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meepmorp··on MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture
The original article points out that MIPS (the company) no longer designs chips using MIPS (the architecture).
meepmorp··on Molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis
> There is also the notion of structured water

I had to look up structured water and agree with the sibling poster: stop listening to cranks and grifters.

meepmorp··on FDA Authorizes Juul E-Cigarettes
Former smokers switching back is one thing, but how often do people start out with vaping and then move to smoking tobacco?
meepmorp··on A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet
Or changes over time.
meepmorp··on Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
Is the CSAM spam a way to harass the admins/users or some kind of trading via broadcast in public forums?
meepmorp··on Gaslight-driven development
If it were somehow a human that was consistently and confidently handing out made up programming advice about one's products, would companies still respond by just adding whatever imagined feature and writing a vaguely bemused blog post about it?
meepmorp··on Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY
Yes. Unfortunately.
meepmorp··on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
The "great" part about the Office desktop apps is that they're written in electron, so it's already essentially a web app but somehow worse.
meepmorp··on Petabit-class transmission over > 1000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber
SONET is widely used in the US.
meepmorp··on Vienna has been declared a renters' utopia – here's why
Vienna's nice and all, but everyone who lives there is a Wiener
meepmorp··on AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf]
So many times I've caught myself thinking "I don't want to understand this shit, I just wanna fix it," as I've grudgingly opened up whatever docs I've avoided reading; almost as many times as I've wondered "what fucking moron wrote this code" before immediately `git blame`ing myself.
meepmorp··on Apple's MLX adding CUDA support
o
meepmorp··on AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf]
Yeah, but if you actually read the developer documentation, they explain the execution model pretty extensively.
meepmorp··on Apple's MLX adding CUDA support
but it's not an apple-submitted pr
meepmorp··on Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022)
Quark is still around.
meepmorp··on The Death of Partying in the USA and Why It Matters
How old are your kids?
meepmorp··on Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S.
Ok, but couldn't we just do the part where we somehow extract usable energy from nuclear waste without the subsequent abandonment?
meepmorp··on TaIrTe₄ photodetectors show promise for sensitive room-temperature THz sensing
Yeah, there's this line in the original paper:

> Accordingly, we measured the nonlinear Hall transport in a few-layer sample with a Hall bar device geometry at room temperature

meepmorp··on X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform
> Yaccarino said they were going to transform Twitter into the "everything app" with payments, marketplaces, and even banking.

That's not really fair to Yaccarino - Musk said this and she had to repeat it because she was (nominally) CEO.

meepmorp··on Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs
> a hundred-billion-dollar engineering megaproject

if it was actually and effective solution and only cost that much, it'd be a bargain; I'd expect 5-10x

meepmorp··on Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs
everyone's a minarchist, it's just they disagree on which bits of the state are necessary
meepmorp··on 7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression
Dave Cutler left DEC in 1988 and started working on WINNT at MS, well before the collapse.
meepmorp··on IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes
> You can’t talk to other devices unless you got the private key of them

can you explain what you mean by this?

meepmorp··on XAI updated Grok to be more 'politically incorrect'
like a pizza cutter, it's all edge with no point
meepmorp··on WebAssembly: Yes, but for What?
IMO as an end user - aggressive sandboxing is a feature, not a bug
meepmorp··on XAI updated Grok to be more 'politically incorrect'
like a pizza cutter, all edge with no point
meepmorp··on Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant with Data
> There seems to be some correlation with how NIMBY a city is, and its access to diversified food options.

How are you measuring NIMBYness?

meepmorp··on Where is my von Braun wheel?
optimized to cost a lot
meepmorp··on Cars Are Caught in an Endless Cycle of Bigger Screens Nobody Likes
I miss having controls that you don't need to see to manipulate.
meepmorp··on Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'
Well, we're a family, but you're still being disowned at layoff time
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