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by lizknope 11mo ago
I see that the stock price jumped high on Sept 10 and is now back to where it was the day before. So what is Oracle spending the $300B on? Did they get any percentage ownership of OpenAI? Is it building out the cloud hardware data center?
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by lizknope 11mo ago
Of course Quake had to support DOS but id developed Quake on NeXTSTEP which of course had TCP/IP and they had been supporting Linux and other commercial Unix versions like Solaris since Doom a few years earlier.
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by lizknope 11mo ago
I had a bunch of these VT100 animation files and found those and more on this site. Things like Star Trek and fireworks. I first saw them in 1991 but modern terminals play them too quickly and instead of going on for 15 seconds it instant
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by lizknope 11mo ago
Well I'm 50 but AFS in college was superior to all the NFS and NIS silliness I've put up with at the 8 companies I've worked at since then. I wrote another comment about our Unix groups at work and how we have a setuid root
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by lizknope 11mo ago
AFS ACLs were great. When working on a class project it was great that I as a normal user could create an ACL group and add and remove users to it and then give them read or write or both permissions on a directory in my account. At my job
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by lizknope 11mo ago
Did anyone use AFS (Andrew File System)? My university in the 1990's had hundreds of Unix workstations from Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SGI, and Linux. It was all tied together using this so everything felt the same no matter what system you we
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by lizknope 11mo ago
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea narrated by John Waters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjGAWxL23c I watched this 20 years ago. It's a really interesting and funny documentary about the Salton Sea and the a
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by lizknope 1y ago
I was reading a book on string theory and I remember the Calabi–Yau manifold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabi%E2%80%93Yau_manifold I'm not going to pretend to understand it all but they do make pretty pictures
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by lizknope 1y ago
Are we at the Pets.com stage of the bubble yet? I started working in 1997 at the height of the dot com bubble. I thought it would go on forever but the second half of 2000 and 2001 was rough. I know a lot of people designing AI accelerator
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by lizknope 1y ago
While that is mostly true there is a large variety of motherboards. It took me a while to find something with the right SATA and PCIE slots that I wanted. But after that it is just using a screwdriver and some cable ties.
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by lizknope 1y ago
When I was a kid in the 1980's and early 90's the mall was the place to go and hang out. Go to the food court, arcade, shoe stores, Spencer's gifts. Google "malls that ban teenagers" and you will find a lot of arti
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by lizknope 1y ago
I got my manager at my first job to buy an E450. I think it was around $40,000. All of our chip design software ran on Solaris and we needed a new faster machine compared to the 200 and 300MHz Ultra 2 machines we had. I remember it came on
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by lizknope 1y ago
I learned BASIC when I was 7 in the early 1980's. I went to a very advanced high school that had Internet access in 1991 and some Unix systems. I loved it and was fascinated by all the hardware. I started college in EE, I absolutely
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by lizknope 1y ago
I started this part of the thread and mentioned Trainium but the person you replied to gave a link. Follow that and you can see Amazon's chips that they designed. Amazon wants people to move away from Nvidia GPUs and to their own cust
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by lizknope 1y ago
Does Amazon want to be an AI innovator or an AI enabler? AWS enables thousands of other companies to run their business. Amazon has designed their own Graviton ARM CPUS and their own Trainium AI chips. You can access these through AWS for
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by lizknope 1y ago
The only thing I use SD cards for are my digital cameras. I have always read that the cards should be formatted within the camera rather than the computer. I've never seen any issues but I the only thing writing to the card is the ca
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by lizknope 1y ago
The only thing I remember is from the book Showstopper https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14150/how... [Cutler] expressed his low opinion of the Unix process input/output model by reciting &qu
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by lizknope 1y ago
WordPerfect was bought by Novell in 1994 and then they sold it to Corel in 1996. Corel even released their own ARM based computer running Linux. The Netwinder. https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3288 https:/&#
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by lizknope 1y ago
I never had any trust in the AI industry in the first place so there was no trust to lose.
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by lizknope 1y ago
> hinting that the company is evaluating compensation for the entire research organization. TL ; DR Some other company paid more and got engineers to join them because the engineers care more about themselves and their families than some
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by lizknope 1y ago
I've got 3 Macbooks from 2008, 2012, and 2013. Apple dropped MacOS support years ago. They all run the latest Fedora Linux version with no problems. The screen on the MacBookPro10,2 is 2560x1600 which is still higher than a lot of br
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by lizknope 1y ago
I was about to write that Slack doesn't support webp but I just tested it and it does. For years I have been typing "convert file.webp file.jpg" and then posting that in slack but it looks like they have added support.
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by lizknope 1y ago
I remember this article from a few years ago about a tetrachromat artist. https://concettaantico.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/30/im-really-ju... https://m
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by lizknope 1y ago
I have some file names that are really long. If I can use 255 characters then why not name the files with lots of words so that I can use "find" or some other file index utility. I found the article from 2022 about younger people
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by lizknope 1y ago
I'm going to admit that I didn't read the whole article. I remember about 10-15 years ago that there were a lot of photo organizers that supported tagging. Tag the events as birthday or the people's names. I saw a lot of pe
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by lizknope 1y ago
I typed in a lot of Atari BASIC code from magazines but I never heard of this. Really cool!
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by lizknope 1y ago
It looks like something for a router or network switch. No graphics but it does have an open PCIE x8 slot. The ARM A72 is now a 9 year old CPU core. The reviews of this board are all from 4 years ago. It looks like their newer similar p
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by lizknope 1y ago
You are right but the only systems I have seen that support it are servers or expensive workstations from Ampere and maybe 1 or 2 others. I feel like 99% of the ARM based computing devices that people can buy for under $2000 have non stan
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by lizknope 1y ago
The people I know using RISC-V don't want a high performance core. They want a very small area low power core for things like PCIE and DDR link training.
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by lizknope 1y ago
I searched for "ARM" and didn't see it in the article. The Acorn ran on ARM (that's what the A in ARM stood for anyway, Acorn RISC Machine) You can run RISC OS on a Raspberry Pi which is also ARM based. https:/&#x

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