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Dose AI really raise productivity floor that much? Do we have some good example of that?

This is only for citizen not refugees/immigrants so both MEA and NA folks can chill.

Contemporary academia especially in the West has a massive surplus of staff. Many people pursue academic careers solely for a comfortable lifestyle, doing minimal or even no resear…

Thanks to ireland all big US corporations saved hundreds of billions of dollars past few years so now they can get back to US with this massive cash for anything they want (ofc. no…

Yes and no Mongol Bow was a thing that was just a lot better for this era compared to rest of Eurasia especially with combination with mongols tactics and rest of the regions didn'…

Not sure if this is true, he got "lucky" with technological advantage of warfare (Mongol bows) compared to other nations close to him as horse archers were literally "meta" to figh…

If someone is interested in Byzantium fall and why this war was so bad for both empires, read some more about Justinian's Plague which killed ~35-50% of population and also halved …

cloud gaming is good if you live close to the servers and don't care about graphics, but playing with +60-100ms for every action feels very bad. It almost feels like playing on 15-…

If you wirte 100x faster code you could probably automate almost all of it away as it seems to be super trivial and already resolved problems. I also use Claude for my coding a lot…

Yes they do this every time and it will happen every time culture shift nothing new. problem with DEI and other politicL "incentives" is that they are very visible and easy to make…

UK also is moving to the right reform + conservatives are pooling at around 45-60% atm. Labor is only in power cause reform and conservatives split votes Only place that was in rev…

DEI was so good and righteous idea that it shifted most of the western world to the right more than dozens of islamist terrorist attacks in previous decades. And ofc. all US corpor…

WebGPU don't have access to most accelerators in GPU so it would be super slow compared to CUDNN version but pure CUDA would be only x times times faster.

there is no AV1 encode on any Apple products right now

You most likely would buy 700x series for compute

For lowest end GPU? (and 2k gaming?) It is plenty even for most 4k games.

Apple Silicon still don't support AV1 encoding but it is good enough for simple Jellyfin server i'm using one myself

Cyberpunk have a massive problems caused by success of Witcher 3 a lot and i mean A LOT of people move to western studios and they were best engineers in the company. They still ha…

It isn't weird it started inside NV and folks from there are still working on the project.

From Cloudflare blog about why EU prices are lower (around 50% cheaper than US at least according to cloudflare) The value of an exchange depends on the number of networks that are…

Not when there is a duopoly on one market (US) and hundreds of companies on other (EU).

However, we are also considering infrastructure costs. The median salary in Germany is approximately 60,000 USD, which should probably be taken into account when comparing company …

So it seems that trying to compete with duopoly isn't working. Can we assume it is cause there is only few big corporations dominating internet infrastructure in US compared to EU …

So it seems that trying to compete with duopoly isn't working. Can we assume it is cause there is only few big corporations dominating internet infrastructure in US compared to EU …

Happen before will happen again. CF is a publicly traded company and when the squeeze comes, they’ll just tax your egress as hard as amazon.