I wanted to build a Threadripper 9965WX and the math worked out until DDR5 prices come in to play. Instead I got a used Lenovo P620 5975WX and still had to buy DDR4 from Shenzhen to get anything remotely affordable. The IPC of the Zen5 is a meaningful uplift especially for single thread but it is out of reach.
The seller was Focus Memory on Newegg, DIMMs are Rimlance. It arrived quickly via DHL. I'd be a little sketched out to do this if it wasn't registered ECC. The dies appear to be Micron, register IDT, but there is some possibility of soft fraud where they die printed over something. The registers look a little scratched so I wonder if they found some way of recycling DIMMs or even dies. The SPD is their own.
# dmidecode 3.7
# SMBIOS entry point at 0xba970000
Found SMBIOS entry point in EFI, reading table from /dev/mem.
SMBIOS 3.3.0 present.
Handle 0x0023, DMI type 16, 23 bytes
Physical Memory Array
Location: System Board Or Motherboard
Use: System Memory
Error Correction Type: Multi-bit ECC
Maximum Capacity: 1 TiB
Error Information Handle: 0x0022
Number Of Devices: 8
Handle 0x0027, DMI type 17, 92 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x0023
Error Information Handle: 0x0026
Total Width: 72 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 32 GiB
Form Factor: DIMM
Set: None
Locator: DIMM5
Bank Locator: BANK4
Type: DDR4
Type Detail: Synchronous Registered (Buffered)
Speed: 3200 MT/s
Manufacturer: Unknown
Serial Number: 05A23401
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Part Number: RRD25600D4C8K256
Rank: 2
Configured Memory Speed: 3200 MT/s
Minimum Voltage: 1.2 V
Maximum Voltage: 1.2 V
Configured Voltage: 1.2 V
Memory Technology: DRAM
Memory Operating Mode Capability: Volatile memory
Firmware Version: Unknown
Module Manufacturer ID: Bank 1, Hex 0x80
Module Product ID: Unknown
Memory Subsystem Controller Manufacturer ID: Unknown
Memory Subsystem Controller Product ID: Unknown
Non-Volatile Size: None
Volatile Size: 32 GiB
Cache Size: None
Logical Size: None
...
Even if you aren't doing writes SQLite should be the default option as a file dependent format or even durable IPC. And it isn't going to fall away (i.e. BerkeleyDB, Tokyo Cabinet). I recently dug into WAL mode and it is pretty incredible for multiple readers https://github.com/InterNetNews/inn/pull/338.
It's first party, so you get a look under the covers at how things were supposed to work. But the later server emulators are undoubtedly better by any realistic consideration, 1990s C code is not something you'd want to expose to the internet and any design decisions that made sense on era hardware and POSIX APIs are not really applicable once multicore and fast(er) storage became pedestrian.
I think he's just locked in to this performance. He raises a lot of interesting points in his articles, but gets a little over his skis when he conflates the absurdity of particulars with long term death of the entire industry (people thought the same thing about .COM and look where we ended up). The applications of this technology are both more immediately applicable and relatable versus some recent bubbles.
Textbook audience capture: once you've built your entire brand on "AI is a scam", you can't back down even if the facts change, because your paying customers are there for that take— the demand for "AI is a scam" takes is almost as frenzied as the demand for AI compute right now— and going back on it literally threatens your ability to pay the mortgage.
This is a big reason why I'm none too happy about the rise of individual-authors-as-brands via Substack replacing traditional journalism: once people are following and paying you specifically for a specific opinion, you're locked in. A very small number of individual bloggers have a brand of "I'll say the truth no matter what" and actually mean it, but the overwhelming majority are like Ed.
The UO emulator scene got me into network programming. I've never seen an online game capture so many ancillary/emergent/accidental gameplay mechanics as well as this, somehow all the 3d MMOs seemed to downgrade a lot of the interesting economics, building, exploring that UO delivered. PvP and quest type stuff is probably a lot better in other games but it was still compelling and you could realistically play solo or in a group or casually interact with randoms and effortlessly switch between these as you felt like it.
> somehow all the 3d MMOs seemed to downgrade a lot of the interesting
Unfortunately two things turned out to be true:
1) Most people don't want any of this and prefer to be on rails
2) The two groups of people most attracted to a game like this wind up in a dynamic where one group will leave the game if the other is present. Whereas the 2nd group requires the 1st to want to play.
