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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Steam Linux client is now a 64bit applicationEnglish
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    10 days ago

    That sounds a little too made up. An application being a 64bit application ordinarily means that it uses 64bit executables and libraries.

    Additionally Valve have been on this journey to drop 32bit for a while. Last November they published a 64bit beta for Windows, in December they switched the Windows version to 64bit, in January they dropped support for 32bit Windows.

    At the moment I have no reason to believe they didn’t compile the Linux version for 64bit architectures as well now. That’s why I asked if furry toaster had any evidence. Maybe there is something to change my mind.

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Steam Linux client is now a 64bit applicationEnglish
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    10 days ago

    wrong, instead it is still 32 bit

    With this first part of your sentence you are directly contradicting the words in the primary source, so do you have good evidence for this?

    For reference here’s the relevant part from the primary source:

    Linux

    • The Steam client is now a 64bit application.
    • The Steam client now runs inside a Steam Runtime container.
      • This will help the Steam client provide a more consistent experience across multiple distributions. This is the same technology used by Steam games.
  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.detoPC Master Race@lemmy.world•FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies | FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be “technologically neutral.”English
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    2 months ago

    That claim isn’t just a lie regarding the consumer preferences, but also the technological developments. It’s not impossible to predict at all; when talking about long term limits the picture is pretty clear.

    We already know that a fiber can carry 20 terabits per second, because it’s already doing it in backbone ISP connections today. If necessary and economical this can be done towards individual houses in 40 years. The only hard thing to predict is the speed of price decay. But as a sort of anchor value I can tell you a pair of transceivers for 100 Gigabit per second over 10 km can be bought for 500 USD right now.

    We also know that radio links are fundamentally limited by the Shannon limit, which relates the possible bit rate to the spectral bandwidth given a noisy channel (like our atmosphere). Maybe you’ll get a few dozen GHz of spectrum usable from space, in the mmWave region. And with that you probably reach dozens of gigabits per second. There is still a lot more to be had than today, sure, but with a definitive limit not too far off.

    To be clear the Shannon limit applies to the optical transport in fiber too, but there we are working with around 4500 GHz of usable spectrum just between 191.5 THz and 196.0 THz (the conventional band for DWDM), way way way more than radio will ever have by the nature of things. And people are expanding that range downwards to 184.5 THz already, and that’s in the market, not just in research.

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month
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    3 months ago

    Non-voting common stock is a scam pulled by these fucking billionaire founders to reduce public participation, and concentrate their power, even as they use other’s money for their pet projects.

    If a company just needs to take up money for an investment, it can issue bonds. Then it gives up no control, but enters into a fair agreement with someone loaning them capital at fixed rates, with no pretense of ownership.

    If they sell shares, that is supposed to represent partial ownership and allow all the owners to collectively decide on strategy. It also brings with it the right to recall board members who go insane, like Musk or Zuckerberg. To prevent that these scumbags issue non-voting stock, or stock that has such reduced voting rights as to be essentially useless. Like SpaceX recently, all the IPO shares (class A) carry a tenth of the voting rights compared to the ones they kept (class B).