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Amazon Web Services (AWS), said customers using its EC2 Capacity Blocks for Machine Learning service will face hourly price increases of around 20% from July.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/aws-

AWS raises AI cloud compute prices again as memory shortage deepens
Amazon has increased the price of renting some of its most sought-after AI cloud computing services.

Launching Saturday, Aug. 1,
which would have been Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's 84th birthday,
"Dead After Death" will delve into the Dead's music and the culture built around it
through mediums such as podcasts, photography and digital articles.
The series will be hosted by NPR journalists Felix Contreras and Isabella Gomez Sarmiento.
The two longtime Deadheads plan to feature interviews with high-profile Deadheads such as Bravo TV hos…

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Saturday, Aug. 1 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-saturday-aug-1

When I was about 12, I read Mark R. Johnson's paper on roguelike semiotics and dreamed of an alien mirror of reality where randomized entities and actions were represented in completely detached ways.
I don't think I knew WikiData as my initial impulse was playing around with a database of my own creation, which inevitably lost me. The most I remember of that ancient JS iteration was a strangely evocative instance where I was abstractly flitting around some psychedelic-colored…

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.

arse; whatever is wrong with my drier is not the belt - it just makes a whine and doesn't go around.
(On the plus side, changing the belt is not as hard as it looks on most sites; on my model you just have to undo two extra screws at the back and the whole drum moves backwards, you don't need to dismantle the whole of the back.)
It only took one large plaster finding this out.

from my link log —
Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace.
https://blog.janestreet.com/magic-trace/
saved 2022-01-27

Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace
Intel Processor Trace is a hardware technology that can record all program execution flow along with timing information accurate to around 30ns. As far as I ...

As parts of Europe continue to experience an unprecedented heat wave,
French health officials said Sunday there had been around 1,000 more deaths in the country than expected.
"Since June 24, approximately 1,000 additional deaths (unconsolidated figures) have been observed
compared to the deaths recorded in previous months,"
Public Health France said in a statement

Heat wave: France sees over 1,000 ‘excess deaths’ as Europe swelters under record temperatures
France has reported approximately 1,000 excess deaths since June 24 due to a historic heat wave. The heat impacted hospitals severely, particularly in Paris. Record-high temperatures were noted across several European countries, raising concerns about climate change's role in extreme weather.

The A.I. boom has been driving the entire U.S. economy.
Since the release of ChatGPT, A.I.-related stocks have been responsible for as much as 75 percent of the returns of the S&P 500,
and data centers now account for a vast majority of America’s G.D.P. growth.
Oracle and other hyperscalers now dominate the debt and equity markets,
and investors and analysts are increasingly asking whether the huge investments being made in A.I. are sustainable and will ever retur…

Five Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into Larry Ellison’s A.I. Gamble
The billionaire’s company took on ominous loads of debt to build data centers around the world. The implications go far beyond Oracle.

NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup
Katalyst Space Technologies
to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once …

NASA races to save the Swift telescope with a $30M robotic rescue mission
NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver. NASA has hired Katalyst Space Technologies to boost Swift to a higher orbit where it can continue hunting for some of the universe's biggest explosions. Launched in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity. It needs to get to a higher orbit as soon a…