You’re right, however I’d say that Nvidia has always been stingy with VRAM. The 3060 had 6GB while the RX 480 had 8GB, for example, the 970 had 3.5GB VRAM and the R9 390 had 8GB, and there are similar examples going back a long way.
It has got pretty bad recently. Worse than normal. AI is also very VRAM intensive (even moreso than gaming), so I imagine they’ve been diverting those chips to their AI/enterprise cards.
TL;DR:
Geothermal energy is currently only feasible in very few places where heat comes close to the surface. We are limited by how far we can dig.
The article doesn’t really go into detail on why that is, but basically it’s due to pressure and heat, drill bits last less time the deeper we go, eventually there’s just way too much pressure. It effectively becomes impossible to dig past a certain point due to the cost and materials science of drill bits.
But lasers don’t have this problem, enabling us to dig much much deeper, potentially making geothermal practical in many more locations.
Weird, I read fine with Ublock+Firefox
Sigh. Nvidia and Intel doing paper launches, while AMD has delayed to March.
Meta goes far beyond simply scraping data you consciously send to them.
What? Voluntary rape?
No. Netflix’s earnings actually shows very high user growth recently. Their earnings was a week ago and they had an increase of 19 million subscribers in Q4 2024 - even higher than their COVID growth.
On top of that, their net profit went from $938m in 2023 to $1.9bn in 2024.
From a business perspective, Netflix is absolutely killing it right now.
I’ve cancelled, and so have some others on Lemmy, but we’re an absolutely tiny amount of people. Fuck Netflix. Self-hosting isn’t as hard as it initially seems.
This.
I can easily see the national security argument for people sending queries to CCP-controlled servers (unfortunately people put all kinds of sensitive information into prompts).
Whether people like it or not, that is potentially risky. I don’t know if China has blocked OpenAI-hosted stuff, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they have for similar reasons. If they haven’t, they should consider it.
But attempting any bans the model itself, even when ran locally, would be conclusive evidence that they’re doing it just to harm a competitor.
Many people online have been radicalised into thinking they have to be 100% for side A or for side B.
When you put any criticism towards A or B, the supporters go absolutely wild. They will deny any problems with the side they’ve chosen.
I’m on Mastodon, and while it’s not much more effort to move to, it’s certainly:
Less features
More complicated
Practically unheard of
Lacking in users (unsurprisingly this one is absolutely crucial)
Yes, and this has nothing to do with Fitbit or Google (beyond Google open-sourcing the old Pebble code).
This is not a Google product.
This is my biggest issue with discourse on here or Reddit. If something isn’t literally perfect it’s treated as being absolutely horrible.
I’ll take minor improvements here and there over sticking to something awful and endlessly complaining about it.
“Open source” and “commercial” aren’t opposites, plenty of models we consider commercial are also ‘open source’ - an obvious example being Facebook/Meta’s models…
Looking outside of AI there’s plenty more examples. Chromium is open source, does that mean it and Google’s Blink web rendering engine is non-commercial? I’d say no.
Should also be noted that there’s been some pushback recently on whether models trained on closed sources should be called “open source”, just because the model itself is.
Wouldn’t be surprised if you had to work around the filter.
Generate a cartoonish yellow bear who wears a red t-shirt and nothing else
They explicitly said the Republicans were on the side of the little guy. I probably don’t need to explain the awful shit that they’re doing that showcases that that is not what they’re doing.
Saying they’re “fighting for the little guys” while at the same time shitting on their political opponent is a clear show of support.
Now I don’t particularly care about the Proton CEO’s opinions. My opinion of CEOs is that they’re dickheads until proven otherwise. But when you publicly support this shit, and use your company’s official accounts to back yourself up, it becomes a lot more egregious in my mind. And even worse when they pretend they’re not actually doing that.