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I take offense to this. I was clearly hatched, and I think you know that.

A great thought on the thumbnails, but the behavior exhibits even when using command-line tools.

Indexing is off for the entire drive, I can't even begin to imagine what kind of mess that would make if it was on.

For anyone - including, apparently, this article's author's - who is confused about the form factor, this is the next generation to follow the Grace Blackwell "GB300-NVL72", their full rack interconnected system.

It's the same technology as the matching 8-GPU "HGX" board that is built into larger individual servers - which in this generation's case is just called "B300" as it has the "Blackwell" GPU but not the "Grace" CPU - but not sold in smaller units than an entire rack.

Here are some pictures and a video of that NVL72 version (you can buy these from Dell and others, as well as direct from Nvidia):

https://www.servethehome.com/dell-and-coreweave-show-off-first-nvidia-gb300-nvl72-rack/ https://www.ingrasys.com/solutions/NVIDIA/nvidia_gb300_nvl72/

The full rack has 18 compute trays, each with 2 of the pictured board inside (for a total of 36 CPUs and 72 GPUs), and 9 NVLink switch trays that connect every GPU together. PSUs and networking make up the rest.

"Fun" fact: if you think it's slow normally (and to be fair, it is), NTFS seems to have a pathological performance regression when a directory contains more than 10,000 children, any operations on files in that directory slow down by around 95%.

I discovered this on our CCTV system at work (that runs on Windows Server 2022), which creates an inordinate number of small files (each containing at most a few seconds of video). It was causing some of its periodic maintenance tasks to fail, as they'd take longer to run than than the configured interval between them.

Windows also really doesn't like dealing with half-petabyte filesystems, just like... at all.

Mine (also Ubuntu, also Intel, but Sony earbuds) also works great.

Almost the only time in recent memory it hasn't is when I'd accidentally kicked the cable out of the WiFi access point closest to the couch. My laptop was connected to one at the other end of the house, and it turns out that trying to stream video over 2.4GHz WiFi while listening on (also 2.4GHz) Bluetooth headphones isn't a match made in heaven.

Now Windows on the other hand. My work laptop (also Intel Bluetooth adapter) starts out fine after a reboot, but over the course of a week will go from taking 2-3 seconds for the headphones to connect once powered on, to 30-40 seconds. Sometimes the headphones will connect, disconnect, and then connect again before actually making any sound.

The one thing the two OSes have in common is switching between 2-way voice (HFP) and high-quality music (A2DP) modes is a problem. In Linux it's fairly reliable, but completely manual. In Windows it's "automatic", but frequently gets stuck in the wrong mode, or disconnects entirely when switching.

Unclear why weight is the metric they chose there. For things you're stuffing into a landfill, surely that's primarily a volume concern?

My city council has (for the entire 20 years I've lived here) used user-pays rubbish collection; you buy branded plastic bags at your local supermarket / corner store (60 litre bags, about $3.50 each) which covers the cost of the weekly collection from the roadside. Not enough rubbish to fill an entire bag that week? No problem. Had a cleanout of your house and need three bags? Also just fine.

It was the 3TB ST3000DM001 that was the really terrible one.

(so bad it has its own Wikipedia page)

I know WoW used bittorrent for game updates, it was built in and was the "standard" download mechanism.

https://worldofwarcraft.fandom.com/et/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader

I'm sure it's far from the only game that did.

And don't even get me started on getting back from the Mun, ~~when~~ if you do survive the landing.

Sorry Jebediah, that was a one-way trip.

Alternate panel 4: "I want to dill myself"

My microwave (a Panasonic combo model with bake/grill functions) allows programming up to three sequential cooking steps. Any of a delay, microwave, bake, grill or bake+grill combo.

It's most excellent for frozen processed bullshit, as you can program it to in sequence run low-power defrost, then high-power heating, and finally bake for crispy exterior.

Equally would work for microwave-delay-microwave. No need to vacate your chair until completion.

Old-timey doctors had a word for that procedure... "lobotomy". Cleaned your mind right out.

Would you also like some heroin or cocaine?