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jhgorrellon Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math

I have been reading about this for the last 25 years. So, yea, in another 25 years "this will be a thing".

"you are already rebooked" -- they were fab.

When your flights are delayed/resechduled there is a world of difference. "Get in line" vs "you are already rebooked". (my Air Canada experince.)

jhgorrellon Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'

Stock install, no tuning.

  $uname -r
  6.8.0-107-generic
  $ollama --version
  ollama version is 0.20.2
  $ollama run "gemma4:31b" --verbose "write fizzbuzz in python."
  [...]
  total duration:       45.141599637s
  load duration:        143.633498ms
  prompt eval count:    21 token(s)
  prompt eval duration: 48.047609ms
  prompt eval rate:     437.07 tokens/s
  eval count:           1057 token(s)
  eval duration:        44.676612241s
  eval rate:            23.66 tokens/s

jhgorrellon U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated

Think you might like to read "Adrift: America in 100 Charts" by Scott Galloway. He covers the impact of babyboomers on America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Galloway_(professor)#Bib...

jhgorrellon Curate your shell history

I have most of my shell history back to 2005(?). Each terminal gets its own new history file.

99% of the time, I never look at it, but when I do need to look at it, it has been great. My boss once asked me: "What args and screening file did we use when we made that one-off DB 4 months ago?" Was able to check and confirm it was correct. Or for personal use: "Where did I move that folder of pictures?"

jhgorrellon Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)

Extremely powerful fields can levitate a frog - so yes.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/how-did-you-g...

jhgorrellon The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

I have been happy with Kagi -- Like that I can change the site rankings on the results.

jhgorrellon Putin signs law to seize funds of officials that exceed declared income by $100

For those who would like to read more about staying in power as a dictator, or for that matter any kind of political leader, I found "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" [1] a good read on the topic.

Of note is the required number of supporters can be quite low when you have a government supported by resource extraction.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Pol...

jhgorrellon What Went Wrong?

Believe this is the report referred to. I enjoyed the read.

https://www.bea.aero/uploads/tx_elyextendttnews/F-HPJE_TECHN...

jhgorrellon Valve Steam Deck

I think this is why starlink will sell well.

Rural users are sick of slow speeds, and in low density areas there should be enough bandwidth for starlink to work well.

Dont know how starlink would handle a city-full of users; Think that is something we are looking forward to finding out.

jhgorrellon How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video]

In one of the other videos, you can see a 3 by 3 sized platform with the same wheel setup - it has a platform for 1-2 people and a crane.

I imagine they set some sort of exclusion zone around the broken robot, then drive out in the large platform and pick it up.

jhgorrellon Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?

Isnt it "127.0.0.1/8" which is allocated, not "127.0.0.1/24"?

jhgorrellon Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers

I, for one, would be happy to see that package. Took a try at it awhile back and found it rather bumpy.

jhgorrellon OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC)

In the novel "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge, the characters tell time this way. I had to do some math early in the book to get a feel for what 1Msec & 1Gsec was.

In addition, they also keep track of their cold sleep time, because if you want to meet your spouse 50 years from now, you want to try and keep the same relative age.

jhgorrellon Ultra-weak gravitational field detected

But we only need to make one of them!

jhgorrellon The ZedRipper: Part 2

I ended up getting an Arty-A7 as I wanted to have an ethernet port. It arrived a couple weeks ago. Still getting the build and toolchain built.

My goal is an array of 6502s - It was when I was researching that idea and dev boards I found your posts.

jhgorrellon The ZedRipper: Part 2

Thank you for writing this up - as someone who is getting started with FPGAs, it is an inspiration.

jhgorrellon Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F

I would agree that "people who care" are a good thing; However, I dont agree term limits achieve that.

Better than term limits would be an informed electorate who would vote for a new person once the old one stopped caring or being effective. I think limits are a poor bandaid.

jhgorrellon Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

I had been unhappy with godaddy but not gotten around to moving - this news got me to move the week the story broke.

Went to easydns.com and been quite happy with them!

jhgorrellon Corsair Gaming S-1

Agreed - They are pretty easy to assemble these days. I used the pcpartpicker, like you, and had it done in an hour.

Unless you get case which is too small, and you have problems getting you hands in there.

jhgorrellon US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat

Kinda funny to see 1BTC sent to check it worked before they sent the rest. Cant undo it like a wire transfer...

jhgorrellon 'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle

I just had "Broken Earth" recommended to me from someone else as well. Guess that is going to the top of the list - thanks!

jhgorrellon The internet should be a public utility

Left the East Bay a couple of years ago - I was very happy with LMI while I was there. Thumbs up for their service and staff.

jhgorrellon EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed

I have been using them for my personal DNS for years - Been happy with them as well.

jhgorrellon QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

yes - new writes consume space.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1448/gbciq.htm...

jhgorrellon With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit

I enjoyed board games in my early years. YMMV.

jhgorrellon HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

Helps to find packages which I might have missed from other sources. LWN is good, but doesnt cover everything.