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- Comment on lemmy.world down... 3 hours ago:
It isn’t magic but RAM doesn’t tend to just stop working. You’ll start getting reported error correction events on a bad dim before it might fail which usually means it’s replacement time.
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 1 day ago:
It’s still not that common to have one die. Servers have ECC memory which can get you by longer even as a DIMM starts to die. It’s also rarely run at speeds consumer RAM is run at.
The thing with server memory is when you get to point where you have hundreds of servers and each one has 12 to 24 DIMMs the chance you have a bad one somewhere increases.
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 1 day ago:
So does .CA
It’s one of the advantages of the being a lot of sys admins and Linux users in this community.
You can run Lemmy pretty comfortably on used servers.
- Comment on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs 4 days ago:
The real issue and what those AI dependent companies are banking on is that they can capture a user base and when OpenAI starts to reach the end of the road with LLM improvements and moves to the extract phase it can buy these little companies to ingest their user base.
Everyone else in that space will be instantly fucked since they will now be competing directly with openai while paying their margin but that’s the bet they are making.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 5 days ago:
You know it’s a good comic when they have to explain it with the I have autism pin.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 6 days ago:
What if instead of a pipe to return the steam we use a freaking laser beam!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The majority of the steam deck SKUs were produced prior to the AI memory crunch.
These steam machines are being produced in a market where memory is 3 or 4 times more expensive.
This box will be more than a steam deck. Probably 1000 bucks or so.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 weeks ago:
I do wonder if people have never met a senior in cognitive decline.
If you have you start to see the signs in a lot of the old people in Congress and the white house.
Trump can’t remember what he did last week.
- Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown 2 weeks ago:
You think that, until you realize that live nation controls almost every venue in your city/state/country and then you start getting juiced for even smaller acts.
If they want to keep their vertical integration they should have to play by some rules.
- Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown 2 weeks ago:
They do, that’s ticket masters entire value add for them.(Well that and the fact that they control a lot of venues).
You get mad at ticket master and not the artist.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure interest only mortgages already exist in some places.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 weeks ago:
Eh the Soviets had plenty of their own man made famine (Holodomor, among others)
- Comment on Who dis? 4 weeks ago:
How long has it been since they restyled that message app? A decade? Feels like longer.
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 4 weeks ago:
As much as America is fat as shit the rest of the world is not far behind unfortunately.
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know about your area but mine is nearly all those slow ass Touch kiosks. At best there is one person manning the till.
It would amuse me greatly if they dressed up the kiosks like this though.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 weeks ago:
For us poors sunscreen is the best value per dollar. Especially men, because women often include it with other cosmetics (even if it’s not that effective and you should be using a straight up sunscreen)
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 5 weeks ago:
My beef with them are three fold.
- They have been around for a decade and the elderly seem to still have screen terror and freeze up and take forever
- There are often fewer of these machines and children plug the hole trying one sip of every flavor
- I’ve thrown out cellphones with faster interfaces than these things and the damn screens get gross after a while if not cleaned constantly
- Comment on Pronouns history 5 weeks ago:
I mean as much as millennials would hate to hear it they will soon be the largest demographic (if they are not all ready) .
Time will tell if they succumb to the same tropes their parents did it is they get a new fun set of undesirable qualities.
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's understandable. 5 weeks ago:
My guess would be some sort of government service or charity whose funding is state related but is close to a border with another state.
They can probably serve out of state people but are not set up for it.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
Exactly.
Each of those knobs needs an injection mould, each switch behind it a supply chain. Iterating on digital design is far cheaper as well.
It’s far cheaper to use what are effectively 10 year old tablets in the cheaper cars. Since LCDs are being mass manufactured for other things that likely get a nice economy of scale.
- Comment on From the outside looking in 1 month ago:
That, and to pull them out during road rage incidents. Also pull them out when you’re scared of a black person. Don’t forget take them to school to get revenge.
They need them for a lot of reasons.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 1 month ago:
That’s one of those fun things until you have to clean it.
- Comment on one bright second 1 month ago:
For there to be cookies one must assume an eternal cookie banner / pop up telling you this site uses cookies.
- Comment on one bright second 1 month ago:
So if all the existing matter came from the big Bang, is it possible to condense it all back into one place?
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 1 month ago:
The built a thing by burning investor money to artificially lower the price and sell out high on stock IPOs is still going strong I see.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 2 months ago:
I mean most don’t go to their PhDs because it is effectively training for being an academic. Except there are very few jobs for academics so you’ll be an adjunct professor getting paid poverty wages.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 2 months ago:
Cardboard is recyclable so long as you don’t print on it and it’s the brown corrugated stuff. Which is a big ask.
Most of it doesn’t get recycled into more boxes though. Think like those cup holders you get at a take out place.
The other thing is trees area renewable resource in theory but we use a lot of fossil fuels to harvest and process then.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 2 months ago:
Same.
The people I’ve noticed complain seem to buy giant drinks and let them sit around for a while.
Never been a fan of flat warm soft drinks myself.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 2 months ago:
Yeah the last time I drank a can of coke it was crazy expensive. Like an entire dollar or some shit.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 months ago:
Those are hitting main populations between new York and LA plus the cities in Texas etc.
It roughly follows existing rail links