A rare good move that sounds like a bad one (from what I’m seeing in the article)

Lol, exactly.

Apparently when you get Ray Ban frames for prescription glasses, you can pay extra to have the Ray Ban logo engraved on them. So if you see someone with prescription glasses with the Ray Ban logo, you can lose a little more respect for them.

Enshitification of shit. They truly are meta.

The phone goes beyond being just a BlackBerry dupe, however, by innovating in other areas. For instance, its clever “Signal Light” feature offers a light-up button on the side of the phone that can be customized with different colors and light patterns to indicate when you’ve received messages from certain people, groups, or apps.

Oh sweet summer child.

The wording of the title made it sound like authorities forced them to close. In this case the manager/owner decided to shut down because it was too hot for their own staff, so kudos to them.

Go is great to learn on. Go for it. And it’s super useful for web dev.

I didn’t say desktop. But, in any case, there are plenty of reasons someone might want extra storage in their desktop without shelling out for an SSD.

It’s interesting, that’s what I felt was happening, but when I looked at the charts, it seems they are less than double. Either way it feels really expensive.

HDDs have doubled in price recently too. Not a good time to try building a computer.

Ah the age-old question: do you pay for tokens, or engineers?

Disappointing. If NPR wants to clickbait their titles, they should at least name the disease so it will maybe have some impact. “Measles outbreak kills 500 children”

Makes sense, it’s a day that ends with Y

The comments on that article are quite… Something.

Ugh, damn post title. I went through the whole article looking for the alternatives before realizing the title of the article says nothing about alternatives.

Yes, just do it.

Knowing another language is always good, and the best thing about JavaScript is that there is so much available source code to read out there. It’ll be super easy to learn and you’ll be shocked at how much you can do in pure JS. I once wrote a graphics editor that blew my item mind…

Seems like a “win-win” for the power companies to me. Not sure what your problem is.

Does a thing like crowd-sourcing ram work?

No.

Is it a thing?

No.

This would probably be the symptoms though, yeah?

No.

You seem very confused about what RAM is and what’s happening here. You seem to think that RAM is something you make on your computer. It’s a physical part of your computer that you load information into.

Imagine you’re sitting at a desk in an office. The desk has little shelves where you can put documents you’re working on. You can only put a small number of files there. The office has filing cabinets where other files are kept that you’re not working on. You can store a lot in there but it takes time to go find it. You also have some special filing cabinets that are still slow but you only use it to store files temporarily that someone brings you from another office, or when you run out of space on your desk but still need to keep files handy.

In this analogy, the shelves on the desk is RAM. You only put the stuff you’re immediately working on in those shelves because of the limited space, but it’s really fast to find stuff compared to the filling cabinets, which are your hard drive. When you go on a website, like YouTube, you’re calling someone in an office in another building and asking them for some files. They send over a bunch of files, which takes a really long time. You put a much as possible in your desk shelves to use right now, but anything that doesn’t fit you put in one of those special filing cabinets, which will call the cache, which is slow, but not nearly as slow as waiting for the files to come from the other office. When you’re ready for the extra files from YouTube, you just grab them from the cache.

What’s happening in this problem with youtube is that you request the files from them, they send them over, along with instructions on how to use them. The instructions say something that requires putting a bunch of things in RAM. At first this is normal. But at some point the instructions start repeating and tell you to put more and more files into RAM, maybe even repeats of files you already have there, shouldn’t need again. But you just follow instructions, that’s your job. So you keep loading things into RAM, but then there’s no room left and your system falls apart and you can no longer do any work. Until you close youtube and chuck all the youtube files out of RAM.

Hopefully that makes it clear why you can’t outsource RAM. Essentially you would be putting your little desk shelves in a different office, but we already have a better solution than that: the cache or special local filing cabinet on your hard drive.

What we outsource normally is the hard drive (filing cabinets) and call it cloud storage (for example), and the creation and processing of information (done by the CPU, GPU, or other chips on your computer) and call it cloud computing (for example). That’s because those things are slow, and the extra time to move the files between offices isn’t necessarily the bottleneck.

“Better” can be interpreted in more than one way. They’re better at exerting control without violently changing regimes. They’re better at establishing their own infrastructure and ingratiating themselves to the locals (or local governments). Now, I don’t know that everyone loves them there (I heard many side comments from locals about China) but it’s not like they’re scrambling for the Americans, British, or French to come back and overtly oppress them again.