1rre

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[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Because they're the only country with America in their name whereas United States is shared by Mexico

Also in English there's a distinction between North and South America, with the supercontinent being referred to as "The Americas", so America isn't really ambiguous, they're also geologically and environmentally distinct enough that "The Americas" isn't used so much and "New World" is often more relevant to include Australia as another somewhat culturally similar sparsely populated former colonial area.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Still seething they called the Goblin the Suffragette Line

Even Goblin Line would've been fine

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think Mistral is model-available (ie I'm not sure if they release training data/code but they do release model shape and weights), huggingchat definitely is open source and model-available

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

What the US has that Europe doesn't is protected former trackbeds - European governments go around salting the earth after closing a railway so when they want to reopen it in 30 years they either can't or have to spend billions. The US can just reopen it.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

in fairness taking a white flag to war is gonna get called out as expecting to lose, so of all the things you'd expect them to have that wouldn't be it

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Exactly, money card trumps everything, with fame card and class card a close second and third; race is unfortunately still powerful but you really think Obama or Oprah are getting trumped in much of anything by a white family from detroit who are living below the poverty line?

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

Also you can actually see the stars and can hold a regular sleep schedule unlike in summer where it never actually gets beyond twilight

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

Is guys really needed after youse?

The guys is needed where there's no 2.pl pronoun to distinguish from individual you, but youse fixes that

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, I agree that's not great but it's still not a reason to risk rushing in to making it worse

Personally I think the fact it's unelected is great, but the way people get into it isn't so great, so would rather have reform but keeping it unelected or at most indirectly elected, with voting rights going to MBE holders (or a pool of MBE holders elected by the commons in some format which accounts for party makeup of the commons) or all Livery Company/Professional Association leaders or some other group which should know their stuff better than both the people we currently have in the lords or career politicians

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 8 months ago (5 children)

The argument in favour of the lords is it allows scrutiny on laws without party politics - if something is stupid but popular their job is to say no, when the commons would want to push it through to increase their reëlection chances. Replacing them with an elected chamber is just as bad as completely removing them in that case.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think intel support it (or at least a translation layer) but there's no motivation for Nvidia to standardise to something open-source as the status quo works pretty well

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah true, plus I bought my a770 at pretty much half price during the whole driver issues and so eventually got a 3070 performing card for like $250, which is an insane deal for me but no way intel made anything on it after all the rnd and production costs

The main reason Intel can't compete is the fact CUDA is both proprietary and the industry standard, if you want to use a library you have to translate it yourself which is kind of inconvenient and no datacentre is going to go for that

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