Tech bros and finance bros are the same people. "Tech bros" aren't programmers, they don't like tech; they're people looking to make money or status from technology. People who actually like tech are here posting on Slashdot about RAM doublers from the 80s. How does that make anyone money or give status?

I think finance people are responsible for the ridiculously high cost of housing, but I haven't been able to prove it.

All great questions, and I realize you said this a bit tongue-in-cheek, but... No, a contractor didn't "fail" to install updates. Most cheesy mobile games refuse to run and automatically kick us over to the app store when a new version comes out. The goddamned FBI's MDM can't even manage the same basic level of enforced integrity?

Oh goody, scapegoat #1 has been arrested and scapegoat #2 fired. Now how about the spoils-system appointed idiots who chose a platform less secure than a random gooner gatcha?

I think so. I was but a tyke in that era, but I clearly remember my uncle bitterly complaining at the time: "We can put a man on the moon, but we still can't measure the nutrient levels in vegetables with sufficient accuracy!"

Life is so much better now.

I saw your comment out of the corner of my eye, and immediately wondered what Donald Knuth had to do with this.

In advance, I promise I'm not promoting any conspiracy theories here, this is a sincere question...

There's an old, largely ridiculed idea of the "nuclear hand-grenade", with most references talking about using a particular isomer of Halfnium. The primary objection I've seen to the idea is we have no practical way to "excite" nucleons in any meaningful sense - at least not without gear the size of a particle accelerator. But... This clock appears to be making use of exactly such an effect, just at sub-fissile energy levels.

Is this effectively a disproof of the most common disproof of the "Halfnium grenade"?

Sure, the rest of the market is barely keeping pace (4%) with inflation (3.4%) YTD; but but but, NVidia is shiny and AI is going to save us all! Pay no attention to the billionaires promising us a post-scarcity world while building massive survival bunkers in the background.

In server-grade hardware, sure. And you paid $$$$$ for it.

The earliest "consumer" grade RAID cards, by contrast, were basically just softRAIDs with a built-in IDE controller - And that's still true to a large degree; the "RAID-mode" in your gaming PC's BIOS is still merely offloading the hard work to the CPU.

I'm not claiming Linux' softRAID implementation was or wasn't faster than cheap RAID hardware, but I have no problem believing it could at least be comparable.

Nah dude, you're a Windows programmer. I am fully in concordance that hardware RAID controllers were faster on Windows. Microsoft probably made a deal with RAID hardware manufacturers to keep their software controller slow. That's the Microsoft way.

But on Linux? The software RAID controller was faster. The job is I/O bound, not CPU bound.

You're thinking of what amount to ultra-SFF PCs. In the truly embedded space, having a fixed (and usually tiny) amount of RAM on-die is the norm rather than the exception.

That said, Meta clearly isn't targeting 68HC05s here, so the distinction is largely meaningless.

Yes, pedant, I left out the word "qualified". I took it as a given the very people just laid off are qualified to do their own jobs. If that's my greatest sin today, I'll call it a pretty damned good day.

"Anyone I disagree with must be an rsilvergun sockpuppet". That's so broken I'm not even sure what kind of logical fallacy to label it as. Poisoning the well? A variant of Reductio ad Hitlerum? Genetic fallacy by proxy?

It's funny - Thanks to your efforts, I suspect virtually every /.'er knows who rsilvergun is at this point. And I can promise you, the vast majority of us find him far less obnoxious than his stalkers.

This reminds me of the days when we were using hardware RAID controllers...even though it was all done in hardware, it seems like they were somehow always slower than the Linux software RAID controller. I never figured out why. What I am saying is, I don't trust the hardware-offloaded compression to be faster without seeing the data.

They lie too. Half of them are the Epstein class.

That's why I hate both parties. Not only that, I hate the mentality that causes people to create parties (ie, have to find someone to bully)

No, I've seen them delete emails to avoid lawsuits. That's the only reason any company deletes emails by policy.

Someone so wrapped up in toxic incel bullshit they're losing the ability to hold a theory of mind about other people.

They like to throw out random statistics as totems to appear somewhat tethered to reality, which betrays some remaining awareness of how far gone they are. But they're decorative facts, little different from land acknowledgements or prefatory "I'm not a racist, but..." noises, for similar purposes.

But in general, they no longer treat people as humans, with their own complicated inner lives and desires and confusions and insecurities. No, everyone is locked in to little set-piece lives governed by their looks and genes, performing deterministic dramas that just happen to highlight the incels' own insecurities. A weird, pathetic self-induced solipsism in which being miserable is more comfortable than confronting their own egos and accepting that dealing with insecurity is just part of the human condition.

It is pointless to suggest this, but I will anyway: the fix is to actually talk to humans like you're one, too. Don't run some game you think you're supposed to play, don't put on a mask, don't puff up. Have a conversation, learn how they're different, what they care about, what makes them tick. If you don't treat (at least all) your interpersonal relations as conflicts to either win or lose, you might find you actually... enjoy their company, and they might find they enjoy yours.