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Tesla’s battery technology is extremely hot in Australia right now – but not in a good way. A 300-megawatt lithium-ion battery built in the state of Victoria using Tesla tech is literally on fire.
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I’m pretty stunned that Intel was still actually making ia64 processors. Who was still buying these?
I had an ia64 workstation back in the day (because the product I worked on supported it and I needed an engineering sample) and it was awful. It was big, loud, slow, power hungry, and of course incompatible with existing x86 code. AMD really got it right when they introduced the x64 (née amd64) architecture since it gave the best of both worlds — legacy compatibility with x86 code, and 64-bit capability.
The IA64 instruction set had some interesting and novel features but the lack of compatibility along with no good reason to move to it really killed it from the start.
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Without that “Creston-” it would also be easy to mistake that for Kenilworth, the posh Chicago North Shore suburb.
And not a single word about where 64-bit x86 came from, namely AMD. For a brief period, Athlon 64s and Opterons ate Intel’s lunch while Intel was preoccupied with Itanium. Intel ended up licensing the x86_64 extensions from AMD; there’s a reason why Linux distributions tag x86-64 binaries as “amd64.”
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They also repeated the blunder of the iAPX 432 - an early Intel attempt at a 32-bit CPU design. Aside from being incompatible with x86, it was also targeted at high-powered workstations, and designed with the idea that the compiler would be able to optimize code for it, when compiler technology wasn’t up to the task. In the end, they wound up extending x86 to 32 bits instead, and even then it took a while for operating systems to catch up.
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Darren McGaven , Kolchak star, makes appearance on the X Files … where the main nemesis is Roy Cohn, trump’s mentor in crime.
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And without the Creston it could also be Kenilworth, England, near Coventry. No London accent there though.
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Should have gone with buttcheeks
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Yeah, the placement would make “mudflaps” a more functional descriptor. 
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My thoughts exactly!
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