Can it write Doom/Crysis
Posts by Steve K
1456 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Apr 2008
Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs
Halley's Comet has begun its long trek back toward Earth
Rosetta/Philae
<quote> Humanity is yet to land a spacecraft on anything like a comet, </quote>
I am pretty sure that the Rosetta/Philae mission landed on a comet - more than once as I recall?
The Philae probe bounced into the shadows, and Rosetta was deorbited onto the surface at the end of the mission to 67-P/Churyumov/Getasimenko
Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz
Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough
Microsoft's big bet on helium-3 fusion explained
Slack adding generative AI to interact with colleagues, so you don't have to
US officials probe Tesla's incredible detaching steering wheel
Tech CEO nixes AI lawyer stunt after being threatened with jail time
Polish for Windows Spotlight and tabs for Notepad in latest Insiders build
LUMI supercomputer puts GPU partition through its paces with hardcore science
BBC is still struggling with the digital switch, says watchdog
Re: A few things of interest.
The custom firmware on the FOX-T2-HD has given what is a 10+ year old device a new lease of life (with a 4TB HDD upgrade too)!
Simple things like not wiping your recording schedule and channel lists when the channels change - why on earth the Freeview spec does not allow for this is beyond me!
I think that mine may be on the way out as I get the green/black HDMI issue on my new TV. It doesn’t owe me anything.
Mozilla, Microsoft drop TrustCor as root certificate authority
Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process
Porsche wants to sell you a rusty tailpipe soundbar for $12k
Voyager mission's project scientist retires after 50 years of service
Cops swoop after crooks use wireless keyfob hack to steal cars
Foldable smartphones crawl to one percent of global market share
Google kills off Stadia
Hurricane Ian blows NASA Artemis Moon launch into October or November
China discovers unknown mineral on the moon, names it Changesite-(Y)
A refined Apple desktop debuts ahead of Wednesday’s big iThing launch
NASA builds for keeps: Voyager mission still going after 45 years
That was fast: MetaGuard emerges as an 'incognito mode' for the metaverse
Bloke robbed of $800,000 in cryptocurrency by fake wallet app wants payback from Google
James Webb Space Telescope looks closer to home with Jupiter snaps
Elon Musk considering 'drastic action' as Twitter takeover in 'jeopardy'
Not enough desks and parking spots, wobbly Wi-Fi: Welcome back to the office, Tesla staff
First steps into the world of thought leadership: What could go wrong?
Plot to defeat crypto meltdown: Solend votes to seize, liquidate whale account
Reinsurance spiral....?
This is getting to resemble the Lloyds (of London) reinsurance spiral crisis from the 1980s/1990s (for those of us old enough to remember that).
It turned out that a lot of insurance was (in the end) reinsured with many of the original insurance when all of the intermediate contracts were factored out.
One large adverse event/failure and the whole spiral unwinds catastrophically...
This led to greater regulation/oversight/disclosure for good reason, some of which was that relatively unsophisticated "Names" (private individuals) made loads of money in the good times, but when it all went wrong, they were on the hook for liquidity/claims etc. and many lost everything.
Everything old is new again.
Always read the comments: Beijing requires oversight of all reader-generated chat
No more fossil fuel or nukes? In the future we will generate power with magic dust
Not that I was expecting to understand any of the maths, the macroscopic two-level Hamiltonian thingy looks impenetrable, but I was wondering if this is also caused by mathematical markup/ formatting getting screwed up OR if they have invented a whole load level of brainf@ck style notation:
$${{{{{\mathcal{H}}}}}}=\hslash \left({\begin{array}{lc}{\omega }_{{{{{\rm{B}}}}}}[{N}_{{{{{\rm{B}}}}}}(t)]&-{{\Omega }}\\ -{{\Omega }}&{\omega }_{{{{{\rm{S}}}}}}\end{array}}\right),$$
Musk repeats threat to end $46.5bn Twitter deal – with lawyers, not just tweets
Re: HPE
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000119312522152250/d283119dprem14a.htm#toc283119_20
P.49, second (full) paragraph
Mr. Musk also disclosed that his acquisition proposal was no longer subject to the completion of financing and business due diligence.
This doesn't mention skipping Accounting or Tax due diligence, but I don't think that is what is at question here.