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Daniel Bowers

@daniel_bowers

Server Geek with stints at Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Gartner

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"COBOL programmers don't worry about reliability." Great line. Think about it the next time someone talks about migrating from mainframe.

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Azure now requires 3-factor authentication for portal logins: 1. A strong password 2. A security key/authenticator app 3. A successful DC15 Arcana check rolled at disadvantage

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FP8 and FP6 are wasteful. Let's skip ahead to FP1: 1-bit floating point. Matrix multipliers require only a single transistor, and no precision loss when converting between int and float.

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MegaRacks: 1 MegaWatt Racks are coming. These will be the black holes of the data center: sucking everything in (power, money, attention) developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-80…

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Sovereignity accounts for only 7% of geographic restrictions placed on server workloads. User latency accounts for 15%. Half the time, the reason is simply "because that's where we always put stuff." (Microsoft study on internal workloads, 2025) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

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We are proud to announce that the following 5 students have been recognized as 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists: Alexander Gibson, Luke Bowers, Hannah Yang, Leonardo Fazzini, and Salvador Munoz. This honor places them among the top 1 % of all HS students!

We are proud to announce that the following 5 students have been recognized as 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists: Alexander Gibson, Luke Bowers, Hannah Yang, Leonardo Fazzini, and Salvador Munoz.
This honor places them among the top 1 % of all HS students!