "rename -r . s/foo/bar/g" to recurse into subdirs. It might seem trivial, but things like find's -exec (a find idiosyncrasy) and xargs (I don't always remember how xargs -I works with extra arguments etc..) can add enough friction to the process where I just end up doing it manually with mv and it's not a fun time. I usually end up having to rename a few files (less than 20) across multiple directories (like changing a naming convention).

Second: The rename command your suggesting is actually a perl script that is indirectly symlinked with /usr/bin/rename on debian-derived distributions . And there can be at least 3 versions of this perl script by different authors under different aliases. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/229230/whats-with-a...

On other distros -- well at least mine -- rename is a much dumber command with a different invocation (rename [options] expression replacement file) that is restricted to glob-style patterns (which incidentally is all I usually need anyways). Oh an you can also get this version on debian & co with the util-linux package. But why do I need that when I already have mv?

Anyways, the UNIX tools have terrible UI and terrible package management and everybody knows but I felt like saying it anyways...

The best part of all that is that I would LOVE a UNIX command to quickly bulk replace filenames against a pattern instead of some multi-pipe bash loop incantation that I usually resort to (when banging out mv x y on 30+ files is really too dumb to stomach). Simple binary sans node please, but the idea is great.

I mean dear god look at these examples: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9393607/find-and-replace....

Now somebody tell me I'm an idiot and recommend a commonly used program for the aforementioned problem please.