I expect to see a lot of GPUs with recycled RAM and maybe some recycled GPUs. You can already get such things from Chinese vendors who transplant parts from dead graphics cards, or repair them, or add video output to ones intended for compute only.

When proprietary software makes FOSS more attractive that's to be encouraged so companies have more incentive not less to support Linux. The worse Windows gets the better.

Games are trifles compared to freedom and FOSS is critical to freedom of communication and computing now and in future. Pretending to be a cartoon character is fun but gaming is hardly critical to quality of life.

Here in the UK the government would set up an independent corporation, owned by the government but not directly controlled by it, to oversee Chrome development. It doesn't even have to be government owned, like the BBC. Isn't PBS like that in the US?

We are realizing that for all the issues with such corporations, they are better than the alternative. We tried it with water and energy, with trains and busses, and it's been a total disaster. They are coming back into public ownership now.

AI uses a lot of HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) which is optimized for throughput, not latency. You are right, it's generally not something you would use for main RAM, it's for GPUs.

CXMT is already making DDR5. It's not the fastest, but it works. Hopefully output can ramp up really fast.

We have samples for 3 asteroids, not just one.

Hayabusa (2010)
Hayabusa 2
OSIRIS-REx

The CNSA has Tianwen-2 currently at 469219 KamoÊoalewa, with sample return scheduled for next year.

It's the classic Japanese fig leaf. Technically they don't have aircraft carriers either, they have "helicopter destroyers" that look exactly like aircraft carriers, complete with a runway and naval jets.

But there is still a lot of opposition to both nuclear weapons and having a military that isn't purely defensive. Aside from the history of the military causing huge disasters for Japan, people see that other countries tend to get swept up in US military adventures, and don't want that.

The conservatives talk a lot about needing a stronger posture with North Korea and China nearby, but I think really what they want is a lucrative weapons industry. Japan has the technology and industrial base, but for political reasons companies there don't get involved in offensive weapons.

Due to climate change we will have to at least start switching the type of trees we plan to ones more suited to extremes of temperature, and higher averages. I don't know if it will be hemp, but probably something will have to change.

I don't think that's the goal of this project. This is more about being able to prove that the original file is genuine, say for legal reasons or so that a journalist can verify it with the person who took it. It's not for verifying social media copies.

Besides, nobody has managed to make a robust perceptual hash. It would be huge if someone figured it out.

Maybe Chrome should be a government run open source project. Non profit but well funded. Dedication to standards compliance. More modular architecture so that all the Google specific stuff like sync can be swapped out at runtime and people have a simple, easy choice of provider.

The market will be flooded with used hardware when the big AI companies start to go bust or sell off their older hardware that is being replaced. It will have had a hard life in a server rack, but stuff like RAM rarely fails due to age or use, and even consumables like SSDs are often for consumers if they are enterprise grade with 5% life left. I've been using some old Intel server SSDs with 5-10% life left for years, for bulk temporary storage.

At this point computer storage is a national security issue and a huge economic problem for governments.

Probably LRO vs. Danuri

Offshore wind has a decent capacity factor, with show term variations smoothed out with batteries. In fact some of the North Sea turbines are rivalling French nuclear plants for capacity factor now, although that's more a statement on how old and unable to deal with heat the latter are.

Low cost healthcare and cheap renewable power too.