Off-and-on trying out an account over at @[email protected] due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
On the positive side, unlike most present-day laptops out there, Framework’s laptops don’t use soldered memory, so at least if someone got a laptop with less memory now, down the line, if and when memory prices come down, it’d be possible to add more memory.
The system uses a computer vision model to monitor the screen
2028: The current iteration of anti-cheat systems for PCs now require that the user play while being recorded by a set of video cameras constantly looking for other cameras in their field of view that might be looking at the screen.
I mean, in that kind of timeframe, there were pretty major shifts in transportation.
For a long, long time, ships up rivers and along coasts was the way serious transportation happened.
Then we had the canal-building era in the US. I assume that the UK did the same.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_age
Technology archaeologists and industrial historians date the American Canal Age from 1790 to 1855[1] based on momentum and new construction activity, since many of the older canals, although limited by locks that restricted boat sizes below the most economic capacities[b], nonetheless continued in service well into the twentieth century.[c]
By 1855, canals were no longer the civil engineering work of first resort, for it was nearly always better—cheaper to build a railroad above ground than it was to dig a watertight ditch 6–8 feet (2–3 m) deep and provide it with water and make annual repairs for ice and freshet damages—even though the cost per ton mile on a canal was often cheaper in an operational sense, canals couldn’t be built along hills and dales, nor backed into odd corners, as could a railroad siding.
So that was maybe sixty, seventy years before rail was really displacing it.
EDIT: I guess what I’m trying to get at is that I don’t think that rail had a uniquely short era where it was the prime, go-to option compared to other transportation technologies…and I don’t think I’d say that the golden era was short enough to make the technology not a worthwhile investment, even if it was later, in significant part, superseded. A hundred years is a long time to wait around without engine-driven transportation, which would have been the alternative.
Like, the automobile? It looks like the boom in the UK they were talking about was in the 1840s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania
Railway Mania was a stock market bubble in the railway industry of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the 1840s.
There were primitive automobiles earlier, but the mass market automobile didn’t come around for a long time after that, and then it’ll have taken longer to get substantial marlet penetration.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42182497
It runs a bit off the edge — I don’t know how far back they had licensing and mileage data.
But extrapolating from those lines, I’d guess that annual distance traveled in the UK in autos on roads surpassed rail only in the 1940s or so, about a hundred years later.
That’s probably outside the investment horizon of people investing in the 1840s — in evaluating whether an investment is worthwhile, they won’t be considering returns a century hence.
That being said, it is possible to maybe consider freight rail, and it’s possible that that works out differently. The US doesn’t use much passenger rail in 2025, but it does do quite a bit of freight rail; the two can be decoupled.
EDIT: It can’t be too much earlier that road traffic could have risen, though, since mass-market motor vehicles weren’t much earlier than that.
I suppose it could, if you wanted to carry a foldable USB or Bluetooth keyboard or keypad.
I think this is a case of “knows enough to be dangerous”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
At Netscape, he developed the Unix release of Netscape Navigator 1.0,[4][5] and later, Netscape Mail, the first mail reader (or Usenet reader) to natively support HTML.[6]
I mean, you can draw the line wherever you want, but I expect that he probably knows more about mail than the average bear.
JWZ is probably one of the better people in a position to set up a commercial mail provider that provides whatever services and address the issue.
The version on F-Droid works on my system.
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Looks like the F-Droid project hasn’t seen a new Android build in a decade, and Maxima has seen updates, but…I mean, it’s a pretty mature program. I have a newer version on desktop, but all the stuff I use was added in the first couple decades or so of its life.
EDIT: The git repo is here:
https://github.com/YasuakiHonda/Maxima-on-Android-AS
So I expect that if someone wanted to do builds of newer versions, they could.
But for perspective, the calculator that the article is talking about that the author liked is also a decade-old calculator.
It’s all of Nvidia’s customers that are mini-Enrons.
I don’t think that those are faking profit. Well, I don’t have some comprehensive list, and maybe somewhere someone is, but not for the majority of purchases. It’s possible that they won’t wind up being long-term profitable, but there isn’t fraud involved in that.
I don’t think that the Enron analogy is very applicable in general. Like, what people who are critical of the extent of AI investment are worried about is analogous to the dot-com bubble, where the returns to investors from companies didn’t warrant the level of investment and stock prices for many companies shot way up and then fell back down.
EDIT: It’s fair to say that Nvidia is driving demand for its products. But…that may be quite sensible, since if you have a killer app or two explode, it can drive massive demand for the hardware that runs it. If you have capital available and control the best hardware out there, it may well make more sense to use that capital on building more demand for your product than to go and try and improve the product more. There’s only so many chip engineers available that Nvidia can hire, and unless they want to get into the “writing AI software” game themselves, which would have them compete with their customers, I’d think that that’s potentially a reasonable place to put their capital if they’re trying to improve their business potential.
Nvidia sold a lot of hardware when cryptocurrency became popular. I think that it’s probably fairly safe to say that AI applications have considerably more potential to provide utility than does cryptocurrency.
Scientific calculators are an amazing invention that take pocket calculators from being merely basic arithmetic machines to being pocket computers that can handle everything from statistics to algebra.
I use the FOSS maxima on Linux and Android.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War
If your family has been living in part of that yellow area for a long time, maybe.
Intel can use up their excess capacities, making currently high-priced DRAM for profit, gain goodwill for rescuing the PC market, which in turn will sell more Intel CPUs as well. Sounds like a win to me. What do you think?
