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680[01]0 had only 23 address lines (A1-A23), 16-bit word size, thus 16 MB addressable memory.

There’s also LDS (lower data select) and UDS pins for 8-bit I/O chips.


GP didn’t specify Earth.

> These days if you’re going to iterate on a solution you’d better make it multithreaded.

Repetition eliminating compression tends to be inherently sequential. You'd probably need to change the file format to support chunks (or multiple streams) to do so.

Because of LZ back references, you can't LZ compress different chunks separately on different cores and have only one compression stream.

Statistics acquisition (histograms) and entropy coding could be parallel I guess.

(Not a compression guru, so take above with a pinch of salt.)


There are gzip variants that break the file into blocks and run in parallel. They lose a couple of % by truncating the available history.

But zopfli appears to do a lot of backtracking to find the best permutations for matching runs that have several different solutions. There’s a couple of ways you could run those in parallel. Some with a lot of coordination overhead, others with a lot of redundant calculation.


Elvis is still alive 48 light years away.

I haven't seen any Windows/Linux laptops with a good trackpad. Apple seems to be unbeatable in this regard.

I only recently got a Thinkpad T14 for work and the trackpad is really only serviceable. I was surprised. [0]

Especially because many years ago got a Dell Inspiron line laptop, and the trackpad on that feels great to me.

[0] what's even more surprising is that in Ubuntu there's an extra package, that adds more configuration options for the Thinkpad trackpad, but even with that I couldn't really make it feel as pleasant as my old Dell.


Zero ROI?

Isn’t SpaceX the largest launch provider in the world and for the U.S. government?

Many times than the rest of the U.S. space industry combined.


*Starship has zero ROI and has sucked up a lot of federal funds.

Falcon 9 has had plenty of "ROI" but it wasn't really federally funded. Let's not get carried away though about "more than the entire US space industry combined," though.


Most likely they don’t, but safety margins for experimental rockets need to be large.

Sounds pretty useful. What are the system requirements?

  Prerequisites
  Hardware
  GPU Family Memory # of GPUs (min.)
  H100 SXM or PCIe 80GB 2
  A100 SXM or PCIe 80GB 2
Hmm, perhaps this is not for me.


Seems pretty ridiculous to me to parse some PDFs. Almost like they made this as bloated as possible to justify buying $5,000+ GPUs for an office.


I think those GPUs cost between $25-40k each.


Why even buy them at this point... just rent neocloud for $1-2... even at $2/hr, that's over a year of rental for $25k... by then you'd have made your money off the implementation.


Not sure whether I'd like to send potentially sensitive documents to a lesser known provider. Or even to a well known.


Even at $3/hour (which is above the current market rate), that's roughly a year.

I genuinely appreciate your perspective, but as a smaller, lesser-known provider, I’d like to understand your concerns better.

Are you worried that I might misuse your data and compromise my entire business, by selling it to the highest bidder? Do you feel uncertain about the security of my systems? Or is it a belief that owning and managing the hardware yourself gives you greater control over security?

What kind of validation or reassurance would help address these concerns?


The main issue is a lot of smaller providers are clearly incentivized to get into the industry simply for the opportunity to eavesdrop into what other companies are doing. If you want to confuse or cloud this perceived motivation, also provide security services.


This is why we have a clearly defined shared responsibility model.

https://hotaisle.xyz/shared-responsibility-model/

I'm not sure what you mean by "security services"? Can you please expand on that?


Agreed, it looks pretty nice. I remember admiring it in a computer store. ST is also a bit faster.

Although I take my blitter, copper, hardware display overscan and flexible per scanline resolution & color depth, sprites and 4 channel PCM audio any day over an ST.

Sadly many early games were direct ports from ST, not utilizing Amiga's hardware.


What? Seriously? And I already popped the popcorn...


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