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A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition(generativehistory.substack.com)
553 points by scrlk 11mo ago|313 comments
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by scrlk 1y ago
> They were verbatim copies of Western op-amps, logic gates, and CPUs. DEC etched a great Easter egg on to the die of the MicroVAX CPU because of this: "VAX - when you care enough to steal the very best". https://mic
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by scrlk 1y ago
https://archive.ph/XRw42
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by scrlk 1y ago
UK mobile networks and ISPs have had age-restricted content filtering enabled by default since ~2013-14. This policy was pushed by David Cameron, who was the prime minister at the time: https://www.gov.uk/government/spe
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by scrlk 1y ago
Virgin Media in the UK are somewhat infamous for being non-committal about IPv6. There was a thread that ran for 13 years on their forums about it (locked in 2023): https://community.virginmedia.com/discussions/Setup&#x
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by scrlk 1y ago
They made things even worse with fan curves tuned for silence until the CPU was practically at TjMax.
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by scrlk 1y ago
Yes, that what I was trying to aim for. Some further thoughts: two of the use cases AVP was pitched for are content consumption (streaming + offline) and spatial video/photo production. IMO the base storage should reflect that. Given t
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by scrlk 1y ago
> Apple Vision Pro with the M5 chip and Dual Knit Band starts at $3,499 (U.S.), and is available in 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage capacities. Apple being stingy with storage (and RAM) isn’t new, but the base $3.5k spec with only 256 GB i
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by scrlk 1y ago
This has been going on for decades, e.g. 275 kV and 400 kV Supergrid construction back in the 1960s: > Supergrid planners commented that compared to the first Grid build in the 1920s and 1930s ‘we’ve been in a completely different ball g
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by scrlk 1y ago
Multiple transmission network upgrades are planned to reduce excessive curtailment: https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade/where-it...
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by scrlk 1y ago
In 2012, Jim Balsillie (then co-CEO of RIM with Mike Lazaridis) had actually planned this, but the board rejected the idea: https://www.theregister.com/2012/04/13/balsillie_plan_open_b...
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by scrlk 1y ago
Looks like Hiro will have to cut the salaries of the 4chan jannies to pay the fine.
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by scrlk 1y ago
The NYSE and NASDAQ are planning to move to longer trading hours, 22/5 and 24/5 respectively. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/nasdaq-jo... ( https://archive.ph/JySa
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Intel in early talks to add AMD as foundry customer(semafor.com)
19 points by scrlk 1y ago|4 comments
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by scrlk 1y ago
To add to this & the Jobs interview - an oil industry proverb: a healthy oil company has a geologist in charge, a mature one has an engineer in charge, a declining one has an accountant in charge, and a dying one has a lawyer in charge.
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by scrlk 1y ago
> They have proven over and over and over, that at every opportunity presented they will increase their own authority. I don’t believe I have personally witnessed any other advanced economy that so ardently marches towards authoritariani
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Ctrl Alt Deleaf blows away competition as new leaf-busting train name(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by scrlk 1y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 1y ago
Average student debt is £53k (~$71k USD): https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01... Given the disparity in middle-class household incomes between the UK and the US, I suspect a majority of UK midd
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by scrlk 1y ago
It's a proprietary form factor, so you're gambling on replacements being available down the line. I don't think it'll be easy to rebuild the battery pack without compromising the casing.
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by scrlk 1y ago
Which is ironic, given that Intel had to glue two Pentium D dies together to compete with the monolithic Athlon 64 X2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D#Presler
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by scrlk 1y ago
> since Nvidia doesn't have their own CPUs, they risk becoming more dependent on their main competitor for total system performance. This is why they built the Grace CPU - noting that they're using Arm's Neoverse V2 cores
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by scrlk 1y ago
> For personal computing, Intel will build and offer to the market x86 system-on-chips (SOCs) that integrate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets. These new x86 RTX SOCs will power a wide range of PCs that demand integration of world-class CPUs and G
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by scrlk 1y ago
You mentioned devices being irreversibly "tainted" after unlocking the bootloader. On Samsung devices, blowing the Knox eFuse permanently disables features tied to Knox (e.g. Samsung Pay, Secure Folder). ("can never go back t
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by scrlk 1y ago
HP ZBook Ultra G1a? It has Strix Halo, 14" 2880x1800 (242 ppi) 120 Hz VRR OLED, and Ubuntu 24.04 options. Can't speak for the keyboard, but HP ZBooks/EliteBooks tend to be decent.
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by scrlk 1y ago
Pixel devices don't have anything like the Samsung Knox eFuse, which blows after running a third-party bootloader.
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by scrlk 1y ago
> Because they had built the tsunami-wall to spec. If you're referring to the Onagawa plant, one engineer (Yanosuke Hirai) pushed for the height of the wall to be increased beyond the original spec: > A nuclear plant in a neighbo
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by scrlk 1y ago
The C1 modem didn't support mmWave and I assume it's the same case with the C1X.
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by scrlk 1y ago
> Marc Andreessen said famously (or at least is paragraphed as saying) in 1994 that the "Browser is the Operating System" and people have been doing riffs on that since then. Isn't that downstream of Sun Microsystems’ old
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by scrlk 1y ago
The Estonian transmission system operator (Elering) has built this: https://youtu.be/NFuXzu-GIPo?t=51
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by scrlk 1y ago
Use https://archive.ph/ The archive link for this FT article: https://archive.ph/xUeJ8

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