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claudex··on Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors
DDR4 prices are also impacted. The price is x3 compared a year ago.
claudex··on AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
It was removed later https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/ffa047a03e4c5f6bd3...
claudex··on IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
>There's part of me that asks, if AMD had an ARM core, if we would have all Consoles powered by AMD chips now. Nintendo likely bought into Tegra because it was an ARM core, and for better or worse their mobile stuff by the time of making that choice had 15+ years of proven ARM success (GBA, DS, 3DS) behind it.

AMD worked on a ARM core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12 but I'm not sure it would had work, they were never the best on the power consumption, so I'm not sure it would have been a good choice for the Switch.

claudex··on Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
The datasheet says 4 seconds for the image update time. However, I didn't found the time for partial refresh.
claudex··on crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
Some architecture lacks documentation, if you have a working C compiler, it's easier to use it than working on a compiler to target it.
claudex··on A New Version of Our Oracle Solaris Environment for Developers
Solaris and Illumos are available on x86
claudex··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
Wero bought Payconiq which allow to pay at the physical terminal with a QR code to scan with your phone. So, they can cover the physical payment without having to issue cards.
claudex··on EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push
It's just a central marketplace so the governments can buy the unused capacity from these satellites with reduced negotiations with each states operating the satellites.
claudex··on Devuan – Debian Without Systemd
The worst was editing an existing service for the distribution. With systemd you just need an override file, without, you have to patch the file and review it each time it is upgraded to check the differences.
claudex··on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
> I am writing this comment in Chrome (produced by Google).

Which depends on a lot of code not produced by Google, like libxml2 which was on the news recently because the maintainer step down.

claudex··on Installing and using HP-UX 9
I totally missed the EOL announcement. Not that I use it, but it is one on the few last big proprietary Unix. I thought their will always be enough paying customers to maintain it (even if sold to third party).
claudex··on Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control
You can add your key to most UEFI system and don't require shim to have it to boot (or disable Secure Boot). You don't require a MS signed bootloader if you don't want to.
claudex··on The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
z/Processor is big endian
claudex··on RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization
I don't understand why they want to put the RISC-V spec behind the ISO paywall. It will just complicate the access to the standardized version to confirm compliance with it.
claudex··on IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)
From the link:

> At that point Windows XP 32-bit was the most commonly used variant, and while you could run XP 64-bit (and IBM did have native support for it on the IntelliStation 9228), XP 64-bit had so many problems so most users were stuck with 3.9 GB of RAM. Therefore if we were to assume that UNIX and said UNIX hardware offered way more memory, it starts to make sense

claudex··on I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
>And my stupid MSI board resets everything (every single BIOS setting) to MSI defaults when you upgrade its BIOS.

I had the same issue with my MSI board, next one won't be a MSI.

claudex··on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes
Maybe it's just that the cost to set up the production elsewhere is too much for the expected market. The shortage of the drugs doesn't mean there will be enough buyer to cover the cost (and make enough profit).
claudex··on Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
There are policies to prevent changing the password more than once a day to prevent that. I've encountered it in several places
claudex··on Cloudflare was down
> Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency.

So they depend on GCP for (some of) their services

claudex··on The metre originated in the French Revolution
Nohting prevent you to use the metric system and use 60cm (for example) as a base unit for your construction. So you can easily divide it by 12 if you want.
claudex··on Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
You can configure certbot to write in a directory directly and it won't touch your web server config.
claudex··on Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production
>For audio, I think that would be a relatively easy lift with technologies like Dante. However, in most TV stations, you're going to need to literally plug upwards of 100 HDSDI video cables into a piece of hardware

I don't know the TV stations requirements, but you can maybe have 10 interconnected servers that manage 10 HDSDI flux each (and can send them on another if required for processing) ?

claudex··on Starlink User Terminal Teardown
Each country regulator in the European Union have to set it's own regulation, but the BEREC (Association of UE telecom regulators) guidelines say that in most case, the free choice of router and modem is what's is required by the EU decisions https://www.berec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/files/docume...
claudex··on Starlink User Terminal Teardown
>DSL tech is far simpler and it's always a combo unit so I could see a case where you would be allowed to bring your own DSL modem.

Not really, when you want to increase the bandwith, e.g. with vectoring[1], you need to have all neighbor modems to participate, which prevent free modem choice for the users.

>But it just doesn't work like that for DOCSIS or GPON where the cable modems or "ONT" router combo units these days do much more than just media conversion - SIP, PPPoE, IGMP, etc.

In Belgium, the ONT is just media conversion these days, SIP is done on the provider box, so you can have your own GPON SFP.

>so it's just not possible for the ISP to guarantee support for any random modem or ONT.

The ISP doesn't have to guarantee support to let you use your own hardware. It just have to give you the specs to use it and let you plug the ISP box if you can't configure vlan of dhcpv6 client.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL#VDSL2_vectoring

claudex··on Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch
I'm concerned that you want to open users /j
claudex··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
Office was released in 1990, but Excel in 1985 and Word in 1983.
claudex··on 'Nobody has done this before': Britain's beloved steam trains trial technology
There was a little more than gluing a touchscreen

> The cab was stripped back to bare metal because of the sheer number of new conduits, boxes and equipment and that was the only practical way to do it

And the system has to be homologated, which takes a lot of time to test in a unknown environment.

claudex··on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience
You have to control a meaningful part of the web (like the Google ecosystem) for that to work.
claudex··on Classic Computer Replicas
It depends, for the PDP-11, you can plug a FPGA https://obsolescence.dev/pdp11.html
claudex··on 'Sun-Like' Stars
Aren't they all bought by Oracle ? /j
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