Charlie Stross1d ago

HYPOTHESIS: while Moore's Law dominated performance in laptops, the rule was "cheap, fast, low power—pick any two".

Moore's Law is coming to an end. The Macbook Neo says "why choose?"

Nobody needs a laptop with a 40 hour battery life. Nor does anybody needs 200 cpu threads and an AI coprocessor and 256Gb of RAM and 8Tb of SSD. So we're finally seeing the sweet spot in the phase diagram drift inexorably towards the corner labelled "cheap".

Show threadJürgen Hubert1d ago

@cstross

I checked hardware prices for servers yesterday, and a 16 GB DDR5 RAM module had a purchase price of €1600.

How long will "cheap" remain an option under current market conditions?

Show threadsu_liam1d ago
@juergen_hubert @cstross There’s always looting ai data centers as an option. Probably not a solo thing.
Show threadKæmpe-bjørneklo

@su_liam. Best idea ever. Loot data centers for ram for your punk compute projects. Should be a short story if not just reality. Or a standard salutation:

I’m off to loot data centers for ram for my punk compute projects. See ya

Mar 25 at 8:00amWeb
Show threadsu_liam8h ago
@abekonge It is cool. I’d still prioritize crowds of citizens cracking open the ICE concentration camps. A new American Bastille Day is better than cyberpunk looters. Not to say we shouldn’t do both.