Jay Blanc @jayblanc@awoo.space

@Nikon I hope you have a swift recovery.

The big Problems with our new 'Delivery for Everything' culture that people don't talk about -
1) It's now possible to bulk buy McDonalds Hash Browns and Apple Pies right to your home,
2) But not both at the same time of day.

@fribbledom It's apparent that the Buzzer tone's are to indicate when that station is *not* sending any messages. So anything being sent while the tones are occurring is outside interference. When they want to send a message in the past, they've turned the tones off during the message, then back on. Clever way of doing it since only they can turn the tones on and off.

@porsupah Source is 'Heaven's Design Team' one of this season's new Anime.

So, over here we have a thing called 'Veganuary' that has taken off over the last few years, where people try out eating Vegan for the first month of the year. And the Beef lobby have decided to try and fight back by saying that eating lots of stake and cheese is healthy. Only they can't actually say that, because it isn't. So instead, they're saying "Beef and Dairy. Full of Nutrients."

I have found a new source of satisfying youtube videos. Man who unclogs blocked and poorly designed roadside culverts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEj7GMRVzhk

Oh, hey, I'm now totally free to re-write The Great Gatsby as a transhumanist space opera. Only I'd have to read The Great Gatsby first. I mean, it probably doesn't take much work to turn the now public domain Gatsby into an interstellar traveling cat-girl right?

@spottyfox Everyone says they're going to implement Continuous Integration Cricket, but no one ever does.

@spottyfox @porsupah It's gone down hill, they're obsessed with Wasp programming and Wasp attacks now, hardly any Honey Bees at all.

Why do I keep getting sucked back into buying the new version of Civ, despite knowing that playing it gives me a headache.

@porsupah
https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/13/dram-is-stuck-in-a-10nm-process-trap/

Basic answer - Shrinking memory cell size also reduces it's capacitance. Since capacitance is what makes memory work, this means there's a physical limit on ram cell size. Without some fundamental new discoveries with semiconductor materials, memory is trapped at 10nm production.

@porsupah Of note, the memory on die of the M1 isn't actually an Apple part, they're Samsung or Micron LPDDR4 parts. The largest LPDDR4 package currently produced is Samsung's 8GB. It'd need a significantly increased die size to add more than 16GB of memory.

@porsupah I suspect they're hitting physical limits on how dense a ramchip they can fit on die. Hence my assumption that the future for Unified Memory APUs is discrete user-provisioned DIMM memory that is OS controlled and used as superfast swap.

Here's my thoughts on what Unified Memory APU designers like Apple and AMD might be looking to next... With limited ability to add in PCIe lanes on the die, will they start using the Unified Memory as a Massive Mailbox?

Wondering if the Arm Mac Pro might have the same chiplet design with memory soldered into the die, but give you a bank of unpopulated dimms so you can upgrade with really fast OS managed swap memory.

My brain as I was slowly waking up today: Why didn't they make an ALIENS Christmas Special?

What if it's the Creepy Forest Clowns who keep moving the Monolith around?

In a distant future one archeologist will call over to another, "I found another data cache, can you use your file decoder to identify it?", so they'll spend an hour hooking up the decoder to scrape the data from the device, and then she'll push the button and the tinny sound of 'never gonna give you up' will start, and they will be so annoyed because it's the eighth time today.