Who benefits from him being alive? His assets were seized so it’s not like he could plan his own escape. The evidence was also already seized so it’s not like he could keep evidence hidden. Most of his contact would be gone on the account him supposed to be dead. What would make him so important to keep him alive? It’s not to make sure he can’t testify because dead men also don’t testify. So what would be the reason for keeping him alive and out of prison?
Oh absolutely, but I doubt anyone is paying the equivalent of a 5090 to get the performance of a 3060. Server GPU-s aren’t optimized for gaming.
Being in the self-hosted community I know people buy used enterprise servers to set up their own services, but consumers who buy enterprise servers probably make up less than 1% of all the consumers who buy hardware.
Not really. They’re not making consumer grade stuff, they’re making hardware for data centers so unless you’re planning on doing a DIY data center you’re not buying the hardware. Hard drives are likely an exception.
You’re more likely to see cheap VPS services than cheap secondhand hardware.
The only thing Russia did was give Britain a little nudge to get them over the finish line. The “Europe question” has been circulating in the UK politics longer than UK has been in the EU and IMO it’s been circulating because of British exceptionalism.
When the ECSC was formed UK decided to stay out because UK thought it was still a global superpower. When the ECSC became EEC Britain still decided to stay away. The UK didn’t join the EEC until it became apparent that the UK was lagging behind the EEC. And then literally 2 years after joining the EEC, in 1975, Britain held effectively brexit 1.0 referendum, which obviously didn’t pass. Then in 80s labour ran on a campaign to leave the EEC. Then in the 90s when the EEC became the EU Britain opted out from integrations. Since the EU became a real thing UK has been consistently one of the most eurosceptic countries in the EU.
Even if such a report was published it wouldn’t excuse the decades of anti-EU sentiment. Nor would it guarantee the UK wouldn’t do it again, after all they’ve had 2 attempts at it
And even if the EU was so naive to believe such a report would be enough, there’s no chance the UK comes back with all its privileges. The budget rebate is clearly against the interest of the EU. The others are less egregious but they’re essentially opt outs of integrating with the EU so demanding those back is IMO contradictory to wanting to rejoin the EU. They shouldn’t get those back, so that leaving would become such a headache they wouldn’t try a third time.
There’s a CNN polling data from the end of last year that shows only 12% of republicans are satisfied with the amount of information released on the Epstein case, 21% are dissatisfied and the majority are don’t care or don’t know. Now those numbers have gone more in the favor of what the administration is doing compared to polling on the same questions 6 months earlier where 4% were satisfied and 40% was dissatisfied. I don’t think I need to find polling data on Trumps popularity, I think it’s pretty obvious that his support among his base is high. So there’s an obvious disconnect between supporting Trump and believing the Epstein files are properly handled.
Overall the sentiment in the republican party is that they’re not satisfied with how much has been released and I think the change in the trend has less to do with MAGA falling in line and more to do with them getting disillusioned by the administration, because what happened between those 6 months was that the first files were released and they were heavily redacted. Of course hardcore MAGA accepted what they saw and were happy to move on but the rest expected to get something and the administration tried to serve them nothing. I feel like that falls perfectly in line with why MAGA turned on Bondi.
EDIT: Forgot to add that this doesn’t mean they’re against Trump, this only means they’re against Bondi. That also explains why your family would still be on the Trump train because in their eyes Trump did nothing wrong.
I don’t see why they aren’t thrilled about her.
Because Trump sold them the Epsteins files during his campaign. He promised to release the files and the list in full transparency. Most of the MAGA base is now invested in the Epstein files and want to see billionaire pedophiles punished. Pam Bondi acted like MAGA usually wants her to act, except this time she was acting against MAGA. She interrupted and attacked the people who asked the questions MAGA wanted answers for and instead of giving any answers she dodged the questions and wasted time on incoherent rants instead of giving the information MAGA wants. She did everything “right” but she did it against the wrong crowd.
I didn’t say Biden himself should’ve released the files but fair enough, I shouldn’t have singled him out. However the link pretty much says what I meant, Biden’s administration took procedure over public interest and that procedure had no interest in getting the files released.
Not to defend Trump but Biden sat on those files for most of his presidency and did nothing with them. This isn’t just a convicted felon not giving a shit about justice for the crimes he himself is tied to, this is both sides of the political aisle giving the wealthy a free pass on their absolutely depravity.
Well that article was a waste of space. Intel has already stepped into the GPU market with their ARC cards, so at the very least the article should contain a clarification on what the CEO meant.
And I see people shitting on the arc cards. The cards are not bad. Last time I checked the B580 had performance comparable to the 4060 for half the cost. The hardware is good, it’s simply meant for budget builds. And of course the drivers have been an issue, but drivers can be improved and last time I checked Intel is actually getting better with their drivers. It’s not perfect but we can’t expect perfect. Even the gold standard of drivers, Nvidia, has been slipping in the last year.
All is to say, I don’t understand the hate. Do we not want competition in the GPU space? Are we supposed to have Nvidia and AMD forever until AMD gives up because it becomes too expensive to compete with Nvidia? I’d like it to be someone else than Intel but as long as the price comes down I don’t care who brings it down.
And to be clear, if Intels new strategy is keeping the prices as they are I’m all for “fuck Intel”.
