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Amanda Earl

Book Launch: Where the Jasmine Blooms by Zeina Sleiman
Time and Place: June 24 at 7:00 pm. Phynicia Restaurant 605 Longfields Drive #Unit: 9
Web: tinyurl.com/Where-the-Jasmine-Blooms
$10 book reading and signing

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Dendrobatus Azureus

Do you know what I like a lot about AMD? They love Open Source.

AMD makes sure that drivers required for their CPUs APUs & their GPUs are always available for the Open Source world

AMD also dislikes their competition hacking into the wallets of their customers.

Just look at the fact that this GPU series will be selling under USD 300 MSRP

Jump to the article read and learn

#AMD #GPU #Graphics #Processing #Unit #Drivers #OpenSource

overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displ

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This radio interview was in 2002, 23 years ago!

“As the interviewer, you see the switchboard at your radio station lighting up. Lots of your listeners want to talk to the prime minister. You take some callers, and one of them is named Phyllis.”

“Phyllis: I won't be as aggressive as to shake my fist at you, but I'll certainly shake my finger at you when you say that someone who owns their home has no problem, they're sitting on a nice little nest egg.

We're on a #pension and we would like to #sell our home, go into a #unit or a #townhouse or something.

But we can't do that because if we do, we're going to spend the whole amount just on a townhouse or a unit and we'll have nothing left over if we need to do anything to it. So we're stuck.

PM: Look Phyllis, what I said was that not everybody was sitting on a #NestEgg. I said people had not complained about the #value of their house going up.

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Psylocibus

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We need a new #unit !
Have you ever felt that motorway signs using a number of km to represent the distance to a destination is somehow pointless ? I mean, what matters for a driver is the remaining travel time. And if a city is 100km away and your car speedometer shows that you drive at 130km/h, you shall compute mentally 100/130*60 to get the number of minutes remaining...

Let's create a new unit for our speedometers that can be more usable. I propose that instead of showing speed (km/h), we use the inverse of speed (h/km). Yet, the number of hours to travel 1km doesn't feel nice. So let's try to scale this unit so that we get something that is more significant for a driver.

I propose that this new unit shall represent the number of minutes to travel 10km. (see attached figure).
I will call this unit "Road Unit", but I don't think it's a practical name so we will need to figure out another one I think.

So here we have something that I think is significant enough ! Look, for instance, if I am on the motorway, 100km away from my destination, and I know my speed in Road Units is 5.45 R.U. (110km/h), I can easily compute that if 10km is 5.45min, then 100km is 54.5 minute (55min30s). And there we go.

Other advantage: I drive in the country side. I would normally drive at 7.5 Road Units (80km/h). But today I am stuck behind a truck at 8.6 R.U. (70km/h). I can mentally estimate that I will lose 7.5-8.6 = 0.9min every 10km. Since I know my destination is 20km away, I will lose a bit less than 2 minutes. So no need to put me in danger by trying to overtake it.

If this idea was convicing enough, please, boost, share, talk about it inside and outside of fediverse. Maybe one day we will have GPS and speedometers that will implement this unit natively! o/
Feel free to react and bring up suggestions, and feel free to propose another name: I don't think that "I drive at 5.5 road units" is... ergonomic... I don't know...

#newunit#speed#road
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Chuck Darwin

Unit X:
New Book Co-authored by Former F-16 Pilot Raj M. Shah Offers Inside Look at
Pentagon’s Defense Innovation

A new book by technology entrepreneur Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff offers an inside look at the #Defense #Innovation #Unit,
also known as "Unit X"

an elite unit within the Pentagon, which they co-founded in 2016.

“Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War,”
takes the reader “inside AI labs, drone workshops, and battle command centers, and, also, overseas to Ukraine’s frontlines,” according to the book’s synopsis by its publisher Simon & Schuster.

Unit X was established to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military.
It was specifically designed as a bridge to Valley technologists that would accelerate bringing state-of-the-art software and hardware to the battle space.

Before Unit X was established, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation.

Shah, Kirchhoff, and others in the Unit who came after were tasked particularly with meeting immediate military needs with technology from Valley startups.

“Unit X” opens with an anecdote when Shah first experienced the way Silicon Valley impacts the workings of U.S. defense companies, the Financial Times noted.

At the time Shah was a 27-year-old U.S. Air Force captain, who was on a pre-dawn patrol in 2006.

He was “flying an F-16 fighter jet near Iraq’s border with Iran when he realized that he did not know which side of the border he was on,” the Financial Times said.

That was “a serious problem,” the publication stated,
adding that
“entering Iranian airspace could cause an international incident.”

Shah could also have been shot down, the report added.

So, Shah “figured out a simple hack”...

“He loaded a handheld device that he used for emails with civilian navigation software,” the report said.

“The next time he flew a mission, Shah strapped the device to his leg.

Remarkably, the $300 gadget did a better job of telling him where he was than the navigation systems of the $30 million jet.”

The book underscores the importance of strengthening the relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley

“In an era when America’s chief rival, China, has ordered that all commercial firms within its borders make their research and technology available for military exploitation,
strengthening the relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley is an urgent necessity.”

The Financial Time notes that the book also “stresses the need for the U.S
— and by extension, the west
— to maintain technological parity with its adversaries, and so deter war

americankahani.com/lead-storie

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> #UnitTests slide down the cost / benefit continuum. This doesn’t mean that nobody uses them, or that there aren’t systems where they make sense (such as a physics engine or net code, say). In general, though, it means a smaller proportion of #game #devs use #unit #tests as compared to other #software disciplines.

pixelatedplaygrounds.com/sideq

Pixelated PlaygroundsAddition with Flamethrowers (or, Why Game Devs Don't Unit Test) — Pixelated PlaygroundsEvery once in a while, I chat with a software dev who's getting into game development. In terms of "programmer culture", one of the bigger differences between software dev and game dev is that software devs make extensive use of automated unit tests and game devs extensively don't. Why doe
#testing#softwareTesting#unitTest
Chuck Darwin

On the afternoon of March 30, 2024, the #Ventura #County #Aviation #Unit responded to multiple groups of stranded hikers on the #Sespe #River #Trail, in the #Los #Padres #National #Forest. 
This area is north of the Fillmore area.  In total, 11 hikers and 3 dogs were airlifted to safety.

edhat.com/news/ventura-county-

edhatVentura County Aviation Unit Rescues 11 Adults and 3 Dogs in Los Padres ForestLocation: Los Padres National Forest Date & Time:  March 30, 2024 – 1300-1700 hours Unit(s) Responsible: Ventura County Aviation Unit Victims:  11 adults (Ventura County Residents), 3 dogs Narrative: On the afternoon of March 30, 2024, the Ventura County Aviation Unit responded to multiple groups of stranded hikers on the Sespe River Trail, in the Los Padres National
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