There an app for that now.

At least, there is on the Flipper Zero.

A tone dialer. Like this

https://images.app.goo.gl/fbdmckv44BY7fdWw9

Not for phone phreaking, just for speed-dialling.

I would make international calls frequently. I would buy calling cards. The process was: dial the 800 number on the card. Enter the id number on the card to use some of its credit. Dial the number to call. Their service would then connect me at a low rate to another country(probably making a voip call).

So I’d set up the 3 speed dial buttons with those. For each new card I’d only have to change the card’s unique number.

Pylon appreciation

https://pylons.org/

Taxonomy of bread fasteners

https://www.horg.com/horg

Pathetic motorways

https://pathetic.org.uk/

I have one of the earliest mp3 players, with a 32Mb expansion memory card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300

And going back further: a Sharp PC1211 BASIC-programmable pocket computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-1211

That was covered pretty well already!

Or maybe it’s using Fluidic logic.

Well that’s of the same order of magnitude as the quoted figure. I was suggesting that it sounded vastly larger than it should be.

It’s true, I don’t know how large the models are that are being accessed in data centers. Although if the article’s estimate is correct, it’s sad that such excessively-demanding models are always being used for use-cases that could often be handled with much lower power usage.

140Wh seems off.

It’s possible to run an LLM on a moderately-powered gaming PC (even a Steam Deck).

Those consume power in the range of a few hundred watts and they can generate replies in a seconds, or maybe a minute or so. Power use throttles down when not actually working.

That means a home pc could generate dozens of email-sized texts an hour using a few hundred watt-hours.

I think that the article is missing some factor, such as how many parallel users the racks they’re discussing can support.

You thinking of Apple headsets. These are budget things, maybe $300.

He decided that it was unethical to have an AI/LLM impersonate a real person, but set up the “wizard” as an AI assistant for his fake crypto site helpline.

I govenment site I visited recenly made a point of how it accepts emojis in passwords!

True, poor choice of phrase.

But I was thnking of something like

#define my_macro does not fit\
on one line

Unix or dos format?

Anyway, you probably need to put a backslash before it to indicate line continuation.

But wouldn’t it be better to use something more traditional, such as <br>?

Can “y’all” be singular, since there is “all y’all” for plural?

And for the 90s: Information Superhighway.

That’s, like, halfway down the list of things to try!

https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim

The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It’s been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.

Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word “boffins” regularly.

No it’s not. It’s more of a spongy consistency compared to a the dry, breadiness of an English muffin.

My pixel 7 has adaptive charging. If there’s an alarm set and I charge it at night, it paces the charging to be full near the time I’m getting up.

So it’s doing what it can to preserve battery health.

Alternate option, set up a premium number and profit!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23869462