One of computing’s great ironies: Microsoft’s refusal to monopolize hardware created a chaotic, inexpensive parts bazaar that eventually gave Linux somewhere to live.
Linux combined Unix’s design philosophy with cheap x86 hardware built for DOS and Windows.
—Adapted from Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
38 years ago today, Dade Murphy aka Zero Cool crashed 1507 computers, causing a 7 point drop in the NY stock exchange. He was 11 and his family was fined $45,000. He was banned from touching a computer until he turned 18.
#hackers
Claude for Teachers should also be made available to homeschoolers, homeschool co-ops, and parents directly. There’s a huge and growing movement in this country away from government-run schools toward homeschooling. Ai platforms will play a significant role in this. Giving families access to these tools would directly support parent choice and help them educate their children the way they believe is best.
When @nvidia was days from bankruptcy in 1996, @SEGA converted a failed Dreamcast GPU contract into a $5M investment that saved the company. Jensen flew to Japan, admitted failure, and asked anyway — Sega believed in him. ❤️
30 years later, Jensen’s in Japan. May he return the favor with the ultimate SEGA console?
it is genuinely psychotic that we dug up literal primordial dirt, scrubbed it down to an impossible 99.9999999999% molecular perfection that violates the very laws of physics, handed it over to techno-wizard necromancers to stretch into flawless geometric god-cylinders, blasted it with invisible uv death-rays to carve ten quadrillion microscopic cyber-sigils into its flesh, trapped actual lightning inside of it, and somehow birthed an omniscent eldritch deity capable of simulating the universe and thinking faster than a billion human civilizations combined.
and our grand, supreme purpose for this enslaved lightning-god?
sending "per my last email, please see attached" to a guy named gary.
I have lost access to an account on facebook for ThePrimeagen (linked to my instagram)
Meta is asking me to EMAIL them a PDF claiming to be signed by docusign along with my legal information, gov. issued IDs, and TaxID.
Just raw dawg them across email...
This cannot be real
You asked. We delivered.
The #MARVELTokon: Fighting Souls Open Beta launches July 24 PT!
⚔️ Play on PlayStation 5 and PC
🔥 Blade joins the roster
🌍 New stages
✨ More modes
We'll have more to share soon so stay tuned!
I thought BlazBlue getting a new character was crazy but a 30 year old Neo Geo game getting 2 new characters with new sprites made really opens the door for crazy possibilities these old games can be updated with... Kinda speechless. Whoa
Finally finished building my AI datacenter! 🚀
32x3090s across 4 servers (8 GPUs each), all connected over InfiniBand.
The whole setup is solar-powered with a massive battery bank and generator backup.
More technical details and benchmarks coming soon.
‼️I PROMISED IF THE KNICKS WON I'D MAKE SENTINEL WITH THE TIMBS, ROCKIN A KNICKS JERSEY AND HAT IN UMVC3, AND I DELIVERED!!!
KNICKS IN FIVE BABY I CANT BELIEVE THEY DID IT ALL THESE HOURS LATER!!!