Lol, exactly.

Apparently when you get Ray Ban frames for prescription glasses, you can pay extra to have the Ray Ban logo engraved on them. So if you see someone with prescription glasses with the Ray Ban logo, you can lose a little more respect for them.

Enshitification of shit. They truly are meta.

The phone goes beyond being just a BlackBerry dupe, however, by innovating in other areas. For instance, its clever “Signal Light” feature offers a light-up button on the side of the phone that can be customized with different colors and light patterns to indicate when you’ve received messages from certain people, groups, or apps.

Oh sweet summer child.

I didn’t say desktop. But, in any case, there are plenty of reasons someone might want extra storage in their desktop without shelling out for an SSD.

It’s interesting, that’s what I felt was happening, but when I looked at the charts, it seems they are less than double. Either way it feels really expensive.

HDDs have doubled in price recently too. Not a good time to try building a computer.

Ugh, damn post title. I went through the whole article looking for the alternatives before realizing the title of the article says nothing about alternatives.

Seems like a “win-win” for the power companies to me. Not sure what your problem is.

Does a thing like crowd-sourcing ram work?

No.

Is it a thing?

No.

This would probably be the symptoms though, yeah?

No.

You seem very confused about what RAM is and what’s happening here. You seem to think that RAM is something you make on your computer. It’s a physical part of your computer that you load information into.

Imagine you’re sitting at a desk in an office. The desk has little shelves where you can put documents you’re working on. You can only put a small number of files there. The office has filing cabinets where other files are kept that you’re not working on. You can store a lot in there but it takes time to go find it. You also have some special filing cabinets that are still slow but you only use it to store files temporarily that someone brings you from another office, or when you run out of space on your desk but still need to keep files handy.

In this analogy, the shelves on the desk is RAM. You only put the stuff you’re immediately working on in those shelves because of the limited space, but it’s really fast to find stuff compared to the filling cabinets, which are your hard drive. When you go on a website, like YouTube, you’re calling someone in an office in another building and asking them for some files. They send over a bunch of files, which takes a really long time. You put a much as possible in your desk shelves to use right now, but anything that doesn’t fit you put in one of those special filing cabinets, which will call the cache, which is slow, but not nearly as slow as waiting for the files to come from the other office. When you’re ready for the extra files from YouTube, you just grab them from the cache.

What’s happening in this problem with youtube is that you request the files from them, they send them over, along with instructions on how to use them. The instructions say something that requires putting a bunch of things in RAM. At first this is normal. But at some point the instructions start repeating and tell you to put more and more files into RAM, maybe even repeats of files you already have there, shouldn’t need again. But you just follow instructions, that’s your job. So you keep loading things into RAM, but then there’s no room left and your system falls apart and you can no longer do any work. Until you close youtube and chuck all the youtube files out of RAM.

Hopefully that makes it clear why you can’t outsource RAM. Essentially you would be putting your little desk shelves in a different office, but we already have a better solution than that: the cache or special local filing cabinet on your hard drive.

What we outsource normally is the hard drive (filing cabinets) and call it cloud storage (for example), and the creation and processing of information (done by the CPU, GPU, or other chips on your computer) and call it cloud computing (for example). That’s because those things are slow, and the extra time to move the files between offices isn’t necessarily the bottleneck.

Oh my disappointment when I got a 56K modem and only got 28.8K speeds.

Yes, and requests for those features get ignored in the competitors’ forums.

Sub-tile icon/widget placement, I’m looking at you!

I’m not sure actually. I know it’s usually found with methane and in massive quantities. Maybe just sealed in by rock and time?

The problem is that helium is notoriously hard to contain. It’s transported and stored super-cooled, but it still gases off, and to release pressure they just have to release it into the atmosphere. It effectively has a shelf life and so it has to be constantly replenished.

Yeah that would make sense with the way the cuts were so seamless.

Now You See Me. I don’t know if it was intentional by the uploader, but it was completely “out of order”. The video played fine, but all of the scenes were mixed up, so we were really confused. It happened on scene cuts though so it wasn’t totally obvious and at first we thought it was just some sort of weird editing technique because of the subject of the movie.

Mythbusters was terrible for this

I’m not in a position right now to look at the files. What language is it written in? I wonder if Bedrock was branched from this project.

On Wikipedia, 4J is credited with working on Bedrock on the main Minecraft page, but not on the Bedrock page.

Edit: actually, I see on the PS3 legacy console edition page that it says it was written in C++. However, it seems that pocket edition was the source for Bedrock. Perhaps this was a separate branch from pocket edition? I would guess the PC target already existed if that’s the case and was mostly used for testing until Bedrock came along and they made PC a full target platform.

Has the accuracy of the snapshots actually changed based on this edit? After all, if it’s factual information being presented…

Yes! Quite literally, yes. They’re supposed to be an archive of what is on other sites. It doesn’t matter if the original site was, right, wrong, complete, incomplete, accurate, inaccurate, factual, unfactual, etc. If they change things, they’re editorializing and are no longer an archive, they’re new content - which is not the purpose people use them for.

I do agree that it raises the issue of what other modifications there may be,

That’s literally the point. It doesn’t matter how much you “understand the reasoning” (though you also think it’s childish and don’t agree with the actions). You can use it if you want to, no one is stopping you. The point is Wikipedia can’t trust it as a source of archived data and has every right to ban it.