Am I missing something?

Nothing in the article itself suggests that we know what happened to the dog after it was stolen other than the headline.

The article just ends after this part:

Guo cut short his trip and rushed back to China to search for him.

Checking the archive didn’t turn up any more of the article.

I wonder how much of it might also have been to deliberately show off American wealth compared to communist countries during the cold war. Like the whole comparisons of having shelves of different brands of the same food.

Ever run an AI model locally? If you want the most capability you need a fast GPU with 32-48gb RAM. And that’s all for you, ONE user.

Even then, that’s quite small. Top of the line frontier models would be looking at hundreds of gigabytes of video memory, and just as much RAM.

A terabyte of VRAM/RAM needed for something like CoPilot is probably a fairly sensible estimate.

Or at least, diversified so it’s not only those two, and there’s a multitude of options.

A fair few countries do that, for example, with payment being diversified into other systems like Alipay, and the other QR-based payment systems. Australia has EFTPOS, HK lets you use your Octopus to buy things in addition to paying for the train fare.

Otherwise, you’d be in trouble if MasterCard/Visa decided that they didn’t like something you did very much, so you’re barred from their services.

Its the most soul crushing thing to be looking for a job right now, anything to make you stand out of a crowd is ignored, volume of applications and adherance to posted requirments are the only way to get a fleeting interaction with a human.

Or none at all.

The advice is not helping either, since you’re told to both make your resume and cover letter stand out, but also to make it generic so the automated system doesn’t parse it wrong and disregard it.

It’s also decent for people who want a low-power MacBook for cheap, but don’t need a lot of bells and whistles, without the limitations of an iPad.

Wouldn’t even need that. Just give it a mid-way complicated pile of nonsense with reasoning on, and it’ll be crunching on that for the whole day, burning money to do so.

From the sounds of it, the newspaper is being deliberately misleading to drum up something or other.

But developers are also customers of valve. And this is arguably where valve makes their money. They take a cut from the developers sales. Devs cannot just use a different platform without cutting out a huge userbase. This gives valve a real monopolistic control over developers.

Can they not? I was under the understanding that developers aren’t limited to steam. They can use any other platform in addition to it, the main restriction being that they can’t sell the game for cheaper on platforms other than Steam.

There’s also Syncthing Tray’s experimental android interface. You either need to install from apk, or use something like obtanium, but it may be less flaky than Termux.

RAM is probably the biggest killer for it right now. The other specs are still viable enough for most basic usage.

The info says desktop? But that’s a low end mobile cpu in there, 15W TDP, optimized to be cheap and have a good battery life. The downside is the performance sucks.

Might be one of those all-in-one-systems where they put laptop hardware into a screen.

After the XZ debacle, it would only be harder, because they can’t trust that anyone volunteering to step up is doing so with the best of intentions, and vetting someone would be adding a lot to the workload.

I’d have thought it’s a stylised asterisk, since it’s meant to be a do-anything machine.

A lot of companies also have a mandate to use AI these days. Microsoft, for example.

It depends. At least, I find that it has a habit of falling on its metaphorical face if the task is anything more complex than the simplest things, so the idea that people can use it to make viable programs is baffling to me.

“Put these values into the CSV” works okay enough, but if you task it with more than that, like see if a column of values in the CSV is entered correctly from the markdown, it breaks.

Or it gets stuck in a loop, and there’s a very short point where it is faster to enter it by hand. Slightly ironic, though, that a language model doesn’t do too well with natural language processing.

I’d certainly not trust it for anything important like a production database, but the csv/markdown thing isn’t, and it’s no big deal if it gets destroyed by the model/agent, so it’s interesting to poke around with, and feel out the limitations, so you know its strengths and weaknesses.

A pencil seems like it would risk the screen getting broken when the bag gets bumped, because the middle is unsupported, or it falls inside.

There was also a little debacle a while ago that VS Code was misattributing everything committed in git by users with its default CoPilot extension as being co-written by CoPilot.

Something like that could also be happening here.

I don’t use mine for coding, but it can be useful for editing stuff, since a lot of agent-based systems can edit parts of a file instead.

The thing I have it do sometimes is parsing a bunch of markdown files, and parse data to put into the middle of a CSV, so it’s not out of order. Since making a script read the markdown is non-trivial, and itls not something that needs to be done very often, it’s easier to run a local model on the same machine and have it do that. Past a point, re-generating the entire file isn’t feasible, since it either consumes so many tokens doing the output that it hits the output limit that’s usually in place to prevent looping, or it takes an incredibly long time.

P2P wouldn’t scale very well, though. It would be really complicated once you have more than a small handful of people.

From what I remember, Lemmy had/has a similar problem, where the whole thing would start bogging down past a point, because all the connected instances would need to update each other, instead of a main hub they could query like more centralised networks would.

With this character’s death, the thread of prophecy has been severed. Reload to restore the weave of fate, or persist in this doomed world you have created.