I meant to say they don't have any of these technologies, not even a rudimentary OS. Would they realize the SD card is storage? They'd be still at punchcards, the idea that the hardware is fixed and the "machine" is entirely code stored on a microscopic card (microSD) would be alien!

That's a reasonable compromise. I wonder if they would be able to detect the RF noise from the WiFi/Bluetooth or the CPU clock (given that they manage to power it up). Would they think it's a radio emitter or a scrambler and quarantine it in Area 51?!

Lunar Nazis? jfc

No SD cards, operating systems, CLI, mouse, keyboard, video out. It'd be amazing of they could learn anything from it!

I wonder if instead of trying (and possibly failing) to make it work, would it accelerate technologies that would help them observe it, like electron microscopes to study the 7nm transistors! The gap is so unbelievable wide, would they even realize it is of human make?

This might be bit of naive query, but how do they handle the metadata of the trillions of objects they store? Do they have a separate metadata layer? Does it have it's own hardware and scaling?

Apparently the ENIAC consisted of 40 9-foot panels, and weighed close to 30 tons! Meanwhile RPi 5 is 46g and fits in your pocket.

Given how the most crazy difference between these machines is the footprint, Gemini says you could fit ~823,000 RPi 5s into the volume occupied by the ENIAC (~67 cubic metres)!

What you're feeling is empathy, an emotion totally alien to these parasitic CEOs, billionaires and politicians. We're under no obligation to act with empathy towards them, they will step over a million of our dead bodies on the way to buy their third yacht, they quite literally do.

That looks amazing, clearly your dad was a man of fine taste! May he find forever in Ramen heaven 🍜

What would be even more very effective would be to have your elite team of librarians curate, label, and supplement information/data for a state-of-the-art LLM to train on, and then have your librarians tune the model further (human-in-the-loop). Speed of AI based retrieval + human expertise!

Thank you for your amazing work. As we saw with Twitter (stupidly X), being proactive is better than being reactive. Especially true given how some people just don't want others to have nice things, even if they don't have or want it.

The authors not getting to choose their own cover is quite something I must say. But the animals chosen are beautiful so can't complain on that front!

I wonder if you could get your pets on there. That'd be such a cool thing!

I've always been curious about how the animal is chosen for the O'Reilly covers? Do you get a say in it? Is it related to the theme somehow? Congrats on this milestone! :)

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That's a cool app, thanks for sharing!

If you have the Google Translate app installed, it opens the post in it. But ofcourse, not the ideal solution.