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zontorol··on Turing Complete Transformers: Two Transformers Are More Powerful Than One
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zontorol··on Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports
Toughbooks are not fashionable and look like tools.

Macbooks are supposed to look like jewelry.

zontorol··on Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?
A phone battery is 3.8 volt. No worry, right?
zontorol··on Visualizing Ext4
When you were a young little nerd old timers were saying "such a shame modern computers don't have LEDs showing the individual state of each bit of the control registers like our mainframe did. Computers these days are so dumbed down. Users can't even see where the instruction pointer is which is so useful to get a feel for what the hardware is actually doing"
zontorol··on Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Cores and 48GB VRAM
You also need memory bandwidth, that's harder than just quantity.
zontorol··on Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Cores and 48GB VRAM
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> With 48GB GDDR6 memory, RTX 5880 gives data scientists, engineers, and creative professionals the large memory needed to work with large datasets and workloads like rendering, data science, and simulation.

I wonder what else might need this much memory...