That’s the original use of AI: pattern recognition. Those are specialist systems, not at all like GPT. We’ve been benefiting from systems like this for a while: anti spam filters, image diagnostics are two common use cases.

I guess long term anemia leaves marks on the fingernails.

One and only? Somehow it made me remember Seal and now I’ve got Kiss from a Rose stuck in my head.

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

Oh! 🤦‍♂️

I don’t get it.

You have to have an idea of what you’ll run on it first.

Old corporate desktops will do for a NAS and basic light services. Look for one that has three drive bays plus an NVMe slot.

No, I want them to know. Tell Cersei I did it.

Bit fields are a necessity in low level networking too.

They’re incredibly useful, I wish more people made use of them.

I remember I interned at a startup programming microcontrollers once and created a few bitfields to deal with something. Then the lead engineer went ahead and changed them to masked ints. Because. The most aggravating thing is that an int size isn’t consistent across platforms, so if they were ever to change platforms to a different word length, they’d be fucked as their code was full of platform specific shenanigans like that.

/rant

Talking heads - once in a lifetime

And you may ask yourself: where is my beautiful house? Where is my beautiful wife?

In the industrial automation world and most of the IT industry, data is aligned to the nearest word. Depending on architecture, that’s usually either 16, 32, or 64 bits. And that’s the space a single Boolean takes.

For ages the four nations lived in harmony…

in my best Harrison Ford impersonation: — It’s not that kind of movie, kid.

Don’t worry, it gets worse after level 40.

QNX 6 had a public beta some years ago. It breathed new life on a very old 486 I had laying around.

QNX 4 was also used on some fancy life signs monitors and other safety / mission critical equipment.

Terry Gilliam’s Brazil is a masterpiece. He denies it, but anyone that has seen the movie and really knew Brazil in the eighties knows that movie is absolutely about the country.

Laced with copious amounts of copium.

Leave them. Let them have the years they voted for.

Balkanization*

As rule of thumb, try to keep the root word intact (Balkans here) as much as possible. It doesn’t work 100% of the time, but it’s a good heuristic.

Why?