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And this is exactly why Germany is not serious about its obligations to fight Global Warming. Always choosing the easy or demagogic way out, whether it was running on cheap Russian gas, or mothballing nuclear and restarting lignite coal power plants.
Usually software wins over hardware, but the voracious appetite of LLMs has inverted the usual balance of power.
The Soviets are a more likely culprit, as then just like now most of their revenues came from oil and gas exports. They secretly supported the Rote Armee Fraktion (Baader-Meinhof) terrorists via the Stasi, so funding the Greens to stymie intermediate range ballistic missile deployments in Germany, with securing hydrocarbon sales as a cherry on top, would not at all be out of character.
Back when I was in high school in France in the 1980s (before Chernobyl), I was already very aware of global warming and deeply resentful of the various Green parties sabotaging the one solution we had at the time.
I'm still very pro-nuclear, including Thorium and fast-neutron breeder reactors (but not small modular reactors, that are a boondoggle outside nuclear submarines), but I recognize solar or renewables combined with grid scale storage are more economical.
I have a bronze replica of the equation of time cam, Levenger sold it as a limited edition item in 02009.
Jensen Huang is just trying to commoditize the complements to his GPUs.
Good PMs are more than ICs, they are also a force multiplier for the engineers they work with.
Sales engineers are pre-sale, FDE are both pre- and post-sale. FDEs are also much more involved in the client implementation, often they are the ones actually doing all the work, specially in government bureaucracies or large ossified corporations where no one there actually knows how to get things done.
It's a well-paying job, but probably poison to your future career development, much as SRE or QA roles are, because you are now pigeonholed.
The rise in RAM and storage price means it's more costly and less viable to have a separate device from the PC or Mac you already have, dedicated to playing games.
And since outside the EU, all alternative browsers on iOS/iPadOS are just rebadged Safari, this degrades the Web on those platforms. Not entirely coincidentally, Apple has a strong incentive to encourage native apps over web ones.
While it makes sense for government to sponsor the humanities and arts, much as it does museums, many educational institutions, or more precisely specific departments, mislead students into applying for graduate programs with dim career prospects by exaggerating job opportunities. This is to further their turf in internecine battles, but saddles those students with crushing debt and little prospects of discharging it.
Probably good enough for memcached type applications
The Economist is to the City of London (the financial center masquerading as a local authority, not the metropolis) what Pravda was to the Soviet Communist Party. Useless as a source of truth, but invaluable to find out who was going to be purged and you should disown stat. Similarly The Economist is useful as a barometer of conventional wisdom in as very specific demographic. Their science and arts section can be very good at times, however.
There was the Citibank headquarters
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/05/29/the-fifty-nine...
Yes, that article has an email for TAOCP corrections, that are processed by his secretary.
He doesn't have an inbox:
Replacing Aspirin with Acetaminophen/Paracetamol was absurd. Reyes’s syndrome was nowhere as prevalent as acetaminophen overdoses, which are a horrible way to go.
In the UK as well.
Example: I only buy basic Logitech B110s wired mice. No vendor software needed to activate mostly useless extra functionality, compatible with every single OS, including OpenBSD which doesn't support Bluetooth. In this case, no (driver) software is the best software.
No, no software is the best software.
BTW, the title should say "(2019)".
It's funny. Just last week I was trying to figure out what this ODIN thing is, and naturally searched Wikipedia, and found nothing. I then did a web search, and found nothing particularly illuminating, and gave up trying to figure out what it is and just added a filtering rule to filter out any further mention of Odin in my RSS feed reader.
They have an equally baroque list of people who can vouch for you in passport applications:
https://www.gov.uk/countersigning-passport-applications/acce...
Reminiscent of Borges' list: https://thewhippet.org/the-whippet-134-those-that-tremble/
They were very cheap, and some like Landau and Lifschitz's textbooks on physics, world-class (and extremely challenging, volume 1 on mechanics assumed mastery of the calculus of variations).
And yet Tesla is working on some form of CarPlay integration because they realize they are losing sales due to this.
Have a limited company or be in a baroque list of occupations:
Swiss law does require an overwhelming majority of the value of a product be made in Switzerland to use Swiss flag branding, or even Swiss landmarks or other signifiers of Swiss-ness. That's why Toblerone had to remove the drawing of the Matterhorn they've had since forever on the side of their triangular tubes, because some production has been shifted to Poland.
Yes, cheaper ones can be very thin, to save on material and produce twice as many buttons.
The trick to identify genuine shell buttons is to to touch one against your upper lip. A shell button will feel cool to the touch, a plastic one won't.
Premium shirts still have shell buttons. Zebra mussels are too small to make buttons, however.
the idea of homogeneous nation states is more like rooted in the enlightenment.
More precisely the Peace of Westphalia, which was a deal between the crowned heads of Europe to stop rocking the boat, and the absolute opposite of what the Enlightenment wanted since it was designed to consolidate royal political control.
I've taken to using the Swedish locale for that very reason (French-American living in the UK).