No one solders RAM. You pop it out if the socket or nothing.

I've diagnosed more than one laptop by pulling each RAM stick individually, and the problem suddenly goes away. Amazon overnight a new stick, and, Voilà!, fixed. Cheaply and quickly. Personally, I haven't had good luck with the RAM checker programs.

Is there any one single component in a laptop more likely to cause problems than bad RAM?

And if the Chinese government tells Apple: Sell to Chinese buyers or be banned?
Same for Tesla. Microsoft. Boeing. Etc.
All these companies collect massive amounts of data inside China.

AT&T and other companies should be barred from storing this (Socials, dates of birth) information. We know they are not competent to protect it. It should be illegal for them to possess it any longer than it takes to complete the task it is required for (for instance, a credit check). After the data is no longer required, it should be deleted via an overwrite. It should never be included in nightly back-ups.

I finished HS in the 90's. I never had any coaching, and I did just fine on the SAT. Same for most of my classmates. My HS was very demanding, and I don't know anyone who had time for prep classes. I know a few people who took a weekend prep class, but that was the exception. Not sure if it helped them or not.
If you survived my HS, you'd be just fine on the SAT.
Other than a few pointers such as knowing if you are punished for guessing and how to pace yourself, the SAT doesn't seem to be a test you can prep. I'm sure you can get this much off Youtube. Taking and mastering college level linear algebra, Calc through Calc 2, reading lots and lots (Actual books - Shakespeare, Chaucer, etc.), etc does prep you for the SAT. If you can master those skills, you should get a good SAT score, and you should be be just fine in most colleges. If you struggle with basic academics, college isn't the place to get yourself back on track or to learn the basics.
I had good coaches, but they didn't teach the SAT. btw. The best teachers sit back and let you teach yourself. They only nudge you when you really need it - such as, "try this other textbook for a really good explanation."
(I'm not interested in the one fringe case that is the exception. I'm talking about on average.)

Don't read too much into this. I'm not a commercial pilot, but I am a private pilot. Landing gear can take a tremendous amount of abuse, but parts do wear out. We don't know how many hard landings this plane has had since the last landing gear overhaul. 10,000 good landings will wear out landing gear parts. The airline is responsible for maintenance. Most likely, this is a 20 year old aircraft (Most 757's are old), and the failure has nothing to do with a manufacturing or design defect.

Maybe the EU will have a knee jerk reaction and kick Apple hard. The EU could pass a law stating that App stores can't collect more than a 5% fee. Then this whole cat and mouse game that Apple is playing is over.

How about this: Stop prescribing an antibiotic every time someone gets the sniffles? I know when a patient comes in the doctor knows the person is there to get a script. If the doctor doesn't give the patient a prescription, the patient is likely to go somewhere else and get one. The doctor will lose a recurring revenue stream.

Doctors need to grow some morals and ethics and stop this completely self inflicted problem.

Every time a doc gives me a prescription for antibiotics, I end up throwing it away (I've never filled one). The doc has never tested me for any specific bacteria, he just writes me a prescription. Doesn't seem to care if I have a virus. if I did develop a serious bacterial infection that started to get out of control, he doesn't have any idea whether or not the antibiotic he picked would be effective against it.

This truly is American medicine. Figure out a way to plug the symptom with another pill rather than fixing the root cause. However, I bet the treatments will be stupidly profitable for the medical community.

It's sad that the medical community created these horrible antibiotic resistant bugs, and now they are killing people. The medical community has no sense of remorse for the people they have killed or the damage they have done. We went from no antibiotics to this in how many years? My cause of death will most likely be cancer or a man made super bug. If one of these man made super bugs develops high airborne transmission, it might make Covid look like a joke.

(I know. Animal antibiotics, without a legitimate need, also need to stop.)

The headlines are going to freak everyone out. "Experts" need to drop these wild predictions. 3D TV was going to take over everything. 5G was going to "change everything"! It never happened. The list goes on.

