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Does anyone have reliable UK source of 80 column tractor feed printer paper where the cost is less than £30/box?

I found 1 place a while back where it was £15/box, but the delivery charge was £15 too. And I've lost that link anyway.

A question for chip gurus to explain (ie argue 😁) …

Purely in architectural terms (ie ignore current success / adoption etc) - which is/was the best architecture: #x86 vs #ARM vs #RISCV vs #MIPS vs #SPARC vs #IA64 vs Alpha - and why? What pros/cons of each make the choice?

We're happy to announce that we're launching the open beta of ppc64.be!

You can head to our chat (at ppc64.be) and request an account to get access to free shell servers on our POWER server.

Big endian, little endian, Linux, FreeBSD, glibc, musl, it's all available and the possibilities are endless.

Port your favourite software, mess around with big endian, run someone else's testsuite - you're free to do whatever you like.

Tell your (nerd) friends and enjoy :)

Just finished "Why Computers are Computers -- The SWAC and the PC". Fast, easy, read for the layman but enough facts and figures about early computing to keep me satisfied.

And I discovered a direct connection between SWAC and Sun Microsystems - Bill Gunning!
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I had to repartition the USB 2.0 SSD to provide 4GB of swap. That seems to be helping #pkgsrc builds.
Trying #NetBSD 10.1 on a #RaspberryPi Zero.
Join the team that's changing enterprise computing forever. Especially notable this round, we're looking for a Networking FPGA Engineer to join our ambitious work on multi-terabit rack-scale programmable networking.

No matter how much Google ask to install "Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent" for your terminal on macOS, Linux, Unix or other oses, do not install it. Here is a snippet from their policy:

Google collects your prompts, related code, generated output, code edits, related feature usage information, and your feedback to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and ML technologies.

All your data on disk will be the part of AI training which is privacy nightmare

#GlennLockwood explains the differences between #AI and #HPC
There are a few differences between designing a supercomputer for AI and designing a #supercomputer for traditional #modeling and #simulation.
https://www.glennklockwood.com/garden/differences-between-AI-and-HPC
differences between AI and HPC

System architecture There are a few differences between designing a supercomputer for AI and designing a supercomputer for traditional modeling and simulation ...

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