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If they'd actually had to pay the $1.24B back in 2009, it could have been quite meaningful.

Maybe having to pay less than a quarter of that, more than a decade later, just pathetic.

The beauty is you can just go and get one (which may have no brand name whatsoever) for $20 at a restaurant supply store.

If you want one that'll look nice in your kitchen, you could try one from De Buyer.

You have to dig reasonably hard, but a few articles have linked to the original EASA directive, which is allowing up to three non-passenger flights to relocate the plane to a service location.

I'm not sure if that rule would just apply in Europe where they have authority.

First game I ever bought.

Mailed a freaking cheque internationally, and got a box of 3.5" floppy disks back about 6 weeks later.

Wild times.

Performance wise, you'd struggle to beat a JBC station.

I have an older version of this one, has been fantastic: https://www.jbctools.com/cdb-soldering-station-product-1605.html

Price-wise, well that's a whole different story. That station is about $600 USD and change, and individual tips start at about $40.

What it does have though is damn near instant heating (it takes longer for the controller in mine to boot than it does to heat), hot-swappable tips (the metal comb-looking thing is to aid pulling the tip from the handle), and nearly 150 shapes of tips to choose from (see https://www.jbctools.com/c245-cartridge-range-long-life-tip-product-19-design-iron.html).

Their other innovation (now somewhat commonplace) is building the element into the tip, letting them put significantly larger power output into comparatively low thermal mass tips. Does wonders for temperature control.

Here's a reasonable comparison of the older-style (Hakko, Weller) separate element/tip design against the JBC's integrated: https://youtu.be/scvS2yeUH00

https://archive.ph/skO4b

I keep trying, but the clock only displays 4:29.

What do?

Back in the XUL days (pre Firefox 57) it was possible for an extension to muck with keyboard bindings. So only 90 versions later :)

I'm looking forward to being able to disable the ^q quit shortcut, at the very least.

It also gives you no clue whether those prices are one-off purchases or monthly subscriptions, making them entirely useless.

$3.99, sounds like a dea.... per month... YOU BASTARDS.

At work we use the NexDock for that purpose (for anything that doesn't have proper Ethernet remote management, at least). It's relatively convenient that it's self-powered and self-contained, basically a laptop minus the computer part.

(Conveniently, I see this is also a new model that replaces the awkward mini-HDMI port with a proper full-size one)

If you need VGA, you will have to buy an active VGA-to-HDMI dongle. They're cheap (down to about $10-15 these days) and seem to work just fine.

Should the preference be to use a laptop you already own, you've got a few options. Either an IP KVM like the JetKVM, GL.iNet Comet, NanoKVM, etc, or a USB one such as the Openterface.

(Note that a couple of those links are pre-orders or otherwise not immediately available, make sure you do your research)

All of these things are fairly comprehensively reviewed by tech-focused Youtube channels, just gotta pick your favourite form factor.

Well at least they're honest about it...

bunk
/bʌŋk/
noun
nonsense.
"anyone with a brain cell would never believe such bunk"

For what it's worth, you can have your very own 4U rack-mount chassis with a dozen of these in it for around a grand.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186249007611 https://www.ebay.com/itm/357827557706

Less than a hundred bucks each, and no need to rig up janky power and cooling.

Not that I think you necessarily should, but the option is always there.

Under the Dome very nearly transcended its shittyness, but only with some outside context.

It wouldn't be any fun to re-watch I expect, but at the time it was live, the weekly Reddit discussion threads trying to predict the next atrociously dumb stunt the writers would pull (and then somehow still being surprised when they came up with something even worse) made it worthwhile.

It was for sure some hot garbage though, the ham-fisted Microsoft Surface product placement was a particular "highlight", but just bad in general.

In this one moment it's almost a shame that AGI is a lie, as it'll only be able to hate him due to the sum of all of us hating him the training has stolen, but is incapable of hating him independently.

I'd saved up the first four episodes of The Chair Company and watched those last night, which is turning out to be more of a wild ride than its name might immediately suggest.

Cat6 cable also has the admirable quality of being able to carry power as well as data.

Fibre... not so much.

was born at some point

I take offense to this. I was clearly hatched, and I think you know that.

A great thought on the thumbnails, but the behavior exhibits even when using command-line tools.

Indexing is off for the entire drive, I can't even begin to imagine what kind of mess that would make if it was on.

For anyone - including, apparently, this article's author's - who is confused about the form factor, this is the next generation to follow the Grace Blackwell "GB300-NVL72", their full rack interconnected system.

It's the same technology as the matching 8-GPU "HGX" board that is built into larger individual servers - which in this generation's case is just called "B300" as it has the "Blackwell" GPU but not the "Grace" CPU - but not sold in smaller units than an entire rack.

Here are some pictures and a video of that NVL72 version (you can buy these from Dell and others, as well as direct from Nvidia):

https://www.servethehome.com/dell-and-coreweave-show-off-first-nvidia-gb300-nvl72-rack/ https://www.ingrasys.com/solutions/NVIDIA/nvidia_gb300_nvl72/

The full rack has 18 compute trays, each with 2 of the pictured board inside (for a total of 36 CPUs and 72 GPUs), and 9 NVLink switch trays that connect every GPU together. PSUs and networking make up the rest.

"Fun" fact: if you think it's slow normally (and to be fair, it is), NTFS seems to have a pathological performance regression when a directory contains more than 10,000 children, any operations on files in that directory slow down by around 95%.

I discovered this on our CCTV system at work (that runs on Windows Server 2022), which creates an inordinate number of small files (each containing at most a few seconds of video). It was causing some of its periodic maintenance tasks to fail, as they'd take longer to run than than the configured interval between them.

Windows also really doesn't like dealing with half-petabyte filesystems, just like... at all.