Agreed, how could we not have datacenter capacity for the GPUs when Meta has shown that you can go from a bare field to an operational datacenter in about 3 months by using tents instead of buildings?
It's been quite a while since I first heard about it, but IIRC they were seeding cryptographic PRNGs with entropy from multiple sources, one of which was allegedly this art installation.
Seeding PRNGs with sufficiently unpredictable data was a real security concern for a while. New cloud instances have a small entropy pool space for attackers to enumerate due to lack of a real source of randomness. (See the Debian/OpenSSL issue for what can happen when your entropy pool is too small/predictable)
One fun fact about XOR is that anything XOR'd with a uniform random distribution results in a uniform random distribution, so there isn't any harm in mixing additional non-attacker-controlled entropy sources in as long as at least one of them is sufficiently unpredictable. The lava lamps provide a potentially hard-to-predict source of entropy for this, but if it's not available then it certainly doesn't "take down the internet". They'll still use packet arrival timing, interrupt timing, etc to seed their CSPRNGs.
That's not countering the argument that steering is what is preventing the bike from falling over rather than the gyroscopic effect of the wheels. You'd have to tie off the handlebars with a static line before rolling it in order to prove that it was the gyroscopic effect keeping the bike upright.
IIRC if your brokerage reports everything to the IRS properly, you only need to fill out net short- and long-term capital gains on your schedule D rather than specifying every single transaction on a bunch of Form 8949 copies.
Not sure if Double's underlying brokerage is reporting everything necessary for this to be the case though, as I believe some brokerages don't.
If your threat model includes someone with a quantum computer intercepting all of your traffic and storing it to decrypt later, you probably don't want to share your keys over a non-PQC channel unless you can guarantee that they haven't started eavesdropping on your traffic yet.
I want my guests to be able to cast to my TV, add songs to the Spotify queue, etc. As far as I can tell, these sorts of features work via broadcast frames and thus require the relevant devices to be on the same subnet.
Things like my printer and wifi-connected grill live on a much more restrictive VLAN. (with some firewall rules to allow devices on the trusted network to still print to my printer's hard-coded IP address)
Yeah, I'm going to be honest: I'm a cryptocurrency doomer so I've not followed things super closely, but a quick Google search turned up this article[0] from 2022:
>While it is true that Nvidia cards are generally preferred by miners due to better price-to-performance, AMD GPUs such as the Radeon RX 6600 XT could still be mined on profitably until recently. […] So yes, carefully consider the condition of all used graphics cards—Nvidia or AMD.
IIRC people were already converting their data into texture maps and writing their SIMD instructions as shaders operating on those textures before Nvidia released CUDA.
>I'm a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
Nvidia has been working hard(er than their competition) on the software side for almost 2 decades to be in the position they find themselves today. 16 years ago, they released CUDA for general-purpose computing on GPUs, and then 9 years ago they followed that up with cuDNN. They have a consistent pattern of making a intentional, long-term bets to diversify their market exposure and unlock new product areas while building a software ecosystem moat.
Yes, they obviously got super lucky with the cryptocurrency frenzy, but there's a reason all the miners were mostly buying Nvidia cards instead of AMD cards.
So that they can seamlessly upsell you on upgrading to a new phone that you'll pay off in installments over the next couple years.
Also, many postpaid plans (like my home ISP) require SSN because they are providing you service on credit. Postpaid cell paone plans have been the "default" in the US for a long time, though prepaid seems to be gaining market share.
If you practice bringing a new datacenter online without any connectivity on the existing deployment, and you practice then joining two disjoint "clouds", then you've pretty much covered your bases.
Are you making a rate limiting/ddos argument about "turning them all on at the same time"?