6mo ago

World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online

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Microsoft jotting notes on a napkin for Windows 12 minimum installation specs.
Article thinks giga- prefix means trillion
- Also:
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNNL)
  FFS it’s LLNL. Someone didn’t bother to do any proofreading.
But can it run DOOM?
- Aparently it can run 2.7 trillion copies of doom at the same time, according to chatgpt
  
  Finally, some useful information out of ChatGPT
- But can it play TIC TAC TOE against itself?
  
  it should know already that war is pointless
So... they just copy an old Apple OS name? They couldn't come up with anything else?
- JFC Yosemite National Park is copying Apple Now too
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Capitan
  
  You really thought I don't know that place exists so you had to include a wiki link. I've been there multiple times. It's also on their wallpaper with the OS. Just lame for a company to not think of a better name for their computer.
- You want them to name it after a star, or an old God, or maybe a river, or one of the many other things that every company names everything after?
  
  Yep.
- That's exactly what I thought.

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