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trebligdivad

1,542 karma · joined December 25, 2017

Chocolate eating, linux programming geek from Manchester, UK
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trebligdivad··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
Yeh, it had 'kerfuffle' as one of the last words but that's very common. Yet it had Zenzizenzizenzic (which I'd never heard of but I think I guessed it right)

It really could do with a summary showing the answers you made and corrections for what you got wrong.

trebligdivad··on Pick and Place: Carbon Nanotube Nanoassembly Process
nice work although, the level of marketing of calling your device 'high density...17 quantum devices' or having the bold '50 devices in the last four weeks' - does say there's some way to go!
trebligdivad··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
It's a very long contract (till 2029) for just covering themselves for supply.
trebligdivad··on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
You do have to worry/wonder how many people are in psych hospitals, jail, or 6ft under when something like this might be the reason.
trebligdivad··on Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate
one of the articles lines is more generally interesting 'In mammals, neurons in the spleen can communicate with macrophages, and in both mammals and birds, these neurons also connect to the central nervous system.'.
trebligdivad··on A portentous reunion
you mean just like the Document editors or email systems these days? (or cloudflare etc etc)
trebligdivad··on A portentous reunion
Perhaps the uncertainty is more to do with the public being able to see this new tech; think what's happened in those 30 years, some of which you as a techie would have been well aware of but most people were clueless about. Those of us using PDAs at the time, most of the public didn't imagine constant wireless connectivity and powerful computers in their pockets. Networked games, neat tricks bunches of geeks ran at the time; today everywhere. Is AI really that much of an outlier other than public knowledge?
trebligdivad··on Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
Yeh if you want to improve the screening rate then someone needs to figure out how to make the prep easier.
trebligdivad··on Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust
Yeh there's lots of fun things like this; PDF is a full programming language so I think in principal you can generate PDFs that display different things to different people depending on the tools used etc. I've heard it said some of the incorrect text mapping stuff has been used in the past as a copy-protection silly to stop people copy/pasting content. (It's also a pain for those using screen readers).
trebligdivad··on CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices
So hmm this allows 'electronic or digital' information to be examined - so you're fine transporting your information read out on cine film?
trebligdivad··on Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?
Ah yes, that would be what I was thinking of; I think I saw one somewhere in Manchester as a kid.
trebligdivad··on Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?
Wasn't there a short period where they changed the colour? I'm thinking it was a beige thing - in the 80s???
trebligdivad··on Colossus: The Forbin Project
Oh yeh i grew up on a lot of those; add Silent Running in as well!
trebligdivad··on Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha
Were the ICU nurse and Doctor trained for the tandem jump previously - I've not seen that said in any of the stories published. Or did they just find a random ICU nurse and Doctor who was up for it?
trebligdivad··on What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it?
A search for patents by Stephen Morein who is listed as the CTO of SAIMEMORY shows this one, assigned to Intel, and published strangely close to the press release;

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20260040969A1/en

It talks there about 'Z axis memory' rather than angle, and that one is talking about inductive stuff through stacks of vias.

he's also got: https://patentsgazette.uspto.gov/week02/OG/html/1542-2/US125...

He obviously likes thinking about stacks of dies.

trebligdivad··on Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
Haha it's a fun finding though; The source control comment feels a little off; I'm sure there were SCCS (hmm or did cvs use similar?) still around at that time.
trebligdivad··on UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes
It's going to make for an interesting future age verification problem; For a few years it'll be easy, because it's still only going to be asking people under say 25 for proof; but then in a few decades it's going to be people trying to figure out if there customer is over 40 say.
trebligdivad··on Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone
Damn that's very impressive - for a long time Android had a lot of hopeless accelrometer, audio scope, etc apps, and it's always been hard to add your own stuff to it. Sounds very very neat!
trebligdivad··on Investigating Split Locks on x86-64
To me it seems an artefact of the x86 architecture; where any sane architecture just declared split locks illegal, x86 has some gently hidden away note about it being a bad thing.
trebligdivad··on Investigating Split Locks on x86-64
I suspect it's the risk of deadlocks and perhaps they have no easy way to avoid it.
trebligdivad··on LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation
Heck I hope this doesn't result in a bug fork happening; it's already a PITA to deal with fixing bugs that have been inherited from OOo bug trackers or earlier. You hit things like wanting to test against a file that used to be in a long dead bug tracker.
trebligdivad··on Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
Does Mercury not have any useful radioactive material to provide more power?
trebligdivad··on Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
I did think 'Thunderbird' would be a more appropriate (named) use on a rocket :-)
trebligdivad··on IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
Oh that's a weird way to do it; they used to have an x86 add on block for mainframes which was just a pile of x86 blades with some integration.
trebligdivad··on Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
Speed and density.
trebligdivad··on ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight
Another possibility is that you tend to keep an eye on where your phone and laptop are; there have been some plane fires where people drop a phone into a seat and it ends up getting bent, but at least they notice it fairly quickly. (Will people know the direction if their USB-C power bank is charging from their phone or their phone is charging from their power bank?)
trebligdivad··on John Bradley, author of xv, has died
I hope you'll keep the fish happy.
trebligdivad··on Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
Yeh, it seems odd to have the cut off cables, the wiring information...and then to go and buy a loom rather than bodging a cable at that point.
trebligdivad··on ARM AGI CPU: Specs and SKUs
I wonder if it's a joke like Arm-Generative-Intelligence or something like that.
trebligdivad··on iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
I guess this is all set up to show off the new high-bandwidth-flash stuff that's due out soon?
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