Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree with the sentiment, but “news for nerds” is Slashdot.
Slashdot still exists?
Well, “exists” is a pretty broad spectrum.
Making RAM at Home [video]
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#22 1999. We will have flying cars
2024. LLMs - there will be robots
2026. How to make your own RAMRe: Making RAM at Home [video]
#23This is incredible! 1100 degrees in your backyard shed! And the video explains it well too
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#24I saw this video yesterday and considered posting it, but I wasn’t sure if it was appropriate for HN. This channel has another video where it shows how the clean room lab is created starting from a basic backyard shed, and that was truly astounding. The positive pressure to keep the number of particles low in someone’s backyard is almost mystical to me.
You’re not sure if someone building a RAM clean room in a shed is appropriate for HackerNews, literally “news for nerds”? A dictionary purchase may be warranted
Yeah but it's a YouTube video. Those tend not to do super well on the front page.
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#25"There is no DownloadMoreRAM, it's just some guy in a backyard shed."
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#26"There is no DownloadMoreRAM, it's just some guy in a backyard shed." https://downloadmoreram.com/
With memory prices what they are maybe there is a business opportunity for a return of SoftRAM 95
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re not sure if someone building a RAM clean room in a shed is appropriate for HackerNews, literally “news for nerds”? A dictionary purchase may be warranted
Agree with the sentiment, but “news for nerds” is Slashdot.
Their standard is higher than that, "Stuff that matters."
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The graphs towards the end were discharge curves for a single transistor/capacitor cell out of only 16 present, if I understood correctly? So "enough cells to count as memory" and "addressing logic" are definitely future work (it looked like he wanted to characterize what the refresh cycle would have to look like before actually building more.) I was kind of surprised that the "use a microscope as a photolithography…
2 bytes of memory ought to be enough for anyone!
The Atari 2600 only had 128 bytes of ram. It’s not that far off…
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#29I wasn't expecting what the inside of the shed would be like!
There's another video on YouTube by the same guy detailing how he built his backyard clean room shed. I was kind of surprised at how easy it was - it's definitely a construction project that requires some specialized knowledge, but the fact that it's tractable at all for one person with a shed is pretty amazing to me.
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#30I only buy free-range artisanal DRAM at the DRAM farmer's market.
I only have raw RAM, pastured RAM is wrong.
I get my DRAM needs at the RAM ranch.