Yeah, I think I started working in Restaurants aged 14 and really didn't stop. I still get a slight burst of nostalgia whenever I go to the countryside and see the pubs etc staffed by young'uns(it doesn't seem to happen much in London, don't know about other cities).

My uni claimed grading was something like:

~ 40% bookwork. Rote learned facts ~ 30% standard questions. Do in an exam hall standard variants of what was done in class/homework/tutorials. ~ 30% New applications and logical extensions.

I don't know how well they achieved that split, I suspect it was mostly aspirational. Seemed like a reasonable ideal though!

> why didn't he just fit the two H100s into a better desktop box?

I expect because they were no longer in the sort of condition to sell as new machines? They were clearly well used and selling "as seen" is the lowest reputational risk associated with offload

There also weren't H100s available to scavenge. GH200 puts the Grace CPU and H100 GPU on a big module with a custom form factor and connectors, so the only viable route for using those GPUs was to keep all the electronics together and build a suitable case and cooling system around them. There wasn't any way to adapt any of this for use in an ordinary EATX case or with a different CPU, because the GPUs weren't PCIe add-in cards.

At that pricing I honestly thought they fell off a truck. Even well used H100 go for more than that entire system. In the US an RTX A6000 Ada is already close in price.

I still have a bunch of the sound bites in my music folder. Nothing says playlist filler like "Leave Me Alone"

I think the idea was that 3D printing made doing a thing accessible, previously required solid fundamental knowledge (and very expensive kit). Now you can just take some specs off the internet and press go.

The comparison does not seem as absurd to me as it does to you. vOv

The lesson here is that one should never attempt analogies on HN, because people can't just relax and try to see the point of the analogy. They are compelled to fixate on the fact that an analogy is different from the thing it is being compared to.

I see multiple examples of it in this thread.

I feel like Hacker News commenters love to make analogies more than average people in your average space, though. You can't come across a biology/health topic on here without someone chiming in with "it's like if X was code and it had this bug" or "it's like this body part is the Y of the computer."

Analogies can be useful sometimes, but people also shouldn't feel like they need to see everything through the lens of their primary domain, because it usually results in losing nuances.

On the other hand, if you are communicating with a bunch of people who share that primary domain, it can be a useful way of making a point.

(unless that primary domain tends to attract a lot of people who tend to the hyper-literal /s)

> "Chelsea Tractor" is more of a dig at people Range Rovers for the looks and it never been using off-road.

People in London bought 4x4s (in part) so they could still comfortably travel down roads covered in highly aggressive speed bumps. The joke is that we made London roads miserable to drive in a sensible small car (even at safe and legal speeds, I usually have to stop on approaching some of this stuff in a bog standard A1).

There are plenty of factors at play, but sometimes incentives are obvious

Last year was the first time I ever did the thing in sync, and it was a source of real delight to see other people foot-gunning themselves in the same way as me (also in different ways, schadenfreude and all that....)

I find throwing mixpanel under the bus whilst ignoring the giant elephant of "why were you giving them that user data in the first place" to leave a sour taste

Pretty big red flag, as if the revelation they were having a data protection amateur hour wasn't enough

> You have to wait half a lifetime?!

Yeah, I cannot quite believe the term on that thing. Somewhere between 10 and 20 feels far more reasonable since businesses do need time to work plan around and develop property.

I'm not sure how I feel about auto-reversion as a concept. I can see real problems with it conceptually (creating a deadzone around expiry etc)

How about 14? Which as the article explains was the original copyright term.

He of course leaves out that the term was doubled in 1831, and that renewability became assignable at the turn of the 20th century almost 15 years before Disney was even founded.

> if they don't show up to class they get punished by not learning enough and subsequently failing their exams/assessments

My (UK) University was very clear that attendance was not mandatory, but if you weren't attending lectures you were not going to get any extra help from the lecturers etc

I don't think that's an unreasonable position to take, but it's nice if you _know_ rather than _guess_ who bothered to make it in to class.