ulterno

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, kinda weir on that one.
It is surprising how people can be unreasonable when they are given the ability to.

Though I can think of conspiracy theories for this behaviour.
Guess I should go to jokeconspiracy@lemmy.ca considering how many of these come to my mind.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Well, the server ECC variant is still pretty useful for desktop workloads. Just make sure AMD always supports it in the next generations. If it's still a DIMM, then it can be sold right away.

GDDR7, again, if the chip has the required pins as in GPUs, then GPU manufacturers can simply buy them, test them for a few hours maybe, and pop them in their lineups with a bit of re-calculation of traces (in case the exact pinout differs). Of course you get some re-soldering damage, but there's not much you can do about it. On the other hand, if the GDDR7 is in GPUs already, most the companies would require is to alter the firmwares a bit and sell refurbished units.

HBM2. Seems like it is possible to get slottable modules with HBM2. Pretty sure some industrious people in China will find a good use for them. Perhaps with RISC V processors?
And the AI specialised units shouldn't be fully useless either. Remember the cancer studies case?
It is still useful computing ability that can be used well by those who know how.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

About the word, "safe" and how it is contextual.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That looks nice.

I feel like a designer needs to first articulate the intent of the colour usage, before deciding on it.
Because in some places, you want a higher contrast, while in others, you just want a separate colour, without stuff popping out too much. Then there is also the case of less contrasting colours popping out more, because they were used in a larger area than they were chosen for and same the other way round, when you choose a lower contrasting colour combination due to the both colour areas being large enough, like window background vs document background, but then if you end up using the combination for something like text, it becomes hard to read.

So for instance, using the "Tower of Glass" example, one can use the last 2 colour for things like:

  • window background vs button/field background
  • button normal vs button hover
  • background vs alt background (though in this case, I would be looking for even lower contrasting colours

... but not for cases like:

  • background vs text
  • background vs border

While you could still also use it for text vs alt-text.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe they just realised in time about the upcoming RAM price hike and setup both to each other, so that either one becomes an excuse for the other.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Are they using the same ICs in the AI modules as they are in DIMMs?

If yes, then we can still hope for some level of a 2nd hand market, which may at least manage to be lower than the max at that point.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nah, it seems to still fail to recognise that there is no ~~spoon~~ question.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe someone ate it and got food poisoning?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe just that only the few videos with that as a main, got enough internet points to reach EfreetSK, hence that's all they know about.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Depends upon what you want to be safe from.

If you want to be safe from having a flash mob come and beat you up, I'd say, this assumption doesn't really compromise your safety.
If you want to be safe from having the wrong assumption, well, you are deep in unsafe territory.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Also, images require a hundreds of thousands of characters even when they are not conveying a thousand words.
And all of those require energy to be sent to places, unlike what some rando on the internet once said.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Except that I kinda prefer a simpler website than the multicolour messes that I see from those times.
I am guessing it would have started with people using it normally in a few areas, for emphasis and then ballooned up to the kind of mess similar to the kind of syntax highlighting this article was talking about.

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