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There are competitions in the AI accelerator field. Google's TPU in addition to Intel Arc and AMD GPUs. The latter two have incomplete pytorch and JAX support.

The service department will adapt by always talking nice, always promising to service the products but never send or perform anything that costs money.

When you finally reach the person in charge: - "sorry sir, but your request has been filtered by our revenue, cost and risk model, the model is automatic and I am unable to override it, would you please try making the request in another way" - "my request is totally legit, why does the model think it's risky?" - "sorry sir, the exact mechanism is confidential. I would recommend you proposing a solution that doesn't have substantial cost for us, or we can work together on this case for a win-win solution".

what about recognizing handwritten math? https://mathpix.com/handwriting-recognition

They don't even have to use cops. They are able to let you lose your cash. They can prevent you from selling the apartments by refusing to issue titles to buyers. They can stop you from connecting to city-owned utilities. They can write you a big ticket for zoning violation and put a lien on your land title if you don't pay the fine.

There is zero evidence that build densely decreases property value. Structure is by itself a depreciating asset. Land value will increase when the neighborhood densifies.

Do we want a mass construction workers layoff in addition to tech layoff? Tech recession should be countered by encouraging developments in all economic sectors, especially pro-development policies that doesn't cost taxpayer money.

"I don't know what it does. I don't know how it would be controlled. I don't know how to keep kids away from it," he (Stayton Mayor Henry Porter) said. "I guess it's the fear of things we don't understand." Effective leaderships carefully try out something new to get a better understanding.

Banning something because the official doesn't understand it would kill many innovations, because knowledge of any officials is infinitely small to all human knowledge.

In communication, there is a fundamental rule -- always consider the audience and the scenario, which overrides any specific communication advice. You don't talk weapon humor in front of a cop, however funny it is. The article is not for interviews.

Working with old buildings require a compromise mindset.

No you don't want to drill the asbestos tiles, but you can install poles standing on the floor with lights and wifi access points.

No, it's no longer produced anywhere in the world except Russia.

New industrial projects don't use asbestos. Existing installations are replaced with rockwool, fiberglass or kaowool once it need replacement.

Your undergrad professor wasn't up to date. Kaowool is a drop in replacement.

Roman concrete is simply concrete made by pozzolan cement. You make pozzolan cement by grinding quicklime together with volcano ash, fly ash from coal power plants, or metallurgical slags.

You can easily say these two sentences in Spanish that every Spanish speaker has no difficulty understanding.

El GPS en mi barrio tiene precisión cien veces peor debido a la interferencia de radio. mueve este MOSFET 15mm hacia arriba para balancia de estrés térmico a la placa.

I believe you can "invent" a Taiwanese sentence to mean the above, but there is no consensus among Taiwanese speakers in how to say them, so they would need your explanations of what your chosen words mean. If you borrow Chinese words, your sentence will be no much different from the Chinese sentence.

For your question -- yes you can scrape by with only Taiwanese, just like you can live in some areas in the US speaking only Spanish. But to do anything more, like riding a train to another Spanish speaking area, you could meet a conductor who have to open the translator app for you.

Agree very much. Hokkien is 65 million people's language, more than Italy's population.

There are Hokkien-speaking people in Hong Kong and China's Guangdong province. They write Hokkien in Chinese characters mixed with pinyin for these without a corresponding character.

I asked them why. They said it's possible to say anything in Japanese, but English has the brevity for some topics.

It's anthropocentric to say a language can only be preserved by live humans rather than AI natural language models and digital corpora. No one use Latin any more but we can still figure out what Roman text meant.

It's also counterproductive to let humans learn a language of limited content resources and use cases.

Taiwan people are highly educated and urbanized. It's much harder to use Taiwanese in Taiwan compared to High German in a Pennsylvanian Amish village.

I don't know how to express clearly in Taiwanese "GPS in my neighborhood has a 100x lower accuracy because of radio interference" or "move this MOSFET up by 15mm to balance the PCB thermal stress". If you still have to switch to Chinese or English from time to time, why not just use the popular languages?

