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Comment Re:TOTAL TRUMP BS (Score 1) 40

We have prety much free rane on anything we want to do.

"prety" I can ignore. "rane" I cannot. ;)

Joking aside, my assumption is that Trump's position on Greenland is exactly that same statement as you made. We do pretty much have free reign but so does everyone else and that's the sticking point...I think. I usually try to find some hidden agenda because every slimy political move is slimy, but this one, at least to my naive self, seems pretty straightforward. "We" have an interest in limiting how closely we let "enemies" get to our borders with established bases and working condition and access to resources.

Comment Re:300 years of scientific progress (Score 1) 118

The reason for the chicken pox/shingles issue is that if you contract the VZV it colonizes your nervous system and remains latent. It periodically reactivates and sort of gives you a free exposure over the years, basically a recurring booster shot.

People have been fine with this in the past but some researchers suspect that the latent infection has long term potential damage and there could be a benefit in preventing a latent infection in the first place. (Similar issues with latent herpes infection have been posited, but there's currently no herpes vaccine.)

Comment I run my own DNS... (Score 2) 34

I run my own DNS. Google is not one of my forwarders, or even involved. If my server isn't authoritative, it goes to the root servers for the TLD, and tracks it down from there. Frogs can go surrender to my house dynamic IP. I'll accept Nouvelle-Aquitaine with land & titles, and let them keep Paris.

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Comment Re:How long does email have left at this point? (Score 1) 17

Most companies with less that 100k employees have outsourced their email. Even those above that head count have strong incentive to outsource. Email is actually kind of difficult to do right at scale. The people that know how have their own little community. Much of the software that used to be used to implement email at massive scale is no longer publicly available, or was always private (Yahoo & Gmail). MS Exchange used to have trouble breaking 1M inboxes, requiring hundreds of hosts. Sun's Comms suite was once the telco standard, hosting 100's of thousands of inboxes per server, has now been subsumed into Oracle Cloud as their messaging service.

There's been a distinct lack of innovation too. Most of the major innovators are now dead or well past 70. Core RFC's have languished for years and even decades. John Postel has been gone since the 90's, Ned Freed, who created much of the MIME extensions passed in the early 2020's. The other big names, Eric Allman, Wietse Venema, William Yeager, are all in their 70's & 80's. The protocols are considered mature, work well with the occasional hairball, and powerful interests have built walled gardens, and are content to print money with them.

Honestly, the whole Internet email ecosystem is ripe for someone to come along and disrupt things.

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Comment TCE... (Score 1) 93

While you techies ramble away about your favorite political motivations... Consider...

TCE used to be used in bulk by mainframe and mini operators as tape head cleaner. My Dad brought home a quart can from work with a stack of patches for my sister and I to use to clean our walkman's. (I know dating myself here...) And no he didn't wear gloves in his DC, and neither did we. It was believed to be completely harmless.

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Comment LLM's eat RAM... (Score 5, Informative) 87

Most people don't realize how much of a pig LLM's actually are. All the focus is on the big AI machines PSU's, multi kW fan boards, GPU's, etc... Most of them have maybe 8 2.5" disk slots. They're not storage beasts. But what they do have is HBM processors with multiple Tb's of registered ECC DDR5. The OS boots locally, and then the RAM receives the training data from a remote data lake. It gets loaded into RAM and stays there. Multiple Tb's per node.

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