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It's amazing how much lock-in you get by developing ecommerce sites with WP for clients. Her site was recently down, just didn't load. She paid a few hundred for the agency to take a look, they said they updated plugins and "removed viruses" and all is good again. If you're someone not technical or without a huge sum of money to pay someone to replicate the functionality to migrate off WP you're on the hook for the life of business.

You can migrate hosts but that's about all the freedom you have, paying Shopify 20-30 USD / mo is nothing compared to what you'll have to eventually pay with WP if you build your business around it IMHO.

My gf has a WP ecommerce site that her business revolves around, it was built buy some local guys doing WP development who have an agency solving problems just with WP. She told me how fast they were able to iterate and solve all their problems. The site has a bunch of plugins integrating various social services, ad tracking, SEO and whatnot.

The site generates PDF shipment labels for parcels, one day her sales got high enough to buy a label printer, one that spits out 10x15cm stickers. The problem - PDFs from the site come out as A4 and text gets tiny if squeezed to fit into that sticker. She asked her developers to fix it, they said it's impossible and refused. Now that's interesting, nothing is impossible I shouted with my nerd hat on. I'm in the tech space for a good few decades now, I have FAANG experience, complex systems are my thing!

I spent 5 hours diving through tons of spaghetti code plugins masquerading as highly abstracted set of interfaces to arrive at the conclusion that these guys were right, the PDF blob comes from the shipment company's SOAP API, though it's obfuscated deep enough. In the end I solved it with a simple PyQT+fPDF UI utility to crop out the printable parts and project them onto the right sized canvas for printing, it took me 2h to complete with binary packaging and all, less time than it took to understand why the WordPress site can't do it natively, and much less than than it would have taken me to integrate this PDF modification into WordPress. These guys were basically right.

Her site now backs up to 4GB zip with photo assets. I dread the day when her site goes down due to some "hack" but I have no idea how to replicate this functionality for this cost without WP. No way in hell I would say I can do it from scratch for her, my previous Web dev experience doesn't matter at this point. Shopify? Sigh.

I tried it for a few years a while back on macOS but it somehow felt off, I don't remember why, something to do with mouse selection. I went back to iTerm2 and that's that, you couldn't view images with feh and similar tools in macOS terminals for some reason so I had no reason to stay. Out of interest, why would I want anything faster than iTerm2 anyway? Never felt that my terminal is slow.

But but you're doing the fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam! /s

C# with Unity.

Honest answer, only C++.

The parent is downvoted because the original comment contained some stretch logic talking about possible confusion with Raft consensus protocol due to naming similarities, the current comment is after the ninja edit.

I'm driving for 18 years now, regularly long distances over night, on the German Autobahn. LED lights are a massive problem and made night driving much more tiring in the last 12 or so years. Also, fuck your matrix smart lights, they move away after blinding me at worst case or the light source is too bright even if not directed at me anyway. I have them in my 2020 Audi and don't use them because other drives flash at me and I understand precisely why.

For what it's worth, they lost me as a potential customer too, having read the parent post, so there's at least 2 of us.

My previous Intel MBP which I've used for every day charging to 100% and discharging to 20% or so has 600 cycles now, battery health is at 81% and has been hovering there. It's still fine, but my point is if you think of relying on applecare+ to replace your dead battery, they will only do so if it's under 80% reported health and my conspiracy is that there's some reported value stickiness around 80%, it will have to be really bad for it to go below, and without it going below no applecare+ replacement.

There's nothing really there yet besides the readme file. I saw this the other day on GitHub trending and left with mixed feelings. You can launch an empty repo riding the clicks and sharing what essentialy is a parked domain template, as long as the keywords match the narrative.

It didn't change at all, rather was reduced in certain configurations.

What does this really accomplish, will the newspapers get any of that money or will it just be thrown into country's budget pot, as a side effect alienating France further from possible tech investments? The French Google office is tiny for such a big country, at some point it's just not worth to navigate these political waters I assume.

The name collisions for opensource projects stopped mattering a long time ago

This is unfairly downvoted. They launched 3090 on Sep 2020 with 24GB which was more than AMD's 16GB 6900XT launched on that same month. Maybe before blaming Nvidia, blame AMD for lack of trying to compete with them? Of course they're not gonna release a gaming card with loads more VRAM because a) competition doesn't exist nor has gaming cards with more VRAM b) it would all be bought up for AI workloads c) games don't really need more as parent said.

Even 32GB would be great for a gaming card, any more and you're never seeing on sale as it will be bought by truckloads for AI, so of course they're not gonna balloon the VRAM. I suspect we'd still be at 16GB but they launched 3090 on Sep 2020 with 24GB, before all this craze really, and lowering is bad optics now.

I have an M1 Max with 64GB and 3090 Ti. M1 Max is ~4x slower at inference for the same models than 3090 (i.e. 7t/s vs 30t/s), which depending on the task can be very annoying. As a plus you get to run really large models, albeit very slowly. Think if that will bother you or not. I will not give up my 3090 Ti and am rather waiting for 5090 to see what it can do because when programming, the Mac is too slow to shoot of questions. I use it mostly to better understand book topics now and 3090 Ti to do fast chat sessions.

You can add multiple, but practically speaking you're better off with used 3090s which you get 2 for the price of one 4090.

I have 3090 Ti and I can run Q4 quant 33b models at 30t/s with 8k context. A 4090 would allow me to do the same but with ~45t/s, both inference speeds are more than fast enough for people so 3090 is the usual choice. In my tests on runpod, H100 with 80GB memory is around the same speed as 3090, so slower than a 4090.

> As a normal part of the just-in-time compile and execute cycle, processes running on macOS may access memory in protected memory regions. Prior to the macOS 14.4 update, in certain circumstances, the macOS kernel would respond to these protected memory accesses by sending a signal, SIGBUS or SIGSEGV, to the process.

> With macOS 14.4, when a thread is operating in the write mode, if a memory access to a protected memory region is attempted, macOS will send the signal SIGKILL instead.

What is bizarre to me is that Oracle relied on receiving SIGSEGV as normal mode of operation. That should have been a hint where things are going, no?

What he described as essentially discovering lane keep assist was in production cars and working great since at least 2012 (i.e. Audi C7).

Nvidia released consumer RTX 3090 with 24GB VRAM in Sep 2020, AMDs flagship release in that same month was 6900 XT with 16GB VRAM. Who is being restrictive here exactly?

2017 was my best, and last normal year. Things were "normal" in job market, no crazy over hiring and runaway inflation, local housing market ice hockey curve didn't happen yet where I am. I want to go back.

It doesn't on its own but it simplifies things hard to roll by hand that does, like observation nodes, consensus algorithms, Ceph storage, live migrations etc.

"AI" of today would spit out real artist interpretation mashups of today, nothing you wouldn't find on DeviantArt

Why single out American?

Valid question. Why is this down voted?

Hey. I'm sorry about your condition. I feel I'm approaching blindness eventually, this is very random, but perhaps you could share any resources I could learn to prepare for this so I could continue using the web when/if it happens.

I like my windows (contexts really) to have more visual separation so all my Amethyst windows have 5px margins.