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I haven't seen any reporting on just how much gallium, germanium, and antimony is used in electronics. I can see that it's basically present in all electronics, and the price per kilogram has gone up a lot under the restrictions, and that China accounts for 94% of the world's production.

Ok, so is this like gold, then, where very small quantities are used in most electronics so that it matters, but doesn't actually account for a significant percentage of the cost of the finished product?

How much gallium is used to manufacture a typical cell phone, a laptop, a car? How much does that $90/kg price hike translate to actual devices? Because if 1 gram of gallium goes into a particular device, that's an increase of 9 cents in raw materials, basically a rounding error.

Of course. But even for people who don't read the article, it's still best practice to just copy the headline from the article so that it's the top of the Lemmy thread.

Yeah, the actual headline to the article is "Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate," which OP has very unhelpfully shortened to post "Netflix struggles to understand its cloud costs."

The word "Even" is doing a lot of work, and leaving it out changes the meaning of the headline.

Exactly. To extend the junk food analogy, this is like making donuts from scratch in your own kitchen: customized to your preferences, maybe tastes better, but ultimately you're still making a mess in your kitchen and eating unhealthy.

If you're writing 100 MB/s, it'll still take 300,000 seconds to write 30TB. 300,000 seconds is 5,000 minutes, or 83.3 hours, or about 3.5 days. In some contexts, that can be considered a long time to be exposed to risk of some other hardware failure.

My theory is that there is quite a few servers that are chosing to defederate. The number of total servers continues to drop according to fedidb.

Or admins are just finding it not worth bothering with administering their own server and turning them off.

You can have the code to my kernel, sure. You don't get a login on my machine, though, and you're definitely not on the sudoers list.

It sounds like you want a way to collect articles, including full text offline, and organize them in a searchable way. Why do you need RSS for this? Just use a blogging platform where you can organize each post, list/sort/filter by date or topic or original source, and use the search functionality in the actual blog platform.

Dedicated units were available from brands like TomTom in the early 2000's, and cell phones started getting it around 2007 or so (I remember very expensive blackberry plans had it around then). Android launched with it in 2008, and iPhones started allowing apps like Google Maps with turn by turn navigation by around the end of 2012 or so.

when you ask a computer to sort things for you, it will automatically order things correctly when the date follows this format

I'd go even further than that, and point out that the reason why computers sort things in this order is because that's the most logical way to convey specific dates.

Most significant digits on the left, descending left to right, in order, is how we do all other numerical representations. It's only dates that we have different norms.

They weren't the ones to come up with the name, so they have to follow what everyone else calls it.

It's why I much prefer MacOS over Windows. The command line makes sense. The file and folder structure makes sense. The defaults can be a little bit weird but a little configuration can help me feel right at home.

No forum, email or word processor (even WordPerfect for the c64) or Notepad uses this

I think the convention of 2 newlines for each paragraph is a longstanding norm in plaintext. The old Usenet, list servs, plain text email, etc., was basically always like that, because you could never control how someone else wraps their text. 2 new lines would be a new paragraph no matter what, while single new lines could create ambiguity between an author's intentional line break versus the rendering software's decision to wrap an existing line.

For lists and the like, you'd want to be able to have newlines without new paragraphs, but you'd generally want ordered lists or unordered lists at that point.

For an obvious example of markup languages where newlines and carriage returns don't have syntactic meaning, look at literally the most popular one: HTML.

So markdown was essentially enforcing the then existing best practices for pure plain text communication, to never use single line breaks except in lists.

Most UIs don't even have a preview option, let alone need one, because they don't require you to have a stick up your ass to 'get' using them.

It was pretty common before Markdown took over that forums and other user-input rich text fields used raw html (or a subset of html tags), or something syntactically similar to html's opening and closing tags (BBcode, vBulletin markup, etc.).

Markdown was basically the first implementation that was designed to be human readable in plaintext but easily rendered into rich text (with an eye towards HTML). It's not a coincidence that it took off in the early days of the "web 2.0" embrace of user-submitted content in asynchronous forms.

I get the complaint. But I think markdown makes a lot of sense as a way to store and render text, and that one compromise is worth it overall.

That dude was fired.

This is exciting. Having another player in the cutting edge fabrication space is a good thing, and can help keep pressure on Samsung and TSMC and Intel to innovate and continue to make progress.

To corroborate what you're saying, here's a Compusa ad from 1999. The desktops listed are much cheaper than the $450/GB price and come with, a whole computer around that hard drive.

Plus on page 12, there's an 18GB drive for $300, or $16.67/GB.

soldered RAM across the board

More than soldering, it's actually packaged, physically placed into the same single black package as the CPU and GPU and storage, and then that whole single package is soldered to the board.

Lots and lots of people went on the 98 to XP to 7 to 10 path, skipping Me, Vista, and 8. No reason that pattern can't continue.

So I used THIS GUIDE to try to make a persistant USB stick.

Yeah you're gonna want to use an external SSD instead. USB thumb drives can vary considerably in speed, and bottlenecking yourself there is gonna be a miserable experience.

Intel's packaging doesn't seem to be that far behind TSMC's, just with different strengths and weaknesses, at least on the foundry side. On the design side they were slow to actually implement chiplet based design in the actual chips, compared to AMD who embraced it full force early on, and Apple who rely almost exclusively on System-in-a-Package designs (including their "ultra" line of M-series chips that are two massive Max chips stitched together) where memory and storage are all in one package.