And it's even more interesting in the fact that our rocket program started with the former rocket scientists from Nazi Germany who were brought over at the end of WW2 to work in the American rocket/missile program.

If you don't like Adobe modifying your hosts file then I'd not use them. The checking for the software this way is kinda interesting though.

I wonder how many Adobe users are aware of this sketchy behavior tho

My guess is most Adobe users have no idea there is a hosts file nor what it does.

If you could get Nvidia driver support on Mac’s I bet Apple would have sold more MacPro’s.

If unfamiliar: it is a big deal that AAPL & NVDA again have an official relationship.

For well over the previous decade Apple has not allowed newer nVidia GPUs (by not allowing drivers).

A seven year old GPU (e.g. VEGA64, RTX1080Ti) can still process more tokens/second than most Apple Silicon (particularly the lower-ends).

As discussed elsewhere, Apple MAX/Ultra processors are best-suited for huge models (but are not as fast as e.g. RTX5090).

This is not an official relationship, this is a third-party effort by tiny corp with no Nvidia involvement.

From headline title:

>>Apple approves...

This is a big deal.

There are other options. AsciiDoc come to mind.

Ok. So I get a page saying it’s verifying I’m not a bot with some kink of measurements per second and I don’t get through. Is that the point?

She's definitely a bot with some kink!

California needs to ditch the proposition system, it's been co-opted by special interest groups and has made a mess of laws here in California.

The one that blew my mind was you can drop a QuickTime movie onto each side of a 3d cube and they all played without dropping frames.

Owens valley is basically dried up from the water that LA takes. It's interesting as you drive in the towns in the Valley and you see all the LA Department of Water and Power offices over 200 miles from Los Angeles. The courts had to force the LA DWP to quit taking too much water from the streams that feed Mono Lake as it was in danger of drying out.

Yep, Owens valley is basically an environmental disaster created by LA. So in the grand scheme of things, buying water from NorCal is better than stealing from the Owens valley through antiquated water rights.

But really, California (and really the entire Western US) needs a water rights governance overhaul. Right now the focus is all on urban water use, which is practically negligible compared to the agricultural water rights usage.

That's a money play too. Some of the best farmland in the world is now the endless subarban Boston->DC corridor.

We created the miracle on the desert, and billions were made in real estate.

The country club is also negligible compared to agriculture. Farmers are politically not an attractive punching bag though.

It’s funny how the above comment reveals exactly why the problem is politically intractable.

It isn’t dried up, they maintain a certain water level in the various lakes.

The lake is completely dried up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owens_Lake And other lakes in the area are in really bad shape.

I disagree I drive through there every winter and the lakes are very large. The ecology of the valley is dry but nowhere near as dry as say the mojave just to the south.

Mojave was a desert. Owens Lake was huge. Your comparison doesn't make sense

What natural lakes in the region are still "very large"?

I was hoping my corpse paint would also be effective at blocking facial recognition too.

I thought the design flaws of the Xbox 360 cooling system had more to do with Microsoft than any inherent design flaw by IBM. I assumed that switching to x86 processors let Microsoft leverage their native developer tools from Windows which helped developers.

The main issue was revealed to be solder.

"Microsoft did not reveal the cause of the issues publicly until 2021, when a 6-part documentary on the history of Xbox was released. The Red Ring issue was caused by the cracking of solder joints inside the GPU flip chip package, connecting the GPU to the substrate interposer, as a result of thermal stress from heating up and cooling back down when the system is power cycled."

And there was the same problem with early PS3s, on Nvidia's GPU package...it was a fairly widespread problem at the time.

And Apple iBook G3s too. There's a whole thing with owners reflowing the GPU: https://www.instructables.com/Fixing-the-infamous-iBook-scre...

I seem to recall baking PC nvidia GPU boards in your oven was a reasonably common out-of-warranty fix around that era.

I had to do this with my MacBook Pro models early 2015 and late 2017.

It seems like there was a period in time when solder just wasn’t done well, it seems like.

IIRC this is to do with the phase in of RoHS and bad lead free solder

I don't have any solid numbers on me, but I believe early 360s failing wasn't just widespread; it was straight up most of them dying within the first couple years. It's honestly insane they more or less got away with that. And I guess also speaks to how much Microsoft was killing it in that era that people were willing to go through multiple console RMAs (which I heard was a terrible, slow, and unreliable process) to play 360 games. How far they've fallen.

It was something like 25% - 50% of all first version 360s died.

Microsoft spent over a billion dollars replacing and repairing consoles to maintain the good brand name of Xbox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

Family got first gen 360. Still works to this day. We hit the jackpot with that console. It out lasted 2 wiis and a ps2

Simple answer: Halo 3.

Whenever we lost a 360 we got a pre owned 360 from gamestop. I think they went for like $70 for one without any hdd.

That was the real story, by the time they started dying you could just grab a working one for "decently cheap" if you still cared.

However, I wonder how many people got "burned" by it and swore off Xbox consoles going forward.

I know that era we got a lot more use out of the Xbox (original) and the Wii.

I knew plenty of people who had rrod no one swore off xbox though. You were still in the ecosystem through games, controllers, xbox live membership, and in my case network effects since we all played halo.

Sounds like the 2012(?) Macbook Pro after the switch to leadless solder (?). I had to cook my motherboard 3 times in the oven to revive it.

Funny!

I've heard that flash memory can also be revived with heat, either long duration or high intensity.

https://www.extremetech.com/science/142096-self-healing-self...

Some macbook hacks involved disabling sleepmode, running a benchmark and putting it in a pile of blankets for a few hours

When did the industry transition to different/lead free solders? Wonder if that was part of the issue?

Yeah, it was the transition to RoHS.