Notices by Dev (dev@discuss.systems)

@alcinnz kind of, I guess. I can’t discuss the details much but there are presentations back from when my org was a startup :D : https://www.hc32.hotchips.org/assets/program/conference/day2/HotChips2020_Networking_Fungible_v04.pdf

@alcinnz basically a low power pipelined run-to-completion architecture that takes storage and network off CPUs. It can then be optimized for power and bandwidth.

Oh hey https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/new-in-house-chips-round-out-microsofts-portfolio/

I recommend against going to UCSC (or any other UC) for grad school until they fix their ways.

The incompetent admin is demanding repayment from students (funds which came from grants, not the UC) for “overpayment” because of strikes.

Let me just remind you about the rents in Santa Cruz (https://www.ucop.edu/enrollment-services/data-and-reporting/student-budget-tables/typical-housing-costs-near-uc-campuses_2022.pdf) where most grads pay 40–50% of their stipend on rents to live in a shared house.

I’ve never seen a system run by a bigger bunch of clowns.
https://recurse.social/@redmp/113499422792861159

Almost every line in “a sand county almanac” is quotable. I was reading November today and I do agree, November is a month of the axe 🪓

The guy in front of us *really* likes driving

@irene @atsuzaki @dan omg “tom, it is dinner time” must hit different

“Many elephants enjoy playing with hoses, probably because they remind them of trunks, says Michael Brecht, a computational neuroscientist at Humboldt University of Berlin.”

https://www.science.org/content/article/elephant-learned-use-hose-shower-then-her-rival-sought-revenge

Things I learned:

- elephants understand how hoses and water ballistics work
- elephants are right or left trunked
- elephants are good at sabotage

This house crow has befriended (runs a food-related extortion racket involving) my parents

Pune metro time!

Yes ha ha ha yes!! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/29/new-york-jaywalking-legal

“the new MacBook Pro gets a massive 75 percent increase in memory bandwidth over the prior generation — double that of any AI PC chip.3 The new MacBook Pro with M4 Pro is up to 3x faster than models with M1 Pro, speeding up workflows like geo mapping, structural engineering, and data modeling.1”

lol why does this press release sound like a research paper. So academic

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/new-macbook-pro-features-m4-family-of-chips-and-apple-intelligence/

The amount of food I’m being stuffed with, starting to wonder if I’m the food at the end of the trip

@regehr you want any sweets?

Smol cutting chai

They call Wednesdays Miércoles because they’re miraculous

At the #SFSystems meetup yesterday, I got a “complaint” that discuss.systems is more cats than systems. :blabcat:

The best case against direct democracy is watching it in action in California.

So many nefarious props with advertising that basically lies about them, stating they’ll have the opposite effect of the actual intent.

See props 33 and 34 in California for instance.

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