Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Trump originally banned the export of advanced AI chips to China so China can't create an army of Terminators to invade Pearl Harbor
Xi announced that China was banning the import of Nvidia chips
Trump is going to negotiate to demand that China lift this unfair ban and start buying American GPUs ?
It's not just about Trump. Imagine if one day an unscrupulous politician became President of the USA. Somebody who didn't have a deep respect for the law and Constitution. Somebody who was perhaps beholden to nasty corporate billionaires. Somebody who was even prepared to abuse the office for personal financial gain
That did what he asked for and was freely available
Nails? What kind of hack are you ?
A real carpenter wouldn't need nails
4th generation languages were where you showed the tool an example of the output you wanted and it generated the code ?
5th generation you spoke to the computer and it created the code
6th generation took input through the medium of interpretive dance - this is believed to have produced Windows Vista
It's great for boiler plate, writing a PIMPL outline in C++ doing an abstract base class in Python etc
Great for APIs with weird quirks. Saves having to look up that 4th parameter in OpenCV's contour function, or remember that it destroys the input image so you need to make a copy,
Handy for the maths that you vaguely know but have forgotten the details of. What's the trick for pre-inverting a matrix in advance so you can solve on large matrices that would use too much memory?
Great for suggesting alternative approaches. Instead of just asking how do I call function_X in API_Y, ask how would I solve the task and discover that there is an alternative method
>It was obviously used. By a for profit company.
So if an employee at a for profit company read a textbook and used ideas they "learned' from it ?
It's going to make film studies programs a bit tricky. We can only employee you if you can prove you learned nothing from any of the copyrighted works you studied. I suppose English Lit is OK if you only study Chaucer and Shakespeare ( but not any modern translations)
>was a closed system, and messages sent with the app therefore didn’t go across a telecoms network
So was data was transferred by the Modulated Monarch Method proposed by PTerry ?
(A system which uses the fact that the heir becomes king/Queen instantaneously on the death of the current monarch and so faster than light communication is possible by endangering the monarch and measuring the resulting level of royalty in a distant heir)
>And those TE ones have a people backing them be it a city, state,
Depends where you see the risk:
Dear Leader demands everyone swap their US government bonds for 0% interest non-tradeable 100 year assets
City police shoot a white kid and city is bankrupted by settlement
Meta goes bust and can't pay it's bonds
In his first term he tore up the no-good-evil-Clinton Nafta trade agreement and replaced it with the identical most-beautiful-most-brilliant-Trump USMCA
That is now the worst deal in American history and so Canada needs 1Billion% tariffs on the steel, aluminium, oil and gas it exports to American industry
Then the tariff was doubled because the evil Canadians showed an ad where the evil communist fake president Reagan said that tariffs were long term bad for the economy
On the plus side, Canada has (mostly) united under a more than competent new leader, is getting long delayed gas pipelines toward Europe and Asia and doing trade deals with everyone who doesn't drive pickup trucks. Truly he is a "nation builder"
>what's needed is that euro-ish liberal that doesn't have AOC's baggage
Or they could follow the UK's lead
If the want to beat a right wing candidate the left wing party just has to select a more right wing candidate than the right wing party
I applaud President Trumps decision to Nuke Washington and call on his administration to go further.....
Most likely they buy some sort of complex financial contract on solar/wind power when there is over production and the price is cheap - and so claim that they purchased >100% of the annual power usage while relying on continual 24x7 grid power to actually run their business
