> Petzold is considering using his rigs for an aspect of digital video production known as rendering, which can require significant computing resources. “There are other uses for the cards”
This is an incredible quote.
People have realized that there are other uses for graphics cards than mining crypto currency - like, oh I don’t know, I guess graphics.
That's pretty funny. I assume this is in reference to the render project: https://rendertoken.com/
Basically a distributed rendering blockchain, where participants perform actual useful rendering in order to earn the token.
I don't know too much about it though, or whether there's actually much demand for on-demand rendering. I'd assume most potential "customers" would have concerns about their workloads being accessible to the public if they're working on something proprietary.
Is it possible to render an encrypted version of pre rendered data that outputs the rendered file in that same encrypted format that can only be decoded using the original private key it was encrypted with?
I'm wondering if something similar could be done but for ML, using a distributed network of GPU to train a ML model in exchange of a payment for using the resources.
I haven’t looked into the code yet, but I’m especially interested in the routing bit.
As a cyclist I’m almost always disappointed by google, apple, and Valhalla. The cycling directions from these systems are usually better than nothing, but almost always have one or two dangerous or ridiculous segments.
I’ve never tried to solve it myself, only day dreamed.
Getting bike routing right is really challenging, partly because often there genuinely isn’t a good route, and partly because standards and infrastructure (and OSM mapping practice!) differ from country to country. I love the challenge and the feedback from users when it works well, but it’s a massive task.
> when you run the program, run it with ` MY_SECRET_KEY=myGitHubPersonalToken npm start`
But where does this live? Or do you literally mean that Jane The Sys Admin is supposed to type this into her terminal every time the service restarts in the middle of the night?
What if I need to replace a node? Or scale a service? How do these secrets get there?
> But where does this live? Or do you literally mean that Jane The Sys Admin is supposed to type this into her terminal every time the service restarts in the middle of the night?
Depends on how the service is deployed. If you're just running it on a Digital Ocean instance by manually SSHing into the instance and running systemd services, define it in the .service file (it supports defining environment variables).
If you're doing instances via automation (like Terraform), most of them (including Terraform) supports loading things from environment variables. So you run `MY_SECRET_KEY=myGitHubPersonalToken terraform apply` when you create the instance, and use the environment variable in your hcl definitions.
This isn’t a value judgment on database administration, just an anecdote:
I’ve worked at 5 small companies in the last 15 years, and freelanced for a few years. The dev team size was: (15, 5, 5, 4, 8). None of those companies had a DBA. One company we had a full time IT/sysadmin, but otherwise that role was filled by people with a title like “software engineer”.
In truth, I think we often would have benefited from the expertise of a DBA, but we never made the decision to hire someone for that role full time.
I’m all for respectfully seeking atonement, so long as it’s understood that the victim doesn’t owe the perpetrator anything.
Parts of the article made me uncomfortable, like how after the perpetrator had been blocked, they went through friend back channels to continue to try to communicate with their victim.
Maybe that kind of stalking will ultimately work out for the best for everyone, but that’s pretty presumptuous, and seems more about assuaging the perpetrator’s guilt complex than victim recovery.
The second example, Grayson, makes no sense to me. This is someone who would not have committed a crime, perhaps never has, and never would have if not being asked to do it. The police literally invented a situation to encourage him to commit a crime. Saying that he was "inclined" is weaselly. I doubt this would fly in the UK although curious to be shown otherwise.
I do remember a case in the UK where a man successfully defended his sale of ecstasy to an undercover officer on the grounds that she was very attractive. His argument was that he hoped to have a romantic relationship with her and would never have otherwise sold the drugs.
I mean, even then it's contextual surely. How far can the police go? Can they look around for someone who's having an incredibly tough year financially, and offer them a one-off way to scrape through by selling drugs, even if the opportunity would never arise otherwise? We're in the realm of hyperrealism and state-constructed narratives here.
Yes I imagine it's a consequence of target-based management practices infiltrating the public sphere. The "bad press" blocker works if the media is free and independent. Unfortunately in many countries it is often in the hands of corporate moguls and is co-opted into the exact same narrative building. The CIA famously tried to use the media for their own devious ends. In the UK we had the Hillsborough disaster among many other examples of press cover-ups.
Do you know the difference between a member coop and a worker coop?
REI is technically a member coop, so members (shoppers) are privileged to some of their profits. Members are also entitled to a vote for the board - but as far as I’ve ever seen this is a sham (two people running for two positions… can’t lose)
But a member agreement has very little to do with how workers are treated.
A “worker coop” might be what you’re thinking of - where all the employees collectively own the business and have some say in how the business is run. (Though how much say varies depending on the coop).
REI is not a worker owned coop. And whatever “member owned” coop benefits they have are basically a sham in my opinion. It’s basically a loyalty fee - like a Sam’s club membership except you only have to pay it once - meaning that your membership at REI is probably less valuable than your membership at Sam’s club.
This is an incredible quote.
People have realized that there are other uses for graphics cards than mining crypto currency - like, oh I don’t know, I guess graphics.