Saturday, December 30
Bambeezled Edition
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- SpaceX has rounded out the year with two orbital launches three hours apart - one carrying one of the X37B space planes, and the other 23 Starlink satellites - and a static test fire of the third Starship test vehicle. (Ars Technica)
That makes 96 commercial launches this year, of which 96 succeeded. And a couple of test flights which, uh, tested things.
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- Nvidia is going all-out to compete with AMD's Radeon 7800 XT. (Tom's Hardware)
Except on price, which is probably going to render their efforts irrelevant in the gaming market.
- Remember that program that could determine whether any unsigned 32-bit integer was even or odd? Now there's a version that works for 64-bit integers. (GitHub)
This one cheats slightly. Rather than having a separate check for each possible value, the developers pre-computed the result for every possible input and saved the results to a file.
Then they compressed that file.
Recursively.
Reducing it from around two million terabytes to 13 kilobytes.
- Don't ask why, just accept it.
- In a similar vein, here's a fully-automated Christmas checker. (XKCD)
99.73% accurate, which is even better than the prime number checker.
- Should we upgrade to M3 MacBooks? (Incident)
I don't know, let's throw a bunch of poorly-understood numbers into ChatGPT and see what it says.
ChatGPT says yes!
Also that it's an Amazon Affiliate but that in no way coloured its decision.
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