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Well, the Chinese manufacturers are certainly coming, though CXMT seems to be being careful not to rock the boat, at least yet https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/chine…

I'm a bit out of energy at present but I'll try to put together a comment. From the point of view of a learner it's unfortunate that macrons (diacritical marks for long vowels) hav…

So I won’t have switch to Fchte or Schlirmchr?

It seems reminiscent of the Green Project/FirstPerson episode that led to Java https://landley.net/history/mirror/java/javaorigin.html , and I'm sure many another attempt to keep s…

While a worse format surely could have won something like the video wars, it doesn't seem that VHS was in fact the worse format overall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKRubB5N60…

No thanks. We've spent enough decades living in squatter camps built on the ruins of other people's lazy decisions. It's past time to move out now. Worse is worse; worse is shit. A…

The final irony is that if they'd just maintained G+ a bit better and kept it around after 2018 it's likely they'd eventually have had a decent chance to pick up a number of waves …

Hah, remember the brief interval when SV got excited about hiring people with machine-learning skills again, and Google was hot, but "AI" was still a dirty name, so they started bu…

It's the result of seeking to maintain consistency with the titles of the previous books in the series. And while the platform coverage this time is very narrow, any book on assemb…

Neither Richard Feynman nor the quantum-physics community in general reacted very well to the first efforts to test Bell's theorem experimentally, at first: https://web.archive.org…

I think the chipmakers are pretty securely set up here, the usual cyclical issues aside. Between the stubborn resistance of the data to being compressed without significant loss, a…

Though even if there are big further breakthroughs to be made here, they won’t necessarily be made soon, and if they aren’t made in the next ~10 years then they won’t really affect…

It's called the distributed Web because we share out the buttons equally.

The legend of the Button-Eater who comes out from his lair somewhere deep inside the Web.

It would be lovely to see some of those converted into enamelled metal badges.

This is actually not the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co . However a look at Henry Ford’s personal priorities shows that there’s a be-careful-what-you-wi…

To the extent that they are connected it's most likely through Planner: see the OP and the other HOPL2 https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/154766 paper "The Evolution of Lis…

They have a proven unwillingness over many years to do what it takes to make Steam voice chat work reliably. It seems that their objective with Steam Chat is to do just enough to e…

It's probably not so bad. (I am not an expert on anything.) The big blocker is probably a roughly single-order-of-magnitude decrease in the cost per MiB of VRAM. (That obviously go…

Here's a pretty good video about a somewhat similar challenge, that of proving your citizenship in ancient Rome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTt0qwncDXI .

Right. It's probably important to distinguish what the hardware manufacturers' incentives are when their supply is constrained and when it isn't. (I am not an expert on anything.) …

Unfortunately there seems to be a lack of easily-accessible information about the current or expected future state of TX-0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TX-0 , a computer of great …

We're talking mostly about companies which push hardware in the door, here, such as the hyperscaler types which the CHERI people have been showing slide decks to.

The "A Distribution of One" argument seems less convincing than the "The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal" one. I'm no expert, but if you've ever read some of the computing press …