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> * RTX 3090 (Titan), 1500$, 1.5x faster than Titan, 8k resolution @ 60 FPS with RTX on Control.

You likely meant something else; Titan can't be faster than Titan.
Correct, people keep repeating this story - it's false. I know controllers who have actually controlled the U2 and SR71 and they've explained why it's not true (they don't use the same freq, etc.).

Also Brian Shul (the originator of this anecdote) and his RSO were the only SR71 crew removed from the program. There is a reason for that.
The supers/tis/titans will come to clutter it up next year or so.
Would you let this robot swab your nose for a Covid-19 test?
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Yes please, have not used windows for 15+ years here, I heard it is embracing linux nowadays, a typical microsoft move, the traditional trojan horse approach.
That's for the 3080, the 3090 is Sep 24th, and 3070 is "October", from lower down on that same page.
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He sure likes his silicone spatulas.
High-tech baton helped a blind musician play in an orchestra
If you write a program strictly to POSIX, your program doesn't have a GUI and is run from the terminal, which already bypasses Gatekeeper by default.
I absolutely did, based on personal experiences, and assumptions (which I tried to highlight!) But I'm not trying to make a logical argument, I'm trying to make a rational one.

My assumption could be wrong, this could be an ESOL situation, and just a strange way of phrasing what was actually intended, and I'm happy to revisit if my assumptions were wrong.

But no, my opinions have not changed. If anything, they've been reenforced.
And it will get worse for cities trying to milk the system if more firms opt for remote work. They should pay a fair share but also cities should not see cos as their cash cow.
Assuming 3.5% growth (the midpoint of your proposed range) on all funds, the government share after 20 years is 27.3% and after 35 years is 36.7%.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_k6sFrBAjwpJbXKHmpNA...
I've heard nothing but bad things about American unions from both management and many (but not all) workers. I strongly believe that we need labor organization, but I also wonder if someone needs to (cliche alert!) disrupt the space with a new model or just new unions that are not run by bureaucratic chair warmers or the mob.

The biggest thing that always blows me away about unions is the work rules. Person A can't so much as lift a finger to do something outside their designated work area, etc. I can't even imagine running an organization with that kind of bureaucracy. How could you optimize process? It's a wonder any union shop with that kind of elephant on its back can get anything done, ever.
Disclaimer: We own several Teslas, US-specific.

With Tesla Superchargers, it's automatic. You pull up, you plug in, you charge, and your credit card on file with Tesla is automatically charged as soon as you stop the charging session (whether in the app for your vehicle, pressing the button on the Supercharger handle, or in the vehicle on the control/display panel). You're never more than ~100 miles away from a Supercharger station [1].

With ChargePoint stations (rarely used), I swipe an RFID card or the app on my iPhone/Apple Watch, which authorizes the charge with a J1772 adapter. Super simple, have never had a problem. Many businesses provide Tesla destination chargers or J1772 chargers (or both in some cases) that require no auth to pay, the power is free.

I have not encountered anyone who minded tapping an RFID card, phone, or watch at a Chargepoint station; it is no different than using Apple Pay to pay for fuel. These are solved problems from a payment infrastructure perspective, it's just going to take time to shake out as EV adoption increases.

The author's mistake was not buying a Tesla EV, as they prioritize efforts to ensure a positive charging experience (including spending hundreds of millions of dollars building out and maintaining EV charging infrastructure). Other automakers make no efforts whatsoever (except at brand dealerships; who wants to charge at a car dealership?) to provide charging infrastructure, with this being the result. Nissan Leaf and BMW i3 owners face the same hassles in the US.

[1] https://supercharge.info/map
Some people like unions, I think because they're lucky enough to have had a good experience, or to be part of a union that was not decayed by age or special interests.

Unions should not be needed... the governments who represent the people working should provide the necessary protections for workers without unions being needed.

Unions are a way for some people to get what all workers should have by default.
The rumour mill has the top end big navi at 2080 ti levels of perf. If those rumours and nvidia's claims here are accurate, they're out of the high end segment. again.