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It sounds like they are, in fact, looking into making DRAM. Just that they’re interested in making better DRAM for AI applications.
American chip giant Intel has partnered with Japanese tech and investment powerhouse SoftBank to build a stacked DRAM substitute for HBM. According to Nikkei Asia, the two industry behemoths set up Saimemory to build a prototype based on Intel technology and patents from Japanese academia, including the University of Tokyo. The company is targeting a completed prototype and mass production viability assessment by 2027, with an end goal of commercialization before the end of the decade.
Most AI processors use HBM or high-bandwidth memory chips, which are perfect for temporarily storing the massive amount of data that AI GPUs process. However, these ICs are complex to manufacture and are relatively expensive. Aside from that, they get hot pretty quickly and require relatively more power. The partnership aims to solve this by stacking DRAM chips and then figuring out a way to wire them more efficiently. By doing so, the stacked DRAM chip’s power consumption is halved versus a similar HBM chip.
If successful, SoftBank says that it wants to have priority for the supply of these chips. At the moment, only three companies produce the latest HBM chips: Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron. The insatiable demand for AI chips means that HBM supply can be hard to get by, so Saimemory aims to corner the market with its substitute, at least for Japanese data centers. This will also be the first time that Japan aims to become a major memory chip supplier in over 20 years.
I suppose if they can make better AI-oriented DRAM than the Big Three and make enough of it to satisfy AI demand at some point, that might make the Big Three redirect some of their output back to DIMMs.
“Partial workaround” wou’d probably be more accurate. As the article body points out, DDR5 SO-DIMM prices are also up, albeit not as much as DDR5 DIMM prices.
But it’s substantial enough of a price difference to be interesting, especially with larger-capacity SO-DIMMs.
EDIT: For those not familiar, SO-DIMMs are “laptop memory” and DIMMs are “desktop memory”.
While I agree that I don’t think that an LLM is going to do the heavy lifting of making full use of Rust’s type system, I assume that Rust has some way of overriding type-induced checks. If your goal is just to get to a mechanically-equivalent-to-C++ Rust version, rather than making full use of its type system to try to make the code as correct as possible, you could maybe do that. It could provide the benefit of a starting place to start using the type system to do additional checks.
Most of that is setting up third-party apt repos, which I don’t believe is necessary. Steam’s in the Debian trixie repo.
https://packages.debian.org/stable/steam
EDIT: I’d guess that the following would probably work on a Debian trixie system:
If you have your system set up for only 64-bit packages, you’d need this at some point prior to the install, to let your system use 32-bit packages, since Steam’s only available as a 32-bit binary:
$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
I think that deciding whether to use both 64-bit and 32-bit packages or not is an option in the Debian installer, but I might be misremembering.
You can update your list of packages at this point, upgrade, all that, but that goes for any install operation; there’s nothing specific to Steam there. If you’ve just added 32-bit packages for the first time above, then you probably do want to update the list of packages, since your system won’t have a list of 32-bit packages yet.
$ sudo apt update
But then it’s just like any other installation of software.
$ sudo apt install steam
That actually just contains, as I recall, the Steam installer — enough to pull down and install the current Steam environment for a given user, which happens next time you run the Steam binary.
$ steam
EDIT2: I guess that assumes that you do have “contrib” enabled on the Debian repo, and I don’t know whether that’s enabled by default by the Debian installer or whether it’s an option during install or what. I do distinctly remember one point in time when “non-free-firmware” was not enabled by default, because I always had to turn it on to get support for <random hardware device with closed-source firmware blobs>, but I don’t know whether contrib is always enabled or not. I have main, contrib, non-free, and non-free-firmware enabled. From /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://mirror.i3d.net/debian/
Suites: trixie
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
“My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft distinguished engineer Galen Hunt wrote in a recent LinkedIn post.
“Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”
Well, I expect it’ll be exciting, one way or another.
I remember banging on updating controller firmware using Windows VMs (in my case, with XBox controllers) and didn’t get it working after some time, though theoretically it should be possible.
Just using an Internet-connected console is all it takes, so if you know anyone that has one, that’s probably a more convenient route.
I kind of wish places like GameStop would offer this as a service or let people do it, since they have demo consoles sitting there anyway (or did last time I was in one).
It’d be nice if Sony and Microsoft went out of their way to support fwupd, but I suppose in Microsoft’s case it’s a direct competitor (with Steam on Linux) and in Sony’s case, probably niche enough that they don’t see much point. Sony’s trying to make money on selling access to make games for their console, not selling controllers.
Killing DIMM production.
That’s of the three major companies that make RAM chips.
There are other companies that make DIMMs. They just buy chips from the RAM chip manufacturers to do it. PNY or Kingston, say.
Micron was just doing a vertically-integrated thing where they did both the chips and DIMMs.
EDIT: Looking back at the article, it does say that.
I mean, efficient in terms of memory utilization, like. Obviously there are gonna be associated costs and drawbacks with having remote compute.
Just that if the world has only N GB of RAM, you can probably get more out of it on some system running a bunch of containers, where any inactive memory gets used by some other container.
The “Behind the Overlay” extension for Firefox and Chrome doesn’t have the ability to intelligently detect whether something is an desired overlay or an undesired overlay, but it can pretty consistently, with a click on its button or a keyboard shortcut, remove them.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind_the_overlay/
I imagine that someone could probably make something fancier, with a lot of logic, kinda like Dark Reader or something, to guess whether a given overlay is “obnoxious” and just hide it by default.