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The presidio is huge though and has a ton of old military warehouses? Perhaps it could have taken one of the major commercial buildings already there. Is sports basement warehouse located entirely in the presidio or any of the other major commercial enterprises there really a better fit than a cool museum.

Weird they didn't talk about the DDR4->DDR5 transition. The 5800X3d->7800X3D went from DDR4->DDR5.

DDR5 is literally twice the price per GB. It's better for sure, higher bandwidth but waaaay more expensive. The 9800X3D supports much faster and even more expensive DDR5 than the 7800X3D too (DDR5-2667 to DDR5-5600).


There was a brief and glorious time before September 2025 where DDR5 was actually pretty comparable.

Even really good DDR5 could be had for cheap; I remember paying like 300$ for 96GB of high-quality M-die hynix DDR5.


July 11 last year I got a Crucial 128GB kit for $299. Those were the days…

DDR5 has always been twice as expensive as DDR4. But yeah when they were a lot cheaper maybe it didn't matter as much as it does now.

Ram is getting better, faster etc. except for the latency. I guess we still cannot bend the rules of physics.

Latency has roughly remained the same since DDR2, no? So that has just about nothing to do with the improved performance of every generation.

Latency had to improve because of the increased CPU speeds, but it didn't, causing a regression that's easy to perceive.

Hell i’m working on ai for board games as a hobby (tfmbot.com) and one of the cards is ‘microbes’. Sent straight back to 4.8 for having that in my code.

Hey I bought a ‘cyrix pr166’ so i’m not too sure about that.

Funny I was duped into buying Cyrix instead of Pentium 2. The guy was telling me it would play Quake better. It didn't, of course.

I’m going to keep an eye out for the incoming refurb $200 M4s. Handy little machines to have as a low power tmux terminal.

You'll be looking for a while, looks like they're going for $600-700 used currently. You can get a used M1 Mac Mini for around $350 though. Macs don't depreciate nearly as quickly as PCs do.

The M6 and M5 haven’t shipped tet, just preorder stage so they’ll come down once the nee one’s land. A good proxy is the M2 mini dropping to ~$250 after the M4 hit.

Eg. https://uptradeit.com/buy-used-refurbished-mac-mini-2024-sil... ($269)

I’m hopeful for even lower than $300 prices just because there’s a lot of homelab people spending a lot on these and the M5 ultra really does make the M4 not worth using for that use case. So there should be a flood shortly hopefully.


You seem to just be extrapolating based on old information and bad comparisons. Click through the $269 link. The M2 listing redirects to an Intel Mac mini model.

Apple trade-in value is currently $565 for the base 16GB/256GB M4 mini. (up from $480 a couple weeks ago)

https://i.imgur.com/9qgKSZd.png

I paid $500 for it. Why would I sell it to you for $300?


> A good proxy is the M2 mini dropping to ~$250 after the M4 hit.

That's really not a good proxy, as the base price of EVERYTHING was way lower in 2024. Heck, that M2 mini you're referring to is selling for more than $250 today.

The link you're sharing is a scam - the $269 "2024 M2" takes you to a $269 2014 Intel Core i5 turd.


$269 doesn't even buy you an M1

Nice. I was 72nd. Working in AI research today and still making ai for games as a hobby (tfmbot.com is an ai i’m working on for my favourite board game terraforming mars).

Thanks for sharing. I remember #1 xathis had a score, big leap ahead of others. The difference in techniques in top 100 was almost the same.

Incidentally i always found the idea of an explorer grabbing the mysterious jewelled skull and getting cursed similar to the thought exercise of how we warn future cultures about the dangers of long term radioactive waste.

The warning needs to transcend language so you probably think a skull is pretty clear right? Put a big skull there, maybe make it light up or eye catching in some way just to really seal the deal? Surely they understand "don't go near this". Yet in a million years time you're probably going to get some explorer "finding the mysterious and cursed crystal skull" who will subsequently die of "the mysterious curse". It would have made a more interesting ending for that Indiana Jones movie that's for sure.



A somewhat timely SMBC has the correct solution: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waste-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...

I kinda wish they had used

> This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

> What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.



Lol wasn't that the unexpected, quasi-hated part of that movie -- that it did end up being a technological thing rather than another religious artifact? Not criticising your main point, but that's a pretty funny coincidence

A skull might be a warning sign to some people, but it is in no way a universal warning for all people. One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calavera

This is the documentary you seek: Into Eternity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)


> The warning needs to transcend language so you probably think a skull is pretty clear right?

I feel that adorning the skull with jewels will puree the "No! No! NO!" message, in any epoch.


The skull needs to be encrusted with the specific rare gem that can only be used in temples to the deity of death. That'll be impossible to misunderstand.

I’m thinking they paint it in reflecto paint like safety vests which of course would make it a sparkly jewel

Probably even luminescent paint to be sure it can be seen in the dark. This is even more valuable than a sparkly gemstone, I suppose, that's almost magical!

To get more specific this often means 'suicide' which absolutely is a casualty of war given the strain of war conditions, especially given the logistics concerns and duration of tours that they are forcing right now.

What logistics concerns are there? Isn't the US supposed to be one of the best at managing wartime logistics, which is why they have bases all around the world?

They put an alcoholic fox news host in charge of the military and he fired or otherwise forced out a ton of experienced leaders in the name of "the warrior ethos" and "high testosterone soldiers".

In a completely unrelated development the "worlds best logistics organization" is now having trouble with logistics.


Man I had to read twice. Wondered what an "alcoholic fox" is...


The US has bases around the world because its auxiliary fleet is rather limited. Its always an advantage to have supplies nearby because shipping or flying anything thousands or half way around the world is just too hard.

Lose those advantages and even the US military is troubled and the results are what we see today. It cant invade Iran and it cant even bomb or launch an invasion of Houthi territory.

Did i mention the Ospreys which were built because of the Tehran Embassy hostages from the 1980s are grounded today or limited to very short trips because of constant mechanical failures ?

Smokes and mirrors, its not a smart thing to show your enemy your weaknesses.


Did it end up being true that the troops on that aircraft carrier had to catch rats and cook them to survive?

Are you, uh, mixing up the term "midrats" with something?

I've not seen this claim. The fact that they sent it immediately home for a port call (and had SecNavy visit for a pep talk) when the news of conditions on the Lincoln broke is probably indicative.


Yeah i feel this is probably just a case of people encountering the first thing that is willing to expend energy to explain things to them.

And that isn't a person of the opposite tribe, which would thereby void the explanation. 100%.

They should just say every 7 silicon atoms at that point.

7500 surely? But yeah at this point I feel like the diameter of a silicon atom would make for a better unit of measure.

Oh right i was thinking the feature size (about that many namometers not microns)

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