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For more serious information, in my work PC I have a cache SSD which is a 2009 Intel 32GB, it got more than 46 TB of writes over 67000 hours of uptime, and is still working fine.

81500 for me, but I'm French, and I've often remarked that supposedly "hard words" are just quite ordinary french words.

Hypo is Greek too, not Latin "small" for a latin radical would be "mini" (from "minus") like in miniature, minuscule, etc.

Yep. I removed the last Windows98SE partition from my PC in 2003. Never looked back.

In Europe it's strictly forbidden to wear headphones under the helmet. In case of a fall the in-ear device could cause grave injuries. Wearing a recent helmet and protective gloves with hardened knuckles is of course mandatory. But many helmets are equipped with bluetooth speakers and mike, of course.

My handle and real name give more or less correct results with a 220-243 score (whatever that means). Gemini insists on me working in sound engineering, something I did in the 90s, but at least it's not completely absurd.

The most correct result comes from Opus 4.8, but is amusingly deemed an hallucination:

Claude Opus 4.8 says

A name associated with French IT/systems administration and Linux community discussions, possibly a storage and data systems specialist.

Typical EU corrupt bureaucracy at work.

IIRC, one of the similar old story from Raymond Chen is about SimCity 2000, that did a similar trick (free memory, then start immediately using it) that worked just fine under DOS, but was a big no-no starting with Windows 95. The game was so common that Windows had to include a special rule to make it run...

There is a long-lasting study (more than 10 years) on a huge French cohort (more than 100k) that proves exactly the opposite : people who eat mostly organic food have less cancer and several other diseases. This is straight disinformation.

That's beautiful. I hope it will run on a 486DX2 :D

Sometimes data privacy is paramount.

The sort of task you don't expect to end immediately. If extracting data from a bunch of PDFs takes 1 hour or the whole night, that doesn't make much difference to me. It's not fast enough for auto completion and slightly too slow for chat (but bearable IMO).

I've been running various models on a Mac Pro 2013 (8 cores, 32 GB RAM) at about 8 to 10 t/s for months. It's not fast, but it's more than enough for many actual tasks, in particular background tasks. An iMac pro will do just as well I suppose.

I've used FreeOTP+ to connect to my customers' Microsoft Teams for years without any trouble.

AFAICT any TOTP app (FreeOTP+, Aegis...) works just fine with Microsoft services (or Google, etc). You don't actually need to install several TOTP apps.

Nope, also redirect to the "fr" version if you're using a French browser, even when using a VPN connection localised in UK...

Apparently people aren't aware that not everybody lives in the US, but some may want to see the US page of the website anyway. Auto-redirecting people to the local version is incredibly stupid, particularly when it ends in a 404.

The page is redirected to https://usborne.com/fr/books/computer-and-coding-books which is 404, and there is no way around it. That's quite maddening when a website does this kind of things.

That's a good heartwarming story to start the weekend :)

Actually it was both "Congo" and "Twister": https://www.starringthecomputer.com/feature.php?f=30

My favourite game back then was "Certain Impact", but AFAIK it only runs on IRIX 5.3 (probably uses COFF binaries?), on Indigo2 High Impact with TRAM or Extreme Impact with TRAM.

I've got a beefy Octane (4GB of RAM! dual R12000! MXE graphics!) but I honestly don't do much... At a time I used it as an X11 terminal but it's a bit too hot and loud even for that :)

Like the Indy laptop in the "Congo" movie ? :)

> It is an amazing case study of how data centres aren’t just directly spurring new pollution: they are also eating up the physical resources of the energy transition, and redirecting them towards worsening that pollution even further.

Interesting. I've found that nightmares are strongly influenced by what I've eaten. Cabbage gives me nightmares almost certainly, for instance. Generally for me dream content seems heavily related to sensations in general : sounds, smells, bowel movements, cold, heat, weird limb positions...

This didn't happen to me... yet. Here's what I found 2 days ago deep in a production PHP codebase:

  private static function createUUID(){
   $md5 = md5(uniqid('', true));
   return substr($md5, 0, 8 ) . '-' .
    substr($md5, 8, 4) . '-' .
    substr($md5, 12, 4) . '-' .
    substr($md5, 16, 4) . '-' .
    substr($md5, 20, 12);
  }

Holy cow, how didn't this horror come and bite us in the juicy parts ? I don't know.

AFAIK the only existing small jet engines for RC planes are much too small for this one.

The minuscule sample of tools we have are more primitive, but we don't have any examples of their wooden tools, nor any trace of most of their activities, languages, rites, etc. They could have invented animal husbandry and wool spinning and build awesome wooden cities and we have no way to know because everything would have disappeared without a trace, crushed by glaciers of later ages. We know almost nothing of them.

You can browse the pictures with the cursor keys, though.