March 10, 2014

March 10, 2014 by yorksranter 1 comment

Crashy, the crash app, is crashing!

I just noticed from my Firefox crash log (about:crashes) that it crashed seven times on the 16th of October, 2013, of which four occurred between 1320 and 1420. I may have to revise my opinion of my own ability to manage anger, as nobody seems to have been hurt. I think it may be this…

March 10, 2014 by yorksranter 7 comments

Come to think of it, we abolished the RUC

Owen Jones says Abolish the Met! This reminds me that of course, we did abolish a British police force within the last 15 years, the one with the funny hats and head constables. We also merged the Scottish ones into a single force. The PSNI does actually seem to be an improvement over the RUC,…

March 10, 2014 by yorksranter 1 comment

Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in money

Something we’ve needed for a while: a good hard stomp on the knuckles of all this MAGIC FACEBOOK DRONEZ FOR AFRICA nonsense. Provided. I especially like the point that in fact, mobile operators are building 3G coverage in these places right now using the exciting new technology of sticking the antenna on a pole. A…

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The Anglosphere has an advantage on immigration
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and then there's perjury.
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Broadcom Scales Connectivity And Performance For Advanced AI Workloads
This is why consumer AI hyperscalers have looked to work with Broadcom to develop what it refers to as an XPU—an AI accelerator that is not quite a GPU and certainly not an ASIC. Instead, it has all the foundational elements of a computational platform—memory, networking, interconnectivity and I/O. The only thing missing is the […]