Brainlag's comments

On: Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

[Brainlag]

Jensen is to paranoid to do it. But whoever comes after him will do it ASAP.

[Macha → Brainlag]

They did get burned when crypto switched to dedicated hardware and nvida were left with for them huge surpluses of 10xx series hardware. But what they’re selling to AI companies now is a lot more different from their consumer gear

On: A critical look at MCP

[Brainlag]

Why is it baffling? Worse is better! Look at PHP, why took that prank of a programming language ever anyone serious?

On: The prospects for 128 bit processors (John R. Mashey, 1995)

[Brainlag]

256 is the magic number

[acchow → Brainlag]

We need 166 bits to address each atom on Earth uniquely. We won't need to go beyond that until we are interplanetary.

[mrb → acchow]

You are assuming each atom represents one bit. But each atom could represent 2^N states (charge, spin, location, etc) in which case you could store 2^(166+N) bits on Earth!

[acchow → mrb]

I was referring to addressing each atom individually. Indeed, you could possibly store more than 1 bit of information at each address. Maybe call it an "atombyte".

Similarly in computer RAM, we don't address each "bit" individually but actually each "byte" (8 bits). Or maybe we address each word?

[IncreasePosts → acchow]

I guess I'll never be able to individually label my quarks and gluons. Pity.

On: Will Texas become too hot for humans?

[Brainlag]

Probably, someone should start making earthsuits, like spacesuits but for earth.

On: Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming

[Brainlag]

Because the could have made twice as much.