Intel needs to stop gouging customers for 10GBe NIC cards because they've got all the patents on the technology. Greed is _so_ ugly.
Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
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#22I remember wiring up cat5 gigabit about 20 years ago in an industrial workplace. My house of that age also has cat5 everywhere and it’s aged very well. 1gig is still the standard for wired with few but expensive 2.5g and very expensive 10g home and small business options.
> 1gig is still the standard for wired A lot of people already get more than that from their ISP. I had at least 2.5g on every consumer product from the past 5 years. Small businesses use at least SFP on the floor level. Yada yada yada. Point is it's probably a regional thing.
You also need to have 2.5GB capable hardware in all of your home devices though.
Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#23I'd love to hear all the disruptive, trendy, innovative and blockchain-focused tech that'll cost me a fortune instead of relying on cheap ethernet.
^ The '/s' is implied.
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#24Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#25If you're interested in the early history of Ethernet, the Bob Metcalfe oral history from the Computer History Museum is a great read:
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Hist...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neural compression is an emerging field and already shows some striking compression abilities, especially if the compressor/decompressor includes a large model which amounts to something like a huge pre-existing dictionary on both sides. Stable Diffusion XL is only about 8 gigabytes and can render a shocking array of different images from very short prompts with very high fidelity. 1gbps might be enough for more than…
Deterministicly?
Sure. The only reason image generators aren't deterministic is that you inject randomness. Set the same random seed, get the same image. Download Stable Diffusion XL and run it locally and try it.
There are models that can be run in both directions. Take a source image and generate a token stream prompt for it. That's your compressed image. Now run it forward to decompress.
CPU intensive but massive compression ratios can be achieved... like orders of magnitude better than jpeg.
It's lossy compression, so we're not violating fundamental mathematical limits. Those bounds apply to lossless compression.
Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#27It still kills me that this name was used for a wired, rather than a wireless setup.
I think about this every single time I read or hear the word ether. "It means an invisible transfer medium. What were they thinking!?"
They were thinking that they were making a new medium to propagate a signal. Wifi is not a medium but a protocol.
Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#28It still kills me that this name was used for a wired, rather than a wireless setup.
Ethernet is a protocol, it has nothing to do with the cables. WiFi operates using a slight variant of the Ethernet frame
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#29Re: Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
#30I remember wiring up cat5 gigabit about 20 years ago in an industrial workplace. My house of that age also has cat5 everywhere and it’s aged very well. 1gig is still the standard for wired with few but expensive 2.5g and very expensive 10g home and small business options.
> 1gig is still the standard for wired A lot of people already get more than that from their ISP. I had at least 2.5g on every consumer product from the past 5 years. Small businesses use at least SFP on the floor level. Yada yada yada. Point is it's probably a regional thing.
Yeah, no. You live in a bubble. Most consumers are not above 1g even on fiber. It's probably not even regional, it's very location specific.