Here's hoping that they'll outdo the rumours.
Is this the discussion you were referring to? Maybe it’s these guys running QA tests.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19334909
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I'm not really sure. In theory, it should be the governor of the state working with NOAA and FEMA, but in practice it seems like cities or counties have been mostly left to try and interpret NOAA's information on their own.

FEMA is supposed to be the national authority, but has a ... marginal track record a its often headed by political appointees with minimal experience who can coast along just fine for years because nothing major happens -- five near-miss hurricanes mean getting some extra food and water down while the linemen put the power lines back, and it's all easy. Then Katrina or Harvey happens and you find out really quick who has any idea which way is up.

The complete impracticality of a large scale evacuation probably precludes any real effort finding its footing.

CalFire out in CA is probably one of the better organizations you could look to worldwide in terms of trying to get people out of harms way, it still seems to be mostly on individual communities to figure out how they're going to evacuate once the word comes down. There were some awful stories out of the Camp Fire of people caught by the fire as they were stuck on the limited roads out.

And most of those communities are small. I don't think it's possible to evacaute, say, the Bay Area in under a month if you had to do it. Too many people all on the same roads, and while the airports might be able to conceivably move a few hundred thousand passengers a day, you'd still have the problem of getting people TO the airports and coordinating fuel and crew and all that.

There probably is a way to get some kind of realistic planning capability in FEMA and the NRCC, but given the near-total failure of the US Congress in the last two decades the likelihood of a major reorganization that put enough real experts in long term positions with goals that weren't tied to immediate events seems like it's about zero.

This turned into a bit of rambling digression, but at least from an observer in a vaguely related field of critical infrastructure, it really feels like there has been a serious lack of meaningful leadership outside of the old DOD/NORAD planning for nuclear wars (for which rapid evacuations of populations were basically out of the question from the beginning).
especially as a library maintainer, I would really love to be able to say, for example, "you have to pass an email address to this prop" or "you have to pass a US phone number"
Just compare how much Nvidia is pushing the limits as the industry of leader of GPU’s, to how Intel seems to be playing catch-up reluctantly as the industry leader of CPU’s. Leadership matters.
If and while China sees fit to ban all American apps, programs, and sites, we should return that in kind. I support segregating China off our clean network.
False dichotomy. Two things can both be true: Amazon is not acting in the interest of their employees, and unions are also not acting in the interest of the employees.
Jensen Huang has a really baller stove.
I agree that the law isn't designed to fight evil, but many laws are designed to fight evil. It's a subtle distinction, but one worth pointing out.

Surveillance is part of sense-making for law enforcement and even though I don't think that security and privacy are always at odds, and there are definitely cases where they are not zero-sum, when dealing with persons of interest in criminal investigations it tends to be the case that degrading a suspects privacy improves societies security. But it should be done right. Warrants, probable cause, etc.
That's also Couchbase and not CouchDB. They forked off CouchDB many years ago.

Cloudant (API Compatible with CouchDB) has a number of case studies you can reference for production success with the Couch API/ecosystem.

Cabify - https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/cabify-cloudant

Ticket Fairy - https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/the-ticket-fairy-cloud-clou...

We.Trade - https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/wetrade-blockchain-fintech-...

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The articles I'm reading from that Google search refer to drivers who are FTEs or have set contracts (eg 10-hour shifts with quotas).

By contrast, this article is talking about the just-in-time, on-the-fly gig-work market, like lyft and uber's labor markets. This is pretty clear from the fact that it's not really possible for an employer to overwork a gig worker without the gig worker's enthusiastic consent, since they explicitly choose each marginal contract they do (in fact, the theme of gig worker complaints in this area is usually against the restrictions placed on consecutive hours worked).
I believe they're referencing past editions of Titan.
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Ageee. Amazon, walmart and co union bust because they are really really concerned with promoting healthy labor markets. Nothing at all to do with the fact that union workers make significantly more money than non-union labor.
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The 20xx series was very obviously the "tech development" release and was a terrible value. It was first gen ray tracing and thus actually unequipped to fulfill its promises. The 30xx series looks to be much better and is probably finally worth the upgrade from 9xx and 10xx equipment.
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Interesting, it sounds like you would benefit from breaking each test out into one that focuses on a single target state.

