You’re willing to pay $none to have hardware ML support for local training and inference?

Well, I’ll just say that you’re gonna get what you pay for.

I’m shifting a lot of my investments to non-US things.

I’m also opening some foreign accounts that are denominated in local currency, and moving some chunks of my savings there.

lol yeah, the lemmy userbase is NOT an accurate sample of the technical aptitude of the general population 😂

You can get a Coral TPU for 40 bucks or so.

You can get an AMD APU with a NN-inference-optimized tile for under 200.

Training can be done with any relatively modern GPU, with varying efficiency and capacity depending on how much you want to spend.

What price point are you trying to hit?

I mean, it’s not that they’re faulty. It’s that they’re manufactured by a now overt gangster who may pull the plug, if there’s a plug to pull. And tbh I’d be a little surprised if they didn’t engineer a plug that can be pulled, independent of the physical logistics supply chain.

I repeat, as an American: do not trust our government, in any capacity. We are not your ally any more. I fucking hate that, but that doesn’t matter. Please. For the love of whatever god or honor or morals you hold dear: act accordingly. Do not be naive. Take this seriously. Save yourselves.

The best part is that if any of them get taken down, another one will pop up on another instance :D

Currently, we’re trying to catch our breaths while stabbing ourselves in the lungs

Republicans? Ashamed?

I see you haven’t met many Republicans.

Belarus…? They’re definitely not one of the ones people should be buying from…

AND YOU DID IT IN A LANGUAGE I DON’T LIKE FOR ESOTERIC REASONS DESPITE THE FACT THAT IT CAN ELIMINATE ENTIRE CATEGORIES OF BUGS BY SIMPLE NATURE OF ITS SYNTAX AND COMPILER REEEEEEEE

Genuinely, the vociferous pushback against Rust by a small minority of irrational C purist assholes is so, so dumb.

I mean that’s one of the things Germany needs to pull its head out of its ass about. There are other things, too.

I honestly expect our ruling regime to attack and punish them for this. I’m not exaggerating.

Coming soon: a screwdriver and a soldering iron

Maybe work with Poland and France and figure out some sort of more tightly integrated military infrastructure. The bones are already there in NATO, even if us Americans fuck off (or get kicked out for absolutely fucking the credibility of the alliance)

I’m betting the PRC invades Taiwan inside of a year or two, and that orange boy does fucking nothing because “they didn’t pay enough”.

Seriously - take a page out of France’s book, and then also invest in renewables. There’s gonna be a shitty transition period, but now is the time for strategic thinking around energy policy.

From an American who’s aghast and infuriated at my own government: please, don’t.

Who manufactures these, out of curiosity?

thing: Sequence[Any] iirc is iterable, indexable, and reversible.

thing: Iterable[Any] only guarantees that its iterable - and note that iterating can sometimes have the effect of consuming the iterable (e.g. when working with streaming interfaces)

I know what an iterable is. But I am talking about Type[Iterable], which iirc does not obey falsey eval when empty.