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Comment · 5 months ago
Jony Ive design philosophy of "thin and with round corners" can be seen in the Ferrari Luce. The car looks like an iPhone.
Comment · 5 months ago
Musk before the verdict: "It's not okay to steal a charity"

Altman after the verdict: "It's okay to steal a charity"

Comment · 5 months ago
Is the V in Cider-V the Roman numeral 5 or V like in Visual?
Comment · 5 months ago
Apple needs Intel to make the chips!
Comment · 7 months ago
"... we have an odor on the plane as well here at this time. We are going to be going back to the gate, request fire as well." - United pilot

"2384, it is oder like a smoke odor ...like from fire?" - Control

"No, it was a weird odor. I don't know exactly how to describe it. But yeah... we can't get a hold of anyone at the ops for a gate assignment." - United pilot

"Ground, United 2384 is declaring an emergency. The flight attendants in the back are feeling ill because of the odor. We will need to go into an available gate at this time." - United pilot

"... the fire trucks are over there. They're going to bring a stair truck just in case you guys do want to evacuate. Let me know if you do." - Control

"Copy, yeah, we prefer to wait on a gate, but I mean, again, we only got so much time here because there's still a bit of odor in the back of the airplane." - United pilot

"646, number two, clear to land 4." - Control

"Truck one and company, cross four Delta." - Control

"Truck one and company, crossing four at Delta." - Truck 1

"Stop, stop, stop, stop, Truck 1. Stop,stop, stop. Stop, Truck 1, Stop." - Control

"That was - that wasn't good to watch." - Frontier pilot

"Yeah, I know. I was here. I tried to reach out to [inaudible]. We were dealing with an emergency earlier... um, I messed up." - Control

"No, man, you did the best you could." -Frontier pilot

Comment · 10 months ago
And 'vmlinux' was inspired by the 'vmunix' (Virtual Memory Unix) the UNIX kernel.
Comment · 11 months ago
DGXOS is a customized Ubuntu Noble!

/etc/os-release:

  PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS"
  NAME="Ubuntu"
  VERSION_ID="24.04"
  VERSION="24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)"
  VERSION_CODENAME=noble
  ID=ubuntu
  ID_LIKE=debian
  HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
  SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
  BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
  PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
  UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
  LOGO=ubuntu-logo
and /etc/dgx-release:

  DGX_NAME="DGX Spark"
  DGX_PRETTY_NAME="NVIDIA DGX Spark"
  DGX_SWBUILD_DATE="2025-09-10-13-50-03"
  DGX_SWBUILD_VERSION="7.2.3"
  DGX_COMMIT_ID="833b4a7"
  DGX_PLATFORM="DGX Server for KVM"
  DGX_SERIAL_NUMBER="Not Specified"
While other Linux distros were already reported to work, some tools provide by Nvidia won't work with Fedora or NixOS. Not yet!

I couldn't get Nvidia AI Workbench to start on Neon KDE after changing to DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu in /etc/lsb-release. Neon is based on Ubuntu Noble too.

Comment · 1 year ago
Just donated $100 to ZSF via ever.org!
Comment · 1 year ago
Very well done, sir! Now you challenged me to make a donation also. However, as an individual I assure you that it won't match yours.
Comment · 1 year ago
That's a pledge only! Let me know when Synadia & TiregBeetle actually send money to Zig Foundation.
Comment · 1 year ago
Before WSL, Microsoft provided "Windows Services for UNIX" to "Seamlessly integrate Microsoft Windows into your UNIX environment."

The same Windows services are provided to "Seamlessly integrate Microsoft Widows into your Linux environment."

WSU became WSL!

Comment · 1 year ago

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