“ECC availability matters a lot - exactly because Intel has been instrumental in killing the whole ECC industry with it's horribly bad market segmentation.”
Its.
There, I finally corrected Linus Torvalds in something. :))
Its.
There, I finally corrected Linus Torvalds in something. :))
I'm happy to see people here on HN respect the difficulty of learning languages. Most foreigners that speak Finnish do it very poorly at first and even after decades they still sound like foreigners. But it shows huge respect to our small country for someone to make the effort, and we really appreciate it. I'm hoping other people see learning their own mother tongue the same way. Sure, most of us need English, but learning it well is still a huge task.
I spent my preschool years in a multicultural environment and English was our lingua franca(ironically the school-mandated language was French), so I didn't properly learn contractions until grade school - same with similarly sounding words like "than vs then" and "your vs you're".
It's because they have two different uses (three if you count nested quotes, but those aren't common and are pretty easy to figure out), contractions and possession, and they seemingly collide on words like "its" where you'd think it could mean either.
Not sure if you've already learned this (or if it helps), but English used to be declined, and its pronouns still are, e.g. they/their/them. That's why "its" isn't contracted; the possessive marker is already in the word.
The ambiguity makes it hard for me to say. "It's the best" vs "its is the best"
It doesn't feel right dropping the is
Now the point about internally doing ECC is an interesting one, could be a way out of this mess. And apparently ECC is more available in AMD land
Closest you can come to a nuc with ecc is I think a mini server equipped with one of the four-core i3 parts that have ecc.
As for NUCs, I thought there were some Atom chips with ECC but not in NUC form factor ? Something shiny from Logic Supply might do then...
Yes it is. The problem is they dont really advertise it. I'm not certain but it might even be standard on AMD chips, but if they dont say so and board makers are also unclear, who knows...
For consumer motherboard OEMs, only AMD effectively has ECC support (Intel's has been so spotty and haphazard from product to product), and of AMD users, only a small number care about ECC.
So motherboard companies, being resource and time-starved as they are, don't make it a priority to address such a small user-base.
If Intel started shipping ECC on everything, it would go a long way towards shifting the market.
The first time I wrote "your" instead of "you're" in English I thought it was quite a milestone!
I kinda disagree because while the homophony works in (spoken) English in written it stands as a sore thumb. So yeah you will make it if you only heard it but doesn't know the written form.
(And in their native language it's probably two unrelated words, so that might intensify the feeling of wrongness)
"You're/your", "their/they're", "its/it's" and the like are a different story, because I do pronounce those the same and they're all very common.