Maybe it's the trains that are making people autistic.

@zwol

I also like this but voted no. Cambridge had a research architecture like this and I really liked it when I first saw it: architecturally, you have an unbounded (bounded by memory) set of hyperthreads. Microarchitecturally, you have a finite number and all runnable threads are pulled in when they can be. You can build a system with no register rename or speculation if you do this, which means it can get enormous (GPU-like) aggregate throughput.

The problems come when you want to provide scheduling policies. Think about how you’d implement a priority-inheriting mutex on such a system and you realise quite how complex a hardware-software interface you need. I’m willing to believe it’s possible but it’s a multi-year well-funded prototype to come up with something that actually addresses the hard problems.

Tilly! One of our local decommissioned lighthouses, now a wildlife refuge.

traveloregon.com/things-to-do...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xhmwhdq4pj2wh5jeucxjhay2/post/3mqhmqzbwdk2e

The Mystery of "Terrible Tilly...

FBI firing analysts who won’t join Patel’s witch hunting in Georgia, plus more on the ongoing effort to disrupt the midterms. https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-kash-patel-trump-georgia-2020-election

"But the LLMs won't just go away, right?"

Says who? The technology is ecologically and economically unsustainable. The people who are most enthusiastic about the slop machines are those who are trying to extract money by building or using them. The rest of us has to deal with the fallout somehow while others reap the benefits (in fictional valuations, not actual profits, mind you).

The technology is a failure. What is keeping it alive is tech bro fanaticism paired
with capitalist sociopathy.

Can someone identify this #bird for me?

Ugh. Tried to report the broken calendar file to the large company sending it. Just got an AI generated answer instead which gives me no faith it'll ever be dealt with.

Go out, lay in the sun and get toasty

Come in, lay on the kitchen tiles and get chilly

And the whole time: naked

We call it the "puppy sauna" when she does it

@idzie @handmade_ghost I use Calmer by Flare and while I don't often sleep in them, they don't cause me much discomfort at all, they're just make of a silicon soft substance and the only thing hanging around in your outer ear is the tiny bar you extract them with which is the same material so kind of bendy. They just take the edge off the background noise. And I notice they've come down massively in price now which is good to see!

@adamgreenfield

People really seem to want some combination of ruler/hero/saviour rather than representative/partner/ally … it makes for very poor decision-making and leads to perpetual disappointment.

@andrewnez officially brewed

Three episodes in and it’s already obvious “Star City” is a better, more thoughtful show than “For All Mankind” was at peak.

I adore book scans that include ephemera like library due date cards. Makes me wonder what happened in 1996 to make this otherwise unloved book on orrery design so popular. https://archive.org/details/gearedtostarsevo00king/mode/1up

Why so secretive about all your water use, Big Tech?

What have you got to hide?

"The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret — then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply."

https://scienceblog.com/j-the-town-of-the-dalles-oregon-spent-two-years-fighting-google-in-court-just-to-learn-how-much-of-its-river-water-the-companys-data-centers-were-using-and-when-the-numbers-finally-came-out-they-revea/

Do any infrastructure nerds know what these sensors on pipes all around Iceland are for?

Look at this gorgeous thing! I think it’s something like a shark vertebrae? Found on the Dutch coast (near Katwijk). Can anyone help identify this? Boosts very much appreciated, I’m so in love with this pretty little thing.

#marinebiology #naturalis #nature #macrophotography #fish

Necromancy is trending

#uspol

Merry Christmas from Finland.

It’s hotter than the hinges of hell out there (to quote my husband’s late grandma) but mango season makes it a bit more bearable.

We planted a dwarf Malika tree when we moved here and it began bearing fruit a couple of years ago. Every year, of course, the harvests increase. The variety is floral-tasting and fiberless. Heaven!

A couple of days ago, a freak wind storm blew through and we got a literal windfall of mangoes 🥭 #Zone10 #Florida #TropicalFruit