> a lot of Linux parts

Anything outside of the stuff required to make a graphical desktop work?

So true. Keep in mind, OP said it was the worst machine SGI shipped, not the worst machine Sun shipped. SGI's worst machine could be fixed by adding some RAM. Sun's worst machines were completely unsalvageable.

Latency?

Does that even really matter with AI? If you already are waiting >1sec for a response/output, what is 0.2 seconds more?

I get what you're saying but do we really think the AI emanating from these data centers is always going to be limited to multisecond response times?

More cynically, someone in the UK might want to do something that makes money with these data centers once the AI thing goes bust.

I think the OP's meaning was entirely clear and engaging with your questions could only obscure their message.

Just going to leave this here.

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

> If all of the undocumented people in the US spent this much time trying to emigrate legally

Many of the "undocumented people" (what an Orwellian phrase) that have been rounded up by ICE are picked up during court hearings or immigration interviews. An easy way for agents to meet their quota without doing any actual investigative work. Say what you will about them but there's no denying those people were by definition "trying to emigrate legally." This has been widely reported.

> Many of the "undocumented people" (what an Orwellian phrase)

Yeah. Also "Illegal aliens" used often by US government officials is even more Orwellian.

No. If you're "trying to X legally", that means you don't just do X anyway no matter what the legal system says. Next you'll claim that robbers are trying to earn a living legally".

> no matter what the legal system says

I appreciate the way you phrased that, "what the legal system says" rather than "the laws," since it's important to keep in mind a lot of what we're talking about is mercurial executive branch policy rather than statutory law. (which is why US immigration has been such a shitshow for such a long time)

On the other hand, you're apparently ignorant of what's actually happening, and it's making you write stupid things. The Trump administration's policy changes when he took office immediately made a lot of people, not my choice of words, "illegal" immigrants instead of "legal" immigrants. Maybe you support that, that's your business, but to claim those people were not "trying to emigrate legally" because the new administration changed the rules is simply dishonest.

GDP being affected negatively by reductions in tourism, with the loss being offset by increased business for Raytheon as well as the human centipede-like economics of big tech companies buying stuff from other big tech companies, sounds about right.

> ECC should have become standard around the time memories passed 1GB.

Ironically, that's around the time Intel started making it difficult to get ECC on desktop machines using their CPUs. The Pentium 3 and 440BX chipset, maxing out at 1GB, were probably the last combo where it pretty commonly worked with a normal desktop board and normal desktop processor.

That was a pretty epic story. I'll admit that I skimmed a few parts. :)

Sad that it's discontinued, but mostly it's remarkable that so much was done by so few people.

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