Monday, August 05
Daily News Stuff 5 August 2024
Oops Part Twelve Edition
Oops Part Twelve Edition
Top Story
- Venture capitalists have flushed $1.6 billion down the drain trying to make lab-grown meat a reality. (Tech Crunch)
The most optimistic proponents are now hoping to someday capture 0.03% of the global meat market.
Farm grown meat is cheaper, tastes better, is readily available, and probably won't devour the world in a Gray Goo apocalypse.
Though the chickens might try. You can't trust 'em.
Tech News
- How to run DOS on modern hardware. (Tom's Hardware)
The way the economy is going this might be useful information.
- Adding RAM to an RP2040. (Dmitry)
This is the chip used in the Raspberry Pi Pico. It doesn't have a memory bus in the usual sense, but supports external serial (SPI) ROM and has an onboard cache to keep things fast.
You can also wire up SPI RAM - but it will be read-only because the RP2040 is expecting ROM, not RAM.
You can get around that, but it's, uh, interesting.
- The Breville Oracle Jet is a $2000 computer that makes coffee. (The Verge)
Okay.
- KOSA - the Kids Online Safety Act - is dead. For now. (TechDirt)
I haven't linked TechDirt much lately since Mike Masnick went insane, but he seems to be having a lucid day. He praises the House GOP for killing the train wreck bipartisan Senate bill, and approvingly quotes Rand Paul's scathing letter.
- Need for Speed: SSD Edition. (Serve the Home)
This is Kioxia's (formerly Toshiba) latest datacenter drive aimed at low latency rather than transfer rates. It's about twice as fast as typical SSDs - access times of around 25 microseconds vs. a more typical 50 microseconds.
It's intended to replace phase-change drives in heavy workloads, now that Intel and Micron have abandoned phase-change memory entirely.
Intel's Optane drives could get access times down to 10 microseconds, but they were power hungry and expensive, and ultimately not commercially successful.
Disclaimer: I didn't do it.
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$2,000 is a bargain, compared to a Decent and a good grinder. Personally, I'll stick with Nespresso pods; I want a drink, not another obsessive hobby.
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Posted by: J Greely at Monday, August 05 2024 09:43 PM (oJgNG)
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It would be interesting to see how Intel might try to get rid of real mode, if they ever do. Before you can switch to protected mode, you have to set up and enable the page descriptor tables and do some other stuff; since most of that setup is for stuff that doesn't exist in real mode, it's not a problem for the processor to start up, but it doesn't have the necessary information when it comes out of reset to be in protected mode. I guess it could default to coming up in unreal mode or something similar, with a minimal GDT setup, but even then, that's just reducing the issue.
ARM and RISC-V don't have this issue, probably at core mostly because they don't have segment registers, which were basically a hack to allow >64K of memory while remaining compatible with code for older Intel processors with 16-bit addressing.
ARM and RISC-V don't have this issue, probably at core mostly because they don't have segment registers, which were basically a hack to allow >64K of memory while remaining compatible with code for older Intel processors with 16-bit addressing.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, August 05 2024 11:21 PM (MItL9)
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Re: lucid: only relatively speaking. His problem with the bill is it isn't Leftist enough: "It remains disappointing that Democrats broadly supported this bill that would have been used to suppress LGBTQ content."
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, August 05 2024 11:30 PM (MItL9)
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A coffee maker... so still no use for the 418 http error code
Posted by: Zendo Deb at Monday, August 05 2024 11:53 PM (/VxY7)
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