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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how tiny ? afaik the controlling factor limitng memory atm is that they can't make it thinner than it is because single layer silicone and tunelling becoems a thing.
mircea_popescu: Chillum that was more of a "we want this hardware to last 25 months exactly" marketin thing i thought
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do they measure charge without altering it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so random ssd question for you. aren't the reads destructive just as writes are ? how come not if not ?
mircea_popescu: so this difference between us is enforced in a way you can't ignore.
mircea_popescu: he has a boss in rh who has a boss who has an orlov who has an etc. six strings long, the flea circus.
mircea_popescu: i doubt poettering for isntance as much as saw a whiff of a whiff of that.
mircea_popescu: it's just that moot subcultures at the end of their rope spew singlemindedness as a natural fermentation product.
mircea_popescu: and no, i don't propose that there's an actual office somewhere directing this braindamage.
mircea_popescu: here's this monstruous pile of serious problems in dire need of a solution, and here's the transgenderqueer crowd fixing pronouns and breaking the scant few things that almost work.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, the parallels between usg-poettering "working on" linux and usgavin "working on" bitcoin are utterly striking.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> this is how i learned the tar ecosystem is actually a fucking nightmare << it's reallty very very bad.
mircea_popescu: "hello concierge ? yes i need a new room please, this one is full of shit."
mircea_popescu: i hate to break it to you nubbins` but this is really not normal.
mircea_popescu: it's a halfway world, right ? i hope you survive the indignity :)
mircea_popescu: because, poor ex-billionaire mp doesn't know how to be a ex-billionaire correctly, like whatever frail us schmuck.
mircea_popescu: ima have to cart bricks of cash to the hotel nao. and i will.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and there is truth to that, yes. but not just.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from the other pov, because in the rest of the world this machine is part of bezzleworld.
mircea_popescu: this because russians know enough to not have it any other way.
mircea_popescu: well the reason they haven't is that wallet code is so damned bad.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, most people that survived a halon dump also heard the pov that "the machine just does that when it's displeased"
mircea_popescu: "this is your new computer ms. robinson. and to repeat our warning : if you misspell it will whip you."
mircea_popescu: "heterogenous cpus calculating same problem" seems to me like you maybe had too much of the good stuff.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> actual luxury doesn't take out ad space in GQ << this is really just a more benign and socially acceptable restatement of alf's meta-nsa thesis.
mircea_popescu: ie, let our rich customers pay for our automotive research.
mircea_popescu: exactly along the lines described in "you're the kid not good enough to sling dope"
mircea_popescu: because car makers, like any software designers, are more than willing to externalise their costs
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, if there's some dubious / experimental stuff, it gets put into the luxury item
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the key of the article being, that if there's a genuinely "Better" anything, it will be in the mass market item, because the savings there are major. nobody is foregoing putting a GOOD something in an item that gets baked > 100mn units.
mircea_popescu: <chetty> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. << this is me trying to alter eulora database. because you really want a mmorpg server that segfaults when game designers futz with game data.
mircea_popescu: "and if i find a ten foot tall transparent (not translucent!!!) woman, i might stick my penis into her
mircea_popescu: Chillum that's why he's such an error correction fanboi.
mircea_popescu: no other consideration can beat the advantages of commonality i dun think.
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine the wallet can ever be anything but pc.
mircea_popescu: and that's a hole that's there for thermodynamic reasons too. nobody made it.
mircea_popescu: no alf. it's because fuck you, you want to spend fiddy bux.
mircea_popescu: mats these aren't really intended to be multiuser systems.
mircea_popescu: moreover, there are fixes for the particular effect, buy rowhammer proof sticks.
mircea_popescu: case 1 : you have slow memory, 64 gb of. you need 5 gb. case 2 : you have fast leaky memory, 32gb of. you still need 5gb, but use 15 for redundancy.