Whats a point of a screen when you've got a dead battery? If you skip the screen, the battery will llast and you'll look healthy. Its a hipster gadget, not a yoga class.

Who is Al ?

The guy in the Paul Simon song?

I'm certain that the courts agree he must find a way to pay billions of dollars of damages to our pain and suffering.

Said the frog to the scorpion "cough up the green!"

....Unless we can be bought off with crypto fascist free speech corporate oligarchies. If Democracy and Communism both lose and make everyone pay, then the leadership is the problem. When our enemy is the best solution then winning is suicidal. Suicide is still homocide, it really doesn't matter who you murder as long as you win, even if it kills you. Like a marriage. Then you win after you suffer to death. But at least you win, and you were already born right. You just had to prove it to the losers, who are dead. Ironically, thats when you get the 72 virgins, a pension, healthcare and free swag. But no taxes ..or elections... A place where democracy and communism are gone. No Voting, No Work, Death is the only escape. Do unto others, you're already screwed. The irony runs deep since everyone here already escaped. Now, we are the native savage welcoming committee. Humanity, what a concept: Civilization is for losers. War and Markets prove it with human casualties. Life was so simple before scarcity.

Same as it ever was. Soylent Green is people. Now in extra crispy

If you go old enough, you have to take into account that memory bandwidth was terrible.

On a Pentium 1, I believe RAM can do somewhere around 100MB/s. And sure, it gets better later, but still. If you consider that a serious RAID-5 for instance, you're reading at a minimum 3 drives, and computing parity, then yes, you can easily take most of your memory's bandwidth just on that. It makes a lot of sense then to offload stuff to a RAID card.

These days hard disks are laughably slow compared to the rest of the computer, but it didn't use to be quite like that. A high end SCSI drive of the era might do maybe 20 MB/s, which is a good fraction of the system RAM's capability. Put just 3 there and it's starting to get tricky.

Also, we have the benefit that some slowness stopped to matter. If you're RAID5-ing 3 x 8GB/s NVMes and not getting the ideal performance out of it there's lots of cases where that doesn't matter because you don't have a workload capable of doing anything with what even a single drive is capable of providing anyway.

Just imagine, if you could be taxed more for unproductive infrastructure. Everything in the world would be solved, if you would just pay everything to the government, and they could re-distribute all of your income to others.

The entire reason why industrialization has delivered the promises of socialism, while socialism brought mass scarcity everywhere, is that productive activity generates resources that can be spent elsewhere.

Meanwhile taking more and more from existing industries, only to fund unproductive things (i.e. electric lines that don't allow for more production to offset their costs) improvershes everyone. It's why PRC has as many problems with useless infrastructure they built as they do. It's why their property market collapsed a few years ago.

Loudoun county is a well known example. There are several others.

https://progresschamber.org/in...

This isn't really new or interesting. If you manage to get a lot of new industry in, you can tax that industry instead of your residents. Meaning you can fund more services, while taking less tax.

Air quality collapses. That's a new one. What exactly do they do to the air?

Gas turbines? Water vapor poisons the air now? Man, people living near oceans must be all dying from water vapor poisoning. Reminder that methane burns into H2O and CO2.

Chinabots are going really hard nowadays.

This is the other PRC sponsored talking point that is nonsensical. "They bring noise".

They have fans pointed upwards, and usually shielded with noise shields on the sides. As a result they emit far less noise than most industrial applications. Whatever noise they emit usually travels upwards, not sideways.

But crazy witch with 50 cats says that noise killed her latest litter. Tiktok said so, so it must be true.

Yeah, anti-datacenter propaganda really worked well in some places. Not many, but some.

In real world, data centers are currently reviving a lot of remote towns. Dilapidated infrastructure? They will rebuild it because they need it to work. Insufficient infrastructure? They'll finance the build out. Everything already fine? They will pay enough taxes to cut residents' tax bills by a significant chunk.

It's why the propaganda is focusing mainly on a handful of cases of corruption (i.e. officials getting bribed to offer better terms than necessary), as well as just blatant lying (oh my god they consume so much water, we're going to run out).

Mostly what is needed is for more small towns to realize that they can rebuild a lot of dilapidated infrastructure and lower property taxes if they make a good deal with a data center. Not to mention minor perks like fast potential to pull fast broadband access in a rural town, or build something that will be productive for a long time, like a new power plant.

Thank you for sharing this meme, which is completely unsuitable for this case.

In a Free to Play game, customer isn't a product. In-game purchases are the product. To get the customer to the product, customer must first install and play the game.

Valorant is free to play.

Level of reading comprehension: Baizuo.

This sounds great and all, because it makes people think there's some magical RAM capacity that can just be brought online, and it's just Evil Overlords (TM) that are hoarding it all like Scrooge McDuck.

Reality is much less rosy. It takes at a minimum, while rushing at a breakneck pace, about 3 years from decision to start of a RAM fab. Shortages started in 2025. If we were to do all of your recommended actions, it would still mean that RAM market would remain heavily constrained well into 2029.

Just as Micron is predicting. Because there are in fact new upcoming fabs, and new entrants. CXMT for example. But even with PRC's rules, where competition is enforced by communists who are on the record condemning CEOs to involuntary organ donation by relatives when results don't please the communist leadership, they're not able to meet demand. Even with Chinese financing model, which is to basically shove a funnel down a "strategic interest" industry's mouth and pour massive amounts of capital into it to get a rapid capacity build out and cut throat competition. They've done it with everything from EVs to solar panels. They're doing it to memory.

And even they seem to agree with Micron on how fast new RAM capacity can be started.