Get ready to buy PC memory like you buy lobster.

Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    9 hours ago

    Many text editors today just load the whole file into RAM.

    been the case for decades

    One data point: emacs normally loads the whole file, unless you’re using the vlf package or similar.

    TECO and ed might not. Dunno.

    • HereIAm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Ed and sed don’t load the entire file in, but vim does. Not heard of TECO before 😄

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        TECO’s kinda-sorta emacs’s parent in sorta the same way that ed kinda-sorta is vi’s parent.

        I compiled and tried out a Linux port the other day due to a discussion on editors we were having on the Threadiverse, so was ready to mind. Similar interface to ed, also designed to run on teletypes.