Usually a dish these days rather than waveguide, but yes.

There’s nothing about being larger that makes access speed inherently slower. We just have to use cheaper technologies to improve density. CPU cache is usually SRAM, which is less dense than DRAM, but faster. 1GB of SRAM would be god tier. Even the Ryzen X3D chips only have 96MB of L3 cache, all SRAM, and those are sick.

Still god tier. Plus, it’s static RAM, which is faster than the dynamic RAM used in regular RAM sticks.

Last part that I need is for SSDs to come down in price to where ~80TB isn’t too ridiculous (that’s 40TB usable space with RAID1). Cut the price per TB in half two more times to make it there. Otherwise, spinning platters are the bottleneck with my 10Gb network.

Which probably would have happened in the next few years if not for tariffs.

They’re apparently in talks to sell off their network division. Future there is really up in the air.

A lot of those modules would work fine if the companies didn’t fuck with their drivers.

The Linux ixgbe driver (for Intel 82598 and 82599 chipsets) was submitted with a whitelist for Intel SFP+ adapters. Linux devs added a module option to shut off the whitelist, and tons of stuff is perfectly compatible.

Copyright, yes. And a lot of this is corporate history rather than the legal portion.

Historically, this has been an easy sell. If the US gets nuked, Canada is just as fucked. Canada was happy to host US early warning radar throughout the Cold War.

The fact that it’s not an easy sell now highlights how bad Trump is at everything. You never needed The Art of the Deal to set this up in the past.

SCO Unix was mostly dead before then (not fully dead, just smelled like it). They were never the most popular Unix vendor to begin with. Caldera–a commercial Linux distro–had bought them out, and that’s when the legal trouble started.

All those old vendors tended to have one specific thing they were really good at. IIRC, the thing for SCO was that they could load up hundreds of users on a single box on 1990s hardware. No small feat when the traditional Unix model needs to fork() a process for login/shell/whatever.

In a sense, NextStep is the only one of the old Unix vendors to still have a significant install base.

This is (theoretically) a programmer forum. I use the programmer definition. By that definition, not having an algorithm is nonsense.

Yeah, I don’t like that one, either.

If they let up on hating an outside groups for a moment, people might notice that they have no policies that anyone wants.

I’m an enthusiast with no kids (and a vasectomy to make sure it stays that way) and I’ve driven both around a track. Glad to have done it once, but I’m not in any hurry to do it again. Wouldn’t buy either one over my Miata.

Supercars are vastly overrated.

The problem for Christianity is that it doesn’t fit with how God is presented. He intervenes in things from time to time. Destroyed civilization with a flood because he didn’t like what people were doing with free will.

You might be able to take a Deist stance and make it work. However, then you’re implicitly saying there’s no evidence for God, and are one step out from agnostic atheism. You could say God changed his mind and saw the flood as a bad idea, but fundamentalists are never going to go for that one.

For that matter, the free will explanation isn’t even universal among Christians.

You’re not calling anyone out on anything. We’re all quite aware of habitat destruction. It’s just not the focus of this particular thread.

I also hate the way “algorithm” has taken over the public consciousness. You can find people unironically saying “I don’t want any algorithm in my social media feed”, which is a nonsensical statement.

Maybe letting cats out is one of the many ways we destroy habitat, and calling it out is valid?

It’s a real thing in financial markets. Or it was. America has had a privileged position with borrowing. It’s both the cause of the 2008 financial crash, and the country that weathered it best. By 2011, people were looking at the austerity measures in the EU and decided the US was a better place to put their money.

You’re not wrong to say it’s rich assholes deciding where to put their money, but the fact is that they drive the market.

It’s the patriotic suckers out there who don’t understand how this privileged position functions and are now dismantling it like monkeys taking apart a typewriter.

Biden kept quite a few of the tariffs Trump did in his first term. Even increased some of them.