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> "the Palestinians are child-like and easy to befriend"

You might want to provide the source for this. (The phrase is not directly googlable.)


that seems to be the abridged version, the exact quote I found says:

"They are nearly all good-hearted, and are easily befriended. One might say that they are like big children." David Ben-Gurion in Igrot (Letters), Tel Aviv: Am Oved and Tel Aviv University, Vol. I, 1971


Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpA9DORDkeE.

> we're obviously looking at the earth's dark side

We are not. Why would we?


>> we're obviously looking at the earth's dark side

> We are not. Why would we?

Yes we are.

Because the earth is in between the sun (faraway) and the moon (where we are) and very close to the line between the sun and us (because they're close by in the image -- it's not like the sun is in front and the earth is 90° above us which would half-illuminate it, or 180° behind us which would entirely illuminate it).

If you turn on a lamp in a room, and hold an object between you and the lamp, obviously you're looking at the side of the object that is in shade. The illuminated side faces the lamp, which is opposite you.


Pretty much, they are fundamentally both RPC flavors, so it's impossible for them to have different properties beyond more or less convenient tooling. It's always jarring to see those heated GraphQL vs REST APIs (as implemented in practice) vs gRPC discussions as if they are as different as, say, client-side CRDTs.


> Pretty much, they are fundamentally both RPC flavors, so it's impossible for them to have different properties beyond more or less convenient tooling.

REST arguably has better support for catching for read queries.


As a yet another filthy Russian, I don't understand all this eagerness to give people "traitor" (enemy of the people, 5th column and so on) labels. Especially since this is pretty much the favorite communist/putinist activity. This is not a healthy mindset. At some point we'll have to admit different people might have different opinions on running the country.


> FreeBSD got closed NVIDIA graphics driver support about a decade after Linux

Ahem, https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=94fc89fbfbc7cd8886...

> some game consoles used FreeBSD as a basis and had proprietary NVIDIA drivers written for them

You mean proprietary AMD drivers? (Only PlayStation 4 and 5 are based on FreeBSD.)


Thank you for correcting me. Nothing to add in terms of AMD. But I could have sworn that there was a set of “demands” in terms of features from NVIDIA around the time I used FreeBSD on my desktop (~2010) in order to produce binary drivers back then. Perhaps I am misremembering?


That would be the amd64 driver port: https://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests. For comparison, the first x86_64 driver version for Linux seems to be 1.0-4499 (https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86-64/1.0-4499/) from 2003-09-02.


Java / OpenJDK never used semver in the first place. Also, large projects like Java have entire layers of different APIs, whose compatibility guaranties can't really be described with a single number, no matter what versioning scheme they use.


Have you seen the video? The author even goes as far as suggesting the technique might useful for (generating?) entire operating systems at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPY5rQVoW0&t=853s. That's just wild.


No, that's just false. How about a direct quote?

I suggested there could be a "future where many game engines are entirely or even mostly AI based like this. Or even things like operating system or other programs."

The thought here was just a wondering of what the future might be and if we might have far more AI based programs.

I still think the answer is a strong yes, this is a glimpse into the future. No where did I say GameGAN would be that engine. You're just trying your hardest to hate.


I'd like my OS being deterministic, thank you.

> You're just trying your hardest to hate.

Manipulative much? I don't hate you (well, so far), you aren't being attacked, I'm just noting what a few informed people here don't like about your video. No, they aren't trolls. And, yes, everyone has different level of tolerance to exaggerations, of course.


Odd, pretty sure it was you who misrepresented what I said in attempts to manipulate.

You were also the one who "exaggerat[ed]" my claims. I made a general statement about my thoughts about future AI-based software rather than human-coded.

I still think that's indeed the inevitable future. Doesn't seem like it's remotely outrageous or an exaggerated. I never said GameGAN would be that software, but you seem to want to make that be the case so you can put it down.

What makes you believe neural networks aren't or could not be deterministic? What makes you think NNs could not eventually produce far more robust, reliable, and secure operating systems?

Seems obvious to me, but I guess you're more informed than me :)


You, like many youtubers, made completely exaggerated claims in your commentary. Your model fits a sequence of inputs to a video frame. But you say "wow look it even models the movement of the sun!". It's pretty absurd.


> Remember a few years back when used mining cards flooded the market and you could get a decent GPU dirt cheap?

No, not at all. Any references?


You don't remember when GTX 1080 Tis could be had on eBay for as cheap as $400-$450??

Because I sure do... I should have bought two. Now you can sell one - today, right now - for $700-800. I haven't seen an auction with a final bid less than $650, and I've been watching. Most "Buy It Now" options are $700-800, and aren't having all that much trouble selling.

We're talking two generations old cards, released almost four years ago, that are selling for what brand new GTX 3080s are supposed to MSRP at.


> You don't remember when GTX 1080 Tis could be had on eBay for as cheap as $400-$450??

That's slightly above half of its retail price (when it was new) and roughly in the same ballpark as RTX 2070 MSRP. Is this really "dirt cheap"? Do you expect video cards to never depreciate then?

More to the point, I don't remember the market being saturated with used video cards in way that could put a dent in retail prices. They always seem to sell at comparable performance/$ ratio to new cards. I'm genuinely curious if I missed any trends.


> I'm genuinely curious if I missed any trends.

Yes, you genuinely missed the trend. When BTC prices cratered awhile back, a lot of miners starting dumping their cards because they couldn't even break even on power consumption / mining costs.

eBay was flooded with cards.


There is no different paradigm. Both GraphQL and "REST" as it's usually implemented are RPC protocols. GraphQL just doesn't pretend it is not.


> Closed source GPU drivers are not ordinary drivers. They have a lot of quirks and workarounds for programs, especially games.

The quirks part is a bit of a meme. Mesa contains a few application-specific overrides here and there: https://github.com/mesa3d/mesa/blob/c62996796cc46f1a1406f365..., https://github.com/mesa3d/mesa/blob/a678ec9b8c057311ed7e9697.... The reason Linux drivers, including the one from Nvidia, have fewer quirks is simply that Linux has fewer 3d applications overall. Those quirks also reside in userspace driver parts and should not affect system stability.

> When you try to port these drivers as-is to another platforms, things get awry.

Again, quirks are a property of a relatively high-level userspace part of the driver. There is nothing hazardous about porting them.


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