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I think it is well established that repeat COVID infections have an increasingly severe impact on your body.

It is also true that COVID can weaken your general immune system.

But that doesn’t mean that getting COVID won’t increase your immunity against a future COVID infection, temporarily at least, just the way the effectiveness of the vaccine is temporary.

I have a million miles on United alone, and many more on others as well: I’ve never once heard such a message either.

Same here.

OpenAI commented on the verboseness of answers as something they need to work on.

A subscription model where you know the exact terms is less exploitative than a fixed cost where it’s not even clear if the upgrade is sticky or not (as is currently the case for Tesla.)

I don’t get the “it’s not a service” argument. It’s not relevant. There’s no ongoing cost with many software licenses either. It’s just a business model.

It’s exploitative if it is not sticky and isn’t clearly communicated. But it’s not relevant for the Mercedes case where it’s very clear that it’s a subscription.

For my personal case, it still doesn’t matter, of course.

My Model Y has a $2000 in-app purchase option to increase acceleration by something like 0.5s.

It’s not a subscription, but the idea is the same.

It doesn’t bother me one bit: I bought the car knowing full well that it wasn’t included, I don’t need it (the standard acceleration is already more than I ever had before), end of story.

Car engines have been under the control of software for decades now, with different products differing by the program. The only difference here is that there’s now the option to change the program over the air.

Nobody would have complained if Mercedes had offered 2 versions without the option to upgrade.

If it works for a celebrity, it also works in case of a calamity.

Being an owner and being an investor are orthogonal concepts.

It would make zero difference, except, maybe, for the PCIe bandwidth test. Because all other tests were stressed interfaces that reside within the GPU silicon itself or between the GPU and the DRAM.

Even the numbers of PCIe bandwidth test might not change much, even it's trying to test medium size memory to memory block transfers.

I’d go dither than that and claim that almost everything of importance has checksums: Google Docs, Google Sheets, Git submissions, all my important web accounts, the traffic with my bank website and so forth.

When I look at my daily home computer usage, it’s remarkable how little I calculate on my local computer that’s actually with protecting.

Why pay for something I don’t need when there’s the option to not pay for it? - me

Just yesterday, I bought an extra 64GB for my home Linux PC. I absolutely couldn’t care less about it crashing or calculating the wrong result every blue moon (in practice: never), but I did choose the RAM sticks that were $10 cheaper.

That seems like a stretch? Isn’t the more obvious explanation that laptops with a real GPU are much more expensive and that the weaker, integrated GPUs are more than good enough for the vast majority of business use?

Today’s iGPUs are fast enough comfortable run plenty of games.

I have work provided high-end POS Dell Precision engineering laptop. It has an Nvidia discrete GPU, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually needed its power, and I’d gladly trade it for a laptop without…

I was wondering about that. According to Nvidia RTX 4090 product page, it still used PCIe 4.

Moving around data is indeed a major issue for any throughout oriented device. But for a gaming GPU, PCIe BW has never been an issue in any of the benchmarks that I’ve seen. (Those benchmarks artificially reduce the number of PCIe lanes.)

In fact, the 4000 series still has PCIe 4.

Moving data around for a GPU is about feeding the shader cores by the memory system. PCIe is way too slow to make that happen. That’s why a GPU has gigabytes of local RAM.