“Partial workaround” wou’d probably be more accurate. As the article body points out, DDR5 SO-DIMM prices are also up, albeit not as much as DDR5 DIMM prices.

But it’s substantial enough of a price difference to be interesting, especially with larger-capacity SO-DIMMs.

EDIT: For those not familiar, SO-DIMMs are “laptop memory” and DIMMs are “desktop memory”.

Even if the text is removed, if the font is a proportional one, the very exact dimensions of any removed text plus knowledge of stuff like kerning can reveal the text.

I would assume that China is doing the larger part of this.

The article text just says that they’re building a nuclear power plant, not transporting it or building other components of the lunar base.

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I can imagine some neat applications of that, like posting public keys or something.

While I agree that I don’t think that an LLM is going to do the heavy lifting of making full use of Rust’s type system, I assume that Rust has some way of overriding type-induced checks. If your goal is just to get to a mechanically-equivalent-to-C++ Rust version, rather than making full use of its type system to try to make the code as correct as possible, you could maybe do that. It could provide the benefit of a starting place to start using the type system to do additional checks.

Why anyone would buy the not smoked one, I don’t know, but it is a thing.

Smoking something will make it mildly carcinogenic, and I imagine that some people might object to that. Probably also someone out there with food allergies.

Most of that is setting up third-party apt repos, which I don’t believe is necessary. Steam’s in the Debian trixie repo.

https://packages.debian.org/stable/steam

EDIT: I’d guess that the following would probably work on a Debian trixie system:

If you have your system set up for only 64-bit packages, you’d need this at some point prior to the install, to let your system use 32-bit packages, since Steam’s only available as a 32-bit binary:

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

I think that deciding whether to use both 64-bit and 32-bit packages or not is an option in the Debian installer, but I might be misremembering.

You can update your list of packages at this point, upgrade, all that, but that goes for any install operation; there’s nothing specific to Steam there. If you’ve just added 32-bit packages for the first time above, then you probably do want to update the list of packages, since your system won’t have a list of 32-bit packages yet.

$ sudo apt update

But then it’s just like any other installation of software.

$ sudo apt install steam

That actually just contains, as I recall, the Steam installer — enough to pull down and install the current Steam environment for a given user, which happens next time you run the Steam binary.

$ steam

EDIT2: I guess that assumes that you do have “contrib” enabled on the Debian repo, and I don’t know whether that’s enabled by default by the Debian installer or whether it’s an option during install or what. I do distinctly remember one point in time when “non-free-firmware” was not enabled by default, because I always had to turn it on to get support for <random hardware device with closed-source firmware blobs>, but I don’t know whether contrib is always enabled or not. I have main, contrib, non-free, and non-free-firmware enabled. From /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://mirror.i3d.net/debian/
Suites: trixie
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware 
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

Well, there sort of was a war, but it was conducted by a Protestant group that famously helped settle America, the Puritans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

However, in 17th century England, some groups such as the Puritans strongly condemned the celebration of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the “trappings of popery” or the “rags of the Beast”.[50] In contrast, the established Anglican Church “pressed for a more elaborate observance of feasts, penitential seasons, and saints’ days. The calendar reform became a major point of tension between the Anglican party and the Puritan party”.[51] The Catholic Church also responded, promoting the festival in a more religiously oriented form. King Charles I of England directed his noblemen and gentry to return to their landed estates in midwinter to keep up their old-style Christmas generosity.[42] Following the Parliamentarian victory over Charles I during the English Civil War, England’s Puritan rulers banned Christmas in 1647.[50][52] Oliver Cromwell even ordered his troops to confiscate any special meals made on Christmas Day.[53]

Protests followed as pro-Christmas rioting broke out in several cities and for weeks Canterbury was controlled by the rioters, who decorated doorways with holly and shouted royalist slogans.[50] Football, among the sports the Puritans banned on a Sunday, was also used as a rebellious force: when Puritans outlawed Christmas in England in December 1647 the crowd brought out footballs as a symbol of festive misrule.[54] The book, The Vindication of Christmas (London, 1652), argued against the Puritans, and makes note of Old English Christmas traditions, dinner, roast apples on the fire, card playing, dances with “plow-boys” and “maidservants”, old Father Christmas and carol singing.[55] During the ban, semi-clandestine religious services marking Christ’s birth continued to be held, and people sang carols in secret.[56]

