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what? the point of this is that it seeks just parts of the files through http ranges… not all 43 GB… just try the page? or am I missing something?
by shp0ngle 5y ago
what? the point of this is that it seeks just parts of the files through http ranges… not all 43 GB… just try the page? or am I missing something?
- unixhero 5y agoYou're missing his pragmatic and creative solution to leapfrog the problem altogether.
- IshKebab 5y agoA pragmatic solution that requires users to have 43GB of RAM? Right.
- unixhero 5y ago2021 called, memory is cheap.
- linkpuff 5y agoIs it though? We are in the middle of a chip crisis where prices are raising to record levels...
- unixhero 5y agoYes it is. In the grand scheme of things, looking at how far we've come DDR4 modules are cheap dollar per gigabyte.
- jbverschoor 5y ago20 applications x 50GB = 1tb of memory.
- Quekid5 5y agoo... kay? You're not wrong, but who's talking about 20 applications?
- jbverschoor 5y agoLook at the amount of applications and web-application you have open at a given point. If this is such a good idea, let's just all use iscsi and mount the internet.
- andi999 5y agoNotebook vendors didn't get this memo.
- Eremotherium 5y agoDon't buy a garbage laptop with soldered RAM and just upgrade it yourself?
- IshKebab 5y agoAnd how many users have more than 16GB of RAM?
- IgorPartola 5y agoOn phones too?
- gsich 5y agoPhones are not first class devices.
- IgorPartola 5y agoSays who?
- gsich 5y agoI do. Many others too. Or do you see books written on phones, programing being done on phones? Being able to install any program you like? No? Not first class then. There are many things that can't be done on a phone that are possible on a PC. The reverse case is much harder.
- IgorPartola 5y agoI see Wikipedia being read on phones, which is the problem at hand.
- gsich 5y agoThe fact that you can't even add memory (be it RAM or storage, the later one is of course doable on some devices) to your phone makes them not first class devices.
- IgorPartola 5y agoSame with MacBooks? Sorry this sounds like utter nonsense.
- gsich 5y ago
- exdsq 5y agoIt's around £300 for 64GB of Corsair RAM - you need a motherboard that supports it but you can go cheap and you don't need a great processor. You could probably put this together for £600? It's not exactly crazy if this was for an office or something.
- azeirah 5y agoI mean sure it's for enthusiasts, but my 3 year old pc already has 32GB ram. It's definitely not out of the question
- AussieWog93 5y agoTo put it in perspective, 43GB of RAM to browse the entirety of Wikipedia doesn't sound that ridiculous when popular Electron-based IM programs use 1GB+.
- jggonz 5y agoI'm going to upvote this comment because not everyone in the world can afford $300 for 64GB+ of RAM. The solution to not dump everything into RAM is a great one. Fortunately, I've had a fancy Silicon Valley job for 15+ years which now lets me afford many GBs of RAM if I wanted to but it was a different story in my 20s. I relied on free or almost free hardware to learn. And that free hardware usually lagged in specs.
- walrus01 5y agoYeah I agree with you not everyone can afford it, but lots of young people build $1800 gaming PCs. If you want a powerful Linux workstation desktop PC for fun projects like this you can get a Dell t5610 with two 8 core xeons and 128GB of ram on eBay for $650, then add your own $100 SSD. I would not recommend running out and buying a new current gen Ryzen board+cpu or core i7-whatever and 128GB of new ram at ddr4-4200 prices.
- bawolff 5y agoWhich problem? Yes putting it in ram will be faster than downloading it over the network. I don't think anyone ever doubted that. I imagine people who wanted to download it would just use kiwix. The potential to download isn't the part that makes this project interesting.
- shp0ngle 5y agoahhh I misread his comments. Sure, RAM is always faster.