Posts by katrinab

Re: 'Secured'

8 of them for $27.92 per hour means $3.49 per GPU per hour.

If they manage to rent them out 24 hours per day for 365 days, they get $30,572.40. In the following year, it is last year's model of GPU and they won't be able to charge so much for it.

That means in the best-case scenario, they can maybe earn back the cost of the GPU, not the computer it was attached to, bandwidth, transaction fees, data centre running costs, maintenance, electricity, cooling, sales staff, advertising, loan interest, etc, etc.

I would be expecting to see full investment pay-back at the end of year 1, then whatever you get in future years is profit.

Indeed. Intel were still on Gen 3 not that long ago.

Re: Upshot of the TikTok generations

And today's college students don't use Facebook because their parents are on there.

Those parents are no longer impoverished college students, so advertising at them is more lucrative.

Could the spam filter detect people who "encode the actual content of the email so that the text that you see on screen isn't visible to the spam filters", and just nuke it regardless of what that text is?

Re: Ransom attacks and associated gangs should be defined as terrorism and terrorist organisations

They most definitely do try to terrify people.

What makes it not "terrorism" under existing law is that they don't appear to be doing it for political reasons - the ransom is for money rather than for the government to do or not do some thing.

Re: App Store / Apple Pay authentication

No. The point about the 2 digit authentication is that the scammer would need to know what number appears on your screen to continue, so they would need to ask you it via a different communication channel. Or you need to know which number appears on the scammer's screen in order to actually let them in. I forget which way round it is.

Re: Version numbers...

Hasn't it always been the case that you wait for version 3 to get a minimum-viable product?

Windows 3.0 for example came out about 34 years ago.

"Late 2006" is about 18 years ago, so can hardly be described as "new-fangled".

The first language I learned was BBC Basic, but I still mostly use Python these days.

Part of the reason for that is you tend to be constrained more by RAM than GPU horsepower, and Apple's unified memory means you have pretty much all the RAM available for your model rather than whatever VRAM you have on your Nvidia card.

Re: Why Not AGPL?

But freedoms are a trade-off, they are not absolute.

Amazon Web Services's right to use a piece of software as they wish conflicts with the rights of a customer of AWS to take a copy of that software, and modify it or use it elsewhere.

You have to decide what is more important, and AGPL sides with the AWS customer's rights.

I think the idea is that they want to change the lock every time a new guest uses it, and an electronic lock is really the only practical way to do it.

Re: A waste of time syndicating that here.

We tried that approach in the 2000s, and it didn't work. Russia may not actually have the second best miliatry in the world, but I'm pretty sure it is better than Iraq's.

Re: Emphasis on "if"

The advantage of using just the Win Key is firstly that it is one keypress instead of two, and secondly, you don't have to type out the full name, so it is a bit quicker.

Re: Guess they spotted their mistake

If they had started out with a non-free licence, would anyone have adopted it?

For example, when I was setting up my Nextcloud, I had three options. I evaluated them and went with Redis. If it hadn't been free software, I would have gone with one of the other options. And, if it hadn't been free software, Nextcloud probably woudn't have offered it as an option.

Re: The perfect combination

O2's customer service is pretty good.

Re: Is there a viable open source cloud?

We already have one. It is called OpenStack.

Re: Here's how it will go

The main reason they don't use Facebook is because their parents are on there, and they want their own space.

Re: Dangerous and poisonous recipies?

Wasn’t there a supermarket that gave recipes with bleach in theme?

Re: Hard to fight the feeling that had this been a regular person

Or John Smith is dating another person who happens to be called John Smith ...

Re: Ok adding my not so consipracy take...

I don't think Tim Martin would have the technical ability to do that.

Putin obviously doesn't either, but he does have people working for him who do.

The brain isn’t digital and I don’t think it stores data in anything like the same way as a computer does, so I don’t think you can make meaningful comparisons.

Re: First hit is always free-ish.

I generally use either Jupyter or html+javascript for visualisations. For the latter, I use a fairly minimalist Python backend to query a database and spit out json, usually from MongoDB with the data organised in the most optimal way for fast queries. Then d3js on the front end for graphs, and vue3 for tables and other stuff.

Doom is entirely CPU I think? So probably not. Or at least not particularly well.

Re: color matched with the street cabinet beside it

No, we are in the UK, so it is grey, not gray[sic].

Re: Modern slavery

I guess the $40,000 equivalent in 1886 would have given you legally enforceable property rights over the slave, and there was an established way to advertise and sell your slave. Those things don't exist now, so that would depress the value.