I agree with the complaint but have yet to see a mechanism that is free of abuse and disenfranchisement.

People are stupid and vote with their emotions or what the pastor told them to. It would be lovely to ensure that votes came from well informed voters.

Goodhart's Law strikes again.

I brought this up with my MAGA friend about the earlier Jimmy Kimmel skirmish and he trotted out how Roseanne Barr was dismissed from her show on ABC because of her offensive tweet, and that according to informed sources (Barr herself), that her dismissal was ordered by Michelle Obama. Then he went on to list a litany of hurts by cancel culture.

When I noted there was a difference in the situation and this was literally a textbook First Amendment issue, that was ignored.

This guy is highly intelligent but also an evangelical Christian -- we literally live in different universes and he has zero interest in challenging his assumptions. It's heartbreaking that he's like this and so are tens of millions of others.

> This guy is highly intelligent

> There's literally nothing I could say that would make him examine the situation from a different angle.

I feel like you need to examine your definition of "intelligent" from a different angle.

I think “competent” and “capable” are synonyms that should receive more usage in the place of “intelligent”.

My definition of "intelligent" is native cognitive capacity. My definition of "stupid" is the failure to use one's intelligence.

I consider myself to be relatively intelligent and yet I am not immune to being stupid.

Because my friend is a devout evangelical (his father was a preacher), he's been deeply indoctrinated. It's my contention that religion by design makes one stupid: "do not question things, respect authority".

In evangelical circles it's my understanding that children are indoctrinated to treat "outsiders" as ungodly and to be avoided, let alone engaged with. This lines up with his behavior too.

Tell your MAGA friend if Trump is going to censor people he should be better at hiding it so they don’t trigger first amendment concerns. This is the first time I’m hearing Michelle Obama got Barr fired!

That's the thing. I can't tell him anything that he doesn't already believe. The programming is so deep that I think it's part of his identity and any questioning of his beliefs is taken as a personal attack.

I wish I could find some way to engage but I every time I try it becomes more and more clear that there's literally nothing I could say that would make him examine the situation from a different angle. Fox News has done its work well.

I have MAGA family so I sympathize.

For a picture of shells showing the numbers "86 47".

We do have a problem with hate speech in society, but it's cruelly ironic to make his statement out to be such. Not being able to have contentious conversations based on reality certainly doesn't help either.

I don't think anyone believes this is a legitimate prosecution. The DOJ is being used as the personal law firm of someone whose favorite pastime is to litigate his adversaries.

And we're paying for it.

The players know the game, but the followers take this all as gospel.

If AMD's betting the company on their AI compute, they had best follow the advice in the article because the only way to compete with NVIDIA is to meet/exceed not just the performance but also the DevX.

These days it's for sure the dev environment that is lacking, hardware is okay (potentially great?!), software abysmal. To run a local llm in a stable manner implies using Vulkan.. any attempt at ROCm is totally hamstrung by haphazard support of hardware alongside with an online presence poisoned by people primarily discussing work-arounds rather than work when it comes to AMD as a platform. Argh.

Is there any benefit of Vulcan vs ROCm on a card where ROCm is fully supported?

On my gfx1030 "consumer grade hardware", ROCm means using SDMA, and that is broken for my system. Forcing `HSA_ENABLE_SDMA=0` makes it "work", but also makes loading tensors to VRAM take 15x longer.

A vulkan computer shader is more portable, chances are also that the tooling for it will still be supported in a few years for your GPU (which isn't a given for ROCm especially when dealing with consumer cards)

You can't have good performance without good DevX. There's a reason why we get a new python dsl for nvidia GPUs every week.

The one time I tried it I saw the elves in the form of a living Persian carpet.

NFTs had no valid reasons to exist, other than to provide money laundering opportunities and to con rubes out of their cash. There's plenty to not like about crypto and at the top of that list is NFTs.

Some artists right at the beginning liked the idea that an NFT contract could let them keep some fraction of the rights. That way, if the work later sold for a large sum, they could earn some money off of it.

But they were quickly disillusioned. The space instantly filled with crap art sold by scammers. Developers, of course, knew that would happen, but artists don't always have that same instinct for the way the worst possible use of a technology will overwhelm all others.

> Some artists right at the beginning liked the idea that an NFT contract could let them keep some fraction of the rights.

NFTs never provided a single thing that a normal paper contract couldn't.

They provided neither enhanced practical protections vs copying nor any enhanced intellectual property legal protections.

Any artists who thought NFTs accomplished anything at all other than a brief wave of hype were misinformed.

Non-fungible Tokens by themselves did nothing wrong

But they also did very little that was useful.

For most items, we aren't struggling to track ownership - We're struggling to enforce it.

Same vibes as "guns don't kill people"

So... you agree? Because last time I checked we punish and sentence people for using guns to kill and not the guns themselves. Same applies to any other non human "thing", unless you are maybe Amish or part of some other type of dogmatic religious group.

I was previously a long term dev contractor for a stock photography company. NFTs have function in the ownership of digital assets, though I do not personally advocate for them (the company or the use of NFTs).

Per a cursory question on the Goog I got: 95% of collections are now considered worthless.

I worked at a blockchain startup back in the day and despite the PTSD of working with insane people, I appreciate the concept of the blockchain. I've yet to see any mainstream value in it. Sure bitcoin is worth a lot but it's not because of the inherent value of blockchain finance, it's because there's too much money out there and everybody loves a fat bubble asset.

I never got what would blockchain do better except maybe distribution. And even there raise questions of efficiency of having data copied in a lot of places.

Correcting data is also always fun question. Your keys are stolen, now your house is not yours anymore as record is immutable. Oh it is not actually immutable if someone says it is not (replace it with new record )? What was the point again...

The appeal to me is that it is effectively a "serverless" shared immutable ledger. By "serverless" I mean that not a service behind someone's API that one just has to trust the data emitted.

I think it could be useful for contracts and governance but the whole crypto thing is just pointless (except ostensibly for cases of transferring money), which is helpful as a tool but as an investment just strikes me as nuts. Which is why I prudently said hell no to buying bitcoin at $20 because it was a stupid fad. Sigh.

That immediately came to mind (no pun intended but still welcomed).

Did Russia back out to intentionally let it happen or did they chicken out to avoid fighting the nazis?

Intentionally. Allowed the Soviets to administer the place when the Nazis finally left, as the Polish resistance had been crushed. Unforgiveable.

For some time I was a phone tech in the age of digital PBXs and phone systems were critical lifelines. It's changed so much now that a desk phone is an exception rather than the rule.