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Yield. Some fraction of cores had a speck of dust or something, but at 38/40 good cores per chip they got economical yield

> Why aren’t these AI companies submitting to the TOP500 to show off their computing prowess? my knowledge is 10+ years out of date, but once upon a time if they'd chosen to, Googl…

yup. me too. once upon a time that was a 2 week assignment in graphics class in college

I worked in blockchain 5 years trying to build good tech, and speculators ruin everything and don't care about good tech, but the real punch line is that good tech is like 2% of a …

I worked in blockchain ("builder") for 5 years. I started 'eh, there are speculators, whatever, I build good tech' but finished 'holy crap speculators completely dominate and disto…

"In select GC-heavy microbenchmarks ... we observed anywhere from a 10–50% reduction in GC CPU costs" - Yay! "The Go compiler benchmarks appear to inconsistently show a very slight…

I designed and named the Transaction Execution Approval Language for the Algorand blockchain in 2020. I'm partial to the original, but as it grew it got rebranded to be the "Algora…

Great concept. Bring back real small trucks. My grandpa ran a farm with a truck this size. Disappointed in towing capacity of 1000 pounds ish. I can already do 1700lb on my hybrid …

I built a 'slice of function pointers' bytecode interpreter in Go in 2019 for the Algorand VM (Blockchain smart contract stuff) and before that the same pattern in C for a toy JVM …

I think the 'law of large numbers' says that it's very unlikely for you to follow 4k and have _none_ of them posting. You could artificially construct a counter-example by finding …

If you want to dedicate a VM to it, bsky Personal Data Server has a pretty easy install https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

95% of end users don't care; but Bluesky has the right bits built in anyway. There's a grand central aggregator of all 13 million accounts, but it's not _special_, someone else cou…

atproto PDSes are like blog servers with RSS (but better) and bsky.app is the prevailing RSS reader. It's an open protocol because anyone can host a source and anyone can run a dif…

OP is a link to the atproto site because it got a major new revision within the last week

2 million new bsky accounts https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l36zm4e6ee2w

Maybe don't finish! Maybe you did the interesting part and that's enough. Is there something about finishing that's interesting? Some value intrinsic to you in finishing?

Rust async/await is less nice than Go coroutines. There are things you can't do and weird rules around Rust async code. Every Go chan allows multiple readers and multiple writers, …

Bitcoin is still wasting gigawatts every year, but later blockchains are literally a million times more efficient. If the current generations of AI turn out to be useful, maybe som…

It's not. It's not about efficiency. Compute-per-watt will certainly be better in other systems. This is about pushing a small system as fast as possible because it's easier to pro…

going way back: Science Fair in High School landed me summer internships that rolled over into my first job out of college. ("Science and Engineering Fair" project was building rob…

there's a bunch of chemical pathways for turning plant matter into jet fuel https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/sustainable_aviation_fuel.html

I have heard many times: Google hires good engineers not to _do_ things, but to _not do things elsewhere_. (even if 80% of Google engineers are 'productively' working on products G…

but as always: Are you sure your data doesn't fit in PostgreSQL? You should probably try PostgreSQL first.

"as little as $65 USD/month" for GCP Spanner vs AWS Free Tier: "25 GB of data storage ... 2.5 million stream read requests ..." https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/ So, there's…

author is a flakey writer. Writes an article about "TESCREAL"[1] but doesn't define it but links to another of their articles where it's defined buried in the middle of the 4th par…