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MondayToFriday , 13 days ago to Technology in CUDIMM Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More Robust

Standardized by JEDEC earlier this year as JESD323, CUDIMMs tweak the traditional unbuffered DIMM by adding a clock driver (CKD) to the DIMM itself, with the tiny IC responsible for regenerating the clock signal driving the actual memory chips. By generating a clean clock locally on the DIMM (rather than directly using the clock from the CPU, as is the case today), CUDIMMs are designed to offer improved stability and reliability at high memory speeds, combating the electrical issues that would otherwise cause reliability issues at faster memory speeds. In other words, adding a clock driver is the key to keeping DDR5 operating reliably at high clockspeeds.

MondayToFriday , 14 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company

Partly psychopathic manipulation, partly sleeping around for career advancement. It's a tale as old as time.

MondayToFriday , 2 months ago to Technology in Will self driving trucks hit the roads with nobody on board or will they keep a human supervisor?

I see at least four big problems with having drivers that sit around to supervise the AI.

• It's a mind-numbing boring task. How does one stay alert when most of the stimulus is gone? It's like a real-life version of Desert Bus, the worst video game ever.
• Human skills will deteriorate with lack of practice. Drivers won't have an intuitive sense for how the truck behaves, and when called upon to intervene, they will probably respond late or overreact. Even worse, the AI will call on the human to intervene only for the most complex and dangerous situations. That was a major contributing factor to the crash of Air France 447: the junior pilots were so used to pushing buttons, they had no stick-handling skills for when the automation shut off, and no intuition to help them diagnose why they were losing altitude. We would like to have Captain Sullys everywhere, but AI will lead to the opposite.
• The AI will shut off before an impending accident just to transfer the blame onto the human. The human is there to serve as the "moral crumple zone" to absolve the AI of liability. That sounds like a terrible thing for society.
• With a fleet of inexperienced drivers, if an event such as a snowstorm deactivates AI on a lot of trucks, the chaos would be worse than it is today.

MondayToFriday , 5 months ago to Technology in Untangling Non-Linearity: How the Linked List Changed Everything

On modern computers, linked lists are rarely a good option for performance. The overhead of the memory allocator and the non-sequential layout (which results in CPU memory cache misses) means that dynamic arrays are surprisingly faster even for random inserts on very long lists.

MondayToFriday , 5 months ago to Technology in The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block

Guess what the EU just did with USB-C?

MondayToFriday , 5 months ago to Technology in Tesla stock drops on Q4 earnings miss, EV maker warns production growth rate will be 'notably lower' than 2023

Electric cars generally have heated seats. Since heat doesn't come as a free byproduct, it's more efficient to keep occupants warm by heating the seats than the air.

MondayToFriday , 5 months ago to Technology in Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has “Enormous Volume Of Defects” Bolts On MAX 9 Weren’t Installed

Yes, but you can't inspect quality into a product; you have to build it into the product.

Years ago, some American auto executives toured a Toyota factory to learn from them. After the tour, one of them said, "Those sneaky Japanese, they didn't show us their rework area." What he didn't know was that unlike American factories, there was no rework area. Everything was assembled correctly the first time, and any worker had the right to stop the assembly line at any time to fix a problem. It's far easier than finding and fixing a defect that is buried deep in a finished product.

MondayToFriday , 5 months ago to Technology in HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers

What are you complaining about? Those were the glory days of HP.

MondayToFriday , 5 months ago to Technology in Tesla stock drops on Q4 earnings miss, EV maker warns production growth rate will be 'notably lower' than 2023

Could it be because among affluent, environmentally conscious consumers, it's no longer cool to be driving a car made by an unhinged right-wing narcissist?

Musk said on the earnings call that his concern would be, given his current shareholding, that he will have "so little influence" in the future that some major shareholder could strip away his control or make a bad decision.

Or could it be a consequence of dumping shares to fund a megalomaniacal need to own a social media platform?

MondayToFriday , 5 months ago to Technology in USB-PD is a de-facto low-power DC voltage standard, with USB-C being the universal plug. Hurray!

Citation please? Apple was part of the USB-C Specification Working Group. Despite their obsession with the Lightning connector, they were also the ones who made USB-C-only laptops.