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Comment · 2 years ago
He was calling 1995 text editors which used 4 MB of RAM incredibly bloated compared to the lean software of his youth which ran in 32 KB.

Now we do the same, but we look at the text editors of 1995 which used 4 MB of RAM as incredibly efficient and well made, paragons of craftsmanship.

Things never change, the old generation fights the new one and calls it stupid.

Comment · 2 years ago
But it's true, in fact it's an understatement: a 8gb mac makes you look way cooler than an 32gb pc.
Comment · 2 years ago
The default DDR5 ECC is not exposed to the outside, not reported to the OS.

You only caught errors on DDR5 because it's stability is very brittle. Market forces push it to the limit - everybody cares about the MT/s and runs XMP unlike previous generations.

Comment · 2 years ago
The neurological basis is quite simple: the brain is a prediction machine, and it's rewarded when it predicts correctly.

This is why music is pleasant - it's highly structured nature is easy to predict, thus rewarding.

This can be further optimized: the "drop" in club music for example, which is anticipated and teased over even longer distance (tens of seconds, even minutes).

Comment · 2 years ago
240W per card probably
Comment · 2 years ago
Derek tackles easier subjects than PBS space.
Comment · 2 years ago
Human rights have priority over IP rights.
Comment · 2 years ago
How much energy do the data-centers of the 4 hyperscalers use?
Comment · 2 years ago
That sounds dangerous, since not all emissions will be converted.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's complicated.

For 1 employee which disobeyed orders and saved the company you'll have 99 which disobeyed orders and don't produce anything useful or even made harm.

This is called the Halo effect.

Comment · 2 years ago
A terminal password prompt can be intercepted by a keylogger and similar things.

UAC is safe from that.

Comment · 2 years ago
How can you bypass UAC set on the highest level?
Comment · 2 years ago
US in Korea or UK in HK were not in a survival situation as Taiwan would be.

> drop 50-100k troops

That's fantasy land, most of those planes would be shot down, and if not the soldiers would land in a kill zone with no reinforcements.

Comment · 2 years ago
I meant is easy to hide for the purpose of transporting it, for example in a shipping containers, millions of which go to/from China.
Comment · 2 years ago
Taiwan has underground facilities from it's previous attempt at building nuclear weapons.

Even after a Chinese decimation attack, if the invasion force is not immediatly ready Taiwan will still have enough time to build the nukes.

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