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Elon Musk is the richest person in the world with a reported net worth of $359.4 billion [1]. Why does he want to steal our tax dollars? What indication is there that further self-…

No idea if it's any good or not, but Amazon has their own "Inferentia" chips. https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/

I would love to see a picture of your setup.

Thank you for sharing this link. I had no idea it existed but it is exactly what I needed for backing up my photos en masse.

I played Doom on my 486DX 33MHz.

Does networking over Thunderbolt work similarly?

Agreed, Terraform does a good job of this. But CloudFormation & CDK can also do this via Change Sets and CDK diff. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui... h…

Who would want to live in a dorm?

It's not clear that this isn't the more cost-effective solution. Without diving into the pricing of each component shown, I suspect there may be some cost optimizations to make (fo…

And vanity Tor .onion addresses

How does that work for a web browser?

Using iMessage requires an Apple ID. The Messages app on iPhones supports both SMS/MMS and iMessage because it’s a phone and needs to support SMS. But without being signed into an …

You don’t need separate apps to set scrolling directions for the trackpad and external nice. It’s all in System Preferences.

The 3rd generation AirPort Express (A1392; the flat/non-wall wart 2012 version) supports AirPlay 2. All generations of the AirPort Express also have a mini-TOSLINK output allowing …

What exactly are you selling?

The wrinkle comes in when you need different versions of Python for different projects. e.g. Python 3.6 for one, 3.10 for another.

Calibri was part of a family of "C" fonts released together as the ClearType Font Collection. - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/cleartype/clear-... - https://typographi…

If this web server was running on AWS EC2 with attached EBS volumes then zeroing out a new partition was actually AWS' recommended practice to initialize the disk for performance r…

So what is it then?

I agree with your comment about representatives catering to special interests, bribes, etc. Their constituents aren't usually first or second in priority. Public corruption is a se…

And before CableCards some cable settop boxes had FireWire/IEEE1394 ports on them that provided the raw video stream. You still had to rent the cable box though.

At the time the client wanted to stay inside of the Azure ecosystem so Atlas and the like weren't seriously considered.

Yes, so not the ideal use case. The compatibility Cosmos offered was nice and didn't present any issues, it's just the performance that suffered. This was all part of a benchmarkin…

I have heard similarly from various outlets that "we'll just have to learn to live with Covid-19, like we do with the flu and other viruses that we're unable to eradicate". What I …

I tried Cosmos via the Mongo compatibility layer and performance was abysmal, even when cranking the provisioned performance way up. I ended up getting significantly better perform…