> The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs.
No, I want GPU. BERT models are still useful.
The point is your service is too expensive that only one or two months of renting is enough to build a PC from scratch and place it somewhere in your workplace to run 24/7. For applications that need GPU power, usually downtime or latency does not really matter. And you always add an extra server to ensure.
You are aware, I hope, that Gaza is not in the West Bank?
The west bank has borders with Jordan and Israel.
Gaza has borders with Egypt and Israel.
Israel indeed never pulled from the West Bank, and sadly, it does let settlers live there. But it did not grow the taken area. And when Israel pulled from Gaza, it removed the settlers.
No, it grows the parts in which settlers live inside the West Bank and increasingly restricts life of the Palestinians there. And I'm pretty sure you know that.
If you want to talk about occupying new land, this has been happening too in the recent months: As of today still in southern Lebanon and "prophylactically" in the eastern Golan heights and on Mount Hermon (not even talking about the previously annexed western Golan heights anymore).
One could discount them as a bunch of crackpots as they exist in every state, except that those guys have strong representation in the government and several Likud party members and government ministers were visiting their conference. They have power.
I am well aware, as I have written in other comments. The occupation is of the same size, the settlements are getting larger within it. Sadly.
The settler movement are crockpots that have non trivial government representation. They also had representation in 1982 and 2005 and that did not stop the Israeli government from relocating those settlers back inside Israel using force, while retreating from Sinai and Gaza respectively.
Whether that will happen again when (if) a peace agreement is ever reached remains to be seen; it is not a certainty either way.
Yes, that is true that Israel pulled back from Gaza completely in 2005, removing its settlers in the process.
Gaza and the West Bank are distinct.
Israel never pulled back from the West Bank, but that part of the occupation is the same size as it was in 1967. The West Bank occupation did not grow smaller (nor did it grow larger - it's the same size). Sadly, Israel does let settlers settle there, but if an agreement is ever reached, they will likely be removed like those in Gaza.
At some point - if you let people settle and multiply for decades, it may just be too late. Impossible to remove unless you start using lethal force, which would impact politics and votes.
Israel occupied Sinai in 1967 and had settlements there[0]. Then, following a peace agreement with Egypt, Israel pulled back in 1982, removing all the settlements and settlers, some by force.
Israel occupied Gaza in 1967 and had settlements in Gaza starting in 1968 or so, few at first, and then starting 1978 (iirc) a lot more than a few. In 2005 - which is 37 years ("decades") later, Israel pulled back, removed the settlers using threats of lethal force to do so. And it did, impact politics and votes - those who supported the move mostly thought, up until 7-oct-2023, that it was the right move. And those who opposed it, thought, up until 7-oct-2023, that it will explode in Israel's face at some point. (Whether you consider the latter vindicated or not depends on a lot of things and is not a trivial binary answer).
The "lethal force, politics and votes" requirement did not stop the Israeli government from removing settlers before. Will it stop them in the future? I have no idea.
Can you find, on the map, an area which was not occupied by Israel in 1968, but was occupied on Oct 6 2023 (before the Hamas attack on Israel which prompted Israel's re-occupation of Gaza in 2023-2024?)
Some are being relocated inside the West Bank, which is horrible, heinous and possibly a war crime, but they remain within the (occupied since 1967) west bank.
Israel is occupying the West Bank in the same way that it did since 1967. That occupation did not grow larger (or smaller).
The policies are heinous, possibly war crimes.
But Israel did also occupy Sinai and Gaza, and no longer does (well, it didn't until 7-oct-2023, at which point, Gaza opened a full fledged war which prompted Israel to re-occupy Gaza)
It still occupies the West Bank, and may or may not continue to do so, may or may not annex it. Prediction is very hard, especially about the future.
I generally do not watch programming video, as it is almost always a waste of time. But this one is interesting enough. The author took a lot of challenges for making the content:
- Learning a new language (crystal lang)
- Developing using Steam Desk
- Visualization and stimulation
Overall it was such a nice video with so little views that I thought it should have more exposure.
I mean, em and rem serve different purposes. Like let’s say you want to append a permalink icon to different headings, you can scale its size easily based on the size of the heading it’s attached to. This is when em comes in and rem makes no sense. Unless you want to keep the icon the same size regardless, in which case rem makes the most sense.
You want to store hashed value in database as effectively as possible, hence the first 8 bytes.
Though I think a 64 bits hash algorithms might be more suitable than sha1. Personally I use fnv-1a for hashing (not the fastest but trivial to implement) instead.
> And while support for Container Queries is green in all modern browsers, people still seem reluctant to go all-in, fearing they could break something as fundamental as site layout in older browsers.
Don't you know there are still a fuck ton of people that are still using the old iOS versions with their old phones?
I have plenty of them, and they are long term supporters that I just can't shut them off.
There are new css features that are almost harmless and do not affect the usability, some css features on the other hand...
Most of us just decide to ignore them, because a significant portion of our userbase stills stuck with old devices. People who agree with this article probably never get accessed to any website statistic dashboard.
For sure, I understand usage statistics and device targets, etc for your audiences. I don't think it diminishes the informative nature of the article. You can be still be excited about new features even if you can't use them for your particular product/audience/etc.
This is an article [1] from 14 years ago where Arrington characterized Quora with “People say they feel smarter after they use Quora” and “It’s kind of like Wikipedia [2]. This is the long tail of information”
> Arrington characterized Quora with “People say they feel smarter after they use Quora”
But… they still do; as the article says, and it’s completely correct, it is essentially selling _feeling smart_. That’s not the same as _being_ smarter, though. I’m not sure there was ever _really_ a golden age; it wasn’t as bad as it is today on launch, certainly, but it was never great.
> “It’s kind of like Wikipedia […]”
Except without Wikipedia’s editing process, which is relatively good at keeping out incorrect things written by internet knowitalls. It _always_, right from the start, had a big problem with the confidently incorrect.
No, I want GPU. BERT models are still useful.
The point is your service is too expensive that only one or two months of renting is enough to build a PC from scratch and place it somewhere in your workplace to run 24/7. For applications that need GPU power, usually downtime or latency does not really matter. And you always add an extra server to ensure.
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