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That reminds me of core memory, which is also nonvolatile and for a long time was the primary memory of many computer systems. I suspect "growing up" with a system where the comput…

LLMs are golden retrievers that have memorized all of wikipedia

Just to help me out a little; you're saying "printing press and electricity" But there were printing presses before movable type, and movable type specifically allowed creation of …

I am planning on fiddling with using the TPM of an old dell 5820 I've got floating around my house as a budget HSM. It looks possible, on paper, if you don't poke at it too often.

And I would have put the bearing shell over a pvc pipe and used a hand drill or just spun the drill bit between my fingers, assuming it is just bearing material.

Those kids (the autopian team) specialize in generating engagement doing things that are pretty unsafe... Another example would be the dude who used a chainsaw on some lead acid ba…

DRAM is highly regular and relies on a 1T1C (one transistor, one capacitor) structure. Because those tiny capacitors naturally leak charge, the adjacent transistors must be optimiz…

Cisco has trained a generation of home-lab would-be cisco engineers to dig through shady russian forums to download sketchball binaries. I think they even hide the checksums of the…

I'm overall not a fan of Cisco; quite the opposite. There are lots of companies ahead of Cisco in the "pretty not so cool" these days so my ire is not as strong as it was when I wa…

Thanks for the head's up! The Rukus Unleashed looks like the perfect replacement for my icky system. I'll put in an ebay search notification for when the R650 (and R750) for $50 ea…

I didn't look at those; do they support running some controller thing in one of the APs to allow central management of all the nodes? Cisco's mobility express just runs on one of t…

Unfortunately you need to use the cisco software / firmware. The access points run linux but they're locked down like crazy with signed firmware blobs and such. That said, the cisc…

It is probably a combination of hitting a (low) cost and mimo; cisco makes pretty reasonable looking APs with lots of radios and decent coverage and they look like UFOs not alien s…

I have been extremely happy with cisco 3802 access points purchased on ebay for $25 each. Sure, it's only wifi5, but they're pretty solid and you can just deploy a swarm of them. A…

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Oracle makes their money by promising the C Suite "give us money and we'll solve your problems." There aren't actually many companies in a position to credibly make that promise. T…

I think the "party line" is that the goal shouldn't be "1950s grid, but bigger and with more red meat!" Renewables actually cover a lot of the newer demand and can be put around wh…

In the past couple decades, the vast majority of electricity demands have gone down due to modern substitutions for things people want being way more efficient. People use LED / CF…

What about running that same codebase on open source versions of mumps such as GT.M or Yottadb?

How do you think your code would do in GT.M or Yottadb? I understand both are open source (vs Cache).

Sorry; one final edit: What you're describing is "bank" where the financial organizations settle transactions using a private media ("the crypto"); but each individual is still dea…

I think I offered a pretty concrete example of a real situation and how the imagined utility of crypto magic isn't actually all that helpful. Now, perhaps what you're suggesting is…

Can you describe a "society collapse" where your cold wallet _can_ get you out of trouble, and why that particular situation isn't subject to "I will shoot your corgi." coercion? I…

Let's talk; You're in Crimea right now. You want some gasoline. You have some magic numbers in your magic rock. It needs you to cast a spell to transmit those magic numbers to some…

People have made crazy stories up about "the origin of money" for a long time; Adam Smith makes up a zany story about people agreeing to use chunks of metal to make change for bart…