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by shrubble 1y ago
The only difference I’ve noticed is the speed of display; but if you’re reading dense technical content that doesn’t matter much. Adobe Reader is faster if needing to view a lot of pages quickly.
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by shrubble 1y ago
This is called PAHS, passive annual heat storage and has been tried in some alternative energy housing. You put pvc pipes into a hill of dirt that is covered by a plastic sheet or other waterproof membrane; during hot summer months you use
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by shrubble 1y ago
Also the author of a well known book, “Confessions of An Advertising Man”.
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by shrubble 1y ago
I’m reminded that Chrysler took a big loan from the US government in 1979, $1.5 billion which today is equivalent to about $5.9 billion USD according to the inflation calculator I found.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Didn’t Go come out of a language that was written for Plan9, thus pre-dating Rob Pike’s work at Google?
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by shrubble 1y ago
It seems clear that "buy a lot of Nvidia GPUs" is not the only way to go: Google, Microsoft, Groq.com (not Elon Musk's Grok), xAI and possibly others are making and using their own hardware believed to be more power-efficient
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by shrubble 1y ago
Gelsinger was their best chance to turn it around, in my view. The better results seen in the last quarter were due to Gelsinger IMHO.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Nothing will change until VPs start going to jail. Unlikely I know...
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by shrubble 1y ago
I have seen some of the hardware on eBay for not much money - can they take a regular Linux or possibly OpenIndiana distro being installed on them?
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by shrubble 1y ago
Is it the CPUs or the compilers? Or possibly a CI/CD runner that has to run something that can’t run on these CPUs?
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by shrubble 1y ago
I’m of the opinion that the acquisition of Sun by Oracle was the worst possible outcome; it guaranteed that Solaris would decline.
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by shrubble 1y ago
I really like (and have used in production) the ability to run Solaris Zones (containers) and "LX zones" which are Linux containers side by side on the same hardware. Many installation problems show up in the handling of USB3 and
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by shrubble 1y ago
I view Intel as a company that has a huge number of missed opportunities: 1. They have excellent engineering resources - why didn't they just take their ARC cards and add more RAM to them? People are dropping $2K+ on the 5090 with 32
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by shrubble 1y ago
All bureaucrats do this sort of thing: shut down something innocent to serve as a rallying cry. UCLA has $8 billion in endowments and the state universities in total have $30 billion in endowment funds. How many years could they fund Tao an
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by shrubble 1y ago
Like with the Viet Cong and the Afghanistan people who were conquered and absorbed into the American or Russian systems, right?
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by shrubble 1y ago
Early BMWs were like that. Look up the ~1979 320i for instance.
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by shrubble 1y ago
But they now have even less control. Previously they could drive to place their hands on the drive or server. Now they can touch nothing.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Wasn’t Microsoft just recently using Chinese people living in China to administer DOD servers? I would guess they use Sharepoint inside the DOD?
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by shrubble 1y ago
If it was any kind of weight training vest it would be wrapped around the chest and therefore any orientation would involve him being squeezed by the magnetic force. Imagine two dinner plates, front and back; whether he was facing forward o
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by shrubble 1y ago
The GNU Ada compiler has been out for decades and was integrated into GCC by 2002.
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by shrubble 1y ago
What problem are you having with the boot? Is it power supply issues or something else?
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by shrubble 1y ago
“The first round of photographs were dreadfully underexposed. We set up a second bar of magnesium, set it burning, and discovered that an f-stop of 3.5 with an exposure of 1/60th of a second with 100ASA film was just about right.” That
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by shrubble 1y ago
Reminds me that I need to change the combination on my luggage…
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by shrubble 1y ago
It works for many, including Netflix. The jails are better integrated as a lightweight container system than Docker is on Linux, IMHO.
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by shrubble 1y ago
My view is pragmatic: if you are managing the server and I am a user, then use systemd if you want to. If it’s my responsibility then I will use a non-systemd distribution or if I have a choice, FreeBSD.
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by shrubble 1y ago
For some reason it reminds me of the Nabaztag rabbit shaped, Internet connected device of a dozen years ago.
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by shrubble 1y ago
In a corporate environment, for internal use, I often see egregiously specced VMs or machines for sites that have very low requests per second. There's a commercial monitoring app that runs on K8s, 3 VMs of 128GB RAM each, to monitor 6
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by shrubble 1y ago
Let’s say my AI company is training an AI on woodworking books and at the end, it will describe in text and wireframe drawings (but not the original or identical photos) how to do a particular task. If I didn’t license all the books I train
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by shrubble 1y ago
It's more than a little surprising that portability between different Unices is not given more emphasis. "Back in the day" a program being portable between Sun Solaris, HP's HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD was considered a sign o
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by shrubble 1y ago
Even the LA Times, the USA’s third largest newspaper ran this article from Joel Stein, himself Jewish: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-oe-stein... It’s not a criticism to say that Jews largely inven

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