Even Japanese, a language used by 125 million, has similar issues, my Japanese coworkers frequently switch to English during technical discussions.

Ketamine is a prescription medicine that can be taken oral, intranasal or IV drip.

ECT is an inpatient procedure that need one anesthesiologist and one psychiatrist plus nurses to administer, two to three times weekly for three to four weeks.

Who pays for the healthcare, definitely want to try the former and use the latter only if the former works poorly.

but property prices of SF are still 10x-40x my little town's main street. If the situation in SF downtown is "trouble", small towns are in much deeper trouble since the beginning of time.

Policy has consequences. Yes, nice consequences for hundreds of emerging towns and neighborhoods, while SF get what it deserves from decades of anti-housing anti-building exclusive policy.

Urbanism means inclusion and cooperation. Urbanism doesn't mean give favor policy to well developed cities who allow vested interests to exploit newcomers.

US shipbuilders get orders mainly from military. Civilian orders is almost zero. The facility and technology for military vs civilian ships are vast, that a shipyard focusing on one cannot efficiently work on the other.

In California? Many badge terminals along Pacific coast. But it means much more for Eastern and Southeastern US where waterways are plentiful.

I know a retired American factory worker who did exactly what you said for his manufacturing career -- relocating to Philippines for introducing American machinery and management practices.

He was a line manager in his late 20s(like a mcdonalds store manager, the bottom level salaried position managing dozens of shift employees) before he went to Philippines. Moved with his wife and kids, and later his parents. His father fought WW2 in Philippines so there is some emotional link.

He ended up making millions(USD) from bonus, investments and sidejobs during 1980-1990s. He said it's impossible to make this much without first hand information of what actually happens in overseas manufacturing.

#vanlife? no, he lived in decent homes and apartments since day 1.

and this is just Philippines, to which China industrialized later but reached much higher levels. I am sure your factory worker relocating to China will have more and better opportunities than him.

Russian agents set up shell companies that hide their Russian nexus. IC vendors don't really background check cash buyers.

Many ICs are sold in open markets like this: https://n.sinaimg.cn/sinakd10114/107/w1024h683/20220819/c5a8...

Cash and carry, no fux given. You cannot sanction an open market like you cannot sanction open source software.

Should we create a FDIC-like mechanism for chips, to reduce companies'incentive to "bank run" their vendors? Have the federal reserve always stockpile 10% of circulating chips registered in the program.

It's like America's racial desegregation in the 1960s. Life of white workers did not become worse since colored workers joined the professional workforce.

I am in the US. Let it drop then, I will adapt by becoming a digital nomad. Maybe I will move to Mexico or Argentina for the better life there. You can buy much more life quality with half the funds.

I already know some Spanish, it's easy to pick up once I live there. If time zone doesn't matter I can also move to Southwestern China or Thailand.

Rise of wages in developing regions will also create much growth that I can invest into.

We cannot have real social democracy if there is still cheap labor on the planet to outsource to. Closing the pay gap will definitely brew global labor movement that will eventually make life better for everyone.

US military also once bought fake chips from China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2008/oct/06/secu...

There are good reputation vendors in China, but if purchasers type in the chip model in Alibaba and simply buy the cheapest, it's likely to be bad.

Russian purchasers should know this, but maybe they don't care or they got kickbacks.

Rather than "computer" science, CS is actually "the science of problem solving"

Traditional engineering: you work on one field for X years to become a specialized expert of that field. The industry employs thousands of these "specialists" solving similar problems over and over.

CS/IT: you worked on one field for X years, codified your know how know why in a piece of software/algorithm/library, the field became so mature that minimum wage high schoolers can use your creations. You move on into the next highly demanded blue sea.

Needless to say which industry has higher productivity that could translate to higher income.

Coal contains very little lignin. Coal is still being formed in bogs, or anywhere acidic and anaerobic. Anaerobic fermentation is still used to stabilize harvested bamboo. Bamboo stem contains sugar making it susceptible to termites and rot. Bury it in riverbed mud, bacteria will quickly break down the sugar before the lignin and cellulose, then you pull them ashore and wash mud off to stop the reaction.