The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved?

You mean Ballmer?

It would certainly explain Windows 11...

Wym, its 'Ten'.

Yeah, but which one is which? /s

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“If you’re concerned about Starlink, just wait for the CCP’s version”. Isn't it just the best sales pitch, the competing offer is twice as bad as we are...

Good news, everyone! They're finally doing something to fix NY Subway!

The reason the dollar is going to lose the reserve currency status is not going to be national debt. Yes printing dollars is free money for the US, and while the world is not necessarily thrilled about being taxed like that, it's not a problem big enough to outweigh the benefits of having a reserve currency in the first place. But the team R fearmongering about debt is just talking point wank. Yes money printing in the US takes the form of issuing debt, so what. I will not care to digress too much into that here, because it's offtopic to my main point. But rest assured, all of the interest payments are paid simply by printing more money without consequence, and the US is nowehere near to where any problems may arise. Like, at least two orders of magnitude nowhere near.

In any case. The dollar got to be the reserve currency because the US was a major trade partner of pretty much everyone, and especially Europe, who built itself up after the war on US dollar loans, buying US industrial production. Of no less importance was the fact that in the US there was rule of law, so the environment there was reliable and predictable, and deposits there were safe. This made for a situation where it made sense for everyone to bank with the US, because you wanted to buy a lot from them, and since everyone else did, too, you could be certain that everyone else would always be happy to take your dollars, too.

Contrast this to now. The US only has a few sectors of significant trade left, and China is the major trade partner of everyone. The deposits in the US are no longer considered safe since they confiscated the holdings of Afghanistan and Russia - think whatever you want of those two, taking someones money is about as big a hole that you can shoot in your foot if you want everyone to bank with you. There is no going back from this, every country now has to take into account that if the US decides they don't like you, you can lose your money. The last straw now is of course the orange man, who has taken any premise of predictability and reliability out of the equation. The dollar system is a dead man walking, with no foundations left. Inertia is great of course, and change will take time, but the wheels are turning, and they're not turning back.

This just in: H-1B visa program expansion in talks.

The obvious next step would be to put some electronics in them, teach them to cook and clean...

Interesting. While I have long considered btrfs raid5/6 vaporware, I thought they had at least raid1 sorted out...

I would not spend any effort on a sex doll, not my thing. But I do understand a fair amount of people do spend some, and then some cash on top of it.

Feeding, excercise, and health, I would expect most if not all of these problems can be solved via some electrodes and IV inputs. This effort will obviously be solved on manufacturer side. What sounds like more effort would be hygiene, so the docking station would be quite something all right.

Next level yuck for sure. Probably will also happen for sure.

Who cares about the medical industry, think about the sex doll industry...

Sequential reads an line speeds at q1t1, I did not know that. But sustained write at that speed, I would not call it that. The T705 can write 18 seconds at 12.1GB/s, after which it drops to 4GB/s. After another 4 minutes, et even drops to 1.1GB/s. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Fp... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.mos.cms.futurecdn....

In comparision the 9100 pro can do about 40 seconds at 12.9GB/s, after which it falls to a steady rate of 1.1GB/s.

18 seconds at 12GB/s is still going to give you 200G of writes. At pcie4 speeds, that 200G will stretch out to 25 seconds, which is maybe not the end of the world. Or for samsung, 500G in 40 or 65 seconds. So if you have a workload that copies what the drive can do in it's first burst on a regular basis, but not often enough that the drive cannot recover from from the burst, you can actually max out your pcie4 link in a way where theres maybe a meaningful impact. Whether that ten or twenty seconds of impact is actually meaningful tho...

The only way that I can think of to actually max out the link on a sustained basis is to copy out from the ssd over 100G ethernet to some network storage that can sustain that speed indefinetely. I can imagine some video production, science, or AI workloads making use of that, but realistically, when we talk about a setup with 100G ethernet, none of that work is going to happen on a local drive anyway...

So whether any of this is a real world bottleneck, I'm not too sure about that.