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As a diver, if you jump into moderately warm water (the Great Barrier Reef for instance), that won't save you either. Mine overheats and dies after 15-20 minutes. It took diving near Seattle to keep it going continuously.

You might have to mess around with the software to figure out the details, but from a hardware perspective a hall effect keyboard should be at least able to infer the speed a key is travelling at when bottoms out.

GST and VAT are the same thing, different countries just call them different things.

As an example, GST in Australia is in the price on the shelf. You can also claim back the GST you paid on your input goods, which means you effectively pay the difference on the GST your customers pay you, and you paid your suppliers (which is the value added!).

FWIW, I had the same issue with my 3090 (though I believe that uses a slightly different port?). I was using a custom cable like this guy. Nvidia replaced it under warranty, and I went back to using the (ugly) provided adapter.

TLDR: If he buys a car a year, and drives the same number of miles as the average American, his total emissions are probably equal to someone who drives 28k miles a year.

Carbon emissions for a Model 3 vs a Toyota Corolla even out after 13'500 miles according to Argonne National Laboratory [1], which is slightly less than the average an American drives per year (14'263 miles [2]). Assuming that he drives as much as the average driver, his cars generate as much Co2 as a Model 3 (definitely not true for the Cybertruck, but he probably has low-build-emission ICE cars in the other 8 to lower the average), and he buys a car a year, he has roughly the equivalent emissions of someone who drives twice the average number of miles each year. For reference, a long haul driver (of which there are 300k-500k in the US [3]) drives 100-110k miles [4] a year (7-8x the average).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...

[2] https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/average-miles-dri....

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/05/25/999784202/is-t....

[4] https://www.caltrux.org/driver-faqs/#:~:text=Begin%20a%20Car....

The model they use (BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5) produces embeddings 384 wide, at float32 that equals 1536 bytes each. The size of all the vectors for 100 items is 153kb. Calculating the dot product of that against a query will be under measured in nano seconds, even with a naive implementation.

This is most likely lawyer CYA, rather than any real attempt to stop kids from playing games. Is it absurd? Yes. Is anyone going to have any issues with it? No.

LLMs being bad at math is a known issue, but what they are good at is writing programs. For example:

>> Write a program that calculates if 120 is greater than 0.7.

Sure, here's a program in Python that calculates if 120 is greater than 0.7:

    if 120 > 0.7:
        print("Yes, 120 is greater than 0.7")
    else:
        print("No, 120 is not greater than 0.7")
For straight input/output like what this model is trained on, questions like this don't work well. However if LLMs are equipped with tools (like a code interpreter), they get a lot smarter.

By that logic babies are bad for workers, they grow up and take their jobs!

Except that is obviously ridiculous, because people on visas induce their own demand in the local economy, growing the pie for everyone. They are also pre-trained, commit crime at a level vastly below the citizen population, don't get any sort of welfare, and pay enormous amounts of taxes.

The likelyhood of a decentralized constellation of low orbit satellites ever existing is next to zero, and having additional internet connectivity options can never reduce availability. Sure corporations and governments are both corruptible, but if both are available, and neither can impose on the other (I don't think Pakistan has much of a say in how SpaceX runs StarLink, and SpaceX doesn't have a say in Pakistan runs Pakistan), the existence of another option is good.