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"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" is a song by Paul and #LindaMcCartney from the album #Ram. Released in the United States as a single on 2 August 1971, it reached number one on the #Billboard Hot 100 on 4 September 1971, making it the first of a string of post-Beatles, #PaulMcCartney-penned singles to top the US pop chart during the 1970s and 1980s. Billboard ranked the song as number 22 on its Top Pop Singles of 1971 year-end chart.
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#DRAM is one of those machines that sounds way too simple and stupid to be practical.

You have a bunch of capacitors. If a capacitor is charged, it's a 1, otherwise it's a 0. Every once in a while, recharge the 1s so they don't become 0s.

It's the sort of thing a little kid would think of.

And yet, it works perfectly and is the gold standard of volatile #RAM. (#SRAM is quicker and more sophisticated but less dense and more expensive.)

#Technology is funny like that.

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@mavica_again @cstross @NF6X also lets be clear, @NanoRaptor does "Premium" #Shitpost|s or rather "#NextLevel #Memes" to the point that I'd not be surprised if she makes a #NeoFloppy / #Jaz / #Zip mashup and showcases a nonexistant "vintage" portable SSD with like old #ROM chips or #RAM chips...

  • I mean, the only reason #ODD's and #HDD's ever got built is because #CoreMemory and other storage couldn't scale up faster.

But #WhatIf it did?