A few months into a collaboration with an astrophysics group, the simulation’s post-processing pipeline takes about an hour to walk 200 GB of output tables, and nobody is sure why. The data…
A CUNY astrophysics group spent months building a Python pipeline that took an hour to walk through 200 GB of simulation output. The grad student who wrote it had a good reason…
OpenAI has quietly removed the rate limit that defined the ChatGPT Free experience for the past two years. Free and Go tier users used to hit a wall after ten to forty…
I bought a third USB-C charger last year because the first two would not fast-charge my phone, and the one that finally worked was the cheapest of the three. None of the…
C-Kermit is, depending on your age, either a tool you used to move files between very different computers in the early days of the internet, or something you have never heard of.…
OpenAI quietly removed the message-rate caps on ChatGPT Free and Go accounts this week, which is the change most casual users will care about. The headline is “unlimited text chat,” but the…
If you have ever needed to figure out which package on a Linux or BSD box owns a specific file, you already know the dance. Fedora has dnf provides, Debian has apt-file,…
A Sudoku corpus built for a research paper ended up turning into nine playable puzzle games on the side. The path between those two facts is the kind of side project that…
Apple is rumored to be planning three new “Ultra” products, and if the reports are right, they would be a foldable iPhone, redesigned AirPods with cameras, and a touchscreen MacBook. None of…
The virtualization world has been quietly moving sideways for years. x86-64 (the dominant 64-bit PC architecture) is not going anywhere in the data center, but ARM64 (the 64-bit architecture that powers everything…
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