And they never went down to pre-crypto pricing. For quite a while, Intel was the only company producing reasonably specced GPUs at somewhat reasonable prices.
Not necessarily living in another country, but a large part of the world, especially in industrialized countries, learns English. Neither regional nor national, but of course because it is the lingua franca.
How does this show anything? Yeah, if after years and years of low level war and displacement of political enemies and being de facto controlled by Russian troops you hold a referendum that is boycotted by all but the separatists, of course the separatists will win! But that is so far from any valid referendum that accepting it as such seems dubious at best.
We don't have mandatory smallpox vaccines in Austria anymore, even though we had them in the past. I really see no way how these energency powers will stay.
But is that a bad thing necessarily? If we have powers that we can use in emergency situations and there's precedent they will only get used in such, isn't that the ideal state?
Looking at the US, because they keep good records on emergencies, it has been unlikely for an emergency situation to end from around 1994. There appears to still be an ongoing emergency that started in 1979.
This is a relative strong precedent in the west of emergency powers being used in an ongoing way.
Meh. If it's like in France there's a lot of dramatization: we got an official report about last year: COVID represented 2% of all hospitalizations and 5% of intensive care.
Well, it's not like in France, so I don't see your point. Hospitals in Salzburg and Österreich can't treat emergency patients properly anymore for lack of capacity. Also year round numbers won't help you if the cases are clustered.
numbers for a year aren't hugely useful. The issue is the concurrent rate, not the annual rate.
I'm in Ireland - the numbers given on Wednesday were 15 ICU beds free nationwide, with 40% of beds being used by covid patients.
An easy month and a tough month might average out over the year, it doesn't actually help anyone if there's a lack of beds during the tough month.
It's like the "HN hug of death" - if your server fell over when you needed it, it doesn't matter if you got no visitors for the rest of the year. The average is irrelevant.
The "HN hug of death" is a sign that your infrastructure is not adequate.
A regular flu year was 1.5% hospitalization. We're drowning with .5 more after years and years of reducing hospitals capacity.
I can't comment on Ireland I don't know the situation but I'd bet it's the same than in France: not enough beds when something is a bit out of the ordinary.
There is probably a wave of hospitalizations now like every year with the flu. When you average on a year it won't be as bad and won't justify trampling civil liberties.
It's just a power grab IMHO and people are so afraid of COVID they just go along. But sadly we won't get our freedoms back once all this is over.
A hurricane doesn't raise the average wind speed for the year at your house by much. Yet you can't ignore it.
If I were to press the business end of my soldering iron onto your hand it would only raise the average amount of thermal energy that your hand absorbs this year by a negligible amount. Yet I'm pretty sure you would very strongly object.
Hospitals in many areas are being overwhelmed to a far greater extent than they are in even bad flu years. When you are going to need a hospital for something in the future that you can be flexible with scheduling, then you just need a hospital that on average has enough capacity. When you need a hospital now with no flexibility in timing, all that matters is if demand now is above what the hospital can serve.
Vaccination isn't a binary state. Protection wanes over time. I don't know where to get the data, but I'd guess that most people in Gibraltar have been vaccinated quite a while ago.
Maybe we need tighter schedules, i.e. one shot every two months? With delta, i think that's when effectiveness starts to wane.
It will happen slowly, through raising the price of individual vehicles (you can already see the trend with electric vehicles - there are almost no affordable sub $30k cars), raising the price of insuring a human-driven vehicle, etc.
It won't happen overnight, and probably take anywhere between 30-50 years, but it's definitely possible in the long term.
The problem with that theory is that auto manufacturers face declining average costs and so are incentivized to produce more cars and sell them for a lower unit price.
This is why the only source of auto inflation is by adding more features to the car. I don't see any reason why this would change in the future.
For EVs, wait until cheap Chinese EVs flood the US market.
I think you misunderstood his point, I think what he's saying is that even good back end devs are horrible at designing UI and you need different people with different specialisations on a team.
I'm horrible at designing UI too. That's simply not the job of building modern interfaces across multi-disciplinary teams.
I care far, far more about data-structures, eventual-consistency, data-design, and types than CSS and divs.
These days getting the design to look nice is my two-hour reward for nine days of data-stitching hell, writing backend-for-frontend lambda functions, and negotiating API contracts that actually support the product I've been asked to build.
We need to stop assuming that just because a programmer works on client code, that they are in any way less capable that a programmer that works on server code. My point stands: It's absolutely toxic to collaboration, which is the key to success.
I think he was saying that the GUI programmer doesn't need to know how to use a profiler for their work to be valuable, and that if you're good at optimizing you don't need to know how to choose tasteful colors for your work to be valuable. My reading is the opposite of your reading.
That's definitely true, but not the only important thing in such a comparison. Germans work only 75% of the hours Americans do per year, and a lot of that is cultural.
