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Old Rover Data Reveals Water Amounts on Mars(universetoday.com)
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Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment(arstechnica.com)
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Greenland issues 'strong warning' as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill(theguardian.com)
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
His LinkedIn says he’s retired for six years now. I hope he’s enjoying retirement.
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
HDDs are for colder storage that’s not yet cold enough for tape, but infrequently read and written. It takes more than a day to fill one.
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
It’s so good to re-read Tom Halfhill’s articles. I wonder where he’s been in the past… checks notes… 30 years I haven’t seen his writings.
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Softlanding Linux System – ArchiveOS(archiveos.org)
2 points by rbanffy 3mo ago|1 comments
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
I fancy myself as a decent writer, but I suck at writing documentation. People describe reading my notes frustrating and incomprehensible. I find it much better to use AI to untangle my, admittedly, convoluted reasoning
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
Presidents come and go and, hopefully, this one will be held accountable.
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Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia(theregister.com)
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
We have shorter attention spans now.
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
It’s lovely to think some x86 CPUs have a nice ISA buried under the layers of cruft that form a recent x86 ISA. I still remember the time when mnemonics were 2 or 3 characters. Good days.
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
Let’s not be racist, please. It doesn’t matter if the intelligence is based on carbon or silicon.
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
Or the Reptilians. Or nazis from the centre of the Earth.
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
There’s residual and radioactive heating from the Earth itself that can provide energy for an ecosystem. We expect Jupiter’s moons to provide similar environments because of tidal deformations (which provide enough energy for Io’s vulcanism
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
> that uses 1/1/1950 as the epoch I guess we can say this is when humankind reached adulthood, became able to drink and got a driver’s license. And a gun.
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
Also, if the finding is never recorded, it can be used to frame just about anyone who can be accused of finding it and smuggling it out of the US.
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WD Bets 8x Bandwidth Beats More Terabytes as 40TB UltraSMR Starts Shipping(storagereview.com)
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US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide(bloomberg.com)
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Astronomers Find a New Object from the Early Universe Using Webb Data(universetoday.com)
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Digital Peacebuilding? The Socio-Technicality of Transforming Armed Conflict(academic.oup.com)
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WD Bets 8x Bandwidth Beats More Terabytes as 40TB UltraSMR Starts Shipping(storagereview.com)
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
Oh... That's not great - it'd be nice if it had a way to push updates without building a new chip. OTOH, maybe because of this our future cyberdecks will have cartridge ports.
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Rediscovering Apple's Human Interface Guidelines from 1987(blog.prototypr.io)
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New York Data Center Ban Won't Solve Its Grid Problems(spectrum.ieee.org)
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D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race(arstechnica.com)
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
My understanding is that the chip carries the neural network itself while the weights are loaded on top, so any model that uses that same network topology should be loadable on demand.
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AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones – Google DeepMind(deepmind.google)
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Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting with AI – Nature(nature.com)
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by rbanffy 3mo ago
Benchmarks are benchmarks. You can base your decisions on them, because good numbers on them will give you good numbers on other related things you do, but nobody who has been in this industry for more than a year will take a benchmark as a

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