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First contracts kick off European Launcher Challenge(esa.int)
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The structure of a complex, asymmetric CME revealed by 17 spacecraft(science.org)
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
> disappointed about People raping toasters?
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Trump's New E-Waste Policy Puts Vintage Tech in the Crossfire(kotaku.com)
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Why Atari Failed(dfarq.homeip.net)
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AROS, the FOSS Recreation of AmigaOS, Comes to Raspberry Pi(theregister.com)
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MadsLorentzen/AI-job-search: The job search that runs on your machine(github.com)
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Learn Vectorized Thinking in Python Through Examples(machinelearningmastery.com)
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Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals(goto10retro.com)
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
That shows immigrants work on jobs American's don't want.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Would that be rape, since the AI can't consent (or can it?), or sex between different species? I'm disappointed, either way.
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Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu's Monaka CPU – By Chester Lam(chipsandcheese.com)
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Hot Chips 2026: Intel's Crescent Island – By George Cozma(chipsandcheese.com)
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Mainframes are exquisitely "balanced" machines that match processing capacity and IO for a relatively small set of workloads. You won't see mainframes doing scientific number crunching or AI training, but you'll increasi
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Sounds like a nice idea for text-based browsers. Also, it makes a lot of advertising difficult. OTOH, serving ads to mistrain AI content is an interesting business model.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
> At this point no one is buying into mainframes are they? If you want to be a high-volume consumer bank (insurance is similar - it's about processing a high volume of transactions), you have few alternatives. You can get a couple m
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
I don't think that's the case anymore.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
A 4-rack system is about 1.5 racks of CPUs and 2.5 racks of IO. That's a lot of IO for a single computer, all accessible at bus speeds. Mere mortals such as me, have to make do with cloud-based clusters where the IO is distributed acro
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Because their clients want to deploy Linux AI workloads directly on the mainframe to gain lower latencies and higher troughput and ARM has better library support than s390x. Half of the last two mainframe-dedicated Hot Chips presentations w
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Interesting that z/VM doesn't seem to support spinning up ARM Linux VMs, at least according to this diagram, but it does support bringing up s390x Linux VMs (the LinuxONE Community Cloud creates Linux VMs under z/VM). Also, i
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Even though their CPUs are insanely fast, the real power of mainframes is in their IO. The amount of data you can push through those machines is absolutely mind blowing.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Not even the DoJ could make Microsoft bend its knee.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Yes. There was a generation of POWER that offered NVLink.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
IIRC, they had different licensing prices for cores that would run z/OS workloads and cores that would run Linux on s390x (and other tier for Java, I think). This looks like they’ll have one for Linux on ARM as well.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
IBM’s microcode is really something. Not too long ago I heard about writing “millicode” as something that’s not at the microcode level, but not quite up at the ISA level.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Possible different micro ops for different semantics. They also don’t mix instructions sets within the same process - the diagram I saw had ARM Linux as a guest under z/VM or KVM. For generations now no OS (not VM, not z/OS) hasn’
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
ARM has better software support for AI applications and half of their presentation was about their inference accelerators that can go in the mainframes (and POWER machines). IBM mainframes are almost designed by their users. The previous ge
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Their research is usually behind paywalls. I miss the days when they published their journals and made PDFs available for download.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
> Xbox 360 used an Intel CPU. No. It was a PowerPC based one called, IIRC, Xenon.
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by rbanffy 2mo ago
Having a presence in the consumer market is not a requirement for being innovative. IBM stopped building servers based on x86 because the margins were too thin for their tastes, but they never stopped building on top of POWER and Z.

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