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trq01758on Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)

That movie about dinosaurs featured some nice hardware for the time: "... adjusted for inflation, Apple and SGI loaned roughly $4,000,000 of 2026 dollars for the production of Jurassic Park." from https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.htm...

trq01758on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

Never saw $0.16 for 1M output tokens - it was $0.28 a month ago, $0.66 off-peak and $1.32 peak last week, now it is reduced a bit to $0.6 and $1.2

trq01758on Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)

I would also highly recommend checking out Mentour Pilot channel on youtube as she is the writer for some episodes. Accident videos there have interesting technical details.

trq01758on Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT

Oh yeah, cleaning chemical vapor deposition chambers in semiconductor industry, that's another one from Derek Lowe: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo...

trq01758on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

This problem is solvable with a screwdriver, a bit of isopropyl alcohol, a cloth, new thermal paste and some time.

trq01758on Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models

These days Spotify can stream FLACs as well, it's a setting.

trq01758on Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL

Except that Vulkan is the classic guitar here, you will suffer with it before your first triangle while with OpenGL you can jam almost instantly.

trq01758on Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

Yes, 140W USB-C Power Adapter (A3607) has CYPD3135 controller which is based on 32-bit, 48-MHz Cortex M0 CPU with 2 times more RAM (8KB), 128 KB flash and around 500 to 1000 times higher performance.

trq01758on Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

With our current RAM prices we may soon need to lose lowercase again.

trq01758on APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

Because brittle really is a second name for Flexi disc. They have shallower groove which means limited dynamic range, higher hiss/surface noise/distortion, plus because they are so light they often don't sit flat on a turntable so welcome speed variations aka "wow and flutter" and frequent skipping. You could listen 500-1000 times to normal vinyl before any audible degradation and the same may happen to Flexi disc after 5 or 10 times.

trq01758on Maxell MXCP-P100 – wireless cassette player

These likely would be destroyed by that cheap mechanism everyone uses these days.

trq01758on Maxell MXCP-P100 – wireless cassette player

They do: https://maxell-usa.com/product-category/cassette-tapes/

There are also others:

https://www.thomannmusic.com/compact_cassettes.html

https://revox.com/en/revox-news/now-available-revox-empty-ca...

trq01758on Write up of my homebrew CPU build

Yes, check out this https://computerhistory.org/blog/programming-the-eniac-an-ex...

trq01758on How I write software with LLMs

My view is that when some "for bots only" type of writing becomes a habit, communication with humans will atrophy. Tokens be damned, but this kind of context switch comes at much too high a cost.

trq01758on Bubble Sorted Amen Break

Venjent - We Need Jungle [I'm afraid]

https://youtu.be/isiVdlz8bDY?si=InoeqWTHZ3UaD1sJ

trq01758on How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

Yeah, everything's interconnected as Tangerine Dream got to work on GTA V soundtrack. There is this note about that track on Wikipedia:

The track "5:23" is included in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV and appears on the soundtrack album The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV. In the digital release it is listed as "Maiden Voyage". This track is very similar to, but does not credit, the song "Love on a Real Train" by Tangerine Dream from the Risky Business soundtrack. They had remixed the song for a then upcoming Tangerine Dream remix album but had their effort rejected so released it as 5'23 instead.

trq01758on Deep Dive into FFmpeg 8.0

"Lenovo laptop with Nvidia RTX 4040" 4060?

trq01758on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

Nah, more numbers, it was 00000000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link

trq01758on The Arduino Uno Q is a weird hybrid SBC

1680 x 720 is resolution for ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio

trq01758on How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter

In your case I would probably buy a couple of floral or similar foam bricks and try to decouple device from whatever surface it is standing on.

trq01758on Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant

Germany had a badly designed prototype reactor with 80 incidents in 4 years of operation and one particular incident on the 4th of May 1986 - a week after Chernobyl accident, where reactor operator was lying about it. No wonder they have those regulations and general public distrust in anything nuclear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

trq01758on Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone

This is like asking a painter why the hell he used ready made paints and did not create his own for each color he needed. Not everybody has a hobby of spending time and money fixing tracing mistakes of PCB revision 11, playing with working contraption is fine as it is.

trq01758on Why are there no good dinosaur films?

Andy Serkis was great, but not as good at shape-shifting. For LOTR renderfarm WETA bought a bunch of SGI 1200 dual core Pentium III 700MHz servers with 1GB RAM, 9 GB SCSI disks all running RedHat Linux. I've read at some point they had 192 SGI 1100 and 1200 servers working.

trq01758on Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs

"China has EUV" would be news of the century. No doubt they are trying.

trq01758on BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank

Forget 4C, these have new 10C lithium iron phosphate batteries.

trq01758on Using Erlang hot code updates

Probably not the same video, but the one on this topic on youtube is https://youtu.be/XQS9SECCp1I

trq01758on The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

Ahh, I'm so enjoying Sebastian Ahrenberg work from Seba Producer 06. This is compilation released in 2003 of tracks from 1996-1999.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhcqYxogdsU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7RRgGSMmjk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy69Heb33pg

trq01758on The History of PC Audio

Yeah, these were quite popular, a resistor ladder DAC: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing

trq01758on The History of PC Audio

I remember that my first soundcard was Miro that I thought would be a forgotten historical artifact but vogons even has a wiki for it https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/Miro_Sound_PCM12. Such a strange device with multiple compatibility modes.

trq01758on What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (2023)

And if one is using iGPU, one might think I'll have a great bandwidth, but reality is that DDR memory for CPU is optimized for low latency not bandwidth and they'll probably have a 64 bit channel (or 2x32 bits) from a single DDR module or 128 bit in dual channel configuration, while something like RTX 4090 will have onboard graphics-DDR GDDR memory on 384 bit channel very much optimized for bandwidth and not latency pushing according to specs a terabyte per second. Apple really needed their memory architecture - having a high memory bandwidth for onboard GPU to have reasonable performance.