This to me seems the same argument as" X but on a computer" patents. I don't see why a person running a website that impersonates a doctor is different from a person impersonating a doctor. Clearly people do think that chat gpt gives medical advice, much like people including some practicing lawyers think it gives legal advice.

Automating something that it would be illegal for you to do in person doesn't feel to be to be materially different. Doing it by accident removes the intent but only at the point you don't know it was doing that.

You're simply counter asserting. Humans can be very prone to influence, so I don't think your claim holds.

Sorry I didn't mean you specifically, I meant the general case, addressing the room as is were.

Many of the claims against X are specious. I too have run it on small machines back in the day. People definitely complained about bloat, but again we're talking about a sun 3/60 or a 386. Those arguments clearly can't hold water today, yet people still keep bringing them up.

Wayland out and out breaks some programs because they are written to the lowest common denominator of previous windowing systems, but Wayland is even lower. The Wayland devs appear to have dropped very well established features because they feel people shouldn't need them, because again they don't understand why those features exist.

This mindless "x needs to die" is why Wayland has the problems it has, still after 16 years.

The reason Wayland is having so much trouble replacing X is because it's not doing what people want to do. It'll probably replace X eventually, but berating people into abandoning workflows which work in favor of the rather middle aged shiny thing also won't speed up Wayland.

I suppose that's the problem. If you don't understand the nuances of X then you don't know though to design a windowing system. The nuances are there for a variety of good reasons. If you understand and disagree with them, that's fine. But Wayland appears to be beset with problems which have come from not understanding why people did things the way they did.

I needed to use an Ubuntu workstation recently. It was set up with Wayland and Ubuntu's gnome respin. The default you know? I decided to not be an old fart and really have it a go. Wayland was unfortunately still buggy even slightly off the beaten path (meshlab didn't run which is a bit of a deal breaker for me), and gnome... It's odd to be sure. Some is ok, some is annoying and some of the choices are absolutely barking mad and deeply user hostile. They're also obsessed with featureless grey in grey icons which you have to puzzle out.

I cracked after 2 days and installed xfce. Not my top favorite but it's quick and easy, it works and doesn't impose. It's good.

The other operating system is not in the same category. It's limited to a very small range of hardware exclusively from one company. And the hardware they sell is often intentionally limited in ways that hamper serviceability.

Thatcher invaded the Falklands

Argentina invaded the Falklands. Thatcher did many things wrong, but defending citizens from invasion by a foreign power was not one of them. You can't invade your own country.

in the same way Bush Jr would use Iraq and Afghanistan years later to do the same.

Those are not remotely comparable. Those are both invading foreign countries, under false or dubious pretenses in some cases. The Falklands were (a) not a foreign country and (b) not defended under false pretenses.

The Argentinian Junta claimed sovereignty but that does not mean they had it. The population doesn't want to belong to Argentina, and there is no displaced Argentine population who has a claim to the islands.

For the operations in America, then yes they absolutely have to comply with those.

Being foreign owned isn't a free pass on breaking local laws. Plus of you do business in America at all, then you may find a sparky prosecutor going after you for bribery and corruption laws of you engage in that even outside on America. Ask Sepp Blatter if you don't believe me.

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What are the toppings? Surely it has to have mullet.

If it weren't for CUDA, I would have gone with ATI in this machine.

Yep. Well that and AMD being amazingly shit with their ecosystem. PyTorch does support AMD apparently, but the difference is stark. Firstly they don't want their gaming cards to cannibalize the nonexistent compute card sales where people will magically find the money for pro cards which is not a thing. Figuring out which card works today is (or was, haven't checked in the last 6 months) an exercise in trawling through poorly documented and well hidden compatibility tables.

And then they're on a Quixotic quest to make them cuda compatible, and run kernels people have optimized for a wildly different architecture. What they don't do is support the top very few ML frameworks on basically all even vaguely modern cards.

and pensions are crap now anyway.

I find pensions mystifying. You sign up for a deal and they appear to be able to turn around and say "you know what, nah" and pay you less.

NIMBYism and house builders manipulating the market.

It's not NIMBYism that's the problem, just house builders, Brexiters and the government. There are something like 1.5 million homes with planning permission which aren't being built. Partly they're not profitable enough, and partly we just don't have enough builders and we have decided that we don't want more from abroad which has been a thing for many years now.

Shredding environmental regulations will not help that.

We can't build any of that now, because of NIMBYism, green belt wankery, and incompetence at all levels of government.

We absolutely can. Granted planning permission vastly outstrips the supply of builders this country can muster right now.

ADD 1 TO C GIVING C?

you know the letters coming after C :)

I scoffed at the idea that anyone would want such a thing initially, but the subscriptions can't be denied. I guess that's why I'm head of engineering, not marketing.

Was also gonna say, it's a bit of a crapshoot if your house has bad wifi so I can kinda see it. Though with that said everyone on my road seems to manage with off the shelf or ISP provided repeaters and they aren't a techy bunch. Even so, I suppose it makes it someone else's problem and I can see the benefit of that. Only so much time to do stuff.

Me neither. I'm only at 2.5Gbps because current MoCA standards simply do that- and it was very convenient to be able to use the coaxial left over from me canceling my cable service.

I'd always wondered if that could be repurposed. Last time I used it was to use the existing antenna coax to move the incoming cable modem to a different room, something which worked perfectly.

I've always been surprised coax never got more love. There is shitloads hanging around, or was anyway and it's really high spec. Sure you get one conductor, but generally it's always been much easier to make to tight impedance tolerances compared to twisted pair until fairly recently at least.

Does MoCA work like old school 10 base 2 with the whole interrupt-and-random-backoff of genuine ethernet?

It's a fairly newly emerging market (past few years).

So how does it work if you don't mind me asking? Does the ISP have what amount to building contractors who make holes in walls and pass cables around, so they arrive and do hte same kind of work electricians usually do?

We've got 6 residential fiber networks around the US, and another 3 in the pipe.

I've been slightly lazy. I'm on 60mbit FTTC here. We do have a fibre provider, but I like my ISP, they've always had excellent customer service. The fibre provided upsold a 3gbit connection to my neighbour because "it's better". One of her kids is still at home, the other has moved out, so it's two people and neither of them are particularly techy. I would be more than a little surprised if either of them had anything that could push more than 1gbit/s over a network port, and I also know how shockingly bad wifi propagation is in these houses. I've got 3 unifi APs and I still have dead spots. Muse be all the horse hair in the plaster...