Evolution is not subtractive. Bacteria didn’t evolve from humans

Graham senator guy has been goading for a war with Iran since 2010 or even earlier

No one is hoarding RAM (or DRAM aka what we call as RAM)

Instead it has mostly been a supply side crunch, and none of the individual steps are “illegal”

1. AI servers use a special memory called HBM
2. HBM is good at what it does but it has a very ‘high wafer area per server’ (it is stacked, and each level is lower density than normal DRAM)
3. OpenAI (and apparently others) skipped middlemen of supply chain and directly negotiated with the fab to get priority for their HBM fabrication.
4. This crunched supply on the open market for HBM
5. Other people followed up
6. Fab companies pivoted other manufacturing lines to HBM because of so many orders (and because it is really profitable to manufacture)
7. That caused crunch on DRAM
8. Other memory manufacturers pivoted to more expensive segment of their expertise (eg Flash memory fab)
9. This caused crunch on other common memory segments
10. Expensive memory means you try to move to higher segment for your own products (eg: laptop, mobile) else you don’t have any slack in your BOM. This is causing the consumer good crunch
11. Once stuff becomes expensive, people hedge and buyout inventories. This is causing the Covid era style supply chain shock. The impact radius is expected to increase in coming months even if RAM situation resolves.
12. “Special mission” against Iran is blocking critical supply chain for chips (speciality chemicals, helium, etc.)

“when we weren’t looking” sounds like a cop out

Loans in form of credit. A vast proportion of adults in developed nations are in personal debt, ignore home, education and car loans

People have not been taught how to be adults, manage a budget and they end up trading their future financial security for momentary gains

It’s sustainable as long as the suckers keep buying and paying

I haven’t used edge. Could you tell me what I’m missing out on?

Firefox has tab groups, tab notes, tab categories, vertical tabs

Only thing is missing integration with teams and outlook.

Driving under the influence is a ban able offence (reckless endangerment) in most countries.

So is a proper driver’s ed before giving even a learner’s permit. US loves giving a multi ton killing machine to untrained people with impulse control. And teenagers

Server will not send you more video till you answer a survey correctly about the ad /s

I think these laws are written with focus on Mobile where such os and app/website signalling is more prevalent

Maybe funding components would be better than funding mozilla. Eg: 2 engineers for Gecko

1. Having a separate partition for /home might be sufficient since dropbox keeps the login details in ~/.config
2. Use a tool like rclone and run sync manually. Can backup the API key post the in-browser login. If you spend extra effort, you can create a systemd file to automate this as well

Do you mean

1. To persist the programs installed across multiple OS installs, or
2. To persist the Dropbox login/folders across multiple OS installs?

MIDI protocol for users might be good enough but for developers is a nightmare if you want to do advanced synthesis

🧷 Safety pin. There has been a little change in the safety cap but that’s to save material not functionality or manufacturing.

The entire process is the same:

1. Take wire, cut it
2. Smash one end flat
3. ?? (Bend the wire and fold the smashed end)
4. Profit

Had to reinstall Windows XP one time too many

I just deployed a few VM on my phone, not even a tablet. It’s not that hard nowadays with websites being designed primarily for smartphone users

No need to discuss defecit. That’s a totally unrelated item. My statement was purely about their infra and manufacturing lead in multiple sectors.

Imagine you are a top student and some other student suddenly gets better marks than you in multiple subjects. You do need to introspect and see where you can improve (Or if you even care about those subjects).

If you don’t care about infra and manufacturing, no need to sweat

We need a lemmy instance for your country. sh.itdoesnt.work