Tesla was winning because they had insight and balls to make electric cars that actually looked and worked like normal fucking cars. Everyone else who was making EVs failed to resist the temptation to reinvent the definition of the car, throwing out a century of wisdom and natural selection of features of good car design, to the point that it seemed like nobody wanted to succeed.
As soon as they forgot this, their downfall began.
It's actually the opposite, I think. Because of how industrialized the lumber/paper industries have gotten, stewardship of forests has improved over time. This includes replanting in harvested areas.
If there's a 3-band EQ built in, it should probably be an 8-band instead. 3-band is hardly worth using, 8-band lets you do a decent job of balancing most various audio equipment well enough. Should be hardly any additional code complexity or maint burden for a significant functional upgrade.
>> If there's a 3-band EQ built in, it should probably be an 8-band instead.
My thoughts exactly. When I used OBS there was no equalizer. Later I decided to try making one and found they had a new 3-band which was useful for learning how to make audio tools and I was happy to bring my 8-band idea to life. I submitted a PR and one of the devs shepherded me through a few cleanups to make it acceptable. Then they rejected it as somehow non wanted in the project. As an OSS maintainer myself I get it - even though I don't understand the reasons they seemed divided on it since one of them helped with the PR. I try not to speculate on the why, so I have just kept my fork there with the 1 commit to add the 8-band. It's probably way out of date so I should rebase it on latest release. Sounds like there might be some naming convention changes too but I need to find time to look into it.
You would need to go back to ~2005-era Intel x86 CPUs to have x86 without a backdoor baked into the silicon (as far as we know), like Pentium 4. The Core 2 / Q6600 / P35 chipset already had an early version of it. Wikipedia says AMD added their equivalent, the Platform Security Processor, around 2013, so their best CPU from 2012 would be the FX-8350.
I mean technically there's nothing they can do that SMM couldn't - introduced in a revision of the 386. It's code running with system permissions invisible to the "parent" user code and OS.
You're already pretty much trusting the same people then as now, at least if they are "actively malicious".
Non-MS manufacturers get offers from e.g. McAfee to pre-install a nagware version of their software for a kickback. I have an ASUS ROG laptop, and even if I run a full Windows Reset, I get a prompt to install McAfee during OOBE setup, right after being prompted to subscribe to office/copilot/365/onedrive/game pass/etc.
You can update with a USB drive, but if you have bitlocker enabled and don't temporarily disable it before the BIOS update, you'll need to reformat and reinstall Windows.
I believe you can also get it from your online Microsoft account if that's what you logged in with once. I ran into this a while ago and had to do it that way. I didn't even know I'd set up Bitlocker.
It's... the launch vehicle for a new process. Literally the opposite of "cost cutting", they went through the trouble of tooling up a whole fab over multiple years to do this.
Will 18A beat TSMC and save the company? We don't know. But they put down a huge bet that it would, and this is the hand that got dealt. It's important, not something to be dismissed.
Lunar Lake integrated DRAM on the package, which was faster and more power efficient, this reverts that. They also replaced part of the chip from being sourced from TSMC to from themselves. And if their foundry is competitive, they should be shaking other foundry customers down the way TSMC is.
If they have actually mostly caught up to TSMC, props, but also, I wish they hadn't given up on EUV for so long. Instead they decided to ship chips overclocked so high they burn out in months.
> Lunar Lake integrated DRAM on the package, which was faster and more power efficient, this reverts that.
On package memory is slightly more power efficient but it isnt any faster, it still uses industry standard LPDDR. And Panther Lake supports faster LPDDR than Lunar Lake, so its definitely not a regression.
I don't see how any of that substantiates "Panther Lake and 18A are just cost cutting efforts vs. Lunar Lake". It mostly just sounds like another boring platform flame.
Again, you're talking about the design of Panther Lake, the CPU IC. No one cares, it's a CPU. The news here is the launch of the Intel 18A semiconductor process and the discussion as to if and how it narrows or closes the gap with TSMC.
Trying to play this news off as "only cost cutting" is, to be blunt, insane. That's not what's happening at all.
I'm not GP, but I think that it really doesn't matter if Intel is able to sell this process to other companies. But if they're only producing their own chips on it, that's quite a valid criticism.
And for the fourth time, it may be a valid "criticism" in the sense of "Does Intel Suck or Rule?". It does not validate the idea that this product release, which introduces the most competitive process from this company in over a decade, is merely a "cost reduction" change.
It's only as exciting as a cost reduction because they're playing catch-up by trying to not need to outsource their highest performance silicon. Let me know when Intel gets perf/watt to be high enough to be of interest to Apple, gamers, or anyone who isn't just buying a basic PC because their old one died, or an Intel server because that's what they've always had.
Every single performance figure in TFA is compared to their own older generations, not to competitors.
There are Bayesian neural networks that could apparently track probability rather than just e.g. randomly selecting one output from the top-k based on probability, but I'm still learning up on them myself. Sounds like they're not normally combined with language models.
Iirc, the problem with Bayesian neural networks is that they're significantly more difficult to train. Using stuff like SVI reduces a lot of the representational ability of the distribution over weights. It's also questionable how useful the uncertainty over weights is.
I suppose in the tradition of Bayesian influence, VAEs and the like are still common though.
It makes perfect sense. The prices are inflated with a few extra zeroes to try to force people to get any job with insurance. The big numbers are just to scare people. You can also turn negotiating with the hospital into a full time job and get the real numbers. If you're too unhealthy to do either of these then you can just die I guess.
Well, there is that. But there is also the fact that they charge you or your insurance company to smooth out other costs like $2,000,000.00 cancer treatment or for people who show up to the hospital, don’t have insurance, and the hospital has to treat them.
I’m reaching the point where I don’t really care if it’s private or public, but what we are doing today is the worst of both worlds. It either needs to be fully private, maybe with mandatory insurance purchase, or it needs to be fully public, though that has its own baggage.
“ But there is also the fact that they charge you or your insurance company to smooth out other costs like $2,000,000.00 cancer treatment or for people who show up to the hospital, don’t have insurance, and the hospital has to treat them”
I bet whatever cost these patients cause, the hospital will inflate this by an order of magnitude. It’s the same with charity care. Hey, my sticker price for an aspirin is $1000. I’ll give away 10 aspirin and I can get credit for $10000 charity.
A lot of that is tied into billing in general, even without the people who can't afford to pay for their care. When they send out an invoice for $50,000 for services rendered, even if the insurance company only ends up paying them a fraction of that, when it comes to accounting and taxes you can be sure they are using that $50,000 number for deductions and such when it benefits them.
But the situation is still getting worse, and he has influenced customer service policy at many of those places for the better. We don't all have to watch him but he's good to have.
As soon as they forgot this, their downfall began.
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