brianorca

Because bits are not expensive anymore, and if we used 64 bits, we might run out faster than the time needed to convert to a new standard. (After all, IPv4 is still around 26 years after IPv6 was drafted.) Also see the other notes about how networks get segmented in non-optimal ways. It’s a good thing to not have to worry about address space when designing your network.

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Canines have five digits on their front paws, just like we do. Their “dew claw” is equivalent to our thumb, so the outside digit is still a pinky digit.

Sounds like sleep. Hibernate is when it turns completely off, such that you can leave it unplugged for a weekend and still have battery when it pops you back into your session. It takes longer to save and restore the session than sleep does.

The Rockies stand in the way, and the energy cost of pushing water over them likely exceeds the going price of water. We do have lots of water pipes west of the Rockies, but no way to economically get water from the Mississippi.

Also, oil is worth a lot more per gallon than water, and used in smaller quantities, which is why oil pipes are economical.

I expect desalination to become mainstream before we push much water across the Rockies.

I can run 7B models on my laptop with its embedded GPU. Running on a phone or a Pi is possible with smaller models, but very slow. Expect good speed with a desktop Nvidea GPU. Later this year, there should be new computers with an NPU integrated to the CPU which should speed up computers that don’t have a dedicated GPU. (But a GPU will still outperform them by a lot.)

70B models will run very slowly on even the best consumer hardware due to memory limitations.

The problem is “unsafe websites” is actually a very broad category. Even popular, reputable websites have accidentally hosted malware in the advertisements, some of which can infect without a click.

Also note that before this switch, years were often designated in relation to the founding of a city or by the start of a ruler’s reign. There were always ordinal numbers, so the first year of a reign would be year 1, and there was never a zero, because it was year X of a previous reign.

The guy that invented time zones was solving a problem where each little town had their own time standard. I don’t think that was sustainable.

That wouldn’t stop them from pursuing something in a US court if the other party is in the US. But even here, I doubt their argument would hold water in an actual trial, considering existing precedent.

It’s an open source project repository. It can be compared to the process descriptions in the patent. But patents and copyright don’t cover APIs, as decided in Oracle vs Google in 2021.

I’m saying this usage of reverse engineering is probably safe, but if you reverse engineered a way to process data that happened to match a patent, it doesn’t matter that you never saw the patent or original code, it can still be infringement.

Reverse engineering is legal, but if you still arrive at a solution covered by a patent, then that solution is illegal. But this shouldn’t be covered by a patent.

A lot of ISPs provide email, too. So getting an ISP password lets them reset your other passwords which used that email address for the “forgot password” prompt. (I’m guessing you don’t use your ISP provided email, but you’re not “most people”.)

What does the “5 minute” rule even do? Any bot can be programmed to wait that long, or have a few accounts lined up to use in sequence.

Which means when they ask to verify your number again in 6 months, or after a computer upgrade, you are SOL without that specific phone number.

There are surely some vents that could handle a slower decompression, but a sudden event that reduced the pressure by half in a single second would be too much. 6 tons is a lot of force for a door to take, especially when it is in the opposite direction of most threats the door is supposed to stop.

Ouch. Many years ago, my car was totaled while driving to a family Christmas Eve party. (Rear ended when the freeway traffic slowed down.)

Everyone gets mad at China for creating a new artificial island in order to claim a huge swath of previously international waters.

It could also be how the Apple trial was just in front of the judge, but the Google trial went to a jury. Could Epic have had a different result if they requested a jury trial the first time?

Thought this was already established precedent.