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The fact that no new ram production capacity is being developed would indicate a lack of future contracts

You would need more ram to do that. Understand the difference between primary and secondary memory.

Linear components like power amplifiers are made from the same material as digital circuitry, and they use a lot more of it.

What, you mean it wasn’t there already ? It’s the only place where it would be actually useful.

I think Irish Stew is safe. No one’s touching that.

The rot really began with Google and the the goal of “professionalism” in teaching.

Textbooks were thrown out, in favour of “flexible” teaching models, and Google allowed lazy teachers to just set assignments rather than teach lessons (prior to Google, the lack of resources in a normal school made assignments difficult to complete to any sort of acceptable standard).

The continual demand for “professionalism” also drove this trend - “we have to have these vast, long winded assignments because that’s what is done at university”.

AI has rendered this method of pedagogy void, but the teaching profession refuses to abandon their aim for “professionalism”.

In China you can exit from a 12 lane freeway into a creek bed.

It switches to storing files on Onedrive without warning.

Then if you disable Onedrive, you lose access to your files (on Onedrive) and their memory space is reused.

It doesn’t actually delete local storage, as the path is just switched.

When I was in year 5 the kids in the class had been working cutting apricots and they bought tonnes of candy and these whistles they were blowing all the time.

How much did the whistles cost ? one cent.

True story.

From the questions people ask and from online accounts.

2006 - 2G Siemens

2016 - 3G Samsung (2G turned off)

2022 - 4G ZTE (3G turned off)

The MacIntosh did not have an eject button famously.

Its upside down you know. The rocket engine fires upwards and what you see is after it pushes back, Newton’s First Law and all that (equal and opposite reaction).

If it pushed down, it wouldn’t work in space cos there’s nothing for it to push against.

“Benny Hill owns Thames TV, he named it after his Thames van” (pronounced to rhyme with “frames”).

I think the term “The Nethetlands” was coined after the Reformation and Counter-Reformation when the northern provinces ,which became Lutheran, separated from the southern provinces which remained Roman Catholic.

The country was usually referred as “Holland” (a northern province) before then.

America was originally just the name of South America, then the English lazily coined the term “North America”.

Before giving my verdict on this Wayland/sway experiment, let me explain that my experience on X11/i3 is really good. I don’t see any tearing or other artifacts or glitches in my day-to-day computer usage. I don’t use a compositor, so my input latency is really good

But I thought X11 didn’t have compositors ? Just a window manager.

No I know. The stuff made in the 1970s was utter garbage.

Anything with moving parts, after about 6 weeks you’d hear a grinding noise then a snap and a puff of smoke.

Chuck em out the window and there’s a thousand people behind them willing and able to take their place.