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by rbanffy 2mo ago
On CoW systems, file and block deduplication and writes to the middle of a file will do that for you.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
I wish ext4, BtrFS, and XFS had something like this.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
I once worked with a gigantic Apple (Sony, really) monitor on my desk. Every time I turned it on, it degaussed the monitors nearby. So many of us spent so much time staring at the barrel of a particle accelerator.
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Establishing the United States Space Academy – The White House(whitehouse.gov)
5 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|1 comments
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Pikuma: From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8(pikuma.com)
1 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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Gertieboard Is an IBM PC/XT Clone That Blends Vintage and Modern Hardware(hackster.io)
3 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
My original point was that, for many professionals, there is a strong incentive to go local with their AI models the same way you wouldn’t be able to use cloud storage without the assurance the data would be physically stored within a speci
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Some people are easily offended
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Does Computer Science Need Computers?(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
> Guarantees that are completely worthless They ensure you are not liable when they misuse the information you entrusted them because you took “adequate precautions”.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
It’s the price I got from amazon.ie
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SambaNova's SN50 RDU for AI at Hot Chips 2026 – ServeTheHome(servethehome.com)
1 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
I remember an article a couple weeks back where someone used an HPE server with two older Xeon E-series CPUs and got reasonable performance by compiling llama with optimal switches for the architecture (memory alignment, page sizes, etc). I
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
> my data stays mine, on my computers only. Which is a regulation constraint on many professions, BTW. Some people simply can't give some data to say, ChatGPT, without comprehensive guarantees written in Sam Altman's blood.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Pretty impressive how the Mac ends up less expensive than the Strix Halo boxes, at least here in Ireland. A 128GB Mac Studio with an M5 Max (the Ultra can only have 96 or 256GB) still costs less than the "GMKtec EVO-X2" or the Nvi
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You Can Now Carry a Teaching Mainframe in Your Bag – Planet Mainframe(planetmainframe.com)
3 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
There are many "new banks" that have been using cloud. It remains to be seen if they'll opt to migrate their stacks to mainframes, in which case, the ARM support might come in handy, as more packages are better optimized (as
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Microsoft's Maia 200 AI Accelerator at Hot Chips 2026 – ServeTheHome(servethehome.com)
2 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI(tomshardware.com)
4 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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Peeling Apart That Supposed $120B Chip Deal Google Inked with Marvell(nextplatform.com)
4 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go(arstechnica.com)
3 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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Intel Linux Driver Orphaned for Limiting RF Exposure to Humans(phoronix.com)
4 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs(arstechnica.com)
1 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions(arstechnica.com)
7 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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PEP 805 – Safe Parallel Python – peps.python.org(peps.python.org)
7 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
> The US is like a sports team that gets to draft the best players in the world Americans tend to overestimate how attractive it is to live in the US. It's true you can make a lot of money, more than you would in Europe working for
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AI's Inference Era of Ferment – By Ben Bajarin(thediligencestack.com)
1 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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Peeling Apart That Supposed $120B Chip Deal Google Inked with Marvell(nextplatform.com)
2 points by rbanffy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
As any distro is a significant group effort, I would say this is impossible and that they might not have realised how group decisions are made.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Building is easy. Supporting it for the next 50 years might be another story.

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