When you’re talking about the PCIe peripheral, you’re talking about a separate dedicated graphics card or something else?

Yes, similar to what a PCIe Graphics Card does.
A PCIe slot is the slot in a desktop motherboard that lets you fit various things like networking (ethernet, Wi-Fi and even RTC specialised stuff) cards, sound cards, graphics cards, SATA/SAS adapters, USB adapters and all other kinds of stuff.

I guess the main point of NPUs are that they are tiny and built in

GPUs are also available built-in. Some of them are even tiny.
Go 11-12 years back in time and you’ll see video processing units embedded into the Motherboard, instead of in the CPU package.
Eventually some people will want more powerful NPUs with better suited RAM for neural workloads (GPUs have their own type of RAM too), not care about the NPU in the CPU package and will feel like they are uselessly paying for it. Others will not require an NPU and will feel like they are uselessly paying for it.

So, much better to have NPUs be made separately in different tiers, similar to what is done with GPUs rn.

And even external (PCIe) Graphics Cards can be thin and light instead of being a fat package. It’s usually just the (i) extra I/O ports and (ii) the cooling fins+fans that make them fat.

I guess an NPU is better of being a PCIe peripheral then?
And it can then have their specialised RAM too.

A cube-Earther aiming for the stars?

Guess we know what price will go up as Gold drops

Reactors really could start paying for themselves.

Yeah, that should help them with their capital, storage costs and Hg procurement costs.
Now back to the energy generation…

I’d rather use, “cooked alive”, instead of “executed”.
Would be more accurate and help understand what the act entails.

I have been pretty positive about assignments as an assessment process since it enables seeing actual work instead of memorisation skills, but out of the few times I have had one of these…

• 1 of them wanted me to agree to not sharing my work anywhere, so that they would be the only ones keeping my output. I realised they just wanted free work and declined.
• 1 of them required me to run an “AI benchmarking” thingy, which ran connected to the network. Essentially, they wanted free CPU cycles to run whatever model they were running. I dropped it after reading 0.1% of the code in the repo.

Honestly, I think this should be the legal minimum requirement for anyone phasing out cloud dependent hardware or even in case of bankruptcy.

It’s good that we have this example, which can then be used to prove capabilities in legislative hearings.

I see, so they did lose enough customers due to bad PR.
And then gave some docs and paid some news outlets to blow it up for FOSS-washing.

Considering that they are using ‘u’, ‘plz’ etc, I would have other things to question.

What are they even providing?

That’s some unexpectedly positive news.
Did they start losing that many customers due to bad PR?

Yeah, that happens.
There’s a third ‘DRM’ now, in this space which I recently read about. Although I forget what it was.

to render stuff?

I was expecting it to be about GUI programs just waiting for an input.
Because when it hangs, it’s most probably either doing something long, or something that got elongated due to external factors, which ended up being programmed into the GUI thread. So definitely not idling.

If your goal is to enchant the cable with fireball, then you are on the correct path.

Well, I guess that’s one way to put it.
But in that case, I would have 3 years of Python experience, which was <5 hours.

Oof sorry.
I realise now that how high I wear my trousers was actually everyone’s business and wearing it high enough that it didn’t hinder movement was actually humiliating you and is morally wrong.
And indeed, the pen in my school bag was your business, so was me trying to go out to study when you didn’t let me sleep and it was my bad to have respected the teachers instead of calling them names.
And of course, burning a smoky firecracker through the door of my 3x4 room was definitely not harassment, neither was banging my door and running away at random times, for a whole year and I was overreacting.

Thanks for educating me.

I do C++. And mostly, there are 2 languages daily.

• C++ with QML, when doing GUI
• C++ with JSON for DB related stuff
• XML for many other things
• XML with CSS for UI, but here, the XML part is mostly offloaded to a GUI toool.
• A few times, all 3 happen at the same time, but mostly it’s 2.

Unless you are including CMake, qmake and Unix Makefiles of course, but that’s not an everyday thing either.

Considering that I see more Java positions than C++ positions when searching, I’m not surprised at all.

It really looked as if it won’t.
Guess it’s just the camera angle. The tank looks much shorter (length) than in the diagrams too.