Ig Nobel prize is much more fun... Often hilarious stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things.

Does it run Doom?

Yep.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

This study showed they do something. Taking vitamins actually increases your mortality. WTH? Large long-term study too. Maybe they didn't correctly sample or normalize?

"On the contrary, mortality risk was 4% higher among multivitamin users, compared with nonusers, in the initial years of follow-up (multivariable-adjusted hazard ratio, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.02-1.07).1"

The journalist appears bad at math.
If my math holds, $18.9 is 31% of $63.05, not a drop or 31%.
Going from $63.05 to $18.9 is a drop of $44.15 and $44.14 is about 70% of the initial $63 To me that is a 70% loss in revenue.
I'm not a math major but fractions, right?

For performance, aren't you talking about RAID? But RAID in a single form factor sounds like. Stack five disks in one so you double speed with redundancy for failure and a spare...

The last time I ran RAID it was great until the controller crapped out and all was lost. So buy two RAID arrays? :-)

On advances in capacity, I would argue CPUs have discrete jumps as you make new manufacturing fabs/processes. A few incremental increases but some significant jumps along the way as well.

First PC: HarCard slot-and-half 20 MB HDD in a Compaq luggable beast. I was the boss with 1 MB RAM and dual 5.25" floppies and a tiny monochrome screen.

Now literally 1,000,000 times as much storage in a little under 40 years.

That's basically doubling every 2 years, sorta like Moore's law...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard/

The IC and ICE (Inner-City and Inner City Express) are probably not included. You can still navigate long distances but you will be making a lot of stops and changing trains a ton, so like 2-3x longer journey.

Needs to be added to https://killedbygoogle.com/

It was an obvious ripoff of the classic Mystic Warlords of Ka'a

https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/Mystic_Warlords_of_Ka'a

Here you go:
https://killedbygoogle.com/

I lost a lot of faith in ChatGPT / AI after the examples where it made up citations.

At least with a search engine you get links that you can evaluate. I know folks play the SEO AI page spam scam, but generally you get to published pages instead of made up information.

https://twitter.com/dsmerdon/s...

I use MobaXTerm for X windows stuff but it seems to be a bit heavy. And I think the last time I checked I had trouble finding how to modify keybaord shortcuts for tab switching to match my browser, CTRL-PgUp etc.

I found Console and I am pretty happy with it for most basic console stuff on windows.
https://sourceforge.net/projec...

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Reader was a great RSS tool. Still angry.