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andybroomfield, 2 hours ago to random

Up to the most infamous TOS episode, it’s time for Spock’s Brain!

“Brain, brain… what is brain?”

axboe, 5 hours ago to random

Does anyone know why booting a kernel in qemu takes forever to enumerate CPUs in the guest? Example:

[ 0.161515] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
...
[ 19.231546] smp: Brought up 1 node, 128 CPUs

AMD host, and seemingly scales with ncpus^2 in the host.

dick_turpin, 11 hours ago to politics

And they're off!
So the two-horse race for the #generalelection2024 has started and already Rishi Sunak has made two mistakes. I have to agree with @peston's first prediction of a November election this would have given more time for interest rates to come down along with fuel and food. There would have been more time for more than just one person to enjoy the scenery of Rwanda. Secondly, why didn't he wait for 8 or 9 am this morning when there was less chance of looking like the gods were pissing all over him. #politics

sprocket, 17 hours ago to random

What is the use case for #xfs instead of #ext4 or #btrfs?

Is it worth using on a daily driver machine (laptop or desktop) or is it mostly for servers?

growlph, 1 day ago to ai

Just had to convince an #ai chatbot to let me speak to a human for my company's internal corporate it support desk.

It was, predictably, useless, just like every other automated support system I've ever interacted with.

But I earnestly wonder how much of that is because I, and people like me, independently troubleshoot and research before we try to bother a human, so we're just hitting the filtering function for people who refuse the read the instructions.

avavsystems, 1 day ago to random

Todays #RetroTech Old Tat
Nearly killed me, managed unload
The BEAST

Ampex Data Products CP 100

It’s history seems a mystery
1” Tape
14 Tracks
Not Video, not Helical Drum
Audio would have been 16 Tracks
Gent was told “used for Data originally”
Bloody heavy & HUGE

Thoughts?

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