Gov. Evers in Wisconsin sometimes does that for the Republican legislature. They gavel in and out within 60 seconds.

Thats fine. The narrative then puts everything on Republicans.

Hey, Michael Flynn was there, too.

If a kid was able to do this by saving his allowance, then it can’t possibly be very much compared to resources of a school or its surrounding tax base. Give the kids their food.

Notch funds a real life Mooshroim when?

I don’t think there’s a way to commit identity theft in this hypothetical that would work. Being immortal would mean it had to work in the long run, or at least a few decades until you can do it again. Someone will notice eventually. You can call it “people being stupid about it”, but a mistake will happen if you wait long enough.

See, that’s the kind of “America is a shithole” argument I can support.

It’d be nice to have a singular system for payment around the world. I work on e-commerce sites that take payment in many different countries, and some of those payment providers are better designed than others.

Calling the US a “shit hole” because it’s hard to commit identity theft is odd.

FWIW, scientists who study supercentarians think Jeanne Calment was legit. She answered some extremely detailed historical questions about her village. She was either a walking Wikipedia about the area she grew up, or her claims were real.

That said, most supercentarian claims probably are bogus. They often come from areas that had bad recordkeeping a century ago, had their records offices bombed out during a war, or are generally well known for pension fraud. They’re often very poor areas that tend to have a low life expectancy, and it’s very strange that a real supercentarian would pop up there.

Also, AI and images tend to have a shinyness to the skin. Gives it away more than fingers.

I accidentally wandered into a lemmy.ml bit recently and said ML can be rejected just on the basis of consistently devolving into cults. The reply came back of “why do you not like Marxism?” as of that’s what I said.

Oh, and they removed that comment and banned me, but that’s just as well.

Make everything faster. Space that isn’t used for caching data is space that’s wasted.

This isn’t necessarily about apps that run on your desktop or phone. Most code in the world runs on servers, and the use cases are different.

That would be a Chromebook.

We’ve already hit a perceived user experience limit. The perception of responsiveness in blind tests between SATA and NVMe SSDs isn’t always apparent–people sometimes say the SATA drive is faster–even though the speed difference on paper is substantial.

IMO, programmers haven’t exploited the possibilities of extremely fast mass storage yet. The orders of magnitude difference in speed isn’t fully realized. It’s not just faster, it’s faster in a way that requires new approaches. Unlike multicore CPUs over a decade ago, this change in thinking has gone relatively unnoticed by programmers.

GP was wrong about tapes, but plenty of these systems use hard drives already. They can use specialized drives that are cheap and have slow write speeds, because streaming video is a constant rate per second. They also don’t record unless there’s movement. The network is also a limiting factor.

I don’t think SSDs solve any problem, here.

This is per chip. A given NVMe drive usually contains multiple chips.

Is that what has happened to the storage market historically?

That’s likely the point where spinning platters die in the marketplace.

Right now, spinning platters are around $12/tb. SSDs are around $75. Exact numbers fluctuate with features and market changes, but those are the ballpark. Cut in half, SSDs will be $38/tb, and then $19 in the next halving. Spinning platters aren’t likely to see the same level of reduction in that time period; they’re a mature technology.

I think once they reach double the price per tb, we’ll see a major collapse of the hard drive market. My thinking is that there’s a lot of four drive RAID 10 systems out there. With SSDs, those can be two drive RAID 1, and will still be faster. With half the drives, they can be twice the price and work out the same.

If we’re talking about what Moore originally formulated, then the law isn’t just about transistors. He actually claimed that the cost per integrated component is cutting in half every x months. The exact value of x was tweaked over the years, but we settled on 18 months.

If we were just talking about transistor count, the industry has kept up. When we bring price into the mix, then we’re about an order of magnitude behind where we “should” be.

When he wrote it, the first integrated circuit had only been invented about 6 years prior. He was working from only 6 years of data and figured the price per integrated component would continue to drop for another decade. It’s remarkable that it lasted as long as it did, and I wish we could find a way to be happy with that. We’ve done amazing things with the ICs we have, and probably haven’t found everything we can do with them. If gate sizes hit a limit, so what? We’ll still think of new ways to apply the technology.

I hate how this phrase has been abused so much. There’s nothing particularly extraordinary here–we’re not talking about bigfoot or aliens–and the whole point of a documentary like this is to lay out evidence.