Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Asianometry" channel.

16:48 "If this video does well... let's say 700 likes". One year later it has 44K likes and 1.1M views. I guess that mission went better than expected.
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@mindracy8259 Many poor countries are missing any proper health care and pension system for the old. As a result, many people have strategy to reproduce a lot with the intent that hopefully at least one of the children will take care of their elder parents in the future. Historically this needed to have lots of children because lots of children did die because medical care was bad, too. However, now more and more of the children survive to adulthood and they try to follow the same strategy.
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It seems that you would have the mind for more complex jobs than driving if you ever want to apply for such a job.
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I think he could have continued, "... though I don't remember anybody ever saying that".
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There should be zero quotas. Instead, simply price the water correctly and it will be used sensibly. Quotas always causes some people to have accidentally too big quota and some other with too little. This is because nobody knows the future perfectly so nobody can set correct quotas either. And any decision power you give to some government workers about the quotas, the more corruption you will get in the long run. It's better to have zero decision power about quotas and simply increase the price of the clean water: do not give free or cheap electricity for pumping the water, set extra penalties for continuing the water once the watertable height is already too deep. That will allows those that absolutely need the water to still pump it and the people to whom it would be easiest to keep pumping more water, it will give more incentive to come up with a better implementation.
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@GreenAppelPie Cloud storage only is for people that do not have any valuable data.
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Great video! You described yet another part of the ASML lithography machine that's way more complex than I ever imagined. I was previously aware that they use plasma lensing which already sounded insanely hard to pull off but I didn't know they use magnetic levitation to move the target object, too!
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@shadowarez1337 Using a HDD with SSD as a cache may or may not work depending on the actual workload. You should also keep in mind that the area designated for caching is off the storage space you have. So if you have 8 TB HDD and 1 TB SSD as cache, you still have only 8 TB of usable space which is way slower than real SSD but faster than HDD. I wouldn't use hybrid solutions with HDDs smaller than 10 TB.
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@shadowarez1337 Is Windows still too stupid to use RAM as filesystem cache by default? I run all the more performance critical stuff on Linux and there you cannot do much better than use the built-in kernel features and simply tweak the tuning parameters. LVM Cache introduces full read-write caching on kernel level and is very mature code already. And you cannot use RAM as SSD replacement for writing if you want durability for the data. Though, if you don't mind corrupting the data on system crash or power failure, then things get much easier.
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@RobertQuant I predict CD players are soon going to get really expensive because the production runs are going to get smaller and smaller.
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@arthas640 The government could set fixed tax for all the farmers but give automatic tax reductions for first e.g. $10000 earned per year. In practice, if you earn less than $10000 per year, you pay zero taxes. If you earn $25000 per year, you get the first $10000 tax free and pay fixed tax percentage for the rest. The government only has two global settings to tune: the tax percentage and the tax free amount. The higher you put the tax free limit, the more you support small farms.
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If you care about your data, at least on backup of everything should be on HDD because it can actually last without power for years. SSDs depend on getting power every now and then or you'll start seeing random bit-flips.
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CD is not yet dead but it's definitely dying. Just google for "total cd album sales in the world graph" and look at any of the image results. It's easy to see that the sales peaked around 2000–2005 (depending on country) and it has been downhill ever since. There's no need to get a CD because you can simply purchase a copy in FLAC format to have exact same audio and you can have the cover art in digital files with much higher fidelity than any printed album ever had (CD size or LP size).
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N7TWL I think CDs would still have value but I'm ready to declare CDs dead after looking at sales over last decade. Commerial CD production is going to die, not matter what a very small minority that still collects CDs wants to think. If you can get digital copy of the uncompressed audio and digital copy of the cover art, physical CD can provide zero extra value.
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2:10 Those that fail to understand history are doomed to repeat the same mistakes. Surrounding yourself with yes-men is never a good option because you will make mistakes that could be catched by the people around you unless they are too afraid to say anything. Making mistakes every now and then is simply human and anybody thinking otherwise (and planning accordingly) is more or less insane.
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Great video otherwise but I think the explanation given for how the transistor actually works is a bit handwavy. Here's a video that explains the smaller details: "The Actual Reason Semiconductors Are Different From Conductors and Insulators." by ProjectsInFlight https://youtu.be/-lHXZk5M6cI?si=_dvKu-Ua-EXXVv-V
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If you want to hear the original audio, nobody thinks that LP is better. However, if you like the sound of distortion that LP player always causes, then you might like that distortion effect being applied to all music you listen.
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1.8M views and 59K likes right now and still going strong!
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Great document as usual but the bar graphs not starting from zero around 15:30 wasn't very cool. The illustration made it appear like Gaming is more than double the Data Canter revenue but when you compare the actual numbers 3.22 vs 2.94, you'll quick see that the difference is actually about 9%!
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@you2be839 If you keep any offline backups, you'll have unpowered storage. And if you don't have any offline backups, you'll be vulnerable to ransomware attacks that encrypt all online storage. Granted, such attacks are not (yet?) that common but they do happen.
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I think the least bad option we have is to make AI development open source and publicly train at least one defensive AI that you can run on your personal systems trying to catch any bad actors (including AI run by bad actors). AGI will happen and we shouldn't assume that it will be used for good by all people.
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Could you make a video about how the EUV masks are created and designed? If I've understood correctly, 3–5 nm process already requires some details to be implemented using interferometry-like process where parts of EUV ligh rays from the mask interact with each other and the actual chip details are result of combining destructive and constructive light waves (destructive interference).
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Great document about GPU history! I'm old enough to have actually bought a Voodoo graphics card with my own money as a new. I feel that the drivers of NVIDIA cards are still the most important part of the technology. It appears that AMD (ex ATI) hardware may actually have more computing power but drivers fail to surface it to the applications. In addition, OpenCL took too many years to create and NVIDIA proprietary CUDA took the market and many apps (including open source Blender 3D) have proper hardware support for CUDA only, even today. AMD is supposed to have something cooking for Blender 3D version 3.5 but the actual performance remains to be seen.
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16:43 A photo lies worth 1000 words has never been closer to truth.
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Easily the best documentary about the subject! Superb work.
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