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In the 90s I remember billboards on US-101 for VHDL something or the other. At least people have heard of AI. But yes, these low-effort and occasionally creepy billboards are nowhe…

> Democracy and Liberalism are offshoots of Christian culture That would be news to the pagan ancient Athenians who invented democracy (although the Indus Valley Civilization may h…

My nephew's wife died in that crash. Only 26, and already a widower. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/husband-pa...

Similarly, COST, configuration that outperforms a single thread: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...

Anthropic is careful about buying capacity, and too conservative given their explosive growth. That compares favorably with OpenAI and its Monopoly money Ponzi scheme approach, whi…

You believe status pages are accurate and not another marketing page? That's adorable .

How are Gödel's incompleteness theorem relevant to the working programmer?

We don't have to imagine his scenario, that's what happened to Évariste Galois. But then again any university professor gets dozens of crank letters a year claiming to have solved …

And its transition to post-quantum cryptography is going to be a migration challenge.

Memory safety cosplayers, more like.

I take it she lives in a blessedly DST-free jurisdiction, then?

Ensemble Methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_learning

And this is exactly why Germany is not serious about its obligations to fight Global Warming. Always choosing the easy or demagogic way out, whether it was running on cheap Russian…

Usually software wins over hardware, but the voracious appetite of LLMs has inverted the usual balance of power.

The Soviets are a more likely culprit, as then just like now most of their revenues came from oil and gas exports. They secretly supported the Rote Armee Fraktion (Baader-Meinhof) …

I have a bronze replica of the equation of time cam, Levenger sold it as a limited edition item in 02009.

Jensen Huang is just trying to commoditize the complements to his GPUs.

Good PMs are more than ICs, they are also a force multiplier for the engineers they work with.

Sales engineers are pre-sale, FDE are both pre- and post-sale. FDEs are also much more involved in the client implementation, often they are the ones actually doing all the work, s…

It's a well-paying job, but probably poison to your future career development, much as SRE or QA roles are, because you are now pigeonholed.

The rise in RAM and storage price means it's more costly and less viable to have a separate device from the PC or Mac you already have, dedicated to playing games.

And since outside the EU, all alternative browsers on iOS/iPadOS are just rebadged Safari, this degrades the Web on those platforms. Not entirely coincidentally, Apple has a strong…

While it makes sense for government to sponsor the humanities and arts, much as it does museums, many educational institutions, or more precisely specific departments, mislead stud…

Probably good enough for memcached type applications

The Economist is to the City of London (the financial center masquerading as a local authority, not the metropolis) what Pravda was to the Soviet Communist Party. Useless as a sour…