That's pretty funny. It shows the slight gap in understanding about what "data centres" do, mixed with the classic advice to "don't print this email" to save power/trees.
Readit Newsmilliams commented on UK government advises deleting emails to save water gov.uk/government/news/na... · Posted by u/bifftastic
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Nope! “Top K” means you’re on the high score list of size K.
Only the best players are in the “top 1%” for example. Being in the top 50 is more prestigious than the top 300,000.
Maybe if you do worse than half the people, it should invert to say the bottom 30% or the bottom 1%. Makes it clearer that you did "badly".
Copying is not theft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
As much as I think that what these companies is doing has moral and legal issues, reframing copyright violations as "theft" will cut both ways and make the arguments for open culture more difficult.
Does this affect OpenBao as well?
milliams commented on Scientists shine a laser through a human head spectrum.ieee.org/optical... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
Original paper at https://doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.12.2.025014
Akchually YAML is a superset of JASON
Akchually only the YAML JSON (and therefore also the Core) Schema (https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#102-json-schema) is a superset of JSON. The Failsafe Schema is not.
milliams commented on Servo Web Engine Further Tuning Performance phoronix.com/news/Servo-J... · Posted by u/doener
Link to the source: https://servo.org/blog/2025/07/17/this-month-in-servo/
> What won't they force AI into?
Toasters?
Oh wait. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/10/intelligent-...
We've seen where that ends up... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
I was surprised that Wolmar, a Brit, would use the term "transit", rather than "transport" or "transportation". I wonder if this was an editorial change, or him adjusting to his audience of an American magazine (though being interviewed by a Brit).