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That's pretty interesting, I've never heard of this! I've done something somewhat similar when visiting the Isle of Man. For the unfamiliar, the Isle of Man hosts a world-renown mo…

350x is only about 10-20 years of improvement, using CPU FLOPS as the benchmark.

Digitizing books, even if it means the destruction of the original, means more people end up having access to the knowledge within, and is a good thing. Full stop.

Trump is the symptom; the "disease" is whatever causes people to want him running the country over some traditional politician.

What remains of this computer? Diagrams? Code? Anything that would let us take a closer look at how it works?

I've been re-building my NAS and decided on NFS on top of ZFS. However, my goals are slightly different than the author: I'm using a low-power cpu/motherboard, and I've built 2 dis…

I'm totally on board with the idea that ORMs create a variety of inefficiencies, pain points, and make it really easy to create bad queries or querying strategies. But I use them a…

Developers having a troubled relationship with documentation isn't new.

This is an argument for returning to living in caves and hunting mammoths for fear that our modern civilization becomes unavailable for a day or two.

Both articles use 2017 as the turning point date. TTS is a lot older than that. It's not difficult to find data to fit the desired point if you choose a narrow enough time range. O…

I don't buy it. Literacy rates have been increasing even after the invention of text to speech.

https://anthropicisdown.com/

I don't understand this comment. At worst, we're just back to the baseline - working without AI help.

And Group Replication

Location: USA, East coast Remote: Yes, only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Linux, Go, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, AI/ML on Kubernetes, AWS (S3, EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, others), …

The biggest problem with Meshtastic is that discussions about it inevitably get spammed by Meshcore evangelicals.

Their decision to leave X seems mostly centered around engagement numbers. Or at least, that's the reason they led with. And I'm not sure that I believe the numbers they're throwin…

How about a piezoelectric buzzer? That's how the firmware on some iPods were first dumped. https://web.archive.org/web/20050828114013/http://www.ipodli...

I installed Creative Cloud just last week. No such entry was created in the hosts file on my macOs system.

I'm amazed at how cheap the LED matrix listed in the parts list is. About a third of a cent per LED, not even counting the rest of the hardware! Wow.

Yep, came here to look. Says "Hello Select your address" in the header instead of my delivery address, and when I click it to set my address, the modal says "Sorry, content is not …

Nine-dash line?

Seatbelts don't block me from getting to my destination, even if I don't use them.

Tangent: is there a future for AI offerings with guardrails? What kind of user wants to pay for a product that occasionally tells you "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"? …