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Entire books can be written about the why of digital preservation in general, and pirate archivism in particular, but let us give a quick primer for those who are not too familiar. The world is producing more knowledge and culture than ever before, but also more of it is being lost than ever before. Humanity largely entrusts corporations like academic publishers, streaming services, and social media companies with this heritage, and they have often not proven to be great stewards.
How to Become a Pirate Archivist
annas-blog.org
This is a “virtual AR” device, so it’s easy to be fooled into thinking that it’s “just” displaying the camera feed, as Quest does. But it also gathers mesh and lighting information about the room, and it uses that to *transform* the internal projection of the environment in certain cases.
• For instance, [the film player bounces](https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10072?time=1046) simulated emissive light from the “screen” onto the ceiling and floor, while “dimming” the rest of the room.
• Controls and interface elements [cast shadows](https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10072?time=879) onto the 3D environment.
Vision Pro
Andyʼs working notes
When we detect an error in processing in a CPU core, the core can go through a transparent recovery action. This is a complete core reset—almost like a mini-reboot of the core, but the program state, program location, and all the register contents are recovered. So after recovery, we continue running wherever we were [running] in the program. It's completely transparent to the software layers. This is a “core recovery.” If a core goes through too many restarts, the contents of the core can be moved to a spare core. This is a “brain transplant.”
The IBM Mainframe: How It Runs and Why It Survives | Ars Technica
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