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When you make insurance claims, your insurance premiums go up. When you buy cars that are known to get stolen more frequently than others, you also pay higher premiums for theft and vandalism coverage. Insurers may even decline to offer coverage for some of the worst offenders. Allow theft to...

It would be great if car manufacturers didn't add intrinsically unsafe features to their vehicles that make them so much easier to steal in the first place.

If you want to stop car thieves from using spoofed fobs, make the protocol bidirectional like private key and certificate exchange for SSL, then tighten protocol timing specs so there isn't enough slack to insert a repeater in-between. ... or even simpler and better IMO: go back to people...

They should, and keeping tabs on stale resources to decide what can be dumped to free-up memory and pre-load stuff more likely to be called on soon isn't horribly difficult either. But it is extra work and predicting wrong will still cause pops. I personally like text fonts with enough pixels...

Games don't really need to "account for more VRAM", they just need to be written to only evict resources from VRAM when no longer needed or asked to free up VRAM by the OS/API, whatever the VRAM amount may be. Kind of like how the Windows file system cache keeps everything in spare RAM until RAM...

I already said it but I'll say it again: higher resolution TEXTURES deliver many of the most obvious image quality gains and that requires little to no additional GPU-power. In modern games, having only 8GB of VRAM often leads to very obvious asset pops, ex.: you run around a town, bang into a...

If nobody complains about ludicrously expensive GPUs having a bunch of corners cut off everywhere to pinch a few dollars on manufacturing off a $1000 luxury product, that is only an invitation to do even worse next time. No GPU over $250 should have less than 12GB of VRAM, which makes 16GB at...

Different applications respond differently to various memory parameters. Memory that performs generally best for gaming has a different balance of bandwidth vs latencies than video compression, 3D rendering, data compression, physics simulation, etc. Since higher bandwidth usually comes at the...

It makes no sense to force all motherboards to be designed with the worst-of-worst cases with 600W PCIe slots in mind when 80+% of motherboards may never have any expansion cards at all. Keeping bulk power separate from the motherboard allows you to use just about anything with just about...

Happy holidays to you too! Simple: inertia. By sticking with 12V, they avoid the additional friction of needing to refresh just about everything else for a voltage only the newest of new stuff supports. 12VO split the baby in half. You can efficiently step 24V down to 1V using simple buck...

IIRC, what I have said in the past is that 24V is the highest voltage that can be handled with inexpensive MOSFETs. Once you go beyond 24V, parts start getting significantly more expensive. That makes 24V the highest voltage that could be cost-effectively used to boost power supply and...

I don't remember any of my PCs with boot-time motherboard images delaying boot in any meaningful way. The only thing those ever did as far as I can tell is hide POST/boot messages. However, I do remember some GPUs from 20+ years ago having an obnoxious boot-time image that couldn't be disabled...

Got to love vulnerability through unnecessary complexity. I'd gladly forfeit lots of cosmetic code for the sake of enhanced reliability, stability and security. Before boot logos, PCs used to display BOOT progress messages. You can still see the messages by disabling logos or pressing whatever...

MRAM relies on bulk magnetism to do its thing, which is trivial. The main challenges there are making it small enough to compete with DRAM on density and finding cost-effective manufacturing methods. If you want to process information at GHz speeds using manipulation of polarized electron spin...

CFET doesn't require any special tech, it can be done on the same equipment used to make GAA/ribbon FETs today. The only thing it changes is the additional process steps required to build up additional active layers. The main reason they aren't using it already is because they haven't reached...