David Darling
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 1 Aug
David Darling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and then let it drip out when i say let it drip out since then now we're talking about a century ago there's been nine drips from this thing so we're talking about slow record here the last drip was in 2014 10 years ago they actually have a live webcam pointing at this thing you can you can see it on on the internet and you can watch it you know so if you're patient
And you're interested, you could watch this thing and maybe see the next drop fall because nobody ever seen a drop fall.
The last time it was captured on camera, but nobody's actually seen this thing happen.
I like things like that.
You know, there's just a little bit eccentric.
What's the purpose of this?
Well, very little.
No, I think it was just a piece of eccentricity, actually.
And it's certainly a talking point, but there's no real practical purpose to it at all.
So I used to work for a company called Cray Research, which makes, made and makes supercomputers.
And so now we're talking about 1980-ish.
And I worked for them when they produced their first computer, the Cray-1.
which was the fastest computer in the world at the time.
It sold for about $7 million.
And I was interested in how fast the Cray-1 was, would be compared with an iPhone, because we don't really think of iPhones as being computers, but that's what they are.
They're supercomputers, in fact.
So I compared the speed and the memory and the storage capacity of the Cray-1 with actually the iPhone 13, since it was the latest model.
But the iPhone 13 is 3000 times faster than a Cray-1 supercomputer in its day.
3,000 times the storage, 750 times the RAM.
And yet the Cray cost, well, it's $8 million.
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