Christmas was restored as a legal holiday in England with the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 when Puritan legislation was declared void, with Christmas again freely celebrated in England.[56] Many Calvinist clergymen disapproved of Christmas celebrations. As such, in Scotland, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland discouraged the observance of Christmas, and though James VI commanded its celebration in 1618, attendance at church was scant.[57] The Parliament of Scotland officially abolished the observance of Christmas in 1640, claiming that the church had been “purged of all superstitious observation of days”.[58] Whereas in England, Wales and Ireland Christmas Day is a common law holiday, having been a customary holiday since time immemorial, it was not until 1871 that it was designated a bank holiday in Scotland.[59] The diary of James Woodforde, from the latter half of the 18th century, details the observance of Christmas and celebrations associated with the season over a number of years.[60]

As in England, Puritans in Colonial America staunchly opposed the observation of Christmas.[61] The Pilgrims of New England pointedly spent their first December 25 in the New World working normally.[61] Puritans such as Cotton Mather condemned Christmas both because scripture did not mention its observance and because Christmas celebrations of the day often involved boisterous behavior.[62][63] Many non-Puritans in New England deplored the loss of the holidays enjoyed by the laboring classes in England.[64] Christmas observance was outlawed in Boston in 1659.[61] The ban on Christmas observance was revoked in 1681 by English governor Edmund Andros, but it was not until the mid-19th century that celebrating Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region.[65]

“My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft distinguished engineer Galen Hunt wrote in a recent LinkedIn post.

“Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”

Well, I expect it’ll be exciting, one way or another.

I remember banging on updating controller firmware using Windows VMs (in my case, with XBox controllers) and didn’t get it working after some time, though theoretically it should be possible.

Just using an Internet-connected console is all it takes, so if you know anyone that has one, that’s probably a more convenient route.

I kind of wish places like GameStop would offer this as a service or let people do it, since they have demo consoles sitting there anyway (or did last time I was in one).

It’d be nice if Sony and Microsoft went out of their way to support fwupd, but I suppose in Microsoft’s case it’s a direct competitor (with Steam on Linux) and in Sony’s case, probably niche enough that they don’t see much point. Sony’s trying to make money on selling access to make games for their console, not selling controllers.

Killing DIMM production.

That’s of the three major companies that make RAM chips.

There are other companies that make DIMMs. They just buy chips from the RAM chip manufacturers to do it. PNY or Kingston, say.

Micron was just doing a vertically-integrated thing where they did both the chips and DIMMs.

EDIT: Looking back at the article, it does say that.

I mean, efficient in terms of memory utilization, like. Obviously there are gonna be associated costs and drawbacks with having remote compute.

Just that if the world has only N GB of RAM, you can probably get more out of it on some system running a bunch of containers, where any inactive memory gets used by some other container.

Apparently there are m.2 NVMe drives with DRAM caches.

I don’t know if anyone makes a pure DRAM NVMe drive — it’d forget its contents every boot — but if so, on Linux, you could make the block device a swap partition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram

One of the mechanisms for compressing memory in Linux. Trades CPU time for effectively having more RAM Recent versions of Fedora apparently have it on by default.

I’ve read that zswap, another mechanism, is preferable on newer systems with NVMe/SSD, where paging isn’t as painful; that only compresses pages going to swap, but requires that you actually have some swap. I haven’t used either.

Probably someone should try benchmarking them for various workloads if systems are going to be running on much less memory for a while. Was more of an edge case thing that not many people cared about, but if operating with less memory is suddenly more important, might have broader interest.

On Linux, also possible to opt for lighter-on-memory versions of a lot of software that you’re kinda committing to using the Microsoft-provided version of on Windows. File browser, compositor, etc.

https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/cpm-internals

CP/M requires a minimum of 20K RAM, although realistically, 48K is the bare minimum. Most systems have the maximum 64K.

Sounds like it can’t address > 2¹⁶ bytes.

Honestly, it’ll be more efficient to have memory in a datacenter in that hardware in a datacenter will see higher average capacity utilization, but it’s gonna drive up datacenter prices too.

I don’t think that the NVMe shortage is that big of a deal in terms of using it for swap. It’s much cheaper than DRAM per GB. You don’t need that much.

Windows 11 can run on 4GB. That’s the minimum for the listed requirements, and the other day, I saw Best Buy selling a 4GB model, and I see some systems for sale online. I would imagine that it’s not ideal.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications

Minimum system requirements for Copilot+ PCs

RAM: 16 GB DDR5/LPDDR5

I think that OpenAI has probably kind of bashed a hole in the bottom of Microsoft’s boat on the local AI stuff, if 8GB is going to be midrange.