The carbon fiber is a protective overwrap, much like anti-spalling wrap on ballistic armor.

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.

"Laser light at that wavelength has only recently become possible."

Lolwut? We've been able to run multiple frequency-doubling passes on various laser sources to reach most any range of UV laser for well over a decade. The problem is you get not a whole lot of radiant output - less than half a watt output at gobs of watts input.

Also, 148nm is not deep UV, that is flat-out Vacuum UV.

You could have made a graphical powerhouse but nooooo you made a useless fucking waste of AI compute.

Given I almost NEVER see a Surface device in the wild, I'm guessing this is just another shoddy attempt at trying to lock people into AI-only shit.

"Those of us who worry about our safety are less concerned."

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"

12PM is fucking noon is when the fucking sun is at its highest position in the sky.

It has been like this for at least a millennia. DST is bullshit.

Live with nature and quit fucking denying it like a conservative.

That's one part of the equation! Satellite bus cost is another part of the 'magnitudes of order' reduction equation. Where I work right now is addressing that.

Uhh, console makers already do hardware lockdown and game companies work with that and even include their own sorts of shenanigans. Have for at least 20 years, now.

What rock are you living under?

California Penal Code 399: If an owner knows their animal is dangerous or mischievous, fails to keep it under control, and it kills a person, the owner commits a felony. If only serious injury occurs, it is a wobbler (depends on extent of injury as to whether misdemeanor or felony charges get pressed.)

No state completely lacks a legal mechanism to penalize or hold owners civilly or criminally negligent in this case, and most states explicitly have criminal statues covering this.

Are you just being willfully obtuse or what?

hackernews (when it isn't loaded with fucktons of AI stories)

Using a GPU versus a CPU (as was done here) increases how quickly you can churn through those remaining possible permutations (I read the actual paper.)

What was done on an academic CPU cluster could probably be just as easily performed on a well-tuned bitcoin rig at far far faster speed.

Call it what it is in reality, lies.

2048-bit RSA that protects an AES-256 key that actually does the encryption - those of you that ever had a ransomware hit you from a cock.li address might have hope of recovering your stuff, yet!

80 trillion operations per second wasted on AI garbage when that could have gone to x86 emulation and made a smartphone on the level of desktop systems.

Instead they choose to spy on you and steal your information.

You stupid gamergate moron. This is why you can't get laid. You can't even remember the bitches you were white-knighting.