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It is quiet sad to see Windows deteriorate that much over the years because of the decreased investment and lack of care and craftsmanship for the quality of the software being pus…

I was affected by the outage yesterday, and my flight to Seattle was delayed by over 6 hours, arriving in Seattle at 3am today. What made the delay much worse is the lack of clear …

I wonder if this is related to the errors I saw this week, when I tried to install Chrome on my kid's computer. Apart from all the popups that discouraged switching to Chrome, the …

That is interesting, and reminds me of self preservation. I wonder what training sets elicit that behavior, perhaps most likely all the sci-fi novels.

An amazing page with a lot of chess designs, definitely did not expect that many, and was surprised that the beloved Staunton chess set was designed by someone else.

Thank you, this is great

This looks great. Would all the functionality work if the databases are hosted on other cloud providers?

The white paper back of the envelope calculations show a 4km x 4km solar panels and radiators are required for a 5 GW datacenter. I am not sure how the authors were not cracking up…

Definitely an out of this world idea. I wonder if their micro datacenter is going to be self-sufficient power wise using only solar energy? And how would they address the hardware …

Sadly software optimization doesn't offer enough cost savings for most companies to address consumer frustration. However, for large AI workloads, even small CPU improvements yield…

I am always amazed how most business book authors take a simple idea that could be described in one page, and turn it into a 200+ page book with popularizing narrative. What's more…

So those alchemists of many years ago probably had a collider as well.

I wonder how successful this pricing model ($100-$200 a month with limits) is going to be. It is very hard to justify, when other tooling in the ~$20/month range offers unlimited u…

Ignoring what Elementl is developing as their material is confusing, what would be some of the practical energy sources for power hungry AI workloads other than nuclear?

It is heartwarming to see him continuing to give away most of his wealth even if he's left with a billion or more at the end, and I wish other uber-rich would follow suit.

13 years of development since the last release. Hope the last mile is not excruciating bug fixes.

A very enjoyable read of the history of databases through the lens of query language evolution, and the research done at IBM and Berkeley for System R and Ingres.