Yep. The only reason it continues to get major funding is that other use for fusion.

(To be fair, the plasma stuff is interesting and potentially hugely beneficial too)

Srsly what do u expect? Do you know how expensive a bunch of windmills and solar panels on god knows how much land is?

After they began shoving snaps down everybody's throats I migrated thousands of servers to vanilla Debian.

It's always nice to be proven correct again.

>Not all writing is about the actual writing part, but mostly about comprehension, essay format, and proper citations.

Writing an ESSAY, which I believe is this context, is an exercise in sourcing, reading comprehension, critical thinking, grammar, spelling, sentence structure, document process, among other things.

>It’s like math, some might question why use a calculator for math, but it’s not about working math out by hand it’s about learning how to solve the problems.

We work out math problems by hand in order to learn the operations and sequences, exercise the computation, practice the writing of symbols, translate problems to rigor, among other things.

Admittedly, it's not about the hand eye coordination and fine motor skills. I will presume are not talking about that.

Quoting chatgpt would arguably, to lesser and more degrees, depending on the nature of the essay or curriculum, circumvent many of these skills which are learned in conjunction, by writing essays (and doing math).

There are people who upgrade their GPU's every other year, but I doubt it's a majority.

To be fair, the U.S is quite large. I wonder what the actual mega wattage is compared to others

Couldn't somebody just alter the photo slightly to completely change its hash?

ChatGPT has 125 million vocabulary, to hold that in memory you'd need at least 1 80GB nVidia card, at $30,000 each. As AI models grow they'll need more RAM and Cloud is the cheapest way for companies to timeshare those prices.

It's not just training the models, it's also query the models that need that in memory calculations. I'm not expecting gamer to buy these cards. But scale up the number of using going to query OpenAI, Bing X ChatGPT or Google x Bard, and all the other AI competitors and there will be big demand for large RAM GPUs

People with money to burn, like those who go all out and get new PC parts every generation.

The point with "free" is generally, we, the humans, are the product then (i.e., search exists to serve us ads so we are influenced to buy things / click ads, Facebook exists to sell us ads, and chatgpt is free, so they can gain more data on what people are using/typing in, so they can make it better, etc.).

Whereas with paid (like Netflix), the product is the entertainment and user satisfaction with said entertainment; as they switch to ads, it becomes more how can we convince/hook people in to watch as much content as possible so we can continue to serve them ads (the same way youtube works), and then you optimize for more ads not less until finally people have had enough of it and pay a premium (sort of like pandora where you have so many ads it makes the experience almost unbearable when free; imo)

Last time I seen someone upscale a very low youtube video, was Linus and his fire truck review. Did not turn out so well. lol

There's only so many pixels to work off of at low res. The only way around it, is the AI substituting other graphical images to improve the quality on scene.

PS5 Pro here we go! Next year Christmas I’ll have you 😈

When the big porn sites start having issues with NCMEC and how they curate their databases, I’ll worry about that. But they all seem to get along fine right now, so I’m not worried about it.

No no no, you got it all wrong. Those are hacks, and they’re the reporters.

*only if using Chrome or Edge.

Acorn did it!

I'm guessing they're talking about midgen refreshes like the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro. So essentially you'd have a cycle of spec bump - new architecture - spec bump every 3-4 years.

Last gen really benefitted from the mid gen consoles given the move to 4k and in the case of the Xbox, simply underpowered hardware compared to Sony. That's not the case with either machine this generation. I'll continue with my plans to build my first PC in over a decade given more of the games I want to play are either on PC first or PC only, and console games tend to lack mod and peripheral support relative to PC.

This tool is an expansion of the existing tool used to detect and take down CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material). Dedicated adult content sites like Onlyfans and Pornhub also use that tool. They may adopt this expansion as well if it works out on the other platforms that are early adopters, since they don’t want any stuff with minors and/or anything the subjects of the uploaded media did not consent to on their site (it’s against their policy).

Expanding this to filter out any adult content whatsoever would be very difficult because it only works on “known” media, that is, media for which there is a hash already uploaded to the database. These tools can’t recognize “hey, that’s a naked child/teenager” or “hey, that’s a boob.” They can only recognize “that media matches a signature in my database.”

Somebody was inside without their consent?

Did they try to relax and enjoy it at least?

And maybe it wouldn't have happened if their server had been dressed properly, instead of having its ports exposed like that...

Well, it was god's will. Thoughts and prayers.

I also feel like nvidia is sort of pressured into putting higher prices on their models since these new cards are fucking beasts. Like if you have 4090 there is no reason to think you will not be able to run new releases at 1440p ultra 60+ fps especially considering dlss 3 exist. Even these "mid end gpu's" like 4060 will just destroy everything. That wasn't the case during 600, 700, 900 series. If you wanted to play at max settings you had to get 80 series but with anything else there were compromises going to be made, but now the cards are so powerful you don't even need the best and hottest stuff on market, so in the name of infinite growth they just keep pumping up the price.

Agree on the value they assign it. Is too low.

Knowing a couple of incidents first hand, this is going to be a very difficult problem to fix. The biggest issue is that IT is IT's worst enemy. Unlike most departments, management has to fully rely on IT's word that they are following and implementing security policies that are effective. These policies suck for IT personnel though as they make their job much harder. Thus they love to take shortcuts. Attacks come in a few vectors but predominantly they like to hold data for ransom or in this case, may love the Intel they can get. Virus scanners work mainly on known viruses and new viruses can get past them.

So here is an actual true attack I was personally involved in. Large company with very good virus scanning has employee install, unwittingly, a remote access application. Some new virus but it took the employee's approval. Employees need internet access and draconian restrictions result in IT being chastised by said employees. So IT hates being hated and tries to accommodate for multitude of reasons that results in less secure networks. Once remote access is running, bad guys install apps to make virus scanners appear functional but do nothing. Then they install keystroke recorders while scanning the network and just getting a lay off the land. At some point an IT technician is officially at this computer because for 'some reason' it lost access to a shared resource. Oh it just needs elevation. Instead of pulling out their laptop and logging into their secure desk computer few stories up, they decide to use said employees desktop instead to access their computer and update the infected computers credentials. This alone is not dangerous because the infected computers does not have access to backups. But the Keylogger on it has now transmitted the IT personnel access credentials to the bad guys. Later that night when business closed, they use the infected computers to log into the IT technician's computer. From there they install additional keyloggers and review access and any other software they want. Then they they watch this guy as he does upper level maintenance across their network for weeks/months. Maybe they get into a few more computers until bingo, someone maintains a backup that gets keylogged. Ransomware attack encrypts all databases and the backup and demands for two million dollars shows up.

In this particular case, luckily an off-site backup is found but it is a month old. Lots of employees trying to recover by memory some of the lost data. Management angry because IT been telling them they are following best practices. IT angry because they truely could use more money. Regardless, more money won't fix a guy that is too lazy or too overworked or doesn't care or... to start up his secure laptop or real two floors up to insure he is not using elevated services on a compromised system.

Can we yeet him into the sun?

I no right! Hackers must have been in there for years, hiring the hosts setting the schedules and booking guests. How devious!

Yeah, that’s what I said.

Nah, they still have 10 year old tech they need to "introduce" in their newest console.