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- Comment on (i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent? 6 hours ago:
Yes, I can see your future. The good news is you become a starship captain. The bad news is you lose your hair.
- Comment on Does the digestive tract count as a pneumatic propulsion system? 7 hours ago:
Peristaltic, in fact that’s where the term comes from. You can type “peristaltic pump” into a search engine to see lots of descriptions and diagrams.
- Comment on Driving a manual: is it difficult? 10 hours ago:
It takes a bit of practice. A few minutes of instruction can show you how it works, but then you will want to actually practice (maybe an hour or so) on some quiet roads before driving in traffic.
- Comment on KIOXIA and Linus Media Group Set World Record for Pi Calculation 10 hours ago:
Cool, yeah, the digits themselves are at most 0.5 byte each ;). I don’t know enough about the higher level algorithm to say exactly how the rest of the storage is being used. There is a book called “Pi and the AGM” about pi computation and similar algorithms that is supposed to be really good, but it looks over my head mathematically.
- Comment on KIOXIA and Linus Media Group Set World Record for Pi Calculation 10 hours ago:
Yes, that’s the idea, it’s just that the “spoiler” likely only revealed something that was already known (that specific digit), or at any rate, something that could be computed on a much smaller computer and in less time. Mostly though, that’s a bit of mathematically interesting info.
I don’t feel like watching a video but maybe there will be a more informative article sometime. I wonder if they used some existing software like Y-cruncher: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-cruncher
- Comment on KIOXIA and Linus Media Group Set World Record for Pi Calculation 10 hours ago:
Says they used a cluster with 2.2PB of flash drives (that was Kioxia’s contribution) and the calculation took 7.5 months. Article is otherwise sort of useless. I’d like to know more technical and mathematical details. It gives the “spoiler” that the 300 trillionth digit of pi is 5, but that was already relatively easy to compute using the Borwein-Bailey-Plouffe algorithm and was probably already known. The BBP algorithm lets you compute a specific digit like the 300 trillionth, using fairly little memory and much less compute time than computing all of the digits.
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 1 day ago:
Well ackshually…
- Comment on Distributed/replicated storage options 1 day ago:
Gluster? I don’t know much about it. As someone else asked, how much data are you talking about? Do you need a file store (mutable files), or are you ok with an object store (immutable)?
- Comment on Distributed/replicated storage options 1 day ago:
NFS is still a thing.
- Comment on What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative? 2 days ago:
Concurrent = multiple things at the same time
Cumulative = amount of stuff added up over time
- Comment on Hosted a Temp SMS service written in Python 2 days ago:
Nice. It appears to run on a phone under termux, rather than being a server app. Good to know about either way. Why flask? That’s a web server thing, I thought.
- Comment on How to prepare a self-hosted machine I gift to remote friends - Learning Together 2 months ago:
You should explain that in the post body, not expect someone to click a link that says “podcast” in hope of getting a non-podcast.
- Comment on How to prepare a self-hosted machine I gift to remote friends - Learning Together 2 months ago:
The link is to podcast.james.network. Why would I expect it to be something other than a podcast?
- Comment on How to prepare a self-hosted machine I gift to remote friends - Learning Together 2 months ago:
I see, you are trying to make a home theater PC (HTPC). That would be a clearer term to use.
- Comment on How to prepare a self-hosted machine I gift to remote friends - Learning Together 2 months ago:
What does this question even mean (no I don’t want to listen to a podcast to find out)?
Sometimes I think people have been using the term “self-hosted” to mean what we used to call a home PC. I have always thought of a hosted computer (whether self-hosted or hosted by a company) as meaning a server which normally would live in a data center, and sometimes even means a rented box or VPS on which you self-host by installing and managing the software yourself (as opposed to using managed hosting or cloud services).
So what is it that your friends are going to do with the machine? That would be pretty important about how you prepare it.