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Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer (arstechnica.com)
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[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Killing a fly with canon there, aren’t you?

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I call it future proofing.

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[–] Cort@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Building a cannon to shoot for the moon