If I can’t have hardware that supports open source Android forks, then it means that I won’t buy it. I can work around with dumbphones, MiFi routers with tethered Linux or BSD portables. I will not use a proprietary system outside of work, full stop.
Sure, but I’m not interested in that ecosystem at all. My desktop and my tablet don’t run proprietary software. My phone runs a few apps which rely on sandboxed Play, but honestly, I don’t need them badly so I could stop tomorrow.
Lineage OS and Graphene OS.
Heat pumps are for low temperature processes only.
I still read one subreddit regularly via old.reddit.com, via VPN without logging in. I guess I will stop now.
How would you like 4 teratransistors on a chip? https://spectrum.ieee.org/cerebras-chip-cs3
Look at the enormous processing resources of biological brains. Human brain is 2% of body mass but 20% of baseline metabolism – this is very expensive evolutionary. Neural hardware used for LLMs or just any scientific numerics accelerator is just a bad reinvention. Your argument reminds me of Minsky’s “5 MIPS is enough for AI”. Nope. You have to track a lot of state, its relationships and refresh it all very quickly. Computation is expensive.
Your points are adressed by Ed Zitron.
The AI hardware is dead after 3-5 years.
AI will remain a massively parallel numerics affair with enormous data sets and monstrous memory bandwidth and network crossection. And accrding energy consumption. Jevon’s paradox will eat any efficiency improvements.
The node sizes are backwards computed from the unit area of a one bit SRAM cell. It used to be the physical size of the smallest structure, e.g. a transistor gate.
I agree it’s highly misleading. Also, people forget that the original Moore’s law publication mention constant doubling time of transistors per area per unit of cost. So people keep pointing at stacking and 5 nm WSI like Cerebras to argue Moore scaling didn’t die a long time, but ignore costs.
I’m not buying shit unless I have to. And then I’ll likely buy used.
Meh. You can’t find tech talent in niches. E.g. senior K8s skills are hard to find.
Shading degrades solar module performance, but I was thinking about thrown stones and sctatching with a hard metal bit which immediately destroys the prestressed glass pane only designed to withstand 30 mm hail.
And I live in a very nice neighborhood. Elsewhere, these things would be destroyed weekly.
Go back to the Ukraine. I hear fans of Bandera and Shukhevych need warm bodies to fertilize the rich chernosem, so go join https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Legion_(Ukraine)
Is the Pope catholic?
Vertically mounted bifacials have better cooling so higher efficiency, harvest light from both sides and provide more during low winter sun and no snow cover on the panels/reflected light from the snow.
Get ready to replace these a couple times a year if public-facing.
Ukraine has been too busy killing their own citizens since 2014 to now stop being a NATO proxy against Russia. Demographically, they are already dead.
It’s not an age restriction. It’s a mandatory ID for everybody. They know we hate them, and are afraid. Perhaps they should make a law against killer drones instead.