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Nope! From the article: "The chip—called the Baochip-1x..."
Re:Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:06PM (#48896437)
"The results showed that these GPUs can still deliver significant compute power at a fraction of the cost of newer models, making them attractive for budget-conscious users." -Mistral AI
Re:Why I Stopped Arguing with People on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:28AM (#48747416)
"We like to believe humans are rational animals who occasionally feel emotions. It’s the reverse. We are emotional animals who occasionally think."

Well said.

Re:Your Website Is Not for You on Friday May 01, 2026 @12:38PM (#47976803)
"A website isn't art. It's a tool with one job: get the user to do the thing they came for." Great quote! This has already helped me frame a conversation with a client.
Re:5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @08:47PM (#47871097)
Suggest you check your .htaccess (or however you secure your server) for storage.j0.hn.
Re:Colossus, the first large-scale electronic computer on Saturday February 08, 2025 @12:41PM (#42984579)
Interesting; I have always thought ENIAC was "first."
First, it's an attachment that could fit on nearly all blowers.

Second, it dampens the noise while retaining all the force.

If this works out, it will be amazing! Kudos to the student teams!

Re:SF Poop Map on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:15PM (#40374867)
Just to read the article, I have to have an ArcGis Online account?

That's not an article.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell, 1984

Re:Show HN: QBasic 4.5 on Android on Thursday November 09, 2023 @12:39PM (#38208125)
Yeah, but... Can it gorillas.bas?
Re:Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower [video] on Monday November 06, 2023 @06:55AM (#38161375)
This is quite interesting.
Re:Websites of 2000 [video] on Saturday October 14, 2023 @09:23PM (#37885934)
Filming TV segments about internet websites?

What's next, watching TV on the Internet? Heh

Re:Drying Fruits (2003) on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @11:42AM (#37482968)
We've been looking for additional uses for our new air fryer, including drying fruit.

This is super helpful and interesting. Thank you!

Re:Show HN: I added autopilot to the lunar lander game on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:10AM (#35095259)
"Oh SNAP! I'm amazing at this!" 101.1 point landing on my second try!

At least, that's what I thought, until I realized I had previously activated the auto-pilot. Best #footgun today (so far!).

So I guess I should say: > Oh SNAP! This auto-pilot is amazing at this!

Thanks!

Re:Firefox Android now supports tampermonkey on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:56AM (#34833192)
The Mozilla blog recently covered some of this IIRC: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addo...
Re:The Mistress of Slang on Saturday February 11, 2023 @02:32PM (#34755500)
This is a beautiful article, thank you.
Re:Blackchain Security on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:48PM (#34235983)
Looks like a typo in the title: it should be blockchain
Re:Doors of McMurdo on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:59PM (#34004001)
I think distcalculator is buggy:

"Distance between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA is 99 miles.

If average speed of your car will be standard for this route between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA and road conditions will be as usual, time that you will need to arrive to Los Angeles, CA will be 1 hour."

Re:Website Fidelity on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:52AM (#33287477)
@john-doe Thank you, especially for the links. These remind me of the 'before times' when most sites had a special "mobile" version.

The web browsers at work have increasingly moved away from allowing users to control extensions and plug-ins (natch), and ad-mitigating bookmarklets are only so effective.

I agree, I thought the letter was fine. Classy, even.

I don't see a need to have more specific language in the all-employee announcement email.

The right place for that language is in the message(s) specifically to the person's being fired. And, to their credit, they let people know ahead of time what the exact subject of that message will be.

Re:IP over Avian Carriers RFC 1149 event (2001) on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @02:58PM (#30846875)
Interesting, many thanks. Currently enjoying the fall down the Golay code rabbit hole.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Golay_code

Re:IP over Avian Carriers RFC 1149 event (2001) on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @12:38PM (#30844870)
I have proudly used RFC 1149s and 2549 many times over the years, (as straight faced as possible) as learning aids for INFOSEC and Help desk n00bs. Being able to introduce intentionally humorous material (that is documented within a scientific document process) has been a huge help.
Re:How to Learn Nix on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:04AM (#30683488)
I think you've identified one of the author's many not-so-subtle (but still somehow obscure) themes.

Next I want to write, "For me, I enjoyed it," but I hesitated initially, because I'm surprised that I'm not more annoyed.

Re:Project Oberon on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:37AM (#30468378)
I find it hard to cpnclude how "useful and usable in a production environment" an OS project can be, when the project website still isn't using SSL/ HTTPS.
Re:Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:29PM (#29828655)
Wait, I still don't know:

"Is it safe to walk downstairs backwards if I close my eyes?"

Granted, I'm more biased here than most, I suppose. I emergently received 10 screws and 2 plates to repair my broken ankle, after falling down my home stairs last year. I wasn't walking backwards, nor were my eyes closed.

Re:Protected: December Post on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:12PM (#29571017)
Protection. And, perhaps, shameless plugging?
Re:Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? on Monday November 29, 2021 @05:12PM (#29385950)
This morning, I heard about the OP's article on the podcast "More or Less." Hats off to OP, and shame on me for getting caught in the trollnet. :D

. .

BTW, More or Less is a great data science / stats podcast! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd

Re:Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:45AM (#29370364)
<soapbox>

> I don't know how to explain this other than movie-caused mortality.

The above sentence alone gets my Skepticism antennae whirling, let alone the majority of the (relatively unassociated) facts.

What the heck is movie-caused mortality?

An exact search[0^] returns this same HN post, no help there.

An inexact search[1^] returns results mainly about deaths that occurred during the filming of a movie or TV show. These deaths are very much not the point the OP is trying to make.

Issue #1): the sentence quoted above is non-sensical, as the OP's purported method for "how to explain this," doesn't explain anything, let alone anything related to the point OP is trying to make.

Issue #2): Even if "movie-caused mortality" was a valid explanation... Not knowing how to explain something doesn't allow one to arrive at any conclusion (other than, "the thing can not be explained," pedantically speaking).

Frankly, it makes as much (as little!) sense as, "I don't know how to explain this other than time-traveling telepathic murder bots."

</soapbox>

[0^]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22movie-caused+mortality%22 [1^]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=movie-caused+mortality

Re:Ask HN: How to setup meaningful 2FA in 2021 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:00PM (#28923696)
Hoping for some good thoughts on this topic!

I can't contribute (much), as I don't have this figured out yet either. My moderate amount of research has me leaning toward BitWarden.

Re:Submarine cable map rendered onto a globe on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:36AM (#28643004)
I've always enjoyed Hurricane Electric's 3D network map [1^], it includes a submarine cable filter view which always [2^] blows my mind.

[1]: https://he.net/3d-map/

[2]: of course, today the desktop I'm using doesn't support WebGL and I can't see the submarine filter on my phone. YMMV

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