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I know nobody reads the articles but what about reading the title?

Looks like they’re killing off the beats brand…

Yeah redstone in Minecraft is pretty good. Very visual. Few people have made entire CPUs https://youtu.be/ydd6l3iYOZE It is still just connecting blocks though as pierrec says belo…

They said ISO, so that’s one file.

Anything the cache doesn’t have, causes a cache miss, which passes it through. So when you request the large file, the CDN (cache) doesn’t have it, so it immediately passes through…

Apple is in FAANG. For some reason (likely related to 2015-17 era SWE compensation) FANG just includes Netflix (with amazon facebook and google) and not Apple.

This is useful to increase plays by reducing “ladder anxiety”

Texas Instruments still sells graphing calculators with 68k processors (TI-89 series, most commonly)

The hacks were not the problem. They engaged in financial shenanigans because they had a bankrupt management culture. Their decline and fall were the direct result of their human p…

Completely insane behavior. How do you wake up one day at a corporate environment and think any of this is OK?

Wow imagine if you could exploit mail rates between various countries with some kind of international mail pricing arbitrage ~~ Charles Ponzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_…

They did not try to lower the gear on their first landing. It would have lowered. They raised the gear. It was in the commanded gear up (stowed position) when they landed and the i…

And it was even easier before VPC, just public instances with RDP (obviously a big security issue, but a decade ago not uncommon)

No AVX is fairly brutal

Bitcoin is a pretty reasonable story for how this occurs - first you start on CPU, then GPU, then custom ASICs. If the financial motivation is there, companies will build custom ha…

Sometimes losing that information is very useful however, to arrive at a representation that has a specific meaning. For example, an x-ray computed tomography (CT) image volume in …

There’s already BLAS and JVM for ARM.

Yes. This is the reason cloud is popular. You don’t have to pay for computer janitors.

Yes, it’s a common “gardening leave” strategy.

Apple’s announcing their desktop ARM strategy next week. Given how many iOS and Mac devices (many Macs have an ARM processor for things like the touchbar) Apple ships, they’re alre…

You only make insurance cheaper by charging risky people more. Right now it is mostly laws that protect categories of people that keep insurance companies from charging people more…

We had to deal with the sectigo / addtrust expiration. It was annoying because we reached out to our cert vendor and they had claimed it would not affect us (only affecting “legacy…

Instead of blurring you should add a significant amount of extraneous information (random noise) and then mosaic (downsample). If you’d like to have a smooth looking censored image…

Japan is a first world country.

FWIW, Innolitics has a better data dictionary (information object definitions) for DICOM than the official standards website. https://dicom.innolitics.com/ciods DICOM has its issue…