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Comment #48497433
HIP was such a self-own and clear demonstration of AMD software capabilities... well, the lack of software capabilities. HIP was hard-coded for one GPU architecture. CUDA did it ri…
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Comment #48410812
> It was very useful for me Exactly. You want others to change to fulfill your needs. Their priorities and needs are different. In this case, it was evaluated and found not to be u…
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Comment #48395541
So is dead and has been for some time. 1500 questions per month. https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661
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Comment #48229413
It faces criticism, but still held true. "sacrificing profit for moral reasons" is not acting in best interest of shareholders. That doesn't mean maximizing value at all times btw,…
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Comment #48219136
That was basically what Ford vs Dodge was about. Ford lost and had to change direction. If C-suite does not operate in that direction, they can sue and will win. There is no point …
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Comment #47941283
Azure is not the best, but it mostly works. GitHub gets only 98% reliability for git operation component, reading and committing. This is the most basic component. The fact they ar…
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Comment #47321032
Compare costs, monetary risk and TTM to renewables with battery backup. Nuclear is dead as a doornail. Look at the nuclear buildup. Vogtle in US 10 years. Hinckley Point C is estim…
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Comment #47018140
I would argue that it can be circumvented, not that it won't help. If a human uses his/her signature for content farm, it can be flagged as such.
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Comment #47018087
Signal to noise ratio is getting *lower (EDIT: was higher) than ever. I don't see a way out of this other than "human certified" digitally signed authorship (e.g. by using eIDAS in…
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Comment #47015596
Ratings agree with that assessment. TKO is the only episode rated "bad" of all seasons. https://seriesgraph.com/show/3137-babylon-5
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Comment #46869105
It would be removed by distros. XScreensaver had a notice when user ran old version and Debian removed it.
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Comment #46868641
Open source is not open contribution. There are many examples of open source, but closed contribution, e.g. SQLite. What you are listing is a business strategy of a company (free l…
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Comment #46722378
I have no doubt we are going to get even worse bullshit tomorrow. Web got infested by ads, I wonder BS will agents use.
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Comment #46618137
Somehow I see how this ends. Steak for upper classes, maggots for the rest of us.
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Comment #46605029
Meet selection bias. Self-censorship is very common.
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Comment #46586465
My country is going to require a recyclable plastic bottles. That means bringing empty plastic bottles full of air into a shop, so a machine can squash them and send somewhere. Thi…
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Comment #46522391
> Saying this as a German, where the economy is the worst it’s been in decades and our federal government acts incapable at changing this so far. That's not true. Germany has a 200…
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Comment #46484551
Anyone who bought DVD player immediately had the benefits of better quality. The same applies to all other examples. The problem with IPv6 is that you don't get benefits. If the de…
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Comment #46484369
Measly 30 years after it was approved. We will likely get AGI before we finish the transition.
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Comment #46484186
> That’s the good part. Disagree. We are trained on numbers from kindergarten. It's used everywhere (e.g. see a number, store it in short-term memory and input it into calculator).…
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Comment #46484080
Not OP, but he posted "provider must keep call records for the FSB", i.e. Russia.
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Comment #46483291
Yes, it was intended by SO itself. Basically moderate mercilessly. See posts by Jeff Atwood: > Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discus…
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Comment #46300205
Why? Is Korea at UK-level dystopia nightmare?