There are some attempts. Actually, there are many. Some are moderately successful (notably OVHCloud and ScaleWay) but most are amateurish at best. I think the trouble here is that the existing megascalers (Google, MicroSoft, Amazon) originated from companies that revolved about software development. For some reason, European cloud attempts are run by traditional hosting companies. They lack the software engineering culture/skills/vision required to develop well integrated and automated solutions; they approach the problem from an traditional operations-perspective, focusing on offering hosted existing services instead of the fully integrated whole that a cloud should be.

It's probably quite difficult to make the paradigm shift from a hosting company with a bit more automation to the software development company that's capable of achieving the level of integration and automation we'd expect from a cloud provider. At the same time, those half-assed cloud providers make it difficult for a more innovative software-development-driven company to enter the market. Likely, only Big Tech companies can break through this. And the thing is: Europe simply doesn't have any of them.

Due to this combination, Europe is stuck in a local minimum it will likely never escape from.

I don't trust the output of the vast majority of my peers either. We have fixed that problem ages ago with reviews and tests.

So what? I do exactly the same when training my flesh and blood LLM. Does the implementation really matter that much? And if yes, why?! Just about all "knowledge" is encompassed in copyrighted stuff. As is just about anything you consume with your eyes that is not nature, ranging from your clothes to this comment and from the method you used to learn arithmetic to you singing your favorite song or reading a book from the library.

Is everything I do a derivative of a copyrighted work? Yes. Should I therefore not do anything anymore or refrain from looking at copyrighted works? No. I don't see why we would apply different rules to very similar systems.

Also note that copyright is basically about publishing, or the act of passing on. It is not and has (at least originally) never been about consumption of such works.

Being from The Netherlands I was quite surprised regular household waste would still end up on landfills in countries like the UK. Over here, only incineration ashes and stuff that's impossible to handle differently like asbestos end up in landfills. Now, to get to the point, apparently over 50% of household waste in the US still ends up in landfills. That's significantly more than the UK, making neither of your countries "civilized" by your own definition.

I'm not a MAGAcian so I'm not too well informed about the shenanigans over there, but wont those tariffs apply to all imports? Isn't this news merely about a very specific part of a whole package and wouldn't the other parts affect brand names and bulk imports just as much?

Also, in general duties are applied to actual value, which would definitely include any value caused by a brand logo being on there. Brands could change their tactics and stick the logo on in it the US and swap the box, thereby evading the additional costs their own brand causes them, but that would probably be even more expensive than simply paying the tariffs.

Forgot this was slashdot and I have to type HTML. So here's my second attempt: 1000 < 2^10.

No. 1000 2^10.

The Moon is not a distraction. It's much easier to land there and it's much closer so it'll be much easier to find people that want to work there. And perhaps most importantly, we should not go to Mars or any other celestial body that might have an actual chance of hosting live before we are absolutely certain it is as dead as can be. The alternative is yet another extinction.

China? How on Earth?! The USA is responsible for about 25% percent of cumulative emissions. The EU (which is not a country) comes second with 22% and then there's the Chinese with 12.7% of which a large share was directly caused by consumers in the aforementioned areas.

But a large part of those numbers are simply the size and population of those countries. We can also have a look per capita but that shows the same picture. Apart from some desert oil states, the US (together with Australia) is by far the largest emitter, about twice as much as China. You'd think they'd have enough money to be the leader here, but the reality is that the USA just does not give a flying fuck about the world.

But let's talk about China some more. China is also the largest manufacturer of renewable energy with more than half of all PV and wind production on the planet and the biggest investor in clean energy.

There is absolutely zero doubt about who is the most responsible for global warming: the USA. I cannot even get my head around how someone could not be aware of that...

Actually I don't think the cure is worse than the disease at all. It would be if all our plastic would end up in nature, but if I'm not mistaken, this is not the case in the vast majority of developed nations.

Not so fun fact: the footprint of paper (bags) is much larger than that of plastic (bags); it kills more trees, emits more COâ and uses an ungodly amount of water to make or recycle. Paper is the better solution only if you're planning on tossing it in nature, work in a paper bag manufacturer marketing department or are called Roni Size.

Just about all music production software depends on this. RT ready kernels have been shipped with many Linux distributions for years if not decades because without it a lot of stuff simply won't work. RT has been mainstream for ages. It's suitability for production use is totally undisputed.

I think I even see evidence this was not a tank leak. If whatever was in the payload bay came from the ship's tanks, it would have spread out uniformly quite quickly. The clouds we saw looked like clouds within another gas. In other words: this must simply have been air.

The tank leak (or failure to close a valve) scenario it not an unlikely one, though; it would explain the loss of attitude control and the failure to light the engines. However, I don't think it leaked into the payload bay.

Where you said 99% you probably meant 98.3%. In that remaining 98.3%, about 10% are not cisgender.

Of course ChatGPT isn't coming for my job. Instead, companies built around ChatGPT (or similar) will be coming for my employer and my job will simply disappear during the next economic shake-up.

Disruption hardly ever happens on the job-level. Also, it usually won't be predicted at the analyst level, which is proven by things like this:

Reality is that there is almost no dull work left in proper software development. Any dull work left is due to legacy, stupidity, stubbornness or lack of access to proper tools.