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Its a luxury, but not a gimmick IMHO. My last real use case for my color laser is printing out papers with lots of graphs/diagrams that use color. The kindle scribe color looks cool but needs to at least halve in price before I start really considering it. I might even give textbooks a go on it, I prefer paper, but they are often so heavy, it might be a worthwhile tradeoff.

I think most go this route for comics, graphic novels and some read magazines on it. Niche, but not a gimmick.

He is 60 years old per wikipedia, this is likely his last rodeo. He has held board positions at Datadog, Athena Health, App Dynamics and other places in addition to his job at Mongo per LinkedIn. He was also at Mongo for 11 years.

It seems he is deeply connected, and probably approaching centimillionaire wealth.

Even if he is burning some bridges, its not going to affect his career at this point.

Edit: I looked at the current interim CEO's profile, not the outgoings, but its almost the same story- he is 55, been on other boards, has experience at director+ level since 1995 listed... this isn't going to hurt his career.

One of the more ridiculous stories I remember from Uni was sysadmins getting very upset that students were fork bombing the server. But... it was from the students in the systems programming class that were just learning about fork/exec, and bugs happen... I thought it was the most ridiculous thing ever.

Also, this was the late 90s and while you could get linux running, all the servers were Unix, and the profs made it very clear any issues between differences between Linux and Solaris were ours to deal with... so we were essentially forced to login to their servers. We are truly our own worst enemy sometimes.

I was caught by surprise on this. I have P8Pro and while its fine, I was just kind of curious about how much of an upgrade it would be to the 11Pro, especially since I haven't really given the last two years releases any attention.

But the P11 Pro is now 6.3" and the P8 Pro was 6.7" meaning you have to go up to the P11 Pro XL (for another $200) for the same size. Well technically its 6.8" vs 6.7 but I feel this is just a form of shrinkflation and enshittification. Literally no other improvements on the XL as far as I can tell from the specs, not even a larger battery.

While I certainly don't need a bigger phone, I would be pissed if I just hit the buy button and what came out of the box was half an inch smaller.

My point with the c comparison is that it often feels like a very thin layer that still requires you to know a lot about what's going on under the hood. It was more to give a view in what it's like to work with the lib/api.

Maybe I wasn't being precise enough with my language for this forum, and also my last hands on experience with it was roughly 6 years ago, maybe it's gotten better. But it was much less (and forgive the imprecision!) python/pytorch-like where you say hey take this big blob of data and just slice and dice it on your many cores, and more like ok, here is the data, let's cudamemcopy it in these size chunks over to the gpu itself, to be used by this block of threads and run these commands (kernel in cudaspeak) on it. Much more painstaking and micromanagey of the resources.

Pytorch IMHO feels like a proper abstracted API that hides the details and lets you just unleash the fury at the cost of some efficiency, while the cuda api itself, similar to working with C, forces you to really think about the low level details. I have a heavy backend and systems development background, and while it wasn't really intimidating to me, it was like wow you really have to have a deep working knowledge of how these things work and it felt like a step back in time IMHO.

I doubt that's going to satisfy you but I think it gives a clearer picture of what using cuda is like if you typically use higher level languages and haven't touched C since college.

I think OP is overstating it a bit tbh. So Nvidia has the market for the hardware, which helps, but there is literally no alternative to CUDA. Nvidia keeps it a scalpel for skilled users, its not super easy to use, but unlocks orders of more magnitudes of power for the use cases it excels at vs CPUs. I don't have access to anything like it in the Apple ecosystem.

AMD has had years to try and counter it, but just has not. Google is kinda trying to do an end run around it with TPUs but they are still niche high end stuff with limited availability.

Its really just CUDA, and CUDA can be seen as somewhat akin to C for assembly used by Nvidia's gpus- In many ways a wrapper around the low level hardware that often has those details bleed through.

I am not sure I understand your question- MUDs have a text interface, somewhat similar to a command line. It wouldn't be a proper MUD if it had a graphical interface- there are plenty of games out there that do this like Baldurs Gate. The files part of your comment I don't understand either.

That's really interesting- I wish I could go back 30 years and verify that- I am a bit skeptical to be honest, as a young sponge with my first computer I was reading everything available to me- which wasn't much, a book on windows, and the manuals that it came with. But maybe I missed it.

That booklet doesn't appear to be available online anywhere :(.

So I actually had a use case for this last month. My NAS is too weak to run immich well, so I dusted off my old sandybridge core i7 laptop from ~2011, and it actually benchmarks about 4x my nas, and has 8GB of RAM. But it was still loaded with windows. Long story short, its actually kind of difficult these days to install linux on such an old box, distros have become massive. I searched around in my closet and found my old spindle of burned CDs- and I wanted to go on a nostalgia trip, and every one I tried worked! I used Kodak Golds, which have lived up to their hype.

I even burned a CD of the smallest ubuntu distro I could find, and its happily running linux and hosting Immich, among other things.

Journeyman Project... that brought back a deep rooted memory. Its still not clear to me if my Packard Bell came with a full version or a demo, because I remember being stuck about an hour in and could not figure out how to progress. I also was mildly interested in the game, but had better ones to play- Myst, X-Wing, etc.

both. Stock is below IPO price and bond is trading below par.

Is this a real question? ICE cars have a battery too.

Eh... yes but, I can write a sql query and come back a year later and understand it at first glance, or maybe if its really complicated a minute or two.

Writing a regex involves always looking up the syntax, and being unable to read it an hour later without having to carefully disect it. I say this with 20+ YOE and I think I am better than the average bear with them.

That said, knowing what they can do is important and very useful. Its just the implementation that never quite sticks.

I'm personally just at messages. And even then I make it clear I respond when I want to. Only phone rings/notifications I get are for those in my contact list.

Take your phones back. Life is immensely better these days.

Where was this? I would like to read. I have read his papers and they are great, and usually surprisingly readable.