I mean, in that kind of timeframe, there were pretty major shifts in transportation.

For a long, long time, ships up rivers and along coasts was the way serious transportation happened.

Then we had the canal-building era in the US. I assume that the UK did the same.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_age

Technology archaeologists and industrial historians date the American Canal Age from 1790 to 1855[1] based on momentum and new construction activity, since many of the older canals, although limited by locks that restricted boat sizes below the most economic capacities[b], nonetheless continued in service well into the twentieth century.[c]

By 1855, canals were no longer the civil engineering work of first resort, for it was nearly always better—cheaper to build a railroad above ground than it was to dig a watertight ditch 6–8 feet (2–3 m) deep and provide it with water and make annual repairs for ice and freshet damages—even though the cost per ton mile on a canal was often cheaper in an operational sense, canals couldn’t be built along hills and dales, nor backed into odd corners, as could a railroad siding.

So that was maybe sixty, seventy years before rail was really displacing it.

EDIT: I guess what I’m trying to get at is that I don’t think that rail had a uniquely short era where it was the prime, go-to option compared to other transportation technologies…and I don’t think I’d say that the golden era was short enough to make the technology not a worthwhile investment, even if it was later, in significant part, superseded. A hundred years is a long time to wait around without engine-driven transportation, which would have been the alternative.

Like, the automobile? It looks like the boom in the UK they were talking about was in the 1840s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

Railway Mania was a stock market bubble in the railway industry of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the 1840s.

There were primitive automobiles earlier, but the mass market automobile didn’t come around for a long time after that, and then it’ll have taken longer to get substantial marlet penetration.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42182497

It runs a bit off the edge — I don’t know how far back they had licensing and mileage data.

But extrapolating from those lines, I’d guess that annual distance traveled in the UK in autos on roads surpassed rail only in the 1940s or so, about a hundred years later.

That’s probably outside the investment horizon of people investing in the 1840s — in evaluating whether an investment is worthwhile, they won’t be considering returns a century hence.

That being said, it is possible to maybe consider freight rail, and it’s possible that that works out differently. The US doesn’t use much passenger rail in 2025, but it does do quite a bit of freight rail; the two can be decoupled.

EDIT: It can’t be too much earlier that road traffic could have risen, though, since mass-market motor vehicles weren’t much earlier than that.

The forbidden fruit is the sweetest.

I suppose it could, if you wanted to carry a foldable USB or Bluetooth keyboard or keypad.

I think this is a case of “knows enough to be dangerous”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

At Netscape, he developed the Unix release of Netscape Navigator 1.0,[4][5] and later, Netscape Mail, the first mail reader (or Usenet reader) to natively support HTML.[6]

I mean, you can draw the line wherever you want, but I expect that he probably knows more about mail than the average bear.

JWZ is probably one of the better people in a position to set up a commercial mail provider that provides whatever services and address the issue.

The version on F-Droid works on my system.

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Looks like the F-Droid project hasn’t seen a new Android build in a decade, and Maxima has seen updates, but…I mean, it’s a pretty mature program. I have a newer version on desktop, but all the stuff I use was added in the first couple decades or so of its life.

EDIT: The git repo is here:

https://github.com/YasuakiHonda/Maxima-on-Android-AS

So I expect that if someone wanted to do builds of newer versions, they could.

But for perspective, the calculator that the article is talking about that the author liked is also a decade-old calculator.

I would not try to buy a product with a built-in battery for life. If you want a battery-powered speaker and want to keep it for a long time, I’d go for something that has standardized, removable batteries.

EDIT: It looks like a lot of the products out there (a) are Bluetooth, which I don’t know if you want or not (but I wouldn’t consider that something that will be a buy-it-for-life feature either, since Bluetooth has steadily seen protocol change over time and I doubt that twenty years down the road, the state-of-the-art in Bluetooth will be what it is today) and (b) have built-in lithium batteries. What you might consider doing is getting a radio with a built-in speaker with aux-in, as it’s easy to find those with removable batteries and without Bluetooth.

Great minds think alike. Yeah, just followed up with a similar comment. So probably a bug, but not sure whether it’s an mbin or Lemmy bug. Like you, I can also see the intended URL on PieFed (olio.cafe).

EDIT: Same problem on lemmy.ml, and they’re the dev instance, run the latest version of Lemmy:

https://lemmy.ml/post/41016280

EDIT2: I submitted a post to [email protected] at https://lemmy.ml/post/41019532 to make the devs aware of the interaction, if they weren’t already.

It’s not visible via lemmy.today’s Web UI:

https://lemmy.today/post/44629301

Checking whether it’s just lemmy.today somehow mangling things, it doesn’t look like it. Here’s beehaw.org’s Web UI directly:

https://beehaw.org/post/23981271

As of the moment, both are a link to an image (though lemmy.today is proxying the link to that image):

https://fedia.io/media/93/77/937761715da35c5c9fb1267e65b4ea54c2b649c2eebbf8ce26d2b4cba20097bf.jpg

Same behavior seen when browsing lemmy.today in Eternity.

