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> Cloud models […] don't consume so much power/generate heat I do realize the cloud is just someone else’s computer right? Power goes in, tokens and heat come out - just in another…

Back when we were kids, we would get 0 tokens/sec _if we were lucky_

Didn’t know, thanks

Unless, of course, said owner cared for the environment

Mercedes has some interesting EV options, and they have some models at the moment that are not necessarily that expensive. Through the grapevine I overheard something about surplus…

> why is the energy price an issue Electricity is sold on the market. If you live next to a data center you can choose not to use any services enabled by that center, but you canno…

3 years ago I was in pharma in Europe. Back then (a political lifetime ago), the FDA had an excellent reputation and was considered a kind of gold standard. Get your new drug appro…

Do we have many countries around where wind is not a thing?

Yeah, um… That might have changed somewhat, recently.

Just Wiki Linus Torvalds my friend: > Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland > In 2004, Torvalds moved with his family from Silicon Valley to Portland, Oregon.

> utter idiot How about we keep it civilized

Wikipedia lists exactly the two cases you mention [0]: > > Not to be confused with Binary large object (BLOB). > In the context of free and open-source software, proprietary softwa…

> firmware BLOBs Nitpick, but it’s just ‘blob’ as in ‘a big blob of bytes’. It’s not an acronym or abbreviation for anything :)

Yeah I guess most True Scotsmen write modern C++ after all.

> But what disappoints me a bit about this moment is (the perhaps inevitable?) response to nationalism with more nationalism. Unfortunately it is now a question of sovereignty and …

> If anything I'm surprised that this is happening in an area that hasn't benefited as much from dramatic reductions in electricity costs Electricity has been comparatively cheap (…

> For the first one, you CANNOT use what you just described, since it doesn't represent time, so you cannot give dates in any form. Exactly - that’s the point. Story points assigne…

> The only moment time it makes sense is when you have a SHARED understanding of the smallest point AND you can translate it to time. When you do that, story points are useful. I’d…

Whataboutism. The linked articles are not about NATO obligations.

Yeah, I remember formatting the HD on a PC back then to do a fresh install of Windows XP. The CD-ROM I had was pre-SP2 (so no firewall), and our internet setup was basic modem + sw…

> State and local taxes make this infeasible I don’t see why that would be the case? In my country, most prices with VAT (which is what you’re charged) are nice, round numbers, but…

By enrolling at “Floating Point Math Idiosyncrasy University” I suppose

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