A bully club, a taser, a pepper-spray gun, or even just a guard who is much bigger and stronger than any unarmed attacker* is better than an unarmed guard who is not strong enough to take down the attacker with brute strength or special skills.

* bonus if the guard knows how to fight well

honestly, that's probably all it needs to be. If If they can make a GPU with 16GB of VRAM and 5060 performance, and give it a $99 MSRP, even if it involves recompiling to whatever-their-answer-to-CUDA-is, they'd give nVidia a run for their money. If they made it readily compatible with vGPU tech with no licensing fees, it would definitely be disruptive.

Temu's existence shows that plenty of people are fine with "good enough". Nvidia's threat isn't going to come from China being able to DIY their own 5090Ti, or even an A2000....it's from China being able to give people more than half the performance at a price that makes it worthwhile to just buy three of them. Nvidia will still have its market, but I don't think it's unreasonable for China to make a good-enough card that takes the bottom 20% of Nvidia's customers.

You DO need security. Well-paid, well-screened, and where appropriate well-armed guards will do the trick just fine.

They aren't cheap though.

The unfortunate problem is that this is technically true, but practically...less-true.

If HAL9000 understands what an HR hiring filter is looking for better than a person, then the person using AI has a higher probability of getting the job, because the process of *getting* a job has been so heavily abstracted away from knowing how to *do* the job. "Doing well on an interview" and "Doing well in the trenches once hired" are similarly distinct skills. Those with charisma are, as a rule, more likely to be hired if they are interviewed, than those without charisma who are a savant as the skill the job requires.

The problem with the premise that those doing the work without AI will outperform those who rely on it, is that the premise assumes that job performance is a company's metric of success. It *should* be, but more that a particular company is concerned with appearances and relationships and market capture, rather than the ability for a product or service to meet the needs of the customer, the less the skill of the worker is relevant to the worker's success.

I don't know if you count Tiktok, 4-chan and similar forums, Discord's many forums and forums using similar technologies, and other web-accessible-places that are more-social-media-ish, chat-ish, or forum-ish than than-web-ish sites as "web sites" even though they can be accessed through a web browser.

But if you are looking for creativity and don't mind having few or no filters for taste, decorum, common decency, or just plain quality, look in those places. You'll see a lot of quality stuff, but you'll see a lot more things you probably will want to un-see.

Of course, there's always YouTube and other anyone-can-upload video-hosting web sites.

Betteridge's law of headlines notwithstanding, just about any "yes/no question headline" can be rested as a /. poll, such as:

Are Supershear Earthquakes Even More Dangerous Than We Thought?
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Maybe.
4. Can you repeat the question?
5. What is this "Supershear Earthquake" of what you speak and how may I invest?
6. What does CowboyNeal say?

Range anxiety is going from one Podunkville to the next with long stretches of nothing in between.

My driving pattern still leaves me vulnerable to range anxiety.

Sure, that's improving every year, but if I had to buy a replacement vehicle today, it would not be pure-electric.

Hopefully things will change by the time I need to replace my current vehicle.

>but today the left/democrats are absolutely fucking bonkers.
>What's a woman? Really? jfc

I see your point, but please tell me you know about people who are biologically intersex, neither wholly male nor wholly female. Conservative estimates suggest about 1 in 5000 people are interesex.

Only 1425 out of presumably over 100 million Americans who identify as Republican? That's a very low number. Maybe it's just the high-profile ones.

To get anything close to a "real" list will take a lot of work and probably a lot of money.

If you are up to the challenge, you can compare public sex-offender lists with those who have voted in party primaries or registered with a political party. You will probably have to pay a copying fee to get the voting data though.

Even this will paint only a partial picture, since some people with partisan leanings can't or don't vote in primaries, and some convicted sex offenders aren't on public sex-offender lists.

It's a sad day when things like this happen.

I'm glad they prevented him from killing himself.

I'm even more glad he didn't intend to murder anyone.

Hopefully, after some psychiatric care, he will send the people who tackled him a thank-you letter and send the people running the conference an apology for what he put them through.

Give me a car that can do all my normal driving from the batteries, then attach a generator (or in my dreams, a fuel cell) that runs on gasoline or deisel so I'm not at the mercy of charging stations.

See, there's just no winning. If we move (back) to cardboard, the argument becomes about trees. If we move to that biodegradable quasi-plastic that some drinking straws are made out of, then the argument is that the change disproportionately affects the poor, since that stuff is somewhere around triple the cost of plastic. If we move to glass, then the transport of the containers becomes far more prone to pollution because of the significantly higher weight of everything. If we eliminate one-time packing entirely, then we deal with health concerns and chemicals to combat those health concerns.

As much as the plastic industry loves to lobby, let's not pretend that it's the only barrier.

Yes, because we all love walking half a mile a day in the rain...carrying groceries in paper bags...or in the cold...or in the heat...or transporting 20-kilo items...or making multiple trips...or are we just ordering everything from Buy-N-Large and no longer in-person shopping?

To the topic at hand, PHEVs are fantastic INTERIM solutions. The charging infrastructure isn't as pervasive as gasoline and diesel, so a solution that both encourages the use of charging stations while enabling the use of existing gas stations is a helpful way to handle the transition. As we get to the point where EVs can get 1,000 off a charge and/or 200 miles of range out of a 5-minute charge, and as the number of charging stations continues to increase, and the grid adjusts to compensate, PHEVs will be less desirable as their reduced EV range will start to become a liability as gas stations decrease in number.

Maybe you don't like the fact that intermediate solutions are compromises by definition, but you won't get a whole lot of folks on board with the expectation that the solution to a global problem for everyone to relocate to walkable cities.

Wasn't the original Intellivision in the $150-$200 ballpark?

>Aren't actual rents readily available on sites like realtor.com?
Not necessarily.

Those may be the offered rents available today before any discounts, but they may not be the rents existing tenants are paying.