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TrueSql — ультимативный sql-коннектор для Java

Community долго шло к видению, что Java новых версий это хороший язык, но у него проблема с библиотеками. Сегодня мы готовы публично представить TrueSql – библиотеку для “right” работы с базой данных из Java.

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ХабрTrueSql — ультимативный sql-коннектор для JavaВступление Несколько лет назад мы осознали, что острая проблема Java это ее классические библиотеки для backend-разработки и решили что-то с этим сделать. На типовом проекте ~50% кода это работа с...
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@dkndnmfnrn electric power required to run millions of AI chips/cards in data centres with say 48B Floating point parameters to build LLMs for example.

AI runs on many machines doing brute force FP calculations. #Nuclear is being explored as a power source. Cheaper power, more profit margins.

#Microsoft / #NuclearPower ☢️ / #MIT #TechnologyReview <technologyreview.com/2024/09/2>

MIT Technology Review · Why Microsoft made a deal to help restart Three Mile IslandBy Casey Crownhart
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I don’t do tech reviews, normally, because I don’t think anyone can review any technological device as soon as it comes out. Sure, you can see how fast it is with benchmarks, you can oooh and ahhh over screen resolutions and all the pretty colors, but really, you don’t know how good a device is until you’ve had it a while.

My new technology fetish went away a few decades ago. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, I don’t want technology, I want stuff that works.

A few years ago, I got one of these ‘smart watches’. I didn’t really buy it, but I did, because it came as a special with the phone I purchased at the time. In fact, I wouldn’t have gotten one otherwise, because – well, what’s the point of having something you don’t need? For some people there is a point to that, a point I do not understand or need to, but I’m probably lazier than them. The things I need demand enough time of me, and I need time to not be doing things for the things that I need.

Henry David Thoreau was on to something.

This watch was shiny and new. It was packaged prettily. It even came charged, and so I dutifully became familiar with it and got it to do some stuff – like tell the time, monitor my heart rate and sleeping, and connect to my calendar. It did these things dutifully, but it would require charging just about every day.

That’s annoying. My first watch was a Mickey Mouse watch, given to me at age 9 6 by my parents so that (1) I could learn to tell time by the hands, (2) I would know what time it was and stop asking them. It was incredible for about a week. I would have to wind it up daily, and Mickey dutifully pointed at the hour with his small hand and the minutes with his longer hand. It was then I realized that Mickey Mouse had arms that were not uniform. This bothered me, so I took off the watch and simply looked at the clock on the wall.

They’re selling smart watches now that show the time digitally or traditionally, and they’re all very sleek, but… I don’t think they’re worth the effort. I have lots of devices that tell me what time it is. The heart rate and health stuff was interesting to monitor for a while, but that’s gotten monotonous. And when I look at the watch, greedily sucking at the nipple of it’s wireless charger, I wonder what the point of it is.

It has not improved my life. The feature for talking to people on it like it’s a phone – the whole Dick Tracy thing – is annoying, and having tried it, anyone who does it in public looks like an idiot. I’m sorry if that’s you, but yes, shouting at your wrist and sticking your ear next to it to hear what’s being said makes you look like an idiot. Notice, I didn’t call you an idiot. It just makes you look like one.

Anywhere my watch went, my phone went. Much more usable. Much longer battery life. Much more useful. The whole ‘smart watch’ thing seems like a novelty to me.

I sort of knew it when I got it because I didn’t really want it. Now it will go into a drawer of junk, leaving my wrist free and unencumbered when I write on a laptop, without it scratching the laptop case. Yes, my laptop has a scar.

Wearable technology is a cool idea until you wear it a while. Now they’re gonna put ‘AI’ on them to make them ‘smarter’ and again, not that big of a deal.

Of course, if you really want one, go out and get one, but really – what do you need it to do?

https://knowprose.com/2024/05/12/smart-watch-nope/

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#TechnologyReview 📆 May 18, 2023 #NASA #DeepSpace #Food 🍽️ Challenge : By itself, the mycoprotein doesn’t taste of much “It’s very neutral, like umami or yeasty bread.” But further processing, including combining it with flavorings or spices, could yield a wide range of foods, such as burgers or nuggets. A module attached to the system #3Dprints the fungus 🍄 into the desired food style. “You can pick from a screen and eat a chicken 🍗 filet” technologyreview.com/2023/05/1

“The pre-packaged food that we use on the #ISS has a shelf life of a year and a half. We don’t have a food system at this point in time that can really handle a mission to #Mars 🔴”

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Martin Loidl

You could hardly work in a field related to urban planning, mobility, or transportation engineering without stumbling across #smartcity enthusiasts. Anyone who didn't agree with the chorus of tech-optimists was considered outdated, old-fashioned, conservative, whatever ... But the story of the #Google #Sidewalk #Lab in #Toronto sheds light on common misconceptions on how #cities should work.
Excellent article in #MIT #TechnologyReview from last June: technologyreview.com/2022/06/2

MIT Technology ReviewToronto wants to kill the smart city foreverBy Karrie Jacobs
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mackenzian

"While the case before the justices may seem largely theoretical, it is really fundamental to our daily lives and the role that the internet plays in society... Recommendation systems organize the internet. Could we really live without them?"

#TechnologyReview re today's SCOTUS oral arguments on #Section230:

technologyreview.com/2023/02/1

MIT Technology ReviewThe Supreme Court may overhaul how you live onlineBy Tate Ryan-Mosley
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Matt L

The purest essence of what innovation in the age of late l-stage entropy and technological bloat looks like.

An incredibly simple, lo-fi thing (license plates), that doesn't need any level of technology or change... having pointless Network Connected Complexity added to it, creating massive safety, data and privacy concerns.

#privacy #bigtech #TechnologyReview

Researchers Could Track the GPS Location of All of California’s New Digital License Plates
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www.vice.comResearchers Could Track the GPS Location of All of California’s New Digital License PlatesAfter gaining access to a powerful administrative account, the researchers could perform all sorts of tasks inside Reviver, the sole company that sells the digital plates in California.
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