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There are competitions in the AI accelerator field. Google's TPU in addition to Intel Arc and AMD GPUs. The latter two have incomplete pytorch and JAX support.

The service department will adapt by always talking nice, always promising to service the products but never send or perform anything that costs money.

When you finally reach the person in charge: - "sorry sir, but your request has been filtered by our revenue, cost and risk model, the model is automatic and I am unable to override it, would you please try making the request in another way" - "my request is totally legit, why does the model think it's risky?" - "sorry sir, the exact mechanism is confidential. I would recommend you proposing a solution that doesn't have substantial cost for us, or we can work together on this case for a win-win solution".

They don't even have to use cops. They are able to let you lose your cash. They can prevent you from selling the apartments by refusing to issue titles to buyers. They can stop you from connecting to city-owned utilities. They can write you a big ticket for zoning violation and put a lien on your land title if you don't pay the fine.

There is zero evidence that build densely decreases property value. Structure is by itself a depreciating asset. Land value will increase when the neighborhood densifies.

Do we want a mass construction workers layoff in addition to tech layoff? Tech recession should be countered by encouraging developments in all economic sectors, especially pro-development policies that doesn't cost taxpayer money.

"I don't know what it does. I don't know how it would be controlled. I don't know how to keep kids away from it," he (Stayton Mayor Henry Porter) said. "I guess it's the fear of things we don't understand." Effective leaderships carefully try out something new to get a better understanding.

Banning something because the official doesn't understand it would kill many innovations, because knowledge of any officials is infinitely small to all human knowledge.

In communication, there is a fundamental rule -- always consider the audience and the scenario, which overrides any specific communication advice. You don't talk weapon humor in front of a cop, however funny it is. The article is not for interviews.

Working with old buildings require a compromise mindset.

No you don't want to drill the asbestos tiles, but you can install poles standing on the floor with lights and wifi access points.

No, it's no longer produced anywhere in the world except Russia.

New industrial projects don't use asbestos. Existing installations are replaced with rockwool, fiberglass or kaowool once it need replacement.

Your undergrad professor wasn't up to date. Kaowool is a drop in replacement.

Roman concrete is simply concrete made by pozzolan cement. You make pozzolan cement by grinding quicklime together with volcano ash, fly ash from coal power plants, or metallurgical slags.

You can easily say these two sentences in Spanish that every Spanish speaker has no difficulty understanding.

El GPS en mi barrio tiene precisión cien veces peor debido a la interferencia de radio. mueve este MOSFET 15mm hacia arriba para balancia de estrés térmico a la placa.

I believe you can "invent" a Taiwanese sentence to mean the above, but there is no consensus among Taiwanese speakers in how to say them, so they would need your explanations of what your chosen words mean. If you borrow Chinese words, your sentence will be no much different from the Chinese sentence.

For your question -- yes you can scrape by with only Taiwanese, just like you can live in some areas in the US speaking only Spanish. But to do anything more, like riding a train to another Spanish speaking area, you could meet a conductor who have to open the translator app for you.

Agree very much. Hokkien is 65 million people's language, more than Italy's population.

There are Hokkien-speaking people in Hong Kong and China's Guangdong province. They write Hokkien in Chinese characters mixed with pinyin for these without a corresponding character.

I asked them why. They said it's possible to say anything in Japanese, but English has the brevity for some topics.