Unless you’re planning on buying the whole rack you’re not scooping up anything, except maybe the hard drives. The memory and GPUs are not consumer grade hardware. Some of the GPUs you technically could hook up to your PC, for example the Nvidia A6000, but its launch price was ~$4500 so even on the cheaper end you’re shelling out probably $3000 for a card that (out the box) is marginally better than the 4070ti. Most of the GPUs and pretty much all of the memory is not compatible with your standard consumer grade MoBos.
Everything about windows is misleading. There are windows settings that require doing some sort of an windows inception where you open one settings to go deeper into an older version of the same settings to go deeper into an even older version of the same settings until you reach something that was designed for Windows 98 and actually works. With every newer windows version the settings become only more and more convoluted. Thank god I’ve switched to Linux as my daily driver.
And it’s their prerogative if they choose to do so. That’s not the same as Trump pushing his policies onto other countries.
And it’s not other countries. It’s right-wing parties who are using Trump for inspiration, it doesn’t automatically mean those parties are in power. In a parliamentary system, if they have any power then in most cases they’re in a coalition with center-right parties who will act as a stop-gap to their most extremist ideas. Even if they wanted to do like Trump does they have a much harder time doing that.
Let’s say you and me are neighbors. If I don’t listen to my wife, kids, extended family and set up stupid rules in my house, does that affect you? No. If I set up a stupid rule where guests can’t flush the toilet does that affect you? Not really unless you come and visit. If I decide to walk around in my house with a loaded gun, does that affect you? No.
But if I come to you house, punch you in the face and tell you “Your wife now runs the house and I will be checking that she is the one running the house” does that affect you? Absolutely. That’s a simplified version of what happened in Venezuela. If kick your door in, shove a gun in your face and tell you “This house is now mine. Either deal with it or fuck off” does that affect you? Absolutely. That’s a simplified version of what Trump would in Greenland.
What you’ve described are domestic issues that don’t violate the sovereignty of another country. What I’ve described as a bad precedent is an international issue where there actions directly violate the sovereignty of another country. They’re two different things.
I agree, he’s absolutely making the statement only from the perspective of his own interests. But just because he himself doesn’t think beyond his own interest it doesn’t mean it’s not setting (if actually followed through) a precedent where taking land by force is acceptable.
Sadly he’s saying something far more sinister. He’s basically saying that it doesn’t matter if you’ve lived somewhere for 500 years, someone else can come and say “This is mine now, fuck off”. Basically he’s stating that Russia has claim to whatever land they’ve conquered from Ukraine or that Israel has claim to all the lands they’re taking from Palestine.
Or course they don’t. The only consistency in their narrative is their incessant need to be right. They say she tried to run ICE over, you show that’s not true. They pivot to she shouldn’t have been running away from the scene of the crime. You tell them there was no crime, they pivot to ICE had a right to detain her. Tell them ICE actually has no right to detain citizens they’ll say how they don’t actually know the law, they can only give their opinion and then loop back around to “she tried to run them over” so she’s in the wrong.
They’re not interested in getting to the truth, they’re only interested in being right. Since they only care about being right they also don’t care about being internally consistent. They will accept whatever contradictory bullshit as long as it means they’re right.
Setting up a local model was specifically about people who take privacy and security seriously because that often requires sacrificing convenience, which in this case would be having to build a suitable server and learning the necessary know-how of setting up your own local model. Casual consumers don’t really think about privacy so they’re going to go with the most convenient option, which is whatever service the major players will provide.
As for Dell keeping the NPUs I forgot they’re going to be bundled with processors.
I’m not that concerned with the hardware limitations. Nobody is going to run a full-blown LLM on their laptop, running one on a desktop would already require building a PC with AI in mind. What you’re going to see being used locally are going smaller models (something like 7B using INT8 or INT4). Factor in the efficiency of an NPU and you could get by with 16GB of memory (especially if the models are used in INT4) with little extra power draw and heat. The only hardware concern would be the technological advancement speed of NPUs, but just don’t be an early adopter and you’ll probably be fine.
But this is where Dells point comes in. Why should the consumer care? What benefits do consumers get by running a model locally? Outside of privacy and security reasons you’re simply going to get a better result by using one of the online AI services because you’d be using a proper model instead of the cheap one that runs with limited hardware. And even for the privacy and security minded people you can just build your own AI server (maybe not today but when hardware prices get back to normal) that you run from home and then expose that to your laptop or smartphone. For consumers to desire running a local model (actually locally and not in a selfhosting kind of way) there would have to be some problem that the local model solve that the over the internet solution can’t solve. So far such a problem doesn’t exist today and there doesn’t seem to be a suitable problem on the horizon either.
Dell is keeping their foot in the door by still implementing NPUs into their laptops, so if by some miracle some magical problem is found that AI solves they’re ready, but they realize that NPUs are not something they can actually use as a selling point because as it stands, NPUs solve no problems because there’s no benefit to running small models locally.
That would make sense if he wasn’t arrested, convicted, interrogated and with a mountain of evidence in the hands of the FBI. A dead drop isn’t going to keep you alive if the person who wants you silenced thinks you’re already spilling the beans.
But even if that’s the case he’s alive until he clears the dead drop because he’d still be a loose end.