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Well, your computer is a Von Neumann machine that does not separate data from instructions, right? The techniques that secured it are not directly applicable to LLMs but in princip…

All the while, Linux is going towards reproducible builds (Debian just announced it as a policy). This is of course the only sane way for FOSS, and, I believe, the only sane long t…

Sorry, SM-4 not SM-1, was a full emulation of 11/40, with UNIBUS, and all. There were DEC copyright strings latent in some system files. It was a pretty good copy, but quite unreli…

No, they disassembled German optics industry plants in 1945, moved them to the Soviet Union and started cranking out great cameras based on German designs. I've heard that some Sov…

Important factor is that AC at given nominal voltage V swings between 1.41V and -1.41V, so it requires let's say 40% better/thicker insulation than the equivalent V volts DC line. …

An advanced AI rack might use 100kW = 800V 125A, requiring gauge 2, quarter inch diameter---this isn't your lol speaker wire. Actually, I apologize, I realized I may be talking to …

Maybe LLMs are like a next evolution of a rubber ducky: you can talk to it, and it's very helpful, just don't expect that IT will give you the final answer.

Pretty much every laptop on the planet will run Linux. Maybe your optics are tinted because you seem to be a Mac person, and Linux support for newer Macs has known issues with low …

Linux will run on most platforms, so just pick up a fast, lightweight laptop, and select a conservative power profile for longer battery life and less heat, and don't run 32-thread…

You could run on 5V with a boost voltage converter to 12V. For extra credit, you could run the USB-PD off 5V, negotiate 12V and only then switch it to the load.

Normally a wafer would have die-sized spaces for test structures used for optical, electrical, chemical and other tests. Think the TV test card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_c…

apparently all Western Digital drives have a RISC-V controller, as well as NVIDIA graphic cards https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tue1100_Nvidia_... WCH makes a microcon…

It is just two years younger than the University of Constantinople, established in AD 425 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Constantinople