Nvidia has much less of a moat on the inference side of things. Of course they still dominate the market right now for inference (in datacenters), but it's much easier for companies to move onto AMD or other solutions like Groq or whatever compared to trying to use non-Nvidia for training.
Yeah, Discord for coding related things is far superior than anything else I've tried in the space (Slack, Teams, Skype, Mattermost, etc).
I've not actually used it in a professional setting but there are a large number of very active/thriving coding related communities (mostly open source, but not exclusively) and Discord seems to handle them well.
Yeah, once upon a time I lived in the mountains in Canada and bought a lot of stuff from the US because at the time the Canadian dollar was more or less at par and far cheaper down in the US. I randomly came across the fact that mountaineering equipment was tariffed at 0% because back in like 1920 Canada, like many countries, thought being the first to climb whatever mountain would bring us national glory. Anyways, I would drive down Blain, WA to a parcel shop and collect the stuff I bought online and had shipped there, drive back up and claim it was all "mountaineering" equipment. Nope, those ain't ski boots, they're mountaineering boots, and etc.
I'd still have to pay tax on it, though. IIRC there wasn't any personal exemption amount if you'd left Canada for under 24 hours, unlike they have now. Sometimes they'd just wave you through even when trying to declare something, which was always a nice little bonus savings.
Yea I always thought it was a bit silly that the method for winning was charging at your opponent and stabbing them a hundredth of a second before they stab you. As a person who knows nothing about fencing besides watching it on TV at the olympics once I think they should change the rules where it's not who stabs who first, but who stabs the other without getting stabbed themselves.
Right, if you get stabbed you lose points, so the people who win both stabbed good and also didn't get stabbed. Whole dynamic of the sport would change and would actually look closer to in the movies.
This is awesome! I'm not a gamer but a huge map nerd, however I've always dreamed of a "real world" mmorpg. I've taken a stab at learning Unreal to combine with some map data but never got too far.
I think this is a better approach. I assume it's using "regular" vector tiles and rending things based on that? Like where a map usually has green fill for trees, it's rendering out a patch of trees?
I’ve been a proponent of CANZUK for 20 odd years now. My support comes from the cultural side of things. I spent 15 years working and living at ski resorts in Canada, Australia and New Zealand (and worked with a lot of young adults from the UK and Ireland). You can basically swap out anyone from the CANZUK+IE countries and get someone similar in language/culture/work ethic/etc and only have a slightly different accent.
I also know dozens of international couples who met and fell in love with someone from one of the other countries and have seen countless relationships forced to part ways because of stupid visa issues.
I’d like to see the free movement of people come first, a military agreement second (a la NATO) and then whatever free trade agreements that make sense.
I don't remember the exact details, but I used to have a Vultr VPS (I think the smallest they had, for something like $2.50/month) for a few years running OpenBSD. One day I noticed IPV6 had stopped working, so I emailed support after a while because I wasn't sure if I had broken it during an upgrade a few months before or not (I don't ever really specifically use IPV6). Anyways, got a super detailed reply back from support with the exact cause / how to fix it that was specific to OpenBSD. I was pretty surprised they had someone replying to emails from a $2.50/month customer who was actually knowledgeable about a fairly niche OS!
When people try to cheap out on customer support, this is exactly what they lose, and it's something I always try to bear in mind as I go about things.
By having someone like that replying to emails, they ended up with someone praising them years down the line in a high-profile place, where it'll be seen by countless engineers.
That's awesome and reminds me of a similar experience I had with Schwab some years ago. I contacted support with a question from an account with a paltry amount of money in it and got back a very detailed and helpful response. My account value to them was probably similar to your $2.50/month VPS account so I was blown away at the quality of the response. I have stuck with the company for years and recommended them multiple times.
They're also still available from Vultr. I just checked the wayback machine and the only thing that seems to have changed since their introduction in ~2017 is that the included SSD was reduced from 20GB to 10GB in early 2019.
Same! It's extremely cheap in my case, so why not? One great thing about being in a city in Spain is the prices...Five euros a month extra to go from 1 gigabit symmetrical to 10 gigabit. I don't have anything that can even come close to using that (I can get about 1.2gbps over wifi, and have a 2.5gb ethernet adapter I never plug in) but... 5 euros a month!
I’ve been using the beta version of WhatsApp on macOS for a year or so and it’s a native Catalyst app. I kinda assumed the main version had dropped electron and moved to the catalyst version too, has that not happened?
I think it was more or less “nag ware”. I remember clicking “no, later” multiple times in a row and they’d only ask like twice a year. I don’t think it ever stopped working for people who didn’t pay (afaik).
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