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Google has code written for their Tensor processors (TPU). Will it run on the NVidia GPUs that xAI has? Because I'm thinking they're "not part of their core architecture" and it will thus be money wasted.

(I thought for sure the title was backwards - it's a strange world)

I've been reading Bob's articles since he published in Infoworld. Could his next column be "Haha I fooled you - it was written by an AI"? I don't believe he would do that. Plus it'd be sophomoric - something that a man in his 70's wouldn't do.

> But the systemic risk is plain: when everyone is each other’s investor, supplier, and customer, one stumble can cascade through the whole ring.

We saw this in the early 2000's. AOL got most of it's online ads (revenue) from other dot-com companies. When the crash started, the first thing the dot-com companies did was cut back their ad spend. Which propagated through their ad agencies and into AOL. They were trading over $90 in 1999 and plummeted to $9 in 2002. Quite the fall.

When this bubble ends, someone is going to be holding the bag, and I suspect it'll be OpenAI (and similar firms). Datacenters can use their hardware for other customers (mostly). NVIDIA can go back to making consumer GPUs (which will be painful, but I believe they can weather that shift). But OpenAI is the middleman whose assets are software, employee skills, and now-worthless deals with other companies.

What helps for me was using cool/chilled water, and a swimmer's nose clip to help reduce the smell of the ingredients. If you are adding flavor drops - go with lemon and not anything blue or red in color.

One other piece of advice - stay off the internet afterwards until you're sure the anesthesia has worn off. My doctor related that a previous patient had gone on the Carvana website and bought a car while still under the effects. Oops.

That would be Joel Spolsky (Fog Creek Software) and Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), mostly. Jeff has gone on to make several large philanthropic gifts. Joel probably has too but I don't have info on them.

I'm surprised that the font used for the "Rollerball" title wasn't mentioned at typesetinthefuture.com

I just installed it on a Raspberry Pi (with an otherwise too-small-for-any-other purpose SSD) for use at home. I wanted something with low power consumption, and I didn't want to have a single point of failure by running it in a container alongside everything else.

The only hiccup was forgetting that when pushing via the SSH connection, it will have paths relative to the home directory of my hg user.

> They understand the business processes they’re digitizing.

I feel this has more importance than they think. Outside consultants would not have had this domain knowledge and would have spent months learning it. And then would have had to fix their mistakes because they misunderstood something (billed to the province, naturally)

Thank you for posting this. I have enabled them at home and work. I am really tired of having to look for a window's shadow to resize it. Which is problematic when you run a black desktop.

Having to resize a window by grabbing it just outside the visible border is so wrong.

Perhaps the VBRUNxxx.dll files were distributed with Windows later, but not at first. You had to include them in your install diskettes.

"Runs and Drives" for $4300 is a bargain. All the other features were a bonus.

There will be torque multiplication by the transmission in 1st through 2nd so it won't be as much of a dog as you think. Race car, no. But it'll hold it's own in modern traffic unlike a lot of older cars.

Out of curiosity I looked up the ratios for the mentioned 4L60 transmission: 1st is 3.059:1, 2nd is 1.625:1, 3rd is direct drive at 1.00:1 and 4th is overdrive at 0.696:1. Then you'll have the ratio in your rear differential, whatever that happens to be.

My high school car was a 1975 Impala with the 350 cubic inch small block V8. Because of the Malaise Era emissions laws, it only produced 145hp but still had decent torque at 250ft·lb. It had a huge amount of space under the hood so perhaps this could fit both the motor and battery in there? (F/R weight balance being ignored)

Your point about people comparing this against the LS crate motor is correct IMO. This will be an expensive low-volume kit until (if!) economies of scale kick in. Only bought by people who want something different to show off to their friends at the weekend car shows.

A few months ago I finished building a new media server based on UnRaid. I populated it with WD 26TB drives. At the time they were about $400 (steep, but a decent capacity/dollar buy). Now they are nearly $1000 on Amazon, a 250% increase. I just hope I don't have a drive failure.

With regards to the new Micron SSD - I wonder how they keep it cool? I don't see coolant ports on it so they must strap a heatsink on.

Do these user-configurable laptops come with a mesh bag to hold their parts? Like the camera on the StarFighter, and the modules on a Framework. Would be a cool branding opportunity.

Also a hairy man. I got a small amount done about 20 years ago because I didn't want to end up with "old man ear hair" like my relatives (TMI, sorry).

At the time, a visit was $60. It wasn't painful but I did feel a twinge/shock for each hair. Multiple visits are required because of how follicles work - they grow hair in phases. The technician would treat the ones she saw, but then I had to wait until the next growth phase to return for her to get the next batch. About 10 trips in all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hair_growth#Growth_cycle

So perhaps you need to present them with a more complete solution. Develop or source a faster laser cutter. And find a small factory in an area with skilled labor (central North Carolina still has people who can cut & sew). And develop a process in the factory to keep all the panels for one item of clothing together from cutting to sewing to shipping (maybe a bucket?).

It'll be a bespoke item at premium prices, no question. How big is the market for this? I don't know, but my feeling is that it's older women.

Not just oversized - undersized also happens. Most cloth is still cut by hand using large electric saws and it's just not that accurate. (caution: loud music)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jvQHvz4GlPQ

Notice that the panels are marked out with chalk and if the operator doesn't stay square to the table, or isn't diligent in marking up the panels, they won't be consistent with the brand's standard sizing.

I mean - ideally a set of panels of a piece of clothing would be cut by computerized laser so it's accurate to what the buyer needs. But that costs too much and takes too long.

