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cgcrob commented on The HP-35: Consumer Electronics, an Origin Story codex99.com/design/the-hp... · Posted by u/wyclif

tengwar2 · 10 months ago

I bought a (new) 15C recently. I have a fair few calculators, but it's the 15C that I reach for normally.

cgcrob · 10 months ago

Yeah the 15CE is nice.

I own, err, three. Use one, hedge the others on going up in value one day :)

cgcrob commented on Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/perihelions

GuB-42 · 10 months ago

It is a weird product for the Framework brand.

The pitch for the Framework laptop is that it is repairable/upgradable/modular. Something that is uncommon for laptops nowadays.

This is the opposite. Desktops are modular by default, so much is that my computer is like the Ship of Theseus, I never changed it, but upgrade to upgrade, it is a completely different machine than it once was (it started off as a 486!). This one is not.

The Framework desktop doesn't look bad, but now, I am confused about the meaning of the brand. It is as if Tesla made a diesel car.

cgcrob · 10 months ago

I don’t think I’ve upgraded a desktop machine for about 10 years. I usually buy a 1-3 year old corporate desktop and use it for 2-4 years, buy another one and throw the old one on eBay.

I’m on a 10500 based Lenovo thing at the moment.

My needs are not immense though.

cgcrob commented on The HP-35: Consumer Electronics, an Origin Story codex99.com/design/the-hp... · Posted by u/wyclif

cgcrob · 10 months ago

Still use my original 42S and 15C here all the time.

cgcrob commented on The HP-35: Consumer Electronics, an Origin Story codex99.com/design/the-hp... · Posted by u/wyclif

adrian_b · 10 months ago

That is a desktop calculator, which was the ancestor of the pocket calculator described in the parent article.

I see no overlap between the stories, even if they are about the same people.

On the same site, there is

http://www.hp9825.com/html/osborne-s_story.html

with what Tom Osborne says about the history of HP-35. That gives additional details, but it is also distinct from the parent article.

cgcrob · 10 months ago

You need the historical context of the desktop calculator to really understand the pocket calculator.

Short summary: "I want that in my pocket"

cgcrob commented on Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/suraci

packetlost · 10 months ago

Man, bubble popping already?

cgcrob · 10 months ago

Yep. Investors are shifting capital out of the market. Always happens. The little guys end up paying for the losses.

cgcrob commented on Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

cgcrob · 10 months ago

Cynical take here, but I think realistic.

There's a lot of noise I can see behind the scenes on investor confidence. Noise as in "everything is fucked" sort of level of noise. Thus I expect this is being said to try and stop the AAPL stock collapsing in the upcoming recession that the analysts are predicting more than a tangible expansion and recruitment goal.

I also take issue with their being 20,000 people on the market who are still able to contribute something useful. They will be culled quickly and quietly down the line in the annual corporate lay offs.

It is not the time to make grand gestures unless you're trying to gain political favour, at which point any respect I have at least is gone.

Market opening today should be interesting...

cgcrob commented on Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts" broadbandtvnews.com/2025/... · Posted by u/mrvikdev

karlkloss · 10 months ago

Cloudflare's ddos protection constantly locks out non-mainstream browsers, so pot and kettle, and such.

cgcrob · 10 months ago

I get locked out occasionally when travelling outside EU as well. I've got to the point I will just avoid using services with CloudFlare in front of them.

Also the one time I reported abuse which was online banking phishing they just replied that they'd informed the upstream provider and nothing happened.

cgcrob commented on AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them' livescience.com/technolog... · Posted by u/anonymousiam

rkagerer · 10 months ago

In a sense, Adrian Thompson kicked this off in the 90's when he applied an evolutionary algorithm to FPGA hardware. Using a "survival of the fittest" approach, he taught a board to discern the difference between a 1kHz and 10KHz tone.

The final generation of the circuit was more compact than anything a human engineer would ever come up with (reducible to a mere 37 logic gates), and utilized all kinds of physical nuances specific to the chip it evolved on - including feedback loops, EMI effects between unconnected logic units, and (if I recall) operating transistors outside their saturation region.

Article: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2737441_An_Evolved_...

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2t5ozk/wha...

cgcrob · 10 months ago

Relying on nuances of the abstraction and undefined or variable characteristics sounds like a very very bad idea to me.

The one thing you generally want for circuits is reproducibility.

cgcrob commented on In memoriam onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_... · Posted by u/ColinWright

kelnos · 10 months ago

If you live in the UK and can still be linked as an operator/organizer of the site (or if it's not you, other UK residents), can't they still come after you directly? I don't know about you, but I don't think running an online community would be worth huge fines to me.

cgcrob · 10 months ago

There are no UK residents involved in the organisation or operation of it now even though we came up with it.