high stakes game. its not a genre you in particular talk about specifically, but there are several entries in it that are worth watching.

The problem that (local) ai has at the current moment is that its not just a single type of compute, and because of that, breaks usefulness in the pool of what you can do with it.

on the Surface level, “AI” is a mixture of what is essentially FP16, FP8, and INT8 accelerators, and different implementations have been using different ones. NPUs are basically INT8 only, while GPU intensive ones are FP based, making them not inherently cross compatible.

It forces devs to either think of the NPUs themselves with small things (e.g background blur with camera) as there isn’t any consumer level chip with a massive INT8 co processor except for the PS5 Pro (300 TOPS INT8, which compared to laptop cpus, have a 50 TOPs, so on a completely different league, PS5 Pro uses it to upscale)

So, yes, it would be unrealistic to suggest AMD could rip out the NPU and easily put that space to good use in this current chip.

a few amd chips did have the NPU removed in them, except they were mostly allocated to handheld gaming devices. the Ryzen Z1E for example.

when redreshed, there were a handful of hawkpoint cpus that were NPU less (Ryzen 7 8745HS)

Strix point does not have that dumped die cycle yet

it goes both ways. there are also a bunch of mid 30 year old woman who go to male host clubs to get young dudes to do stuff with them. One of the more famous that showed this circle was Mai Watanabe, or Riri, who got infamous by scamming a bunch of dudes for shit and making a guide for how she did it, only to spend the money she scammed from dudes, at a host club

Gundam recently gave an example of it for the same character

black friday died when it became a normie holiday for sales. part of the reason why black friday worked before hand was that buyers are 100% aware of the product theyre buying and how much it is valued. anythings a “sale” if you’re selling it to an audience that doesn’t know what it was normally priced.

to be fair, the drive in question is a NAS drive, which is not a backup drive by its intended default usecase, unless you slapped it in a nas thats stored as a cloud storage in an offsite location.

its just a matter of people understanding that data redundancy is not a backup, just a level of data safeguard, as it only partially covers some of the forms of data loss and not all of them (e.g not immune to physical methods of data loss like fires, floods and stuff)

its why I dont like calling it scifi to people on suggesting it, because it kind of spoilers the premice on the idea how humanity got to that position in the first place. Its better advertised as fantasy mystery, than scifi.

back when Shin Sekai Yori aired, the yaoi jumpscare of Episode 8 caused a lot of people to drop the (very good) sci fi anime.

On and off conflict between the two countries for a while now. From what i know:

the land in dispute is Khmer land built an entire millenia ago under Suryavarman.

Thailand claims the lands were there due to drawn maps during 1904 french colonia indochina times. Cambodia claims the International Court of Justice lines in 1962, as about a decade ago, france pulled out of the region, and thailand moved in to occupy it.

to quickly summarize a lot, Thailand eventually obliged and ceded the temples to Cambodia. Cambodia went through the civil war. Thailand goes through a military coup, and expels a bunch of refugees into the region.

fast foward to 2008, globally wanted to turn the temples to a world heritage site. map draws borders around the site without giving posesion to a country, Thailand renegades on the plan but Cambodia continues.

Since 2008, there have been conflicts from both sides, and nations globally are trying not to exacerbate the issue.

i remember there were false flags that were raised before when crypto mining operations were flagged as an illegal weed operation

like git repositories, AUR in its name itself says what it is, a User repository. its trust like repositories is fully based on how much you trust the user who uploaded it

the mininum is dictated by the rest of the components and decision to limit future upgrades down the line.

after you are aware of what cpu you are using

amd and intel sub 250 cpus usually 150w or less

amd high end and alderlake(12gen, and arrowlake), peaks at 250w

intel raptor lake (13-14th gen) 300w

hedt cpus like threadripper fall under a similar class.

peak 5060ti is just under 200w alone.

add an arbitrary 50w to cover rest of components.

its only guaranteed because of the amount of time the surgery took in the end. if it was shorter, it would have been averted. (say if it eas hour 10 or 20, would have been still negligent but they would probably be alive. the actual time was double that)

basically there was a chain of decisions and events that led to the deaths, but she still chose the one where the worst outcome was potentially death.

they knew she had children, but im not completely aware she asked the day of the appointment or not. its completely possible she asked when booking the appointment on a different day. its just at some point the establishment was asked.

edit: it mentions earlier in the day. so there was no guarantee that the staff KNEW the kids were out there during the appointment, but knew she had kids.

whether they knew she took them with her for the appointment is a different question thats yet to be answered

jesus christ, the mother was fucking 20, and she was allowed to take the children into the lobby but opted out of it.

she blatently knew and asked about her options and chose the one with the highest risk.

cant wait till they get to the 3.0 mewtwo update

if you have a garage, design a method to basically ensure your garage door is closed without you needing to go back to check.

of course if you trust yourself with never making that mistake.

last thing you want to feel is if you remembered to close the door or not and youre already far off

Ai pcs are actually being bought. most of the pcs being used for local AI purposes are fully rammed out mac mini/studios or strix halo desktops, which are almost solely sold by smaller oems and are backed up.

most AI pcs arent the ones the large oems clamour about (basically unused NPUs, and to a lesser extent, nvidia based computers with high vram gpus)

the latter doesnt offer the vram required for the people who want to do in house Ai.

then you gain the extra potential illegal action due to forgery. so its a game of risk management for the drivers.