What I find particularly interesting is that it’s an ad they’re serving directly from their own infrastructure - ublock isn’t blocking it as an ad.
What I find particularly interesting is that it’s an ad they’re serving directly from their own infrastructure - ublock isn’t blocking it as an ad.
That’s pretty normal for financial charts like this though.
Nearest convenience store is 200m Chain supermarket is 200m Bus stop is 150m Library is 50m Park is 500m Train station is 800m
NYC makes everything easy
I honestly think that difference in opinion speaks highly of Banks as an author - the books speak to us differently and he wrote diverse enough stories that they capture each person separately.
Per capita with total as tiebreaker:
Brazil 94kg
Germany 78kg - 17% less than Brazil
China 76kg - 2.6% less than Germany
UK 76kg - 2.6% less than Germany
USA 73kg - 3.9% less than UK/China
France 61kg - 16% less than USA
India 55kg - 10% less than France
Russia 33kg - 40% less than India
Big disagree on the best - Use of Weapons, Surface Detail and Consider Phlebas are the favorites of my partner and me.
Not that the 3 listed are bad just that I like my 3 more :)
3.4bn is their gross - we have no idea what their operating costs are since they refuse to share them.
Some estimates say they’re burning 8 billion a year.
The latest releases ChatGPT 4o costs $600/hr per instance to run based on the discussion I could find about it.
If OpenAI is running 1k of those models to service the demand (they’re certainly running more since queries can take 30+ seconds) then that’s 200M/yr just keeping the lights on.
Every single word in the original post clarifies more than plain English. It is more specific and has better nuance than a plain translation.
That doesn’t make it a useful explanation because the audience of the statement is not the in-group using the jargon.
One part of my daily job is translating “technical” into “manager”. The translation always loses fidelity to the original. Jargon exists because it’s useful, not because there’s a deliberate attempt to keep others out. Some will then use it as a shibboleth but that does not mean it’s original purpose was such.
For what it’s worth: that’s true of all translations. I’ve done real time translation from Italian into English and it’s always missing the nuance of the original. I’ve read the divine comedy in English and Italian and the English is always missing the context and nuance.
Language is an abstract representation of concepts and never maps faithfully.
Classing dying corporation spends more on their patent lawyers than they do their programmers. The IP lawyer to programmer ratio going positive is the death knell
Every single phone application does this. The entire Google and Apple app store economy is built on the local host doing something to make it easier on the servers.
It all works because it’s fantasy my friend
They’re scum for the grift but flappy bird doesn’t deserve a trademark. US IP laws are draconian enough.
Not op - as far as I can tell they weren’t particularly warcrimey for WW2.
They killed a bunch of German POWs during the invasion of Sicily and killed 20 civilians while burning down a town for a supposed civilian killing a commander (turned out it was an enemy combatant).
Both deeply abhorrent but not “inventing new crimes”
Ok.
Say the N word then.
Go yell it at people.
Do it.
Go on.
Oh hey it’s the guy who’s definitely not an egg. Definitely not. He just finds excuses to dress up like a woman all the time to make fun of trans people.
He definitely hates doing it. Ew. Yuck. Haha so funny look at men wearing women’s clothes. Haha let’s film another. Ooh let my try on this cute sports bra…
We’re you participating in the rule 5 ban spree of Beaver?
Not him but it was Beaver - there’s a whole thread on her actions in /c/vegan
This is a good thing why you trying to spin it as bad?
Arbitration has always favored companies.