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First convince the DRAM suppliers to drop their prices for you and then maybe nvidia will drop the DGX price for you too.

It is really fast and ... really hallucinates. I asked "Does the Wang corporation still exist? If not, what happened to it?" and it replied (in part): "Yes, the Wang Corporation, t…

The article claims: > The Z80 is fully binary compatible with the 8080 instruction set. It wasn't in regards to the flag register. The parity flag behaved differently for some ops.…

The sailing-around-the-world (and similar) market is obviously miniscule. The isolated communities probably tend to be on the less affluent part of the world, so it doesn't seem to…

You are confidently incorrect. https://ethw.org/Nixie_Tubes

What suspicious link? The person is in their AI-powered page that google provides with pre-cooked suggested prompts. If the user clicks one of those and triggers the security expla…

I often embarrass my daughter when she has some new friend over. If the topic comes up, I give a demonstration. I'm 62 and I've never tried to get a tan and work indoors, and I hav…

My mistake -- what I wrote was from memory so I got the bit wrong about the multiplier ROM. I must have confused that detail with the design of the Wang 2200 computer, which had do…

Northstar made an S-100 card which did FP math, using BCD arithmetic. It had a ucode ROM and a 4b (single digit) ALU, and a few small RAMs to hold the digits. If I remember correct…

Recent Climate Town video on the move to trucks and SUVs: https://youtu.be/JPm4de6-eTg?si=Eu1y3uQIeCGnkR_2 If you don't know Rollie Williams, Climate Town videos are informative bu…

Ages ago, my girlfriend at the time worked for a company that routinely got SIBR (small business innovation research) grants. Such grants made up part of her total workload. The cr…

No kidding. When I zoom in on a few square miles around my house and ask to see restaurants, it shows only a few of them even though there is plenty of space -- it isn't like it ha…

I just did. I had been using FUTO voice, but I see that FUTO keyboard also supports voice input, so I'm not sure if I should delete FUTO voice as being redundant now.

Thanks for your thoughts. I use FUTO voice usually, but there are situations where typing out a short message is better -- eg, in a restaurant or doctor's office or someplace where…

I've been using Graphene on my Pixel 7a for about a year and I'm happy I made the switch. For sure it is a bit rougher than using Google's OS, but not enough to make me regret it. …

How is this ethical? The ethics section of the summary simply asserts it was OK, but I don't see how this being done in a private practice excuses them from normal strictures. They…

You must be talking wet weight. 5g of dry mushrooms is about 50mg of psilocybin, which has been referred to as a "heroic dose" for decades.

Do you think that all the alarm had any effect on the blocking of the rule change? Is the right time to complain about a possible change is after it has been decided?

What frequency did it it cycle at? Any idea how many instructions per second it could process?

electricity is a major cost. that 1.5B/mo is part for renting the hardware, part paying the lease on the building, and a significant part (I have no idea what %) is paying for the …

You should take this as a data point where your gut intuition has failed you. It is really condescending to dismiss their choice as motivated by vanity rather than assuming that ot…

I used to work with a brilliant and humble guy. He got accepted to MIT at 14, but his parents made him go to community college for a year to give him a little more time to mature. …

I've read a number of consciousness books and this idea that the brain is inpainting the blind spot. I know Dennett in his "Consciousness Explained" book of 30+ years ago did his b…

I got into computers in 1978 when I started high school and they had two Wang 2200 computers, each with a whopping 8KB of RAM. Although I was 14 I asked my parents for a subscripti…

I did this in 1985 on SOROC terminals we had in my first job out of college. However, it depended on the dip switch settings that were under a little door on top of the keyboard.