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Geof25··on Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
If that would be true, everyone would be still using DDR3 and waiting on DDR4 production to finally spin up.
Geof25··on If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
People often hate math because it was not explained to them correctly, usually by people who are good mathematicians but know close to nothing about teaching.

It was so infuriating to see everyone in the class absolutely fail on a specific subject and the "teacher" assumed that everyone must be stupid then. No self reflection, no questioning himself why he is not getting gaussian distribution in marks, just straight Fs.

Geof25··on Bad code is kudzu
This description feels like you are describing mold. It is invisible. It smells bad. And can slowly erode everything it grows on. One day you will take a shovel with molded handle and it will just detach.
Geof25··on “Chilling” warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts
Isaac Arthur was talking about technological singularity 10-15 years ago. The fundamental problem which he pointed out is that you will just run out of energy long before even touching the singularity.

AI apocalypse is basically the same thing but you can also run out of tokens too.

Geof25··on The EPA Is Planning to Scrap Public Review Rules for Data Center Pollution
Pollution happens when you don't have enough power in the grid so you will bring either diesel generators or methane turbines to make power.

Also noise is pollution too.

Geof25··on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
Seems like they all failed miserably, when all what you can get in USA is a white rubber loaf which never goes moldy.
Geof25··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
> Feel very grateful I was never taught this...

Never heard of Abstract section? First semester on a college or last year on high school.

Geof25··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
The whole idea of "voter's fraud" is actually something unheard of in Europe because you will get government issued id (Citizen ID) when you reach 15 y/o and it is renewed every 10 years. You are then using it for voting and in general proving your identity. The later models are biometric so it is very hard to fake it

The fact that USA never finished the Real ID thing as the Citizen ID in Europe is kind of mind blowing for me. It is elegant solution to everything what current administration is complaining about - prove of citizenship for ICE, prevention of voting fraud and especially business owners can tell who is citizen and who is not.

Geof25··on Proton Global Outage
I guess multiple datacenter hosting and automatic switch over should be the resulting solution of this incident
Geof25··on How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer
I am doing exactly same thing of creating a solution which can be applied to multiple problems at the same time.

Sometimes coworkers does not like that because they don't see me working on the problem, but on a tool which will resolve the problem and similar problems from our backlog.

Geof25··on PostgreSQL for Everything
Well the problem is that sometimes there is just too much choice to make
Geof25··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
Asking for a cheque deposit is like asking for a car with a hand crank. People outside USA are going to look at you like on a member of a Sentinel tribe.
Geof25··on Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug
Monkey paw wish - you will live longer, but you will be constantly erect.
Geof25··on A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
Yeah I know this mess in PowerPC. There is IBM Power, there is MPC5xx ISA, there is VLE and and several other dialects. Some processors are doing those some doing others, some needs bit to signal if program runs VLE... just crazy chaos.
Geof25··on Bedtime Procrastination
I am usually procrastinating sleeping because if I won't wake up soon enough (6-7 hours) I am probably going to end up with a mild headache which will usually runaway into head splitting migraine.

So the fear that tomorrow may be the day full of pain is keeping me awake from inevitable sleep.

Geof25··on Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail
I often hear about lisp but never actually figured out what tooling you need Is it interpreted or compiled language? Why should I use it instead of any other languages?
Geof25··on Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space [video]
Exactly same problems which Microsoft faced during its underwater datacenter experiment and exactly same reasons why Microsoft ended this experiment.
Geof25··on Our position on open-weights models
No. The moment there is a human involved, it is obviously not fully autonomous
Geof25··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
It is a skill issue. Such developers have to take a problem, isolate it and explain it to someone/something else with enough context to be able to work with it.

It is perplexing how many developers lack this basic skill, some of them borderline lack theory of mind and are incapable to understand that other people can't see the unspoken part in their heads.

Geof25··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
STM32 had this problem of disappearing for years. At least I was forced to move to ESP32 and have never returned back.
Geof25··on Designing and assembling my first PCB
It is like 1 week between order and delivery. It feels to me that if you can't wait for a week for parts and PCB then maybe project should not exist at a first place.
Geof25··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection
I am on protonmail+ my own domain. Works alright
Geof25··on Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
China and India signalled to Russia that nukes are big no-no.

Reason is simple - using nukes when you can't win a conventional war will degrade them from strategic asset into tactical one and whole nuclear proliferation flies out of the window and everyone will have nukes.

Geof25··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
Speaker in carry on luggage to be used in vacation. They were flying to Malaga
Geof25··on Starship V3
And then it creates problem with radiation (energy dense particles travelling close to the speed of light ripping holes into 2nm chips) and heat (it turns out that coffee stays hot in a thermos for very long time)
Geof25··on Starship V3
Like point to point rocket travel?
Geof25··on Starship V3
So you can have datacenters in space, you are just not allowed to use them
Geof25··on Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
It is illegal to commit a crime. So no crimes will be committed. Duh.
Geof25··on The Serial TTL connector we deserve
Well the first problem you will hit I'd that very likely you will need to protect or isolate those lines from ESD. This will raise price of device and it will get denied just in these grounds.
Geof25··on The Serial TTL connector we deserve
What you are describing is going to be nightmare to work with - i.e. when you will have automatic detection of levels and it will decide to push RS232 into 3V3 MCU then you will have dead, maybe one of the kind prototype or dead expensive production device
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