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CheeseFromLidl

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CheeseFromLidl··on NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to Intel, AMD
Are the GreenArray chips also systolic arrays?
CheeseFromLidl··on Asbestosis
Its carcinogenic “modus operandi” is also completely different to anything else. Asbestos is chemically inert, so how does is cause cancer? The tiny crystalline needles puncture cells, sometimes during cell division, and strands of dna will get tangled up and result in messed up genetics.
CheeseFromLidl··on DeepSeek OCR
As a hobby photographer, I organise everything for speedy retrieval but this would be amazing to search my collection.
CheeseFromLidl··on OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months
LLMs can be trained using a distributed approach [1]. So what’s stopping the OSS community from setting up a pool in the likes of seti@home and boinc?

[1] I asked Gemini and apparently it’s quite common

CheeseFromLidl··on Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half
I think this one fits here:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

CheeseFromLidl··on Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

   would've been more backwards-compatible and better-fitting
Eagerly awaiting the first submission of someone decapping, forcing the fuse, capping and running it.
CheeseFromLidl··on Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps
A tv show in the Netherlands once summed it up nicely: the dating site experience for men is like interviewing for a job, for women it’s like shopping.
CheeseFromLidl··on Open Source SDR Ham Transceiver Prototype
Apart from a 70cm mention I don’t see frequency specs.

Similar project for HF (kHz to ~30MHz) is the radioberry project, a kind of spin-off from the hermes sdr.

CheeseFromLidl··on If my kids excel, will they move away?
This is the first in a very long time that I’ve seen my thoughts written down by someone else. Unfortunately I didn’t get out and thanks to 2 burnouts & counting I’m stuck in a shithole country doing shithole jobs.

If you’re young and want to get out, get out. Don’t take my path of studying and working until a path emerges. If I could do it again I don’t think I’d even finish secondary education and just pack my bags at 17.

CheeseFromLidl··on Trade in War
I don’t speak for others, probably a minority opinion. I vividly remember the protests against the switch to Russian oil and against the pipeline. There’s a saying here: if you burn your ass you sit on the blisters.
CheeseFromLidl··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
Adam Curtis recently released his series “Shifty” (it’s on YT). It portrays what happened when Tatcher stuck a crowbar in the economic machinery. The series shows the aftermath.
CheeseFromLidl··on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

  It just didn't come to pass on the time frame the stock valuations implied.
There’s always “urgency” involved when pumping money around the system. And some win big with overselling this need to act fast. I don’t see how patience can be introduced.
CheeseFromLidl··on World Wide Lightning Location Network
I’d like to ask to repeat this experiment but with a ferrite core next to the sensor (touching it). On the low spectrum (below a few MHz?) the magnetic component in the electromagnetic wave becomes dominant. Which is why receivers in shortwave radio and in e.g. DCF77 use a ferrite antenna. The ferrite’s length should be perpendicular to the line formed by the sensor and the location of the storm.

Edit: you’re reading at 400 Hz so you’ll read phenomena below 200 Hz

CheeseFromLidl··on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law
“services that have a significant influence over public discourse”

This may show paranoia but all these things that are happening recently kinda add up to preparation for war.

CheeseFromLidl··on Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions
Maybe there’s a parasitic bipolar transistor in the atmosphere, with sulphur acting as a doping that reduced the threshold for latchup.
CheeseFromLidl··on World Wide Lightning Location Network
You can look at lightning in an SDR receiver, they look like horizontally oriented stretched droplets. Somewhere around 7kHz iirc.
CheeseFromLidl··on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"
I was quite fond of DokuWiki’s xml-rpc. Probably long replaced now but it was a godsend to have a simple rpc to the server from within javascript. (2007)
CheeseFromLidl··on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]
I follow your logic, but if I look around me the higher the level of education the fewer children and partners.
CheeseFromLidl··on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]
I wouldn’t call getting a core medical degree followed by several years of postgraduate training a ‘simple hack’.
CheeseFromLidl··on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]
Pff amateur hour. Hack a dating site and start your own human breeding program.
CheeseFromLidl··on Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software
Just yesterday I was both hindered and helped by Google in modifying a 32 bit bootloader to load and executes 64 bit code.

- Google search was utterly useless, giving me no relevant results (which I found later by searching around github). It mainly returned results for a different archtecture, padded with results on a different topic.

- Gemini only wanted to give workflow hints sparsely dotted with actual (correct) asm.

- but then I found out that Gemini had a full grasp of the 6500 page datasheet and it happily reviewed my code, pulling out 2 errors and suggesting some optimisation.

We’ve come to the point were google search is worse than github search. And I haven’t given up on Gemini yet.

CheeseFromLidl··on Italy gives final approval for longest suspension bridge to Sicily
The term “critical infrastructure” sounds inappropriate for building a new (huge) target that can be rendered useless with minimal intervention.
CheeseFromLidl··on Italy gives final approval for longest suspension bridge to Sicily

   “Rome is hoping to classify the bridge as a military expenditure to make it count towards the Nato target of 5% of GDP spent on defence.”
Maybe they can classify explosives as fertiliser and increase their agricultural output.
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