An age old choice betwen petrol and diesel never seemed to be a problem, and electric vs hybrid/ICE are way more different to each other.

And as for the car software- after driving a new Prius I don't see any areas where Tesla's or BYD software is significantly ahead unless we are talking navigation which is shit either way, and I'd rather prefer car play

First, it’s unreliable in when to say what you want after Hey Siri, then it just didn’t do anything, and the third time it silently set the timer but didn’t confirm anything so I have then set another timer manually to only find out later that they both run.

Hard to trust this product with anything serious when it still can’t do the job of a kitchen clock from half a century ago

For me personally steam frame would be worth it if only for running these kinds of games on a large virtual screen, watching movies and intermittently using it as a linux computer (with a limitation that text is likely not readable if the screen is comparable with Quest 3). And some VR native apps like Alyx.

Basically the stuff that Steam Deck already does save for all the new games (which run worse and worse with each year anyway)

Carmack is an amazing engineer, a genius even, but either the age of the individual contributor creating the entire thing from the ground up is over, and he's bored of it, trying to find a niche where this still works, or he is exploring the areas in which to apply his curiosity.

What I'm saying is that his current productivity or lack of thereof isn't a marker of how AI is productive (or not) in general

And as it's trivial for Google to link all of our supposedly separate accounts, I wouldn't count on that kind of isolation either.

Plus it'll be decommissioned in half a year anyway

Chatbots, no matter how much autonomy of action they possess, can’t die, or spend the majority of their life in prison, or lose their wealth, or face social ostracism for their action, and thus punishing them is pointless for preventing further crimes or dissuading others.

Sometimes what’s important isn’t what feels just, but what, with certain limitations, creates a safer and more responsible society.

The end-user behind the bot is the easiest to reach, and the easiest to prove their involvement, intention or lack if thereof, and thus should be judged

Microsoft is not wrong

The companies which have the will and the budget to host their own LLMs typically require a ton of other, much smaller, models as well. They have internal security requirements, guardrails, audit, critical workflows start depending on your onprem setup, downtime is now something that’s not even allowed. There’s going to be a zoo of tooling, lots of bespoke work with internal clients who have no clue about docker, but now want their vibe-coded app to access a model they downloaded yesterday, and this model better be served and monitored 24/7 because now C-levels use it.

No one is going to budget several millions to then look at an email admin who hears ‘cuda’ for the first time in their life and ask them to just support the entire thing somehow.

And god forbid it’s an AMD setup.

This obviously isn’t relevant for a 10-person startup and their second-hand xeon with a single H100.

From my experience only the companies which are REALLY interested in privacy and data security bother with hosting their own models

It still requires a ton more ops time, not every dc handles it cooling-wise, and you have to be careful with the model selection, but when it fits, it fits well

Sadly we’re way past the point where games became like all the other software in that regard

Jokes aside I do agree that streaming doesn’t work reliably for all game genres and client geographies, mostly due to latency

What the article is covering are the skilled workers, and for them B1 isn't nearly enough to function in any profesional capacity. I'd put B2 as a bare minimum for that. So if it's impossible for someone to find employment in the language they already know (for skilled workers it's usually English), they are understandably not eager to stay.

For those who are quick to judge, try mastering a foreign language (and German is noticeably more difficult than English, French or Spanish) in another country where you don't have any support system yet, and with likely some suboptimal job (as you need this foreign language to find a decent one). Getting to B2 takes about 750 class hours (not including homework) for an average English speaker. That's an enormous investment (of both time and money). One will have to sacrifice entertainment, socializing, hobbies, sleep, and work-related educational opportunities for several years in a row, depending on abilities (and the language).

And just a reminder- most people tend to overestimate how well they know a foreign language. Telling you know [insert your flavor of Chinese] and actually passing an exam are two different things.

Again, I am not saying it is unfair for country officials to expect whatever language level they want. It is their country and their rules. As far as I understand nobody's talking about giving away passports.

It's just when it's relatively more difficult for skilled immigrants to find employment and interact with said officials without high level (at least B2) German, some of these immigrants will chose in favor of the countries- with easier/more widely used languages and/or more jobs in English or just lower taxes and higher pay.

If a country's government wants to attract these kinds of immigrants, some of these variables will have to change

An interesting choice of a metaphor here. If I needed a shelter for a day, I would have bought (or rented) a nice tent. Or booked a room in a proper hotel

How is it wealth redistribution when most people will start as recipients, then move to being the donors and will then become the recipients again?

>>No human can read that many resumes well. So I built something to rank them, helping me decide which resumes to read first

Translation: it's an ATS.

>>the system was designed to rank resumes, not reject them

>>Only resumes at the very bottom of the distribution were filtered out

Translation: it was designed to reject the CVs

On the other hand, some of the kids actually like the books they are given. I know I did. Not every single book, but a lot, and maybe that's the whole point- you find out what you like by trying a bunch of stuff that you don't

I got my deck fixed after the warranty period, for example, with very little fuss. They even payed for the shipping of the broken device to them

And then my personal experience with these cheap no-brand mini-computers is that their Linux compatibility is spotty, BIOS updates are non-existend, quality control is severely lacking, and you have basically no support. They are also often pretty loud, overheat and die within a year or two. If something doesn't work properly, you are on your own- the manufacturer will have forgotten about this model in a couple of months, and user base is so low that it's unlikely someone will find a workaround.

So comparatively, a Steam Machine would be much preferable to me, considering that it will likely work out of the box with no compatibility issues, will have a typical valve support (which, judging by Steam Deck, is quite fair), is well-built and near silent.

The problem is once the price crosses a thousand, I'd rather add, say, 500 eur, and get a much more powerful machine. I see a point for the cheapest bottom of the barrel gaming pc/handheld (which would be 700-750) with many performance tradeoffs, but this doesn't look like a good enough upgrade from that. A 12+ GB RTX4070-class videocard, 24-32GB of RAM and maybe even an 8-core CPU for $1500+ would likely be more usable in the current market

For most of the internet users- very likely no. Social media and video streaming IS the internet for the majority