ThomasWilliams
@ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 6 days ago:
Most of the bots are generated by the moderators.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 6 days ago:
The fact that no new ram production capacity is being developed would indicate a lack of future contracts
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 6 days ago:
You would need more ram to do that. Understand the difference between primary and secondary memory.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 1 week ago:
Linear components like power amplifiers are made from the same material as digital circuitry, and they use a lot more of it.
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 1 week ago:
What, you mean it wasn’t there already ? It’s the only place where it would be actually useful.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 1 week ago:
The rot really began with Google and the the goal of “professionalism” in teaching.
Textbooks were thrown out, in favour of “flexible” teaching models, and Google allowed lazy teachers to just set assignments rather than teach lessons (prior to Google, the lack of resources in a normal school made assignments difficult to complete to any sort of acceptable standard).
The continual demand for “professionalism” also drove this trend - “we have to have these vast, long winded assignments because that’s what is done at university”.
AI has rendered this method of pedagogy void, but the teaching profession refuses to abandon their aim for “professionalism”.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
It switches to storing files on Onedrive without warning.
Then if you disable Onedrive, you lose access to your files (on Onedrive) and the memory space is reused.
It doesn’t actually delete local storage, as the path is just switched.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 2 weeks ago:
When I was in year 5 the kids in the class had been working cutting apricots and they bought tonnes of candy and these whistles they were blowing all the time.
How much did the whistles cost ? one cent.
True story.
- Comment on Coca cola reverse-engineered recipe for "homebrewing" 2 weeks ago:
Once you find out it contains peppermint oil you always notice it.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 2 weeks ago:
From the questions people ask and from online accounts.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 weeks ago:
The MacIntosh did not have an eject button famously.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 2 weeks ago:
I think the term “The Nethetlands” was coined after the Reformation and Counter-Reformation when the northern provinces ,which became Lutheran, separated from the southern provinces which remained Roman Catholic.
The country was usually referred as “Holland” (a northern province) before then.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 2 weeks ago:
America was originally just the name of South America, then the English lazily coined the term “North America”.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 2 weeks ago:
Biden increased sanctions on Venezuela.
During the Venezuelan election, when the US-backed opposition leader said that he wouldn’t give the oilfields back to the US, Biden had their financial support cut off and arrested opposition members living in the US.
The Venezuelan policy is bipartisan.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not free you know.
Yes, the software doesn’t cost anything but the chipset is supplied by a single manufacturer Qualcomm and costs a bomb.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 4 weeks ago:
By “non-political” he means pro-MAGA.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 4 weeks ago:
Recommended minimum for Win 11 is 4 GB.
The system does not need to use RAM to run multiple programs, it can use secondary memory.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 4 weeks ago:
A ZX-81 had 784 bytes of RAM. And no secondary memory.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 4 weeks ago:
You do know you would need more RAM in that case right ?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What is the point of having a passkey on OneDrive ?
isn’t the whole point of OneDrive that you can access your files anywhere ?
Am I missing something here ?
- Comment on How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness" 5 weeks ago:
Violence.
- Comment on Typeframe 5 weeks ago:
I think its a version of the Raspberry PI 500+.
- Comment on Typeframe 5 weeks ago:
No numeric keypad. Useless.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 1 month ago:
This is not an opinion piece.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 1 month ago:
On Disney’s end of the deal, the company plans to deploy ChatGPT for its employees and use OpenAI’s technology to build new features for Disney+
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 1 month ago:
Mickey Mouse is still protected under the passing off law. Only the actual cartoons are public domain.
- Comment on Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans? 1 month ago:
Ceramic non-stick is vastly more expensive.
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 1 month ago:
This is nothing to do with children.
The Australian media demanded these laws so they could control the political climate in Australia. By mandating identity they can go after anyone who opposes them.
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 1 month ago:
You can still view these sites.
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 1 month ago:
Heh no. 4chan is not banned.