Yep. 9 times out of 10 Uber will refund me basically instantly, and I don’t have to talk to anyone. I’m able to put in complex delivery instructions, put a pin on a map where it needs to be delivered, and even provide photos of where I want my stuff dropped off. I don’t get that elsewhere, and nobody seems to be able to find my apartment without any of it.
I haven’t seen one, but I also haven’t looked very hard, so I bet if there is one it won’t be very active.
At least it isn’t a Jacob horse.
…and making molotovs is easy, from what I hear.
Poor thing doesn’t even know they’ll never get a chance with the brain cell.
I had a manager once. Very talented electrical engineer. Completely and totally refused to believe that anything about space, rockets, etc. was real.
Not actually intelligent, I get it. Turns out the brain cell isn’t only being fought over by orange cats…
Not his turn with the brain cell that day, I take it.
If you count spouses, about an hour ago. If not, the last time was on Sunday. We were talking about my friend’s journey to becoming a commercial pilot, and my other friend’s small business. This was in-between turns playing D&D.
It’s good for losing a bunch of money.
My job switched over to a 4-10 schedule! Four days a week, ten hour days. It means every weekend is a three-day weekend!
Eat Compost the rich.
I met my wife online fifteen years ago. No idea how folks do it these days.
True Blood
“I’m a fuckin’ fairy?!”
I never had a food-named pet until recently. My latest cat is named Triscuit.
I like scrambled eggs and omelettes, but that’s about it. Always with cheese.
I’ll toss in my two cents.
It’s mainly about handling and processing vast amounts of data. Many times more than you or I may deal with on a day to day basis. First, you have to have somewhere to put it all. Then, you’ve got to load whatever you’re working with into memory. So you need terabytes of RAM. When you’re dealing with that much data, you need beefy CPUs with crazy fast connections with a ton of bandwidth to move it all around at any kind of reasonable pace.
Imagine opening a million chrome tabs, having all of them actively playing a video, and needing to make sense of the cacophony of sound. Only instead of sound, it’s all text, and you have to read all of it all at once to do anything meaningful with it.
If you make a change to any of that data, how does it affect the output? What about a million changes? All that’s gotta be processed by those beefy CPUs or GPUs.
Part of the reason AI data enters need so much memory is because they’ve got to load increasingly large amounts of training data all at once, and then somehow have it be able to be accessed by thousands of people all at once.
But if you want to understand every permutation of whatever data you’re working with, it’s gonna take a ton of time to essentially sift through it all.
And all that’s gotta be hardware? You have to make doubly sure that the results you get are accurate, so redundancies are built in. Extremely precise engineering of parts, how they’re assembled, and how they’re ultimately used is a lot of what makes supercomputers what they are. Special CPUs, RAM with error correction, redundant connections, backups… it all takes a lot of time, space, and money to operate.
I doubt we’ll ever recover from this.