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Table of Contents 1. Why 10 Gbps? 2. What I Was Running Before 3. The Hardware 3.1. Switch 3.2. NICs 3.3. Cabling 3.4. Cost 4. The Upgrade 5. Benchmarks 5.1. Before 5.2. After 6. Was It Worth It? 1. Why 10 Gbps? The short answer: fiber...
Today I voted in the primary. Voting by Mail Lately, Trump has been trying to restrict or eliminate voting by mail. In particular, he’s been trying to get the Post Office to refuse to deliver ballots, but only in states that did not...
When a movie entitled The Samurai and the Prisoner arrives, it's fair to expect ample swordplay. Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa defies that expectation in a big way. Adapting a 2021 novel by Honobu Yonezawa, Kurosawa's 16th-century period...
With no let up with work through July and the hot weather continuing I didn’t really have the time or inclination to head out onto the rivers again. However, a few days break down in Pembrokeshire me a chance to unwind and do a bit of...
Jinks is a lightweight multi-platform game engine, an interactive development environment, and more besides. I’m building it around one wonderful idea: write the engine core once, then run it everywhere—and have it behave identically...
Loire, am Morgen Nantes, Miroir d´Eau Yffiniac, Bernard Hinault Loire Mündung Eurovelo 3, Saint-Jacques 2048 km Eurovelo 3, Trondheim 2785 km Eine Nacht an der Maas
Huge, and surprising, and important: dementia is down by almost half over the last 40-50y! (Also reconfirms that amyloid beta was largely a red herring, APOE4 is real, and – news to me – the shingles vaccine seems preventative!)
Occam’s razor: all things being equal, the correct answer is the simplest. It’s a maxim that’s used in all walks of life, but utilised especially in medical diagnoses. And while TV programmes like House M.D. show diagnostic teams...
Movie night. We watched Civil War. Very intense. Made me think of the James Nachtwey documentary I saw a long time ago. Need to find it and watch it again. The family and I also went to IKEA earlier in the day. It rained. 👉 View 2 more...
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Al-powered vulnerability-discovery tools may ultimately give defenders a significant advantage. For now, however, they are also exposing a more immediate problem: even the largest software vendors may be unable to remediate...
I am shocked — shocked! — to find a zoomer “AI investor” caught swimming naked at the first turn of the tide: Aschenbrenner, who had no previous trading experience before starting the fund, worked for the FTX Future Fund, the...
Describing a program I developed for comparing or generating flowcharts with/from a C program.
Photo by Jp Valery on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few...