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Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-samsu…

Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Manufacture Custom AI Chip
Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, following the lead of rival OpenAI in trying to get more control over the costly computing systems behind its models, according to three people with direct ...

I've got the growing feeling that DevOps/SRE Microservices was a surefire way to slow down any business almost to a halt.
If you followed that route you likely have many small teams that need to coordinate with each other for every change you make. Nobody can make decisions or talk authoritative on overall things anymore because everything has been decomposed and shifted left to the poor developer doing everything now.

Genealogy is one of those hobbies where one good discovery can keep you motivated for days.
This week I found an 1891 patent by one of my ancestors, uncovered a historic photo I'd never seen before, and ran across some wonderfully odd newspaper stories. I also wrote about digitizing family films, our anniversary, and The Last Ship.

When Genealogy Research Turns Up More Than You Expected – Bob Mueller
Genealogy research uncovered a family patent, historic photos, and surprising stories, plus thoughts on marriage, memories, and The Last Ship.

Ticket, please!
#RIPMichaelByrne

I had a weird dream where I was talking to someone at some kind of ceremony, I think a funeral, where I had timidly painted my face with clay as part of some ritual. This person was talking about how far society has come while our brains have not caught up.
Imagine if your ancient cave dwelling ancestors were dropped into this world of cars, office hours, budgets, climate change, and AI. They would be absolutely freaking out and struggling to understand things all the time... Just like you are now.
Society teaches us to suppress these emotions. You're supposed to be OK with giant metal boxes flying around you in rumbling stampedes, but you feel it in unexplained anxiety. You're supposed to just fit your life into tight little bounds that ignore weather and season, but you feel it in more unexplained anxiety and depression. We are all part of something so big and complicated we can't make sense of it, we cannot possibly comprehend it all, it is simply too much to fully grasp the implications of our individual actions within global capitalism. Should we be surprised by our urge to simply destroy it, by the anger and desire to simply "smash" something far more complex than can be met with simple violence?
Some part of my brain was trying to remind me to be compassionate to myself. Perhaps that reminder can be useful to you as well.

in awe at this sweepstakes form not going through because the server ran out of space

Who killed Codeberg?
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#codeberg

Raiders Get Good News on Rookie Flying Under the Radar https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/malik-benson-biggest-surprise/

Pleasantly surprised I can measure this timing difference on my cheap scope; In both cases this is a chain of a pair of inverters in a 74LS04 package; the difference between the two captures is just the length of breadboard wire between the 1st and 2nd inverter; the first is about 1cm and the 2nd is about 20cm; so that's about 0.5ns difference measured which is reasonable - and surprisingly good for a 500MS/s scope.
(The yellow is input from a sig gen, blue is op of 2nd inverter).