Analogous beliefs about new RAM models up-ending the market for memory turned out to be far slower to hit the streets, and had far less impact on the DRAM market.
I would love to have something at modern memory speed, which behaved like core: Turn off the machine, its run-state is frozen. Turn back on, the memory state is still there.
But the reality is that machines are built to DRAM, and DRAM persists as the basic memory model for the "architecture" of a system
even if its not faster than DRAM I wonder at what point would it just not make sense to have two separate modules. Like all the volitile storage in a system could be in the L-cache/s on the CPU and for most things that plus this faster non-volitile storage would do the trick. I wonder what kind of optimizations would have been made in a world where stuff like DRAM just didnt exist and we just had to deal with the bottlenecks of non-volitile storage media
Sounds like the era when we mainly transitioned to solid state storage. When spinning rust was the primary technology and RAM prices were high, you could buy hybrid drives that had small amounts of solid state cache (mainly intended for common OS files). And even today, all but the cheapest SSDs will have onboard DRAM for better write speeds.
look if you take a random sample of views in the populus at large you get some interesting outliers. This is normal. What's a problem here is that money is a giant magnifying glass and for some reason, this outlier's views get magnified because of his money reach.
I don't think mechanistic approaches to limiting his money are on the table. I might argue for them, tax being the obvious ones, but it's clear for the current political cycle in the USA this won't happen.
So the best thing, is to limit reach by not participating in magnifying it
I smell class action. The first time smart mail hallucinates something like an appointment cancellation or flight changes which leads to a real world loss, across a big enough surface of users, lawyers are going to be circling.
If this causes corporate loss, it's even more likely. GSuite is behind a lot of things.
I didn't find one about generative AI, but I suppose this is it:
To the extent allowed by applicable law:
- Google is liable only for its breaches of these terms or applicable service-specific additional terms
- Google isn’t liable for:
- loss of profits, revenues, business opportunities, goodwill, or anticipated savings
- indirect or consequential losses
- punitive damages
https://policies.google.com/terms (this is titled "Google Terms of Service" & is presumably broader but is what I got by going to Gmail and clicking "Terms".)
Disclaimers are only as strong as the bank balance behind or defending the assault. Loss of custom typically follows a breakdown in trust as well. I suspect anyone seeking to fall back on ToS would find reasons to discuss matters round a table rather than test the strength at the bar.
I don't expect these hallucinations would impact enough people to cause a material loss of custom,such that google would even notice, let alone care. If you're the person affected, you'll be on your own.
If it was widespread enough to cause loss of custom, they'd 'simply' fix the issue before it got to that point.
Have a look at the Wikipedia pages for coltan and in particular the chart of sources and percentage of world production.
Up until 2013 DRC was only one of several economies producing tantalum. This is a decision grounded in price sensitivity, not scarcity, Australia is capable of significantly higher supply rates. The mines were closed as uneconomic against pricing.
It's a richer and more complicated story in Australia.
For the US readers, it starts (well, not really) with some guy called Herbert Hoover on his world tour sabbatical back in the day.
In 1989/99 Hoover was part of the aquisition of Sons of Gwalia v0.1 and it's revamp and v1.0 launch on the London Stock Exchange.
Years passsed, a number of Australian minesites with a variety of resources were acqired, worked, profited from, becoming Australia's third-largest gold producer and controlled more than half of the world's production of tantalum, before entering administration in 2004 following a financial collapse.
That collapse was due largely to falling gold reserves and poor risk hedging decisions, and put all the mines on the table, including the Greenbushes, WA deposits.
Roll forward a wee bit in time ..
Greenbushes is a lot of lithium, a lot of tantalum, and a lot of argy bargy between a majority Chinese owner and minority American partner with some financing issues on the majority side due to their purchase of 20% of Chilean lithium producer SQM coupled with other issues affecting capital development.
There's a bit of excitement re: the Kapanga deposit
a giant pegmatite dike of Archean age with substantial Li-Sn-Ta mineralization, including half the world’s tantalum resource.
Hoover had a pash with a barmaid in Kalgoorlie and bought her a huge mirror. I think she flogged it to the pub, it's in the corridor of the palace hotel with a note. Nice mirror. Tasteful wooden nude caryatids on the side.
The skimpies aren't as widespread. I'm not going to risk that being misunderstood: less pubs have them. Was there last month passing through to Hayden and wave rock. The museum says during peak rush days 150,000 people were living in tents. If that was before the Coolgardie waterpipe was laid it would have been a ripe town.
Without seeking to discuss the morality of what China may do which would cause a blockade, do you not agree this is entirely rational?
Margaret Thatcher's tory government stockpiled the biggest reserves of coal in recent British history before taking on the miners strike. It probably significantly undermined the strike effect on British industry and electricity supply.
> While Brave will continue to offer limited support for MV2 extensions, the real solution is to use Brave’s industry-leading, native features. All are available by simply downloading the Brave browser.
Look I get it. This is all they can say. But it's frankly disingenuous. What about the browser extensions they don't and probably never will incorporate, like the tools to use archive sites?
It's reductive to "only run the things we wrote directly"
Such a long time ago. Perhaps, with the voices dying off, it's time to kiss the show goodbye and live inside reruns and an occasional Christmas special?
I would love to have something at modern memory speed, which behaved like core: Turn off the machine, its run-state is frozen. Turn back on, the memory state is still there.
But the reality is that machines are built to DRAM, and DRAM persists as the basic memory model for the "architecture" of a system
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