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Comment Re:Or maybe we just donâ(TM)t care? (Score 1) 203

LOL Reread: "the deal wasn't for trade between our nations".

That's right. It wasn't. It was for trade between Canada and other nations to whom it wanted to sell oil, not to sell it to us. The pipeline did not benefit the USA ongoing, and it was a massive drawback because it would have allowed Canada to pollute the USA for profit without it even being for trade with the USA. It was a shitty deal that never should have been, it was Canada fucking the USA, and fuck you and fuck Canada.

Comment Re:Or maybe we just donâ(TM)t care? (Score 1) 203

"If it had been completed, the project would have contributed approximately $2.4 billion to Canadaâ(TM)s GDP and an estimated $30 billion in tax and royalty revenues."

That conflicts with zero things I said if you take it from the viewpoint of an American or America. IDGAF about Canada being able to make money through my country and spill a bunch of oil here, sorry eh.

Comment Re: Not too late (Score 1) 50

I believe training is also memory bound.

It is from my understanding, but if you put it on lesser GPUs, then you'd be processing bound again. Also, the GPU has to support higher-bandwidth memory to move the needle there, not just have more VRAM, because as you quote the memory bandwidth is a factor.

Comment Re: Nothing was going to help (Score 1) 177

This. There flatly should not be a camp there, period.

I blame federal flood relief for this. As a society we are used to the government paying for things to be rebuilt in the very same place where they were destroyed by a flood. I'm not against flood relief, but I am completely against the government paying for rebuilding in the same place which is definitely going to flood again. Relief funds should be only for relocation, and part of getting them should be giving up the land, which should become national Park land. (Or for state based flood relief funds, a state park.)

Comment Re:So the extreme hallucinations are still not fix (Score 1) 37

Doesn't matter much if facts are inaccurate if they're about something that was imaginary in the first place, as long as I make sure they're used in a consistent way

That's part of my point. Although the penalty for failure is low in your use case, the AI won't be able to hallucinate consistently because that's not how hallucinations work. Therefore the output won't be consistent even to itself, and you will still have to doctor it. As you say, this is not a big problem for you, but it does illustrate the fundamental limitations of the technology.

Comment Re:That ain't it, Chief (Score 1) 50

TSMC is ahead of Intel in every way that matters for a fab.

Intel has failed at 18A, which we know because they claimed they were going to offer foundry services with that node and aren't. The only plausible reason for why is that it wouldn't be cost effective, either due to how much support they would have to provide, how poor yields are, or both. Now we're supposed to wait for their next process step to see how great they are.

Well, they aren't, and they haven't been for a long time. Intel's only secret sauce was superior process technology, which they haven't had for quite some years now. They don't have better hardware engineers, they don't have better software engineers, and their process technology is inferior. They are bad at working with partners, they give them bad or no information (e.g. on power levels for their defective processors) which makes the partners look bad.

Comment Re:Echos of Napster and Bittorrent (Score 2) 36

Eventually, we will have to agree on a global copyright negotiation system, based on sharing.

We had one of those. It was called copyright with the original period. We extended the period repeatedly without doing anything to mitigate the impact. This was done deliberately on behalf of media conglomerates and related holding companies. Now most people have no respect for copyright, which is as it should be, since it's used to harm humans for profit.

The best solution is to return copyright terms to what they were originally, then discuss whether they should be even shorter.

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