Wednesday, December 13
Daily News Stuff 13 December 2023
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- How are things going with our friends at The Verge oh God. (The Verge)
Did you know chlorpromazine comes in tanker cars now?
I think two or three should do the job.
For today.
Tech News
- Google Fiber is now rolling out its 20 gigabit internet service, for $250 per month. (Tom's Hardware)
For $250 per month I can get 250 megabits. While that's A$250 - about US$150 - 250 megabits is a lot less than 20 gigabits.
- TSMC is ramping up to ship 2nm chips in volume in 2025. (WCCFTech)
Apple will be the first major customer, as has become the norm. But the iPhone has paid for TSMC's massive technical advances over the past decade, so I don't begrudge Apple its typical 12-month exclusivity period.
- Huawei meanwhile is working on 5nm chips. (Tom's Hardware)
China is currently stuck at 14nm because they can't buy the EUV optical tools needed for finer process nodes due to sanctions, and can't make their own because they're decades behind in that particular part of the tech sector.
So what they're doing is something called multi-patterning: By running a chip through the process multiple times, very very carefully, you can end up with finer details than you can by just doing it once.
Problem is each pass through the machine increases the cost and increases the failure rate, so cost goes up exponentially. It's very much a stopgap approach, and unlikely to see adoption in any mainstream devices.
- After acquiring VMWare, Broadcom is on a newfound mission to fuck both its customers and its staff. (Ars Technica)
Perpetual licenses are out; all products will now be subscription-only.
Also out are nearly 3000 employees.
Disclaimer: Back off, man, I'm a scientist.
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Yes, but how much of that 2Gb is useable after you account for all the ads and tracking software?
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, December 13 2023 08:10 PM (bg2DR)
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VMWare (sigh ...)
I had a license for VMware. I never got around to using it, but I wanted to have a VM that could do GPU hardware passthrough.
The entire point of *having* a VM is to sandbox a windows installation of a particular version that I could run until the end of time without Orwellian bullshit altering something I couldn't roll back.
If they just yank the VM license, then I'm also up a creek.
Looks like QEMU it is....
Posted by: madrocketsci at Wednesday, December 13 2023 10:56 PM (hRoyQ)
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Having a nice *stable* VM format that isn't balancing precariously on a constantly shifting jenga tower of "technology" (hate that word applied to software) and licensing, and Orwellian control-freak spyware. I should be able to move an OS around from machine to machine, and it shouldn't even *know* what it's really running on.
Having a nice stable *anything* seems more and more like a utopian dream. I could see it from 2010, but I can't anymore.
Having a nice stable *anything* seems more and more like a utopian dream. I could see it from 2010, but I can't anymore.
Posted by: madrocketsci at Wednesday, December 13 2023 11:01 PM (hRoyQ)
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Re: googabit. I got 200Mbps with my current provider when I moved here a bit over 3 years ago. At some point they raised my bill $3/mo for some kind of improvement they didn't define.
A few months ago I noticed speedtests would show 240-250Mbps, so I logged in to my cable account and discovered I'd been upgraded to 400Mb, but my DOCSIS 3.0 modem apparently isn't rated for that speed. I looked at the prices of 3.1 modems and decided I didn't really need the extra speed enough; 200+ is pretty nice.
A few months ago I noticed speedtests would show 240-250Mbps, so I logged in to my cable account and discovered I'd been upgraded to 400Mb, but my DOCSIS 3.0 modem apparently isn't rated for that speed. I looked at the prices of 3.1 modems and decided I didn't really need the extra speed enough; 200+ is pretty nice.
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