The Apollo missions used a disposable bag you taped to your butt.

"Give me a napkin quick. There's a turd floating through the air" - Tom Stafford, Apollo 10 Commander (1969) [1]

"I used to want to be the first man to Mars. This has convinced me that, if we got to go on Apollo, I ain't interested" - Ken Mattingly, Apollo 16 Pilot (1972) [2]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/5/26/8646675/apollo-10-turd-poop

[2] https://apollojournals.org/afj/ap16fj/24_Day9_Pt1.html#:~:te...

How come all hiking and road disposable bags don't have the tape.

Because hiking is usually done under gravity.

AMD didn't have to introduce a special driver for the Ryzen 9 5950x to keep threads resident to the "gaming" CCD. There was only a small difference between the 5950x and the non-X3d Ryzen 7 5800x in workloads that didn't use more than 8 cores unlike the observed slowdowns in the Ryzen 9s 7950X3D and 7900X3D when they were released compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D .

When the L3 sizes are different across CCDs the special AMD driver is needed to keep threads pinned to the larger L3 CCD and prevent them from being placed on the small L3 CCD where their memory requests can exploit the other CCD's L3 as an L4. The AMD driver reduces CCD to CCD data requests by keeping programs contained in one CCD.

With equal L3 caches when a process spills onto the second CCD it will still use the first's L3 cache as "L4" but it no longer has to evict that data at the same rate as the lopsided models. Additionally the first CCD can use the second CCD's L3 in kind reducing the number of requests that need to go to main memory.

The same sized L3s reduce contention to the IO die and the larger sized L3s reduce memory contention, it's a win-win.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-3d-vcache-optimizer-9950...

And from the linked Wiki: "According to D'Souza, athletes should also be categorised based on their chromosomal sex."

Then we should prescribe puberty blockers to everyone until they can make such a decision.

What about the people who will die because they cannot afford the higher prices that will come from a disruption in gas supply?

You could've written that comment in a more constructive way.

As you probably already know, my point was that it's a bit callous to focus on "this war is expensive and inconvenient" while innocent people are, you know, dying.

Improving LLM memory contention will allow LLMs to use more memory.

> Though the other day I learned there are many technologies for "RAM"

I'm an advocate of sticking a $5 16Gb Optane stick from eBay on a $10 M.2 to PCIe 1x adapter from eBay. Set it up as swap in Windows or Linux. Or pay $200 for a 16GB stick of DDR5.

ECC is actually slower. The hardware to compute every transaction is correct does add a slight delay, but nothing compared to the delay of working on corrupted data.

And waste all those PCI Express lanes?

Somewhere along the line a $10000 GPU has to be equivalent to using a finger to do arithmetic in the dust.