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minkeymaniac··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
How long before we see this here --> https://killedbygoogle.com/
minkeymaniac··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
who can forget this scene... https://youtu.be/zJs9p-VNORw?si=sLF7ve6AhrQw8fNn&t=245
minkeymaniac··on No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s
I remember using usenet newsgroups (outlook express anyone :-) The Wrox books had a mailing list where you could reply or ask questions by email... I used those a lot.. in the beginning to ask and in the end I was answering more and more
minkeymaniac··on Future euro banknote design proposals
B (with the bird) brings back 100 guilder vibes. https://europost.nl/winkel/bankbiljetten/nederland-ba/nederl...
minkeymaniac··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
I just downloaded llama. ran this llama-cli -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF

I am getting [ Prompt: 91.3 t/s | Generation: 171.8 t/s ]

This is on a GPU (RTX 4060)

Is this decent?

minkeymaniac··on The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
Same is true for Croatia.. food from Slavonia (near Zagreb) is very different from the coastal regions (Istria and Dalmatia)
minkeymaniac··on What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
Windows 2000 Professional was the non server edition no? That's the one I was running AFAIK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000#Editions

But you might be right by meaning consumer is non business user.. I also ran ME for about 2 weeks lol

minkeymaniac··on What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
And crazy themes I had the matrix one with the "dodge this" sound instead of a ping... good times
minkeymaniac··on What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
The different kernel for 95/98 was NT 4... Windows 2000 was unified, same UI for Consumer and Server
minkeymaniac··on 5NF and Database Design
Normalize till it hurts, then denormalize till it works!
minkeymaniac··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
7 was a rewrite, from c to c++, also went from 2k pages to 8k pages
minkeymaniac··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
2000 for sure had instead of triggers.. I used them :-)
minkeymaniac··on 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
It went down 89% Between 1929 And 1932, it took 25 years to close above 400 again. https://denisgobo.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-long-did-it-take-... Of course with Dollar-Cost Averaging you will be buying at the low until as well
minkeymaniac··on I put my whole life into a single database
The step count in NYC stands out like One World Trade Center compared to the rest of the building when looking at the skyline ;-)
minkeymaniac··on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
I listed some hard drives on Friday on eBay.. most of them refurbished... within 5 minutes got a message from a person who wanted them all... shipped them an hour later
minkeymaniac··on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
I can confirm.. open up linkedIn.. hit F12 and watch the error count keep going up and up and up

Screenshots found here https://x.com/DenisGobo/status/2018334684879438150

minkeymaniac··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Article is from July 2025, Gold was 3362 at that time
minkeymaniac··on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why
Yep, it doubled in the last 4 months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Zc-FsUDCM I upgraded my PC by adding 64GB.. two Fridays ago I sold the 32 GB I took out for the same amount of what I paid for the 64 GB in July... insane
minkeymaniac··on Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
Doubled in the last 4 months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Zc-FsUDCM

Upgraded by adding 64GB.. last Friday I sold the 32 GB I took out for what I paid for the 64 GB in July... insane

minkeymaniac··on Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time
I never imagined that they could survive in Alaska. From the show Life below zero... take a look at these.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXq92PItsA0
minkeymaniac··on America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom
Yes.. try moving that 36 inch Sony Trinitron from the car inside the house.. weighs 200 pounds+ IIRC....you need at least 2 strong people
minkeymaniac··on Silver trades to $50 an ounce
unless you have more than 1 passport
minkeymaniac··on Nullable but not null
in sql server, you can simply add a not null check constraint with nocheck (see my comment with full code)

ALTER TABLE foo WITH NOCHECK ADD CONSTRAINT CheckNotnull CHECK (id IS NOT NULL)

any new values coming in cannot be null but the values already in the table with null are fine... then you can update them to not null over time

minkeymaniac··on Nullable but not null
If you don't care for old data having null , you could add a check contraint with nocheck (this is sql server fwiw)

for example

create table foo(id int) insert foo values (1), (2), (3)

insert foo values (null)

select * from foo

id

1

2

3

NULL

ALTER TABLE foo with nocheck ADD CONSTRAINT CheckNotnull check (id IS NOT NULL)

insert foo values (null)

Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 13 The INSERT statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint "CheckNotnull". The conflict occurred in database tempdb", table "dbo.foo", column 'id'. The statement has been terminated.

However be aware that if you update an existing value to NULL, you will still get the error

update foo set id = null where id = 2

Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 20 The UPDATE statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint "CheckNotnull". The conflict occurred in database "tempdb", table "dbo.foo", column 'id'.

minkeymaniac··on Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
I actually used one of these in a VB app back in the day as a joke.. it was the robot I used.. if you typed in something wrong in a a text box.. it would shake his arms and call you an idiot

fun times

minkeymaniac··on Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all
Some more of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm
minkeymaniac··on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds
How long would it take a computer or set of computers to pick random characters and generate the complete work

how long for 1 paragraph how long for 1 page how long for 1 chapter

etc etc

Does it get harder/slower by a factor?

would be an interesting exercise

minkeymaniac··on Global debt soars to 356% of GDP
Not any different than taking yearly rent, multiplying by 30 and see if it is 4 times yearly salary. At least with a house you will have something after 30 years. In ten years.. your mortgage will be the same (property taxes won't be) Rent will for sure be higher after 10 years in the same place. But there are benefits to both renting and owning
minkeymaniac··on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
What they should do if it is indeed to protect the user is have you sign a document. Just like Fidelity does if you want to buy UVXY or the oil short securities

FWIW Fidelity lets you buy GME....

minkeymaniac··on Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII
And don't forget clothing... no need to get new outfits if you are home... no dry cleaning if you wore suits ...
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