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> The author can barely contain his hatred for the politics of Signal's founder (about which I know nothing outside this article.)

It's especially bizarre since the author's only reference to the founder's "confused and useful idiot politics" is that the founder claims that regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, China are authoritarian and that there are human rights abuses elsewhere. That claim seems not only reasonable, but also perfectly consistent with still being suspicious about US surveillance policy.

Yes!

If I understand correctly, the instances available are containerized instances that users run (i.e, the system matches hosts to guests and takes a cut).

Beyond being dangerous on multiple levels, there doesn't seem to be any guarantee of storage or network bandwidth/traffic. Having a multi-TFLOP GPU to train with is hardly useful if you can't get the training data on the device in a reasonable amount of time, or hold that data in local storage.

I would consider that pretty performant for a task such as this on a phone.

I don't know, I would much rather be in Bratislava or Bucharest than Pittsburgh (the only one out of your list I've been in) in terms of quality of life, income, and opportunity.

Language is a different story though...

>in particular, so-called mining pools, headed by a handful of individuals, are very influential.

He mentioned that.

And for options utilizing grammar of graphics (really worth knowing, even if you're not coming from the R world) you have ggplot and plotnine, which are both sort of ports of ggplot2 from R.

Academia? The author is a journalist.

I'm not sure if this is really relevant, but recently I've been looking into something similar: trying to find a decent, self-hosted, simple "real-time chatbox" to add to my site instead of the various online options. Anyone know of something good for this?

To be fair, there are some instances where GC has unique technological advantages compared to VPSes. Their new distributed ACID SQL database comes to mind.

There are various mature options for scheduling jobs with dependencies between them.

Why did you choose to write your own, regardless of the language?

Anyone using an asynchronous python library? Interested in how that's shaping up.

I remember that program! Interesting though that my experience with it was different; I recall that letting it run for enough time it was able to come up with viable and often quite efficient build orders. By the way, I do seem to remember that putting 2 probes on an extractor was slightly more efficient (per probe) than 3 :)