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Also a great way to block the access to people that do not have a payment system available. Whether it is because they are not in a country that's well integrated into an internati…

It would be a nice collectable trinket, but OpenAI is quite down on the list of companies I'd gift money to

To be fair I care way more about the long term sustainability of my body than all the software I write regardless of how business critical or interesting it is. Or hardware for tha…

It's more niche but also underestimating the impact of using SIMD in places where it makes sense. Especially in higher level, interpreted programming languages where the overhead f…

How would destroying the GPUs prevent the model weights from leaking? By the time you get your hands on them the memory is powered off for a long enough time that a cold-boot style…

If I transported you to the 1960s and gave you a wizard that could punch cards for you with a chance of making a mistake, would you still bother to learn how to operate a punch car…

Those operating systems already exist. You can run NetBSD on pretty much anything (it currently supports machines with a Motorola 68k CPU for example). Granted many of those machin…

How many of those legacy applications where the source is not available actually need to run natively on a modern kernel? The only thing I can think of is games, and the Windows bi…

You can't seriously expect a new GPU manufacturer to create a perfectly useable ecosystem on day one. The drivers will surely get better over time and support for integrating the c…

My phone is a piece of junk from 8 years ago and I haven't noticed any degradation in browsing experience. A website takes like two extra seconds to load, not a big deal.

Android studio became great after I upgraded from 16 to 48 gigabytes of ram. Thanks for that, Gradle!

Honestly I don't see much of a problem if this is applied to imports of single items by an end user. I used to be that I had trouble importing some device partly because the power …

> Performance varied between a 4.3 percent slowdown to a 2.3 percent speedup depending on the way it was bent. I have practically zero knowledge on the physics behind semiconductor…

An iPhone 8 still has a lot of processing power for headless home server tasks. I use a much weaker ARM dev board as an ssh gateway and Wireguard VPN into my home network and it wo…

I had to slightly rewrite the title to get it to fit within the 90 character limit.

I've always had a feeling that mixing caffeine and alcohol was a really bad thing, even when binge drinking as a teenager. Not that limiting myself to only alcohol was a healthy al…

If you're unlucky enough to experience memory errors in one of the intermediate buffers files go through while being copied from one computer to another an incorrect copy of the fi…

I still use an HP 48GX for all my university courses that require a calculator (not many nowadays, the best math courses are the ones without numbers in them). I bought it used in …

I wish I had this all those times I had to guess what buffer exploded just by looking at the Valgrind output signaling invalid reads/writes.

Yeah the camera is the only feature that would really make me want to switch phones. In my case it's more about being a broke CS student without a job lol. But the low-end device t…

I have noticed with two 7 year old Snapdragon 835 devices that RAM and running a recent Android version makes a huge difference. I daily drive a OnePlus 5 running Android 14 throug…

That's a very low tech solution. What we need is an internet connected mug that senses with a camera if it's about to be set on top of a piece of paper and starts beeping uncontrol…

That wiki was invaluable to me when I took computer organization courses. My recommendation would be to learn x86 assembly and C (also familiarize yourself with gdb!) by writing pr…

They used the hardened PowerPC for the rover, similar to previous mars rovers and the Snapdragon chip for the helicopter.