#Queens Early Gen-X nerd ❤️ 🇹🇼☕🐱. Online since 1992. He/him. Bi/ace🏳️🌈:bisexual: :asexual:. White lapsed Catholic/Immigrant/ESL/Citizen. Not nice but tries to be kind.
Notes: kindness not extended to bigots. Someone from a marginalized group can be a bigot too. Reverse racism isn't a thing, so fellow white people please don't ever whine about it.
General account is @jf_718 but here for #retroComputing stuff.
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The similarities between VR and AI are actually really striking; both are technologies that are amazing for a few narrow niche use cases and completely unsuitable for anything else.
But they are both heavily marketed and hyped exactly for the use cases where they suck and make no sense.
So after 16 months of illness I'm back on my feet and applying to jobs, but I'm completely broke and the combination of car+power+storage for 6 people is due, with a lot of late fees added in.
I'm sorry to ask, but any amount would help. Thanks so much!
Wow, you have datacentres full of specialised silicon that draw hundreds of megawatts? You must be doing something incredible with all that compute, like curing cancer, or folding the entire human proteome, or simulating weather for every planet in the solar system, or rapidly processing the huge volume of data out of the LHC
What do you mean "sometimes it lies and we have to check"? It's a computer, it does math to whatever accuracy you want! Just figure out the relative or absolute error
What do you mean it has trouble with basic arithmetic
Brightness and contrast potentiometers now can turn, though still seem a little scratchy. Will be applying more contact cleaner.
After fiddling with the vertical hold pot, image is a bit less shaky (pot seems a bit scratchy too) - contact cleaner spray will be in order here as well as all easily accessible potentiometers. This is by far the easiest step and if it fixes most/all of the visible issues I'll be content.
@thomasfuchs someone ran a custom single threaded Dhrystone benchmark against various computers he used since 1976 - not sure if this is of interest? It isn't optimised and so gains from this and multi threading would be much better these days.
(Updated with a better source which includes a list of results and link to the GitHub repo for the benchmark)
https://hothardware.com/news/dhrystone-benchmarks-1976-today
We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in:
mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached.
Every single time.
And every single time it happens,
the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that built them act shocked—shocked!
—that collecting enormous databases of government IDs, facial scans, and biometric data from millions of people turns out to be a security nightmare
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