Comment Re:$1,999 for a phone? (Score 1) 57
Bring back the smaller and lighter iPhones like minis and SEs!
Comment Methinks... (Score 1) 1
Perhaps they were a trifle hasty in naming that class of star white dwarf.
Comment oh great another one (Score 1) 74
Now every hundred thousand years we are going to have slashdot filled with posts saying "the leap second is stupid! It causes accidents and increased stress!" while a wave of others insist we need the leap second or our children will be standing waiting for the bus in the dark.
Comment I'm fine with it (Score 1) 47
If ai kills all these stupid fucking crypto currencies, I'm on ai's side.
Finally a positive use case.
Comment Re: Until that very small insignificant looking bu (Score 1) 196
Not everyone is purely driven by ideology.
Comment Re:Story-book physics (Score 1) 196
If we're getting Speed Racer (movie) tech, I'd prefer the automatic bubble-wrap escape system that lets me survive a crash over a cliff!
Comment Re:WTF is OP talking about? (Score 3, Insightful) 196
Also the 2016 Tesla Full Self Driving "demo".
Comment Re:Fucking Awesome (Score 5, Insightful) 196
As methods for by suicide-by-wealth go, it's classier than drugs, and more accessible than a carbon-fiber submarine. I predict we'll see some pretty spectacular Youtube videos of people making themselves (and their car) two-dimensional.
Comment Re:WTF is OP talking about? (Score 5, Insightful) 196
It is real, I just watch the launch event video, it is incredible.
So was that Optimus robot demo from several years ago.
Comment Re:Advertisers are the enemy of the Internet (Score 2) 54
Come on, quit holding back - tell us how you really feel.
Comment Communications overhead? (Score 1) 19
I wonder how the performance of 2 networked 512GB Mac Studios would compare to the performance of a (hypothetical) single Mac Studio with 1TB of RAM?
My intuition says that the network linking the two machines would be a bottleneck, but I don't know if that's a minor performance problem or a major one.
Comment I can't go 10 minutes without some Trump chatter . (Score 1) 134
Geez people.... Regardless of who is President, the issue here is worth taking a good look at. $2 billion is a LOT of money to burn through each year! And this is a program that arguably went FAR beyond what people expected it to do (ensuring libraries and schools had an afford Internet connection). Handing out free hotspots to people? Yeah
Submission + - 25 Years Later, a Palm OS Developer Opens His Development Archive (github.com)
ardiri writes: Palm OS developer Aaron Ardiri (slashdot.org/~ardiri) has released approximately 1 GB of historical Palm OS development resources, accumulated during the early days of handheld computing and preserved on hard drive backups for more than 25 years. The collection includes historical SDKs, developer conference presentations, technical documentation, programming examples, limited source code, and development utilities. ROM images, commercial applications, and simulator binaries have deliberately been excluded.
Ardiri previously published the source code for his Palm OS and VTOS projects, including work exploring the capabilities of early handheld devices. This latest release expands those preservation efforts beyond his own software, making a broader collection of development resources available to the retrocomputing community. The archive is available at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fardiri%2Fdev-... and is intended for historical preservation, education, and research, particularly as enthusiasts continue working to maintain, emulate, and revive the platform (available at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ardiri.com.%2F
Ardiri has also written an auto-biography and shas started explored the engineering principles behind these systems in his books, including Inside the Machine, which examines computer architecture from fundamental logic through modern computing systems. At a time when much of the early mobile development ecosystem has disappeared into defunct websites and aging backups, this collection offers another opportunity to preserve the tools and knowledge that helped define an important era of personal computing.
Ardiri previously published the source code for his Palm OS and VTOS projects, including work exploring the capabilities of early handheld devices. This latest release expands those preservation efforts beyond his own software, making a broader collection of development resources available to the retrocomputing community. The archive is available at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fardiri%2Fdev-... and is intended for historical preservation, education, and research, particularly as enthusiasts continue working to maintain, emulate, and revive the platform (available at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ardiri.com.%2F
Ardiri has also written an auto-biography and shas started explored the engineering principles behind these systems in his books, including Inside the Machine, which examines computer architecture from fundamental logic through modern computing systems. At a time when much of the early mobile development ecosystem has disappeared into defunct websites and aging backups, this collection offers another opportunity to preserve the tools and knowledge that helped define an important era of personal computing.
Submission + - IMF Warns of the real AI threat: Debt (imf.org)
databasecowgirl writes: Along with the dangers of continuing cyberattacks, the IMF reports that the threat of an AI market crash is putting the global markets at risk.
Three salient risks could trigger a sharp tightening of financial conditions and market turmoil. Weaker or less durable investment and profitability in artificial intelligence could lead to a correction in AI-related asset prices, amplified by rising leverage and concentrated exposures. Resurgent inflation or fiscal concerns could drive a sharp rise in sovereign bond yields, with potentially broad repercussions across financial markets. Meanwhile, increasingly sophisticated cyber threats pose growing risks as finance becomes more digital and interconnected.
Three salient risks could trigger a sharp tightening of financial conditions and market turmoil. Weaker or less durable investment and profitability in artificial intelligence could lead to a correction in AI-related asset prices, amplified by rising leverage and concentrated exposures. Resurgent inflation or fiscal concerns could drive a sharp rise in sovereign bond yields, with potentially broad repercussions across financial markets. Meanwhile, increasingly sophisticated cyber threats pose growing risks as finance becomes more digital and interconnected.
Comment Re:Oh, well then! (Score 2) 88
Maybe so, but at least we can count on honesty from any group that includes Meta!
