Old IBM's term for RAM was "storage."

I wonder whether the current huge funding in AI will ever lead to a revolution in computer architecture. Modern PCIe/CXL is already starting to blur the difference between memory and I/O. Maybe the future is going to be that CPUs, RAM, storage devices, GPUs and other devices are going to directly address one another like a mesh network. Maybe the entire virtual memory model will change to include everything to be addressed via a unified virtual memory space from a process/CPU perspective with simple read/write syscalls that translate into network packets flowing between the CPU and the destination (e.g. RAM/GPU/NVMe) and vice versa.

Don't we already almost (but not quite) have that? PCIe devices can talk directly to each other (still centralized AFAIK though) and from the programmers perspective everything you mentioned is mapped into a single unified address space prior to use (admittedly piecemeal via mmap for peripherals).

Technically there's nothing stopping me from mmaping an entire multi-terabyte nvme at the block level except for the part where I don't want to reimplement a filesystem from scratch in addition to needing to share it between lots of different programs.

You are correct about the graphics, but SF2 also absolutely nailed the gameplay. The graphics are just the beginning of the attention to detail in this game.

@throwaway94275, absolutely. The pixel art caught our eyes, but the rock-solid gameplay is what captured our hearts.

Honestly, I haven’t played SF2 for over 30 years, but I’m certain I can still perform a Hadouken or a Shoryuken today. That intense training from my youth is carved into my muscle memory, not just my brain! (^_^) That obsession with every single detail is the true secret to why this game still feels like "Steel" after all these decades.

I keep Discord running in a Firefox tab. It typically only goes down when I have to restart the browser and I often have it up for weeks.

"Monopoly" means one seller, so you can't say multiple X makes a monopoly and make sense. You probably mean collusion.

If demand exceeds supply, either prices rise or supply falls, causing shortages. Directly controlling sellers (prices) or buyers (rationing) results in black markets unless enforcement has enough strength and integrity. The required strength and integrity seems to scale exponentially with the value of the good, so it's typically effectively impossible to prevent out-of-spec behavior for anything not cheap.

If everyone wants chips, semiconductor manufacturing supply should be increased. Governments should subsidize domestic semiconductor industries and the conditions for them to thrive (education, etc.) to meet both goals of domestic and economic security, and do it in a way that works.

The alternative is decreasing demand. Governments could hold bounty and incentive programs for building electronics that last a long time or are repairable or recyclable, but it's entirely possible the market will eventually do that.

> If everyone wants chips, semiconductor manufacturing supply should be increased. Governments should subsidize domestic semiconductor industries and the conditions for them to thrive (education, etc.) to meet both goals of domestic and economic security, and do it in a way that works.

If there is already demand at this inflated price, shouldn’t we ask why more capacity is not coming online naturally first?

> If there is already demand at this inflated price, shouldn’t we ask why more capacity is not coming online naturally first?

...and why it has been consistently the case for a long while.

Yes, one of the most valuable companies in the world has been supply strained for years. Unless incredibly well focused investments are made, cash is not the problem. Subsidies are madness.

One could argue modern social media like Tiktok and Snapchat is an evolution of reality TV, in app/smartphone form.

Answer: Tiktok, and the fall of "pop" in pop music.

Both 1 and 2 will simply incentivize people to make fake accounts or pay existing account holders to post for them.

I think 1 and 2 will destroy social media as a frenetic place where everyone is competing for attention. It will become boring without all the battles, pile-ons, gore and porn being shoved in your face. People will sometimes check in to see what Obama said. That's about it. At least that's my hope.

PCIe SATA adapters will likely be around forever. They may be problematic to boot from, but A) I'm sure your OS isn't on a spinning disk, and B) by the time PCIe SATA adapters disappear the entire concept of a PC will be an outlawed or legacy retro thing anyway.

Agreed... although it would be nice to find easier support for older formats, they do stick around for a while. I've got a 3.5" USB floppy in my garage that's been sitting for over a decade now, and even then it was long after CD/BR and thumb drives were the norm.

I hope this happens, because with the security track record of these companies it would mean free Internet. These would quickly become web torrent video portals.

Wouldn’t they just limit the bandwidth per TV based on some hardware key?

if the pipe is big and low-latency enough for ads it'll work for anything else.

there hasn't been any open wifi networks around me in over a decade and i live in a decently populated area. that's not a thing any more unless you're at a place of business and even then it's rare.