Another layer would be conditional test execution hierarchy where one early failure would skip a set of tests that depend on that state.
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Gastrointestinal sure, but the cause of death is due to fluid buildup in the space around the lungs (peritoneum) which progressively prevents the lungs from expanding.

Watching my cat die from that was the most horrible thing I've witnessed.
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No issues with common sense retirements —but some of these are 90% of pre-retirement salaries where people “retire”
take their entitlements and work elsewhere after retirement making good money on top of their retirement.
> At first, Xcode itself wasn't exactly free, because it was bundled with the OS updates, which cost a decent amount back then.

Xcode and Mac OS X were included on disc with Mac hardware. This is how I became a developer.

When Mac OS X was released, that was the period when Apple truly embraced open source and Unix. Since iPhone, however, there's been a lot of backtracking in that area, which I find very unfortunate.

In general, macOS is becoming more and more like iOS. Consequently, it is becoming more hostile to openness.
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Seems like a trivial extension to the story that one person is sitting nearby keeping an eye on the phone. The advantage still holds, since all the other drivers in the group can spread out.
If we were to imagine that VP9 hardware encoding by Nvidia would hold the same standard as their H.265 hardware encoding then we can stop holding our breaths, as we have not missed out on anything of any value what so ever.

For H.265 their encoder is fast, yes, but the quality per bitrate is complete rubbish, requiring higher bitrate than a good H.264 encode yet still contrives the gruesome trick of looking far worse, which entirely offsets all and any point with H.265.
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It makes sense that you wouldn't want to transmit messages only when your spies needed them, because that can leak information. So you constantly transmit random-looking information, and the spies have a special decrypter pad (either one time or multi use), and know that they can tune into the station at a certain time of day to receive instructions. If the instructions turn out to be jibberish after running it through the pad, then there are no new instructions. And you wouldn't want the transmission to require some esoteric equipment, whose mere ownership would indicate that the person is a spy.

Using one numbers station, you could do one-way transmits of information to hundreds of different spies with commodity radi hardware who know when to tune in to get their slice of information.
We live in very different times.

In the past, every idea had to go through a filtering process in order to spread. I am not talking about some truth filter, but that the idea needs to meet some virality threshold since the medium of communication is very low bandwidth and slow. (Ex: scholars writing to letters to each other, or housewives gossiping about the latest folk remedy)

The greatest change that happened in the 21st century is that ideas spread at the speed of light, and any bullshit can be broadcast to billions of eyeballs very quickly.

Rather than a couple housewives laughing off how the neighbor tried the squeezing lemon juice into eyeball trick last week and found that it didn't work, you have some X% of people trying it immediately after seeing it on twitter.
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Kinda, you would be amazed that they are lacking a lot of those. Inequality in Germany is close to the USA for example. It will be interesting to see what it looks like in 25 years. A lot of cool stuff is happening behind the scenes.

Europe has some really bad policies around not letting companies die that need to die. It is really hurting them. I am hopeful that they can remap labor policies to allow for more flexibility to compete with the USA while keeping a real social safety net through payroll taxes and government "insurance".

Europe also needs better bankruptcy laws to allow for people to start over. The USA has the best bankruptcy laws in the world right now IMO. Europeans can't afford to take risk or access capital because of some of these policies.

I am living in Spain btw, about to move to Portugal. I am leaving because of the Wealth tax here is so poorly thought out it would take 60%+ of my income and I couldn't live on what remains. Especially since I am starting a new business.

Note - We could also stop the step up clause for inheritance which makes me angry. So that when someone dies and the assets pass to someone else they pay capital gains instead of zeroing it. This is such a loophole for rich people.
Why Pay for MongoDB Enterprise When Open Source Has You Covered?