Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all
Names and emails (even Sumit’s) have been redacted to protect the innocent and the guilty. But you know who you are. Who is Sumit B? If you were to ask anyone who was employed at Blackberry on November 7th, 2011 this question there will most likely be a confused look on their face, like why […]
Micron Launches First 60TB PCIe Gen5 SSD with 12GB/S Read Speeds
1. The Micron 6550 ION offers a capacity of up to 61.44TB. Comparisons are made with other 61.44TB NVMe SSDs from Samsung, Solidigm and Western Digital. 2. These comparisons use publicly available competitor information from published sources at the time of the 6550 ION launch, with the 6550 ION and Western Digital drive using a maximum power […]
No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
En français svp In the twisting vaults of a subway, metro, or U-Bahn, there’s often no reliable cell service, wifi, or GPS. Which means you had no good way of keeping track of your stops or ETA when underground. You had to look out the window for signs on the platform, listen for station announcements, […]
Why you’re bad at giving feedback
Oct 24, 2024 On this page “Feedback is a gift…” or so they say. But are your gifts useful, or are they more like the third pair of socks you get at Christmas? Delivering actionable feedback is hard. You need to be brutally honest while at the same time not discouraging. In this issue, I’m […]
Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry
External Image Manjaro Linux Forum – 2 Nov 24 External Image 👍 Something seems to be wrong with the numbers for XFCE. I reported 5 machines/vms alone (and all of them have XFCE), but only 2 XFCEs appear on the website 😉 External Image Manjaro Linux Forum – 10 Nov 24 Hi, I voted. See […]
What’s Your Favorite Invasive Species?
One of the biggest threats to natural habitats and healthy ecosystems around the world is the introduction of non-native invasive species into their realm. It could be a form of plant life like Purple Loosestrife or Kuduz or an animal or insect like the European Starling or the brown marmorated stink bug. But the result […]
How we made a Ruby method 200x faster
One morning, Campsite was slow. Normally snappy interactions had loading spinners and delayed data. Our observability tooling let us know it wasn’t just us, and it gave us some hints about what was happening. An Axiom monitor sent us a “high API request queue time” message via our Campsite integration. Web server processes were fully […]
A Mathematician in a School of Art
I have been very fortunate in my successes, but it did not come without hard work. When we only talk about the successes, it can seem like good fortune. However, there have been many other occasions where things I have put a lot of effort into have not come together. That can be dispiriting, especially […]
3600 MHz Raspberry Pi 5 with Liquid Nitrogen
I tried everything but couldn’t turn this Raspberry Pi 5 into the World’s Fastest Pi 5. Unfortunately, we can’t quite claim that title … despite the software reporting 4 GHz. Introduction We tried everything to make our Pi the fastest Pi in the world. That includes changing the operating system, subzero cooling with liquid nitrogen, […]
The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows AI Hype Is Cooling
Quick take: Executives are all in on AI, with 99% planning AI investment in the coming year. And yet, for the first time since generative AI’s introduction, adoption rates are plateauing and excitement is cooling among the global workforce. Read on to learn the surprising reasons employees are hiding their AI use from their managers, […]