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I am trying to find how the synthetic data was created (looking through the repo) and didn't find it. Maybe I am missing it - Would love to see the prompts and process on that aspect of the training data generation!
Re:Installing and using HP-UX 9 on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:11AM (#45875614)
Oh my! Thanks for the memories - HPUX was my first workstation class unix operating system (sili-g's were too expensive). I remember downloading and compiling gcc on hpux. THe ideas of compiling a compiler with itself blew my mind!
Re:Tilck: A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @05:41AM (#44580409)
Very nice. Its great to see how fast it boots, and it can run doom (framebuffer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce1pMlZO_mI (also nice to see the dev takes the time to reply to an aspiring CS student on what it takes to grow in this field - comments in youtube)
Re:Paper Airplane Designs on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:18PM (#18251286)
A feel-good movie to watch with the kids : Paper Planes - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3328716/
Could someone explain why/how NBD is better than just using a linux host as an iscsi target? Googling NBD vs iSCSI shows old articles with no real solid conclusion.
Don't see it offhand so asking:

1) How/where are you storing the index 2) Have you tried this on large (30+ TB filesystems)?

Re:The NICAM Codec replacement project on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @10:36AM (#10938745)
Truly an impressive feat:

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - Futurama

Re:Planetary Defense on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @05:04PM (#10890774)
Dear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum, please use this department for your next SyFy B end-of-the-world B movie.
Re:How Hong Kong's subway turns a $2B annual profit on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @08:31AM (#9295706)
Slightly misleading on the source of the profits. It's important to read this section of the article:

"But the company's real profits are derived from a lesser-known side of the business: property development."

and

"Here's how it works: MTR enjoys a special relationship with the Hong Kong government, which is also its majority shareholder. The government provides land -- at no cost -- for use by the train operator, and MTR is then allowed to develop the areas above and around its stations."

So the government loans out land (which is crazy expensive in hong kong) for free and the MTR gets to keep the profits for leasing out that land via malls, etc.

I vote for wierd al to sing the song at the end

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experim...

Re:Dark Sky has a new owner on Monday January 12, 2015 @04:26PM (#8876518)
Congrats on the news! I was one of the kickstarter contributors and love the service. Best wishes to your future growth. It's amazing to see a KS campaign blossom.
Re:RetroBSD: Unix for the Microchip PIC32 on Monday September 15, 2014 @08:17AM (#8318344)
Amazing. BSD on Sub $20 boards. They list a bunch of hardware that it runs on and also include support for a simulator so you can try it out without hardware.