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Thu Feb 29 17:32:56 2024 (*b05743e5*):: Happy 20 Year Anniversary, Peak CPU! (*b05743e5*):: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/12980/chapter/3#9 (*6952cd93*):: damn it’s already been that long? +public!

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Thu Feb 29 14:47:01 2024 (*b05743e5*):: https://atxcf.slack.com/archives/C0129SE0L3W/p1709217878779749 *** Happy 20 Year Anniversary, Peak CPU! *** Happy 20 Year Anniversary, Peak CPU! *** Happy 20 Year Anniversary, Peak CPU! *** Happy 20 Year Anniversary, Peak CPU! (*4297a328*):: Ya I do vaguely remember that the early 00’s is when they were touting the introduction of multicore processors […]

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Thu Feb 29 13:54:13 2024 (*e065f1ca*):: +public! (*b05743e5*):: typical democrap bs trying to blame the people for any publicized problems (*b05743e5*):: problems which are usually caused by their cronies (*e065f1ca*):: +public! (*b05743e5*):: typical democrap bs trying to blame the people for any publicized problems (*b05743e5*):: problems which are usually caused by their cronies

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Sat Feb 24 23:04:25 2024 (*6952cd93*):: https://www.pcgamer.com/researchers-have-developed-a-very-big-disctm-that-can-store-up-to-200-terabytes-of-data-and-may-represent-a-return-to-optical-media-for-long-term-storage/ hell yeah +public! *** Researchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storage *** You can’t keep a good disk down, it seems. *** pcgamer (*6952cd93*):: VBDs let’s goooo

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Sat Feb 24 19:14:36 2024 (*6952cd93*):: damn even Adobe got a version of photoshop running in browser with WASM https://thenewstack.io/webassembly-in-the-browser-matures-and-cool-things-happen/ +public! *** WebAssembly in the Browser Matures and Cool Things Happen *** An anticipated component model will enable WebAssembly to not just see its expanding use beyond web browsers and servers — but will be […]

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Mon Feb 12 02:53:37 2024 (*6952cd93*):: https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/09/it_incident_report_the_clock/ +public! *** IT incident report: The clock that got ahead of itself *** It’s not NTP. There’s no way it’s NTP. It was NTP *** theregister.com (*6952cd93*):: 2038 will probably genuinely mess some shit up unlike Y2K

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Sat Feb 10 20:20:51 2024 (*6952cd93*):: https://www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-find-optimal-balance-of-data-storage-and-time-20240208/ +public! *** Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time | Quanta Magazine *** Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. *** Quanta Magazine

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Tue Jan 30 22:54:07 2024 (*a1ce09fe*):: of course you think tstore is unsafe. you’re a first year javascript convert. you just got finished reading some ipsilon researcher, leo probably, you’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to eth magicians, then you’re gonna be talking about how the transient storage at […]