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markus92··on Norway Should Buy OpenAI
"We're selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price."
markus92··on Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions
There’s places where taking photos inside the voting box is illegal for this exact reason.
markus92··on I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC
It is. We still run quite a few of them in prod and with 580 drivers they run just fine. Very useful GPUs still.
markus92··on Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation
I think OP means more why politics hasn't changed this. Even at state level there's plenty of stuff that can be done about this but seemingly no one cares enough.
markus92··on Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act
Temu has EU warehouses they appear to ship from: all return addresses I've seen are EU addresses.
markus92··on Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities
They absolutely suck in HPC environments. Bunch of users running all types of code that can just LPE themselves to root, not a good scenario.
markus92··on Testing UPS Output Waveforms
Capacitive touch screens when plugged in with cheap chargers to crappy waveforms, behave weird.
markus92··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Samsung Galaxy S5 is the first one to cross my mind.
markus92··on For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2_Coalition
markus92··on The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen
Better than expected as it's mixing userlands. We didn't put the entire /usr/lib of the old system in LD_LIBRARY_PATH but just some stuff like old libpng, libjpeg and the shebang. Taking an image of an old compute node still on RHEL 7 and then dumping it a container naturally worked, but at that point it's only the kernel interface you have to worry about, not different glibc, gtk, qt and that kind of stuff.
markus92··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
This looks like Rotterdam ten years ago
markus92··on The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen
We (small HPC system) just upgraded our OS from RHEL 7 to RHEL 9. Most user apps are dynamically linked, too.

You don't want to believe how many old binaries broke. Lot of ABI upgrades like libpng, ncurses, heck even stuff like readline and libtiff all changed just enough for linker errors to occur.

Ironically all the statically compiled stuff was fine. Some small things like you mention only linking to glibc and X11 was fine too. Funnily enough grabbing some old .so files from the RHEL 7 install and dumping them into LD_LIBRARY_PATH also worked better than expected.

But yeah, now that I'm writing this out, glibc was never the problem in terms of forwards compatibility. Now running stuff compiled on modern Ubuntu or RHEL 10 on the older OS, now that's a whole different story...

markus92··on Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics
Your capacity drops dramatically, by at least an order of magnitude if not more. The Jubilee line can do 30 trains per hour, 875 people per train is 26250 people per hour. Say an average minibus can hold 26 people, you'll literally need a thousand busses an hour to move everyone. And yes it all runs at capacity especially during rush hour.
markus92··on EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars
Hit by A/C is negligible in most EVs. What you're saying is more that there is a current charger shortage, supply/demand will take care of that in the future.
markus92··on NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system
Exactly, they can’t just pay the 5 million and call it a day.
markus92··on NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system
Na, but under the Dutch legal you can go back to the court if they pay the 5 million without changing anything and ask if they can increase it cus it clearly wasn’t enough. They’ll just keep tacking zeroes on.
markus92··on Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20
Per dollar sure but they’re quite a bit off per watt. Plus the software ecosystem is still not there.
markus92··on Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux
Luckily they’re still compatible with each others containers. Can use Apptainer to build the container then run it on Singularity and vice-versa.
markus92··on "Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B
I can see the California or maybe even Texas AG go after them, wouldn’t be the first time.
markus92··on Moderna's Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works–Now Politics Could Sink It
USA is where the money is..
markus92··on Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)
Languages need a lot of upkeep if you want to keep speaking them fluently. On the other hand, just like muscle, once you've had it it's a lot easier to get back than having to put it on for the first time.
markus92··on Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
Nope, used a Samsung CPU with PowerVR GPU.
markus92··on H-1B visa lottery is shutting out top talent
Don't you officially have to prove there is no American fit for the job? It's being so much abused, seems that also needs some rework.
markus92··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
World Cup final, if you add up all streams worldwide?
markus92··on A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library
The javax stuff really got us.
markus92··on A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library
We run a ton of legacy cruft that's still on Java 8. Extended support is available until at least 2030. It's rock solid for us and migration is not easy unfortunately, even Java 11 is a challenge.
markus92··on Study finds intense exercise may suppress appetite in healthy humans
Same here. When I was into running, I never really ate much when I got back unless it was some big race. Unfortunately injured now :(
markus92··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Long waiting lists for chemo? You don't know a whole lot about oncological care in Europa do you.
markus92··on Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
It's mostly the PR department of universities that boast about those big discoveries. Researchers themselves usually try to add some nuance to it.
markus92··on 'I lost £165k to fraud in an hour' – customers say they were let down by Revolut
There were similar issues with Bunq in The Netherlands. You (or a scammer) could turn a savings account into a checking account pretty much immediately with one code, and then drain it in the matter of minutes. Lot of people lost their life savings over it and of course no one you could reach out to to rectify the situation. All other Dutch banks have waiting periods for this. E.g. ING has a four hour waiting period to increase your transaction limit, just so it buys time when potential scams are happening.

Of course it's easy to blame the user for this as they provide codes and stuff, but when one bank has this issue so much more than it should have given its amount of customers, something else is going on.

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