I mean, building hardware for efficient inference and building gaming GPUs is more or less the same thing. Get better at one thing, get better at the other. It’s not like the US companies aren’t innovating, they’re just optimising for one thing.
So will the competitors.
You’d need a VPN to form a mesh.
And Adobe PDFs are not the same as PDF/As and yet somehow the world still turns and PDF readers of all sorts find their way around.
I’m not saying OOXML is a great standard. I’m saying it’s a fine standard for the specific purpose of having a format that Microsoft can no longer claim IP rights over, so that should Microsoft suddenly feel pressurised to remove Office functionality from Europe, Europe still has a workable solution that’s compatible and interchangeable with the 99.9% of all editable document files sent around.
The EU wants to not depend on US software.
The format is standardised. It might not be a standard you like, but it’s a standard that the US can’t “take away” from the EU. Microsoft, especially in cloud form, can remove access to Office tomorrow if they’re pressured to by the US government.
We might have a desire for better file formats. The EU doesn’t give a monkey about our crusade, it purely cares about not having US leverage hanging over them like a sword. And the underlying file formats, exactly because it’s a ISO standard (however poor it may be) is fine for this purpose.
Whether you use Firefox or Librewolf you are entirely dependent on the hundreds of full timer developers Mozilla’s got working on the Gecko codebase.
I dropped out based on the price hike. We just weren’t getting the value. I bought a couple full evergreen games that I get back to often and then just lived without the rest. Also cancelled Netflix and a couple of other subscriptions. Just too much money to spend and enough time.
Running your own email server is easy.
Getting your email accepted by other servers is hard.
Hosting anything publicly requires a significant amount of hardening.
Neither of those two tasks are easy or low maintenance. I self host almost everything and I’ve run my own mail server (with occasional rejection). It’s not worth it for me; I now use a commercial, paid provider for email.
All video is art.
The aim of compression is to preserve as much quality while limiting the size.
Denoised video compresses better but now it doesn’t look like the original.
Adding grain makes it look (somewhat) like the original.
Thereby you’re preserving as much quality (ie similarity to the original) for as small a penalty as possible.
Of course grain is an art choice. Every single grading decision is an art choice. Compression should aim to preserve this art choice, no?
Of course it’s a benefit. All I’m saying is that least where I live plenty of people drive the car to a supermarket and do their weekly shop while the car charges (or similar, there’s charging a everywhere in car parks near retail).
You can charge it at charge points surely?
I mean you don’t refuel your car at home, do you?
Myeah but it’s just a server - the clients just use Matrix.
Not sure what you’re saying here.
Are robotics good enough right now to suppress a population? No, clearly not.
Will they be good enough in 10 years? Quite possibly.
Why do you think the global rich list is so busy investing in robotics?
Before, when things to too far, even the soldiers would revolt.
Now, all you need is electricity to suppress the population.
Whether rightly or wrongly, the other inmates are likely to provide that kind of service.
Yeah it sort of works.
No, the dark patterns are terrible.
I looked it up; you are right. Strictly necessary cookies do not need consent.
But functional cookies also need approval, no?
You are saying AMD, NVIDIA and Intel aren’t the best in the world at designing chips? TSMC definitely has the best for manufacture, and ARM definitely is in the top league, but clearly the US companies are no slouches.