4,415 karma · joined February 16, 2010
Now that she's seen exactly what prompted the previous board to fire Altman, she fires herself because she understands their decision now.
POWER from this perspective, does way too much. It's too much chip for AWS's needs, and a big waste of money.
That's what optimization means! You get the smallest/ simplest/cheapest thing that does exactly what you want, and ignore the big bad "do everything" chips that go for megabucks.
Then you can devote chip transistor count toward the instructions you want, and ditch all the dead weight that comes with a traditional chip like power, that tries to make a balanced general purpose cpu.
This results in a chip that isn't good for anything but the specific need, but it's super cost effective and higher performing.
I use hearing aids, and without them, my workplace turns into a death zone.
Think about people working in public transportation with hearing disabilities.
Imagine if you are working in an Amazon warehouse where your hearing aid fails and you can't hear a mechanized forklift coming through, or you can't hear announcements pertaining to safety.
Even at regular office, I can't hear fire alarms without hearing aids so literally, if the hearing aids fail, and there are no flash alerts or smoke alerts, I'll just keep working through a fire alarm. Thankfully flash alerts are regulated and mandatory.
hearing aids are medical devices, not headphones with passthrough.
The tolerances of safety and robustness alone are worlds apart.
Think about it this way: if a pair of apple earpods break, you just buy another one.
If my hearing aids break, there is a very high possibility of death and dismemberment leading to termination of my life.
Also, I would never buy apple branded hearing aids except under the circumstances where Apple and the FDA come to agreement, contractually obligated by the US courts system, that if Apple decides to terminate that product line, that all information, patents, design schematics, and code are passed to a 2ndary company (it could be one of the current hearing aid manufacturers) for continued support.
There can absolutely be no instance where apple can decide to "lay off the department" and "turn off the update servers" and leave the product unusable, for the lifetime of the patient.
That's the real difference between hearing aids and headphones.
The benefit of 4WD is when there are loose surfaces (like on gravel) and you actually want all wheels engaged like if 2 or even 3 wheels are off the ground.
during 4WD rock crawling the tires do get ripped to shreds very quickly, but you get the advantages of being able to climb almost vertical rockfaces and drive through rough terrain.
Through all this drivetrain talk, I hope you understand why Park Services would want to enforce 4WD - because AWD and 4WD are fundamentally set up to do entirely different things. And it's not right to say "4wd and awd are the same"
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a27630736/awd-vs-4wd/
The primary reason there's a 4WD vs AWD distinction is the ability to lock the differentials, and that determines the mechanisms that the wheels are driven by.
And that's why they use those terms in a prescriptive law context.
to simplify:
AWD -> power gets to all wheels (driven wheels) but wheels are usually allowed to spin at different speeds to facilitate pavement driving and turning.
4WD -> power gets to all wheels, but there is a locking mechanism that locks all wheels so they all turn at the same speed - if you know the physics of turning objects, it means turning while underway is either impossible or damaging to the drivetrain. This is however, useful in mud or rock, or challenging terrain. When on mud or rock or whatnot, you turn, move a bit, stop, check, turn a bit, move, stop, check, turn a bit, movie, stop, etc. So the fact that all wheels turn at the same time is an advantage.
The reason some 4WD don't have a "differential lock" is that it's fused by bare metal - it doesn't need a lock because it's welded together, so no lock needed!
The car and driver article gives an easy test: if the car manual tells you "this is bad for road driving" - that's 4WD.
you might think "well 4WD is terribly useless for regular driving" and you would be entirely correct. That's why most 4WD cars incorporate both modes of driving mechanisms so they can switch.
You can tell apart a permanent 4WD / full time rock climber by the owner needing to use a trailer to move the vehicle instead of driving it over the highway, usually they use a pickup truck or SUV with a regular drivetrain to haul gear and pull the trailer with the 4WD vehicle to the trailhead, unload, then go into places like Death Valley Back Country or Moab with the 4WD vehicle.
What it does say is that for fire trails, "clearance, strong tyres and suspension travel" are more important, which the Subaru does quality for.
No engineers or support people, but just pure middle managers - fire 2 or 3 layers. if they did that 3 years ago, they would be in a better position now.
While they each offer similar services and management techniques/interfaces, where an expert in AWS differ from you is when things go wrong. I'd absolutely want a person who knows AWS to handle a production failure across multiple regions and available zones - no offense to your knowledge base, but a person knowing how to recover from GCP errors is going to be out of their comfort zones in building / recovering from massive AWS failures.
It's like backups - only in the recovery do you know whether your initial backup worked. I wouldn't want to find out after the fact that an engineer I hired who had GCP experience didn't know how to design a system to recover from a catastrophic AWS error.
And these days, the cloud is just another person's computer, so errors and failures are going to happen - best be prepared.
Best way you can prepare yourself is to get some AWS experience! Spend a bit of money or use educational credits to build yourself mini clusters, and just see how to fail them, and how to interact with the management plane during an AWS outage (it's not hard to find an AWS outage - it happens on US East every few months or so).
RIP.
A dns error can take down the entire internet.
Maybe not exact duplicate, but the ideas cross polinated.
Even if within 3 years there needs to be OS upgrades, you can just e-cycle the old machines and buy brand new minipc's (with added benefit of increased performance) every time you need to upgrade, and you'd still be ahead!!
during array creation you can specify custom lower bound.
anyone who's ever used numpy/scipy has been using python integrated with fortran.
that's 1 unit of a production of cheese is called a wheel.
there is a perfectly fine rust plugin available with the intellij idea ultimate - provided you pay for intellij ultimate (and / or get it through education/nonprofit licensing)
if you want to use the software in this specialized combination, purchase it.
if you want to use the free/community editions, go ahead.
if you are a student or are using it for community/non-profit purposes JetBrains also has a pretty good licensing for students/education/non-profits.
aside from depriving a software maker from charging for their labour, while making profit yourself, what does this complaint actually achieve?