Sounds like it doesn’t bode well for the future of DIMMs at all, TBH.

“To enable the massive 256GB/s memory bandwidth that Ryzen AI Max delivers, the LPDDR5x is soldered,” writes Framework CEO Nirav Patel in a post about today’s announcements. “We spent months working with AMD to explore ways around this but ultimately determined that it wasn’t technically feasible to land modular memory at high throughput with the 256-bit memory bus. Because the memory is non-upgradeable, we’re being deliberate in making memory pricing more reasonable than you might find with other brands.”

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If it were backend, Voyager would be slow too because it’s requesting the same data.

Maybe Voyager connects to the backend using something other than XmlHttpRequest.

It can’t be the backend because it’s got to query the same data whether it’s feeding the web UI or Voyager, so that wouldn’t explain the vast loading time differences between them. If the backend were slow they would both be slow, but Voyager’s load times are great.

Neat!

Now what we need next is Team Fortress Classic 2.

I’m surprised Lemmy apparently has had hardly any penetration into the Spanish-speaking world yet. Is there some other Reddit-like service that’s popular with those folks?

Also a long those lines, I wonder what services the Indians and Chinese are using?

That’s true, but it doesn’t mean truly communist ideas don’t exist. Both the Fediverse and Free Software, as concepts, are pretty darn “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” if you think about it, ya know?

I’m pretty sure .world being slow is a web frontend problem. It often takes forever to load in my browser, but the same content loads quickly in the Voyager Android app.

I should probably try the several alternative web UIs they have available to see if they’re faster than the default one, but I can’t be bothered to walk over to my desktop PC right now.

What we need is a gloom & doom venting megathread (I almost misspelled it as “negathread,” LOL).

Brave’s business model is a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket. It man-in-the-middles the site’s ads, replacing them with Brave’s own, then holds the revenue hostage unless the site gives legitimacy to Brave’s crypto by accepting it as payment.

For comparison, “normal” ad-blocking consists of an end-user exercising his property right to control the operation of his own computer by programming it not to display the ads at all.

Hopefully you can see how the thing Brave does is very different, and much more ethically fraught.

Got a good recommendation for the video one you mentioned? I have some videos digitized from VHS tapes that I’d like to clean up. (I’m only interested in models I can run locally, BTW, for obvious privacy reasons.)

their people are just as fucked up as Americans sometimes.

I’m tempted to respond with a picture of Nicholas Cage, but then I think about how Holocaust denial is increasing…

Touché, but not even a horse can get you through a hole in the middle of a room’s ceiling.

Also, there were other things that were mechanically better about Morrowind, such as its much more interesting/immersive fast travel system.

I feel like at this point, remaking Daggerfall would need to involve replacing the procedural generation with generative AI.

the mechanics were absolute shit

Levitate on up to the top of my Telvanni tower and tell that to my face—oh wait, you can’t!

Why are you lying? Nobody’s been convicted of murder.

I used to think “being a millionaire” but that won’t even get me a decent house anymore let alone leave me set for life…

All the more reason you (and everybody else) should definitely be setting it as a goal and accomplishing it: you’ll be screwed if you don’t.

There’s a certain amount of stuff that’s more or less common to all computer programs: the need to get input from and display output to the user, the need to interact with various features of the hardware (e.g. saving data to disc), etc. A lot of the code in the program is infrastructural boilerplate, transforming and moving around data between those things.

“Business logic” is everything else – the code implementing the computation that fulfills the program’s purpose, described in terms of the problem domain.

For example, if you’re “manipulating a string” that’s probably infrastructural code, whereas if you’re “formatting a mailing address” that’s probably business logic.

The common sorts of apps that exist to automate some straightforward bureaucratic workflows (i.e. filling out forms, but on a computer) are often designed with a “three tier” application architecture. The first tier is the UI, the third tier is the database store, and the middle tier is the business logic doing the calculation and validation that a clerk would’ve done by hand in the previous paper-based process.

Apps that operate in a more complicated way, such as CAD software, might tend to have a fuzzier distinction between business logic and infrastructural code.

Movin’ on up the flagpole!

Besides, I’m an engineer.

Are you? Are you actually a Professional Engineer who is in a position of authority within the business and has the leverage of a license stamp to compensate for the lack of a union? Or are you a glorified technician who, like so many other “engineers,” absolutely needs a union but doesn’t believe it because your engineering degree inflates your sense of rugged individualism?