These days all high performance computing is limited by just one thing: ram bandwidth. And with the tradition to AI on gpu this issue got worse. Apple is the only company that is making integrated gpu/cpu memory that is also high bandwidth. Not like the bad old days where integrated memory just meant cheapo motherboard without dedicated video memory.

Memory is in fact moving into the system chip for even better bandwidth so of course it has to be soldered! That's not even the right terminology.

The real question is do you want additional off chip memory or not? The off chip memory will be slower just as register and global
Memory must be used carefully on gpu to get performance the answer is that yes you could perhaps make use of the off chip slower ram or even slower sodimm ram. But at some point maybe the place to put that is instead on the solid state drive. Integrate the ram as a cache for the ssd. It's already doing that but make it even bigger. Then you can make it persistent as well.

Apple as usual is way ahead in adopting the future before the software exploiting it arrives .

I agree with you but don't underestimate DeBeers.

They have enough diamond reserves that they can steeply discount natural ones for long enough to put synthetic diamond makers out of business.

LK

It's amazing these things memorize some text and some image motifs and can read English with semantic prediction, obey even structures for executable code creation, and emit coherent English in topic with so few parameters.
You could not code most of those and even apply the most advanced compression and have the result fit in a dvd. And yet there you are managing it.
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This is very hard to explain or imagine. What am I missing???

I didn't say possible. I said practical. Strong crypto is hard. Secure key exchange is hard.

Governments have been breaking codes for as long as we have had codes.

LK

Even the most professional of officers would be tempted if he was was cheating on him or if someone delivered a credible threat to the safety of his children.

The best way to prevent this kind of abuse is to make it impossible.

LK

Edward Snowden showed that this is not as true as you seem to think it is.

LK

Then, let them serve the warrant.

What is different is that for the first time in human history, it's not only possible but it's practical to have encrypted communications that no one can access except for the intended recipient.

All of "the most heinous of crimes" take place in the real world, there is some physical action that can be detected and punished. I don't care if this makes the job of law enforcement harder. I want law enforcement to be a difficult and time consuming job. Idle and bored cops tend to find ways to fill their time and it's never good.

LK

I've been thinking about adding solar panels to my house. I would love if I could get a federal subsidy to do it. However, just like with my student loan forgiveness, I'm NOT giving Biden my vote in exchange.

LK

No mod points today, so instead I'll just tell you that you owe me a new keyboard because this one now has coffee all over it :)

Agreed on Strange New Worlds. It's a breath of fresh air for Nu-Trek.

I tried real hard with Discovery. Made it through the first two (?) seasons and just couldn't bring myself to care enough to continue to trudge through the sophomoric writing and characters (or character, since it should be called "The MIchael Burman Show").

Have to disagree with Picard though. The last season was 100% rooted in nostalgia and member-berries. And sure, it was fun to see the old cast and ship... as long as your brain has an off-switch. The story and plot, if you take half a second to think about it, was one giant non-sequitur and nonsensical to the point of insulting. It also completely discarded everything that happened in Picard season 1 and 2 which, even if you didn't completely love those seasons (I didn't) there was still important story elements and character development that was treated as if it never happened. Again, this is insulting to the audience and screams "I have a giant ego" by the producer.

I don't think they understand how this works.
It's going to be an eternal game of whack-a-mole.
Good luck, though.

LK

I love NoScript and have been using it for ages, but I do wish there was a "curated" mode with a minimal trusted whitelist you could opt into using, sort of like a reverse ad-blocker. There are times when visiting a new site that the list of blocked domains is monumental, and figuring out the minimal set necessary for the page to function is pretty much impossible without investing way too much time.

Even an option akin to "temporarily allow all" but instead using a whitelist built from contributions (maybe ala SponsorBlock) would be a better middle-ground than what I often end up doing and just temp-allowing everything until I'm done with the site.

You can say the exact same thing about cigarette companies in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

What makes them corrupt is when they lie to the public and regulators about the health impact of their products. TEL companies knew that lead was causing problems, but tried to bury that under a pile of lies, lobbying, and obfuscation. Tobacco companies knew cigarettes were addictive and caused cancer, but tried to hide it and delay as long as possible any kind of public health campaign or laws against public smoking.

That's the line that can't be crossed if you want to pray to the Invisible Hand for guidance.

That should have been done 20 years ago. Back in the 70s-90s, it made sense. Cable companies were given monopolies to incentivize them stringing cable all over the place so they could recoup their expenses. They have made back their money. Now, they're just milking the people.

LK

No it can't. There's a little orange indicator on the shutdown button when an update will be installed, and clicking on it gives you the option to *not* apply updates during either shutdown or reboot. And when you apply updates during shutdown it will reboot the machine and then shutdown again so you won't even be surprised by your next startup. This has been the how it has worked for 3 years now.

Why do people comment about Windows in ways which are so obviously visibly incorrect?

This might be a case where you're technically correct, the best kind of correct, but people's lived experience is still getting caught by Windows Update when you don't want to. It happened to a high school kid in our robotics lab yesterday. What was meant to be a quick reboot turned into a 20-25 minute wait.

Power users might, but it's still missing the demographic of people like me (./er since 1997) and high school robotics programming kids, so I'd imagine it happens to the less tech savvy an awful lot.