EDIT: Fedia.io is running mbin. You submitted it via fedia.io. This community is on beehaw.org. I wonder if there was some kind of recent mbin/lemmy compatibility bug? I’d check fedia.io’s Web UI, but it currently disallows anonymous browsing (probably because of all the AI web scrapers hammering Threadiverse instances that allow anonymous access).

It’s all of Nvidia’s customers that are mini-Enrons.

I don’t think that those are faking profit. Well, I don’t have some comprehensive list, and maybe somewhere someone is, but not for the majority of purchases. It’s possible that they won’t wind up being long-term profitable, but there isn’t fraud involved in that.

I don’t think that the Enron analogy is very applicable in general. Like, what people who are critical of the extent of AI investment are worried about is analogous to the dot-com bubble, where the returns to investors from companies didn’t warrant the level of investment and stock prices for many companies shot way up and then fell back down.

EDIT: It’s fair to say that Nvidia is driving demand for its products. But…that may be quite sensible, since if you have a killer app or two explode, it can drive massive demand for the hardware that runs it. If you have capital available and control the best hardware out there, it may well make more sense to use that capital on building more demand for your product than to go and try and improve the product more. There’s only so many chip engineers available that Nvidia can hire, and unless they want to get into the “writing AI software” game themselves, which would have them compete with their customers, I’d think that that’s potentially a reasonable place to put their capital if they’re trying to improve their business potential.

Nvidia sold a lot of hardware when cryptocurrency became popular. I think that it’s probably fairly safe to say that AI applications have considerably more potential to provide utility than does cryptocurrency.

If you were trying to link to an article, you just linked to an image.

Scientific calculators are an amazing invention that take pocket calculators from being merely basic arithmetic machines to being pocket computers that can handle everything from statistics to algebra.

I use the FOSS maxima on Linux and Android.

Last year, they warned a “nuclear war” would break out between Israel and Gaza, where a ceasefire is currently in place.

That seems like pretty a questionable prediction even aside from dependence on the supernatural for information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War

If your family has been living in part of that yellow area for a long time, maybe.

I imagine that Xi probably doesn’t care all that much whether you’re having mega gay sex, but I expect that he is very interested in whether you are also employing that dingus in ways more-conducive to sustaining future state output.

Where the fuck are you sourcing explosives and tear gas as a civilian

https://www.keepshooting.com/clear-out-6oz-tear-gas-grenade.html

Clear Out 6oz Tear Gas Grenade

sword-wielding man

ASAP Squatter Removal has a 95%+ success rate

Every now and then, you run into a spearman.

Intel can use up their excess capacities, making currently high-priced DRAM for profit, gain goodwill for rescuing the PC market, which in turn will sell more Intel CPUs as well. Sounds like a win to me. What do you think?

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It sounds like they are, in fact, looking into making DRAM. Just that they’re interested in making better DRAM for AI applications.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/intel-and-softbank-collaborate-on-power-efficient-hbm-substitute-for-ai-data-centers-says-report

American chip giant Intel has partnered with Japanese tech and investment powerhouse SoftBank to build a stacked DRAM substitute for HBM. According to Nikkei Asia, the two industry behemoths set up Saimemory to build a prototype based on Intel technology and patents from Japanese academia, including the University of Tokyo. The company is targeting a completed prototype and mass production viability assessment by 2027, with an end goal of commercialization before the end of the decade.

Most AI processors use HBM or high-bandwidth memory chips, which are perfect for temporarily storing the massive amount of data that AI GPUs process. However, these ICs are complex to manufacture and are relatively expensive. Aside from that, they get hot pretty quickly and require relatively more power. The partnership aims to solve this by stacking DRAM chips and then figuring out a way to wire them more efficiently. By doing so, the stacked DRAM chip’s power consumption is halved versus a similar HBM chip.

If successful, SoftBank says that it wants to have priority for the supply of these chips. At the moment, only three companies produce the latest HBM chips: Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron. The insatiable demand for AI chips means that HBM supply can be hard to get by, so Saimemory aims to corner the market with its substitute, at least for Japanese data centers. This will also be the first time that Japan aims to become a major memory chip supplier in over 20 years.

I suppose if they can make better AI-oriented DRAM than the Big Three and make enough of it to satisfy AI demand at some point, that might make the Big Three redirect some of their output back to DIMMs.

“Partial workaround” wou’d probably be more accurate. As the article body points out, DDR5 SO-DIMM prices are also up, albeit not as much as DDR5 DIMM prices.

But it’s substantial enough of a price difference to be interesting, especially with larger-capacity SO-DIMMs.

EDIT: For those not familiar, SO-DIMMs are “laptop memory” and DIMMs are “desktop memory”.