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psyconz At first, my thoughts were about how this has to be the most useless random hacky device that this website has ever listed. Then I thought, well, how many erase-on-read devices have I heard of before? That could actually be useful. Then I realized we have them, actually, en masse, with destructive AI-training book scanning 🤣 Reply
alrighty_then I enjoy articles about people bulding odd stuff because I don't seek this out or hear about it otherwise. Reply
psyconz alrighty_then said: I enjoy articles about people bulding odd stuff because I don't seek this out or hear about it otherwise. Yeah, I enjoy most of Tom's random "Quake on a satellite" or "LLM running on 50 year old hardware" stuff, but this one… 128 bytes. That's just an quantum-mechanically-small amount of storage. But I do appreciate the cool scientific, technical and creative side of this one. Reply
derekullo psyconz said: Yeah, I enjoy most of Tom's random "Quake on a satellite" or "LLM running on 50 year old hardware" stuff, but this one… 128 bytes. That's just an quantum-mechanically-small amount of storage. But I do appreciate the cool scientific, technical and creative side of this one. Each ASCII character / keystroke is a byte so it's essentially about half a twitter post … 280 characters / bytes ^^^ That sentence alone was 116 bytes 😛 Reply
rluker5 I've got one of those brown framed ferrite bead panels on my bookshelf. You can get them on Ebay, but they used to be a lot cheaper. Nice to see one put to use, about as much work as I expected. Would be neat to see someone using magnetic wire for data. Could probably hold a lot more for a longer time. I used to save data on cassette back when my parents had a TI-99/4a and you could likely use any sufficiently precise audio recording method to do the same. Data sounded same as an old phone modem. This guy has one for sale now: https://www.ebay.com/itm/318764798056?_skw=magnetic+wire+recorder&itmmeta=01M17M2AD13NVG97H04TAWVWAS&hash=item4a37dcd068:g:mVMAAeSwSUlqiJTh&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA8GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xBa%2FWI%2BcH6mE%2BrqExfJm%2F4TV8lwAbcErcoJWyi242tr%2FsBfbY%2B9RECeA%2FWFKjsSnux8riFAnX3yMQSxlrMCTffo740kf%2BhT1Wj6PkI0auHzIODNnNiS5f730cSDzrH3vavG6R4guqR%2FVgwUAn0RRArDIPcsryLfnF2Um2zFZL6%2BEDBQTRQfW98WN3QNGZb6egK6U9zfRYbjN1KOJ08kYmlZ4lsmvnu789UCwfeEew4lZ0TNZGleCCmVWGMuCW%2FVnN2lw4sayb2%2BckTO3U%2B9laLbXRzAuA92z0qN9VNtaJofqA%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-KmifSJaAhttps://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mVMAAeSwSUlqiJTh/s-l1600.webp Reply
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- Quantum computing used in 'first commercial game development' — IBM simulator generated maps, characters, and graphics in C.L.A.Y. RPG
- Intel 14A defect density is dropping faster than the company expected — 'we have not seen this performance since 22nm,' says CFO
- Grand Theft Auto 6 will run at only 30 FPS on consoles at launch, no performance mode promised — even the souped-up PS5 Pro might not get 60 FPS support
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