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Comment Re:128GB max ram? the old mac pro can do more and (Score 1) 80

Umm, not sure of your point. Unified memory has nothing to do with cacheless. In fact Nvidia's new digit is much more cache friendly than a normal PC. A normal PC isn't cache coherent, so if your GPU can't fit a texture, it can't cache miss to main memory, it just fails. Nor can you hand a pointer to a complex data structure and pass it between CPU and GPU. With this new setup in both cases it would just work and fully use any available cache. Much like how a dual socket server can allow one CPU to update memory, invalidate the cache on the other socket, and allow the 2nd socket to see the update.

The difficulty in fully utilize a GPU in a normal PC is that it's attached via PCI-e, which is not cache coherent, and can not use caching. This is fixed with unified memory. This is becoming common this days with the Apple laptops/desktops, high end AMD MI300a, Nvidia grace+hopper, the new AMD Strix Halo, and of course the nvidia GB10.

Comment Insanely greedy. (Score 5, Insightful) 38

All ISPs go on and on about how much bandwidth they will give you, for anything you want, access to the internet.

But then if Netflix doesn't pay, I only get the internet ... except netflix? Shouldn't I get a discount?

The entire idea seems stupid and insane. You charge your customers for bandwidth and your expense is providing that bandwidth.

Comment Re:I live in Minnesota... (Score 1) 215

Ideally houses would be designed to be efficient. With modern techniques you can get very low exchange rates with outside. To fix that you have to engineer in the airflows. The good news is you can design it in, get as healthy air as you want, and do energy recovery so most of your AC or Heat stays inside.

Comment Depends on perspective. (Score 5, Insightful) 84

Keep in mind the statement in the article "We believe the inner core rotates, relative to the Earth's surface, back and forth,".

So the core is rotating in the same direction as the rest of the planet, but oscillates from slightly slower then the surface of the earth, to slightly faster. So not "reversing" in the literal sense of clockwise vs counter clockwise, but instead slightly slower to slightly faster.

Comment Expected (Score 1) 167

It's almost as if treating your customers like crap and jumping on the crypto craziness and selling direct to crypto miners while ignoring your traditional custom base has an impact. As a result people are making do without GPUs by using phones, tablets, and game consoles. The next gen cards are still crazy expensive, even the new, not shipping yet RTX 4070 is, the 4th from the fastest Nvidia card) is $800 and has the same bus width as a RTX 3060 and *LESS* than a 3060 Ti.

Sure the new cards are faster, every new gen is, people don't expect to pay $800 for a mid range card and are voting with their feet.

Comment Of course it does. (Score 1) 41

Seems kinda obvious once you thing about it.

So a star is a big ball of gas, getting denser as you get deeper. The outside edges of a star are first to fall into the black hole. The gas in the star leaves the star as soon as the blackhole's gravity impact on the surface is less than the pressure the gas is at. The peeled off gas will gain speed quickly and enter the accretion disk. As soon as the volume of that spiral, gets less than the volume of the star the fusion will re-ignite. However matter is the accretion disk is mostly in a stable orbit, only friction with other gas and giving off gravity waves causes the gas to lose energy and spiral in. So the gas goes from zero gravity (at the center of gravity of the star and blackhole) into the accretion disc and is slowly squeezed. Seems quite reasonably that from zero to squeezed enough to reignite fusion will take years. Not like the gas just falls straight in, at the speed of light, until after it crosses the event horizon.

Comment Re:Who's going to pay for the damage? (Score 1) 126

Sadly true. I've also had samsung phones that felt really slow, even the home button was laggy. I switched to Cyanogen (a community based android) and it was WAY faster. It also didn't kill apps aggressively, so you could *gasp* multitask instead. Seems like Samsung was crazy aggressive on killing background apps to help with the benchmarks.

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