If you knew how hard I had to wrestle with my conscience to not post that...

One other thing: most of these supercomputers also rely on huge numbers of GPU cards for the immense numbers of floating point calculations required.

Cool story: I’m product manager for the file system behind Sierra, as well its big brother Summit, namely IBM’s Spectrum Scale. It takes some impressive engineering to move enough data fast enough to run these simulations, and I’m very proud of what my team achieved. However one might feel about nuclear weapons, I…

I was just about to ask this very thing. So thank you.

I have a modest proposal. Democrats should go ahead and vote on November 3rd. Republicans should wait a couple of months or so, say until February 2021.

This has “catastrophe” written all over it in big red letters. If I have to subscribe to Premium to get offline playback, it’s a complete non-starter. Let’s remind ourselves what Google is asking us to pay for here: the privilege of listening to your own music that you uploaded to Google in the first place! How does…

Two drowning men dragging each other under.

My teenage son asked me about Popper (he’d heard about him on some podcast) so I gave him an anthology to read. He came back about two hours later and said “So Popper’s three worlds has all the same problems as Descartes’ mind-body dualism, but with one more world? This is worse than Plato.” (Yes, he really does talk…

That would be a good move regardless of how you feel about the rest of philosophy. 

The sad truth is that Ahsoka could not have saved the Republic because it was dead in all but name before she was born. And so was the Jedi Order.

In my opinion, that’s a big part of what makes Ahsoka such a great tragic - almost Shakespearean - figure. She is witness to a disaster that she sees clearly and yet still…

My mom deserves a Ford Pinto.

Let’s hope this works out better than so-called biodegradable plastic bags, which turn out to be another trick by the plastics industry to keep us all using plastic.

Let’s hope this works out better than so-called biodegradable plastic bags, which turn out to be another trick by…

I’m really frustrated with the physica/mechanical design of USB3. The connectors don’t seem to “grip” nearly as well as micro-USB, and are easily dislodged just by moving the cable a little, even at the far end. And on my MacBook they have an annoying tendency to pop out by about 1/8th of an inch: enough to break the…

The new patriotism of the oligarchs and libertarians: “I regret that you have but one life to lose for my country”

I bet that guy in the top picture stole that musical instrument. As soon as law and order breaks down, you get luters.

No. Earliest know appearances of that rhyme are centuries later, and don’t seem to have any connection to plague. 

At first I read that as “Christian Scientist Larpers...” which is an entirely different story.

I had been wondering how they managed to make David Jason look so young.

I’m honestly more anxious than excited about the fact that they have promised to be extremely faithful to the source material. The problem I have with the previous adaptations is that they are too faithful. And that really does not work on screen, the biggest problem being pacing, but that’s far from the only problem.…

Can we please stop using the word “worth” about rich people? He has $1.3B. He’s worth about the same as me, which is essentially what my organs would fetch on the black market.