I guess the logical next step is to capture the heat output as hot water, concentrate the heat somehow (or heat the water a bit more) and use steam to drive a turbine producing electricity. Ye cannae break the laws of physics, but it should be possible for a datacentre to recoup at least part of its electricity costs this way? Essentially a steam-driven power station where the heating element is a bank of GPUs with water running over them.

This looks like Apple is ripping off the old 1989 Amiga commercial. But I think the old Amiga commercial wasn't so "in your face".

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

It's all about theta waves. Those who have become "clear" and can harmonize the frequency of their theta are known as operating thetans.

Well I know that you can't argue over personal tastes, and many people like modal editors, but I don't think it is about "educating yourself". Perhaps the opposite is true, as this interview with vi's creator, Bill Joy, explains:

REVIEW: What would you do differently?
JOY: I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. I think the interesting thing is that vi is really a mode-based editor. I think as mode-based editors go, it's pretty good. One of the good things about EMACS, though, is its programmability and the modelessness. Those are two ideas which never occurred to me.

I never had a Surface Studio. But I always wanted one for its 4500x3000 display. Microsoft did a good job in pushing 3:2 aspect ratio and driving the PC market away from the horrible letterboxing that dominated laptops and monitors for a decade. It's a pity that panel was never sold in a standalone monitor (Huawei talked about it but the product never reached the market).

Did you try asking one chatbot to check the quotations given by the other chatbot? If you ask the AI to find something then it will do its best to please you. But if you ask it "is this quotation real" or "is there any evidence for X" then at least some of the time it can perform the useful service of saying "no, can't find it".

I upgraded my video card recently. I need four DisplayPort outputs so I picked a Nvidia RTX A2000 (old generation, not Ada). The prices on ebay.co.uk looked good value. Then I looked at the seller, and he had about a dozen of these cards for sale. I guess Bitcoin or crypto mining costs have reached some threshold where these cards no longer make money.

(The A2000 is a power-limited card drawing only 70 watts, intended for workstations, but I guess that might also make it suitable for mining.)

I can't really blame the author. If ChatGPT -- or any website -- provides a way to link to a page, it's a reasonable expectation that you can share that link and it will work.

The film industry has undergone significant transformation with the emergence of streaming platforms. Companies like Netflix have become major players in content production, creating films specifically designed for streaming rather than theatrical release.

This shift has several implications for the industry. The talent pool has become increasingly dispersed as creative professionals pursue opportunities with these new production entities. While established franchises such as Mission Impossible continue to be developed by traditional studios like Paramount, the overall ecosystem has changed dramatically.

Simultaneously, production companies such as Blumhouse have pioneered cost-effective filming approaches, demonstrating that commercially viable content can be created with substantially reduced budgets. This represents another significant disruption to conventional production models.

These developments collectively suggest a challenging future for traditional movie theaters. The combination of streaming platforms competing for talent, established franchises maintaining their theatrical presence, and innovative production strategies emphasizing efficiency has fundamentally altered how films are financed, created, and distributed.

The industry now operates within a more complex environment where streaming services, traditional studios, and nimble production companies all compete for audience attention across multiple viewing platforms.

Couldn't you take the legal brief generated by an AI, and feed it into ChatGPT asking "please look up all of the cases cited in this brief and give a URI for each"? Personally I feel that getting AI to check for errors in work is much more useful than getting it to write the work itself.

That's the point Stroustrup is making. With the current C++ language and standard library (STL), he claims, you don't need to write code with pointers, and you don't need to mess with new and delete. The container classes like vector handle it safely for you.

Keep in mind that the smartphone and tablet industry tends to progress more through evolution than revolution. Advancements typically involve incremental improvements, such as better cameras, faster processors, and increased memory.

Over the past decade, there haven't been many groundbreaking innovations that have truly disrupted the industry.

Hmm, I've been using hi-dpi (220 pixels per inch or more) for about twenty years (starting with the IBM T221) and using them with Windows has usually been fine. Even ancient versions let you set a text size of 200%. They mucked it up starting with Vista, doing a blurred scaling in the GPU for some applications, but you can turn that off.

... because their chip and technology companies are part of the military and propped up by government funding. Oh wait, that was the Chinese.

Wouldn't it be fun if NZ media at this point say "So remind us again why we should use Google Tag Manager and YouTube if you're not linking us, mate."

If the whole of NZ media is delinked from Google, you can bet your last kiwifruit that alternatives will pop up locally - as well as driving the NZ public from Google to Duckduckgo, Playeur and all the rest. Good thing IMHO, and the local IT industry would be cracking open a few celebratory beersies. The Kiwis have a lot to say about colonial attitudes at the moment.