Twenty or so years ago, Levis had a program called Personal Pair (they paired with a firm/product called Intellifit) where you would step into a millimeter wave 3D scanner and get your precise measurements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1IceHjADbQ

Which you could use to get a custom pair of jeans made just for you. This failed partly because the target market turned out to be middle-aged adults (that buy fewer pairs), and not 18-25 year olds like they were hoping. Partly over privacy concerns. Partly the ability of the factory to make jeans to that tight of a tolerance. And partly because it was promoted like it was a novelty ("Consumers love it!"). Mentioned here previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2444319

But with this software - the tolerances are looser, so the clothing becomes more manufacturable. And the measurements can be anonymous - you don't feel like you're stepping into a TSA scanner for everyone to see.

I hope they are able to make relationships with multiple clothing brands so shopping from home will become less hit-or-miss. The benefit to the brands is going to be fewer returns for size issues.

I've never had a bad meal there. My favorites are the pancakes and the chicken-fried steak.

I took a visitor from Finland to a Jim's location in Austin, and they were in awe. "It's just like from the movies!" (because it was - it has been used several times as a filming location).

If you have a classic diner in your town, take your foreign guests there for the experience.

That's something that would have to be addressed at the trial by the defense attorney raising challenges.

If the DNA is present, it's present - barring any procedural mistakes by the forensics technicians (mislabeled sample, dirty lab equipment, didn't follow manufacturers instructions, etc). Or deceit by one or more members of the forensics team to implicate the suspect.

Depends on how they're using it. To find an unknown person and prove they were at a scene - yeah you'll have the 100 person's worth of DNA to sort through and then match against a (presently) incomplete DNA database. But if you already have a suspect and need to place them at the scene, if their DNA is one of the 100 then they have shown that.

Once in the Southern Hemisphere, they'll need to pick a new set of stars. So their declination would still be expressed negatively?

Or is it that they considered the need to navigate below the lower fourth of Argentina a distant possibility?

> The Atro Tracker also has declination limits of +90° and -47° and a lower altitude limit of -6°. The latitude is limited to the range between -2° and +90°; the system automatically switches hemispheres so both the North and South latitudes are usable.

Why would the system need to have a much greater range of declination (celestial sphere) than latitude (Earth spheroid)? Because the Astro Tracker and Angle Computer could flip over to the Southern hemisphere (was this automatic or was there a switch?) having that much declination range seems unnecessary. Perhaps to allow for pitch of the aircraft in flight?

BTW, being able to operate in both the Northern & Southern hemispheres was an important capability for the B-52. Previous bombers (B-36 mostly) had the range but not the reliability or in-flight refueling for global reach.

Sadly, I didn't get the chance to look at the B-52 at the Museum of Flight when I was there. If you ever meet Charles Simonyi, please thank him for his support of the museum.

It took a while to reach full production rate for the F-35. Partly because the supply chain (mostly US based because of the Buy American Act) had to come up to speed[0]. But also because there were running-changes being made to the plane, necessitating changes to the production line to accommodate them.

The F-22 production tooling is supposedly in storage at Sierra Army Depot. Why there and not at the boneyard at Davis-Monthan is an interesting question[1]. Spooling production of the F-22 back up will take less time than originally, but still won't be quick (a secure factory floor large enough has to be found, workforce knowledge has been lost, adding upgrades, etc.)

[0] Scattered across as many congressional districts as possible.

[1] I was at Sierra in the 80's on TDY and it was all Army and Army civilians. A USAF guy like me really stood out.

The PS/2 also used configuration disks for their Microchannel machines - not sure about the lower tier machines that were ISA - I don't recall if you still played "jumper madness" with them.

The local IBM tech had consolidated a lot of the files onto a few diskettes so he didn't need to carry around a briefcase full of them. Made his job much easier.

In college I worked at a record store that had a Ticketmaster machine. At the time, it was a custom ticket printer with CRT terminal and modem that took up a lot of counter space. When you camped out and bought a ticket the moment they went on sale you got an actual ticket, with perforations. Lots of people saved their stubs as collector's items. The surcharge was: $2.50

That paid for the equipment, maintenance, the ticket stock, the central computer, but not the leased phone line (the store paid for that).

These days, you're using your computer, your paper (or phone), and afterwards you have nothing collectible. The surcharge can be $40 or more.

Why the huge difference? It can't all be inflation. I think it's primarily because of monopolistic power and collusion with the venue[0]. But also - when bands toured back then it was considered supplemental income to the sale of the album. These days they hardly make anything off album sales/streaming, and more of their income comes from touring (ticket and merchandise sales).

[0] You could buy tickets at the venue and not pay the surcharge. But now Ticketmaster gets their cut even if you do that.

If you haven't read Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story you should. The system was operational, but Motorola's dysfunction and impossible sales goals leading to disillusionment meant that Dan Colussy & team was able to pick it up for $25 million (development price: $5 billion)

State actor, yes. But not a Tier-1 state actor anymore.

I think the point was that those stocks are causing the S&P to be overweight towards those firms that are highly invested in AI. It's like comparing personal wealth when Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are included in the list - the average ends up far above the median.

The S-Line project is underway in NC and VA. It will rehabilitate an abandoned line (the former Seaboard Coast Line) to allow faster travel between Raleigh and Richmond. It won't be electrified but will allow trains to run at up to 110 mph/177 kph which is a big improvement over the current 60-70 mph (when the passenger train isn't being delayed by a freight train).

They are currently doing a couple of grade-separation bridge projects in north Raleigh and some minor curve straightening. Since the S-Line is not currently being used they can straighten many of the curves since there won't be any impact to existing operations.

The S-Line right of way is owned by CSX and they will be running freight on it. The budget wasn't there to acquire all of it by NCDOT and VA and dedicate it to passenger service.

https://www.ncdot.gov/divisions/rail/s-line-projects/raleigh...

https://vapassengerrailauthority.org/projects/richmond2ralei...