https://www.reddit.com/r/freewill/comments/1f40trl/ram/
created by diogenesthehopeful on 29/08/2024 at 12:12 UTC
1 upvotes, 4 top-level comments (showing 4)
If you have a computer running windows 11, then from time to time you may have a need to know how much memory it has. If you are about to buy/install a new program, the program or app may require a lot of memory and you may want to be sure what you do have if you don't recall offhand.
One way to do this is to reboot and go into what used to be called the bios settings. However if the computer is running W11 why go through all of that when you can just go to settings->system->about? Every motherboard is going to have it own way to designate how much memory is installed but W11 is W11. On the about page it says "**Installed RAM**"
In the ancient days of computers not all storage was easy access. In the case of tape the user had to literally run the tape forward or backward in order to get to the required record. Disks were a little better than that because you could "seek" the head to the desired cylinder which took time, and then you still had to wait until the desired information on a spinning disk came around under the head. Computers even in the dark days were still relativity fast so even though that disk was sometimes spinning at 3600 rpm, the "latency" time was noticeable Another form of storage was called a push down stack. The idea behind this was sort of like a deep cabinet or draw. The data was stored in a first in last out fashion so you literally had to access everything if you desired data was the first loaded into the stack.
The point is if anybody should know what the word random means, it is somebody who worked around computers since core memory was replaced with solid state memory. Every A random number generator is another example but the sophists tried to argue "true random" vs "pseudo random". Ordinary meanings of words affected me as well and random is often thought of as unpredictable (as in truly unpredictable vs pseudo unpredictable). This is not true.. Random implies chance vs necessity. A 50/50 chance is truly unpredictable. However a 999,999/1 chance is very much predictable. In fact reliable technology works reliably with odds that are no where near those favorable odds. That is one thing grossly misunderstood by a determinist. He seems to believe if the odds are high enough then it couldn't happen any other way. That is not true. If it was true then I cannot win the lottery by buying one ticket. Just because something is practically necessarily true doesn't imply it is necessarily true. By studying Hume you will never fall into this misdirection.
TLDR: The R in RAM stands for random. It doesn't mean or imply anything about predictability as the dogmatists imply. It just means that you have direct access to any memory location or rather that you have the **chance** or the **possibility** to access any address location without having to pull out other locations first in order to get to the desired location.
Comment by mildmys at 29/08/2024 at 12:24 UTC
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Libertarian arguments make me want to uninstall life.exeđ
Comment by spgrk at 29/08/2024 at 12:42 UTC
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There are different meanings of ârandomâ. I saw a random dude: the dude was not expected, he wasnât there for any particular reason, I didnât recognise him. Libertarian free will does not require random as in random dude, it requires random as in the outcome could be different under exactly the same circumstances.
Comment by boudinagee at 29/08/2024 at 12:45 UTC
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So if you bought two of the exact same ram sticks with the same hardware in the computer running the same exact software at the same time, would the data be stored in differently?
Comment by RandomCandor at 29/08/2024 at 14:59 UTC
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This analogy would fit a lot better if you had some basic idea about how computers work.