AI is a new tech. I've found it to give shit results. That said, I know it will improve, and it currently does some cool party tricks. Mistakes and missteps along the way will help us understand where regulations truly are and are not needed. AI isn't remotely intelligent, so I fear it will never stop giving blatantly false answers/errors ("hallucinations") that any thinking human would never give/make. Hopeful this will happen without having to manually hard code in too many "rules" or excessively manipulate the training data to get the "right" result.

If I had an AI company, I might be motivated to make (or have paid experts promote) insane claims and then watch my net worth rise another 10 billion. Journalist are quick to jump on any trend and further exaggerate/amplify already dubious predictions of anything "new".

Life as an independent contractor can be $250/hr (or more) and a lot of hours. Coding ERP integration, custom reports, fixing database problems, tracing down and fixing out of balance accounts for the monthly close, integrations with everything everywhere, business modeling and projections, etc. If you force them to become employees, there is no way they will make anywhere near that much. In many cases, the company paying dictates a lot about what is done and how. You often must use the company's computers and cloud services (for all sorts of security reasons)

For "economically dependent"
A) opportunity for profit or loss (Contractors can't really lose money. At $250 and hour, this is a sure thing unless there is no work)
B) investment (Minimal. Nice shirts? Business cards? I assume the CPA earned years ago and degree from MIT doesn't count here)
C) permanency (Client tend to keep coming back, projects always drag on)
D) the degree of control by the employer over the worker (You have to follow the client's rules. You might be required to work at their location.)
E) (and) whether the work is an integral part of the employer's business. (I'd call accounting and ERP as core. Walmart is more IT supply chain than anything else. If you can't run this stuff efficiently and effectively, you go bankrupt.)

Watch unforeseen consequences and "Gee, I thought the law was meant for..."

should be who knowingly took large amounts of money that SBF worked hard to keep hidden (the money and the source) from regulators.

Convicting SBF on election fraud should be the first step to getting the politicians who took the dirty money. Heck, prosecutors could have struck a deal with SBF. Tell us everything so we can put some politicians in jail, and we'll drop charges. Not going to happen now.

you aren't.

Anyone who anthropomorphizes AI shouldn't be trusted to write papers on AI. AI might try to optimize a result. It doesn't stress out and decide to break rules. It doesn't even decide anything. It executes an algorithm.

btw. The term "artificial intelligence" implies human intelligence when there is none. "Large language model" other model names are more descriptive of the technology.

If you Google, "Firebase DB Documentation" and read it, you should be able to figure out your problem and in the process learn the bigger picture of what you can and can't do with Firebase DB. If you can't do that, you might not be a very good coder. Replaced by AI? Then good riddance!

If the AI has access to proprietary "Firebase DB" documentation or proprietary "Firebase DB" source code that isn't available via Google and uses it to give you a solution, you have a different problem.

Good coders tend to be good at figuring out systems that are new to them quickly.

There needs to be generic laws governing trading and custody (holding someone else's assets on their behalf, like an exchange holding client's dollars and bitcoin).
This is going to keep coming up. It doesn't matter if it is cryto or beanie babies. There are assets outside of registered securities which will be used as stores of value, speculation, gambling, money laundering, etc. Doesn't matter if it is wine, art, or collectable McDonald's toys. If I send in my wine to be stored at an auction house warehouse, they don't get to sell it, lend it, lose it, drink it, without explicit, well documented permission from me. Parking garages don't get to secretly lend out my car on Turo while I'm having dinner. SBF lent crypto/cash to Alameda. Not much different from the parking garage. Customers didn't know asset A was going to be lent out to B.

Need to think in generics terms here. "Assets" that are not registered securities. The generic concept of custody. Trading of "Assets". Taxes on "Assets", promotion and marketing of "Assets", theft and return of "Assets". Etc.

Then the next time this happens in some completely unpredictable space (such as NFTs), there shouldn't a call for "new laws". We're going to get laws that narrowly apply to cryto that will do nothing to stop the next "big thing" that leads to 100's of billions in losses. ("Stopping" might not be possible, but prosecution after the fact should be easy.)