The “rails” thing is very much the gist of it. Don’t get me wrong, I think classic WoW is probably one of the best games ever made, but after it came out, nobody wanted the raw experience of early online worlds anymore. Which is just life I guess.
Yep. After I stopped UO I took a break for a few years and picked up WoW after it had already settled in for a bit. I was surprised how on rails it was. Get a quest? Well my UI plugin tells me exactly what to go. Add *any* sort of mystery or nondeterminism? People whine.
This is also where I first started seeing people focusing on "end game", although it may have existed in EQ. The actual sandbox-ish game was just a warmup you blasted through in order to get to the "real game". Meanwhile I ran around solo and just explored, and did whatever weird thing I wanted.
At a high level, that. And of course that requires a certain ratio of predator vs prey. And there were way too many would be predators.
Both groups self-identify as wanting a "real" experience in a sandbox that lets them "do anything". However one means this allows them to slaughter people with impunity whereas the other means it enables them to explore the world, choose their own occupation, define their own goals, etc. It's not even a PVP vs PVE divide, as there are plenty of PVPers in the 2nd group. Instead it's closer to "Griefers" vs "Sandbox game enthusiasts", where the griefer crowed requires prey to feed their urges.
So what happens is the griefer oriented crowd chases away the other crowd, then has no one to grief and then they leave too. You'll see it in comments here as many posters were, shall we say, not super mature 25+ years ago :) they'll be pining for the days about how they could kill everyone, steal their stuff, loot their houses, and otherwise cause problems.
One of the issues with the game was that while those behaviors were intentionally allowed, the designers didn't account for the kind of player who *only* wanted to do that and generally were obnoxious about it to boot instead of trying to massage it into the lore/RP of the game. So the scale was all off.
Maybe there is some opportunity there? Very little going on in the mmo world now tbh. Wow, old school runescape, final fantasy online, not much else worth it.
All of them (except Eve) feel too much like WoW reskins to bother with. This is personal opinion but the feeling probably reflects why they have 1% (estimated by ChatGPT) of WoW’s subscriptions.
I'm enjoying GW2 a lot, I feel it has a lot of players. No matter which corner of the map you go to, you can always find people doing either open world group content or their own thing
Is the DRAM industry really capitalist? Focusing on just the Korean parties, it functions like a command economy. I would say the same about most high end semi-conductor manufacturing, TSMC, Intel, ASML are being commanded and driven by nation-state level decision making. Right now the command is to focus on high wattage centralized AI systems at the expense of everything else.
No one at high levels is capitalist, in ideology or action. An ideological capitalist would be in favor of competition, but these people disdain it and collude regularly. The only 'capitalist' actions they take are by accident, the real goal is as much power/money as possible as fast as possible.
We don't even expect companies to plan long-term anymore, it's just moving wealth as fast as possible.
That isn't really a change, very few people could ever have been said to be ideological capitalists. (capitalist is not a word with a hard definition, but I'm considering it a different thing than the more modern pure libertarian zero-regulation ideology)
I think the common use of the term capitalist is as a participant in capitalism.
This is distinct from someone who is a proponent of capitalism as a system, which appears to be the way you are using capitalist. For which I don't blame you.
Liberalism (in the traditional economic sens) likes competition. Capitalism is a mode of production, and capitalists notoriously don’t like competition when they are the incumbents
Some people are claiming it's the good old RAD750 variant. Is there anything that talks about the actual computer architecture? The linked article is desperately void of technical details.
For the average joe there it's just an option and personal taste, and it comes with its own tradeoffs and learning curve. Well integrated ZFS would probably be the main thing for average joe.
For developers, it is interesting to think of as a self contained toolkit. If you are building firmware, platform images for bare metal or cloud, it creates a much better demarcation than any attempts Linux can put forth. This is related to why you might like OPNSense. But if you are just a consumer it only indirectly matters to you.. consistency of build and product, quality of subset of network drivers and subsystems like pf to support your mission, ability go in and quickly and correctly fix the right problem at the right level etc.
I'm on a 100mbit fixed wireless connection after moving out of the city where I used to have a GPON connection. The only thing I really miss is the extremely low latency of GPON plus being in a datacenter city.
Progress is good, and physical connections are well worth the investment due to how long the stuff will last. But I honestly think VDSL2 and cable are still good enough for most people. The typical family and youth are probably on 5G as much as wifi these days.
reply