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bleepblapon Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations

Yes, I've got in my drawer two physical boarding passes with the same PNR

bleepblapon macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

Sorry, but it certainly isn't--

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/gpudirect-rdma/index.html

The "R" in RDMA means there are multiple DMA controllers who can "transparently" share address spaces. You can certainly share address spaces across nodes with RoCE or Infiniband, but thats a layer on top

bleepblapon macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

I think you might be swapping RDMA with RoCE - RDMA can happen entirely within a single node. For example between an NVME and a GPU.

bleepblapon IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

I've been in university research computing for 15 years, so large enough (~900 nodes) we need a dedicated DC, but not at the same scale as others around here.

Our racks are provisioned so that there are two independent rails, which each can support 7kW. Up until the last few years, this was more than enough power. As CPU TDPs increased, we started to need to do things like not connect some nodes to both redundant rails or mix disk servers into compute racks to keep under 7kW/rack.

A single HGX B300 box has 6x6kW power supplies. Even before we get to paying the (high) power bills, it's going to cost a small fortune to just update the racks, power distribution units, UPS, etc... to even be able to support more than a handful of those things

bleepblapon Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

OP said they "generated entire chapters"

bleepblapon Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source

With no annotations of what was changed or acknowledgment of that things were even changed.

I read it originally when it came out, didnt have a chance to respond initially then came back to look through the comments. If there was anything was changed, it's not obviously apparent...

bleepblapon Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source

This sucks from both a press release standpoint and how it's not actually a successor (didn't see any quotes from folks in Jupyter blessing this).

I hope the "founders" go back to the drawing board and retry

bleepblapon Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k

Sure, but it helps to not misrepresent the facts while you do it

bleepblapon Gentoo AI Policy

>> Commercial AI projects are frequently indulging in blatant copyright violations to train their models. > I thought we (FOSS) were anti copyright?

Absolutely not! Every major FOSS license has copyright as its enforcement method -- "if you don't do X (share code with customers, etc depending on license) you lose the right to copy the code"

bleepblapon Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

Had to make an account for this, but this is almost verbatim what the article is talking about:

Your wife is making a business, and you want to write some code to help.

Then suddenly your requirements balloon to multiple concurrent users, needing to have a system tray icon and then also the ability to take this code and sell it to other people. Wow this project is suddenly complex!

This is just "I need to be able to scale infinitely" written in different words. The complexity comes from wanting a ton of things before they're actually needed (with the wrinkle of wanting to use some previously written scheduler for this project.