How big a chunk? Assume an 8Kx2K monitor setup: 16 million pixels. Assume 4 bytes per pixel for HDR, and double buffering. That's 128 MB, or 1/64th of the 8 GB of even an entry level laptop, and a quarter of what was complained about as a large web-browser tab.

I don't think it's exactly reasonable to count, say, textures against it because most 3D apps using that would need to keep a copy of textures in non-video RAM anyway: you would be penalizing the unified memory scheme by forcing it to emulate a non-unified scheme.

None of those exceptions support the idea that "instructions on how to commit certain crimes" are illegal to say.

I mean, the US Supreme Court said that (US) courts cannot assume that burning a cross in someone's yard is an attempt to intimidate anyone -- the First Amendment protects expression, and by golly, somebody might have a different reason for burning a cross in someone's yard. Even when, as in that Supreme Court case, defendants burned a cross without permission on a Black person's lawn (two of the appellants) or during a literal KKK rally (the third appellant).

Tunisia is not in the Middle East.

From Tunisia, go east across all of Libya, and THEN -- once you cross into Egypt -- you're in the Middle East.

The comment you replied to was taking about what AI companies are trying to do, or should try to do, not about what US governments can require them to do.

Property tax is an even more striking example, where the rates often vary even within a county. Where I live, property (real estate) taxes have a base rate of 1.135% per year with a bunch of add-ons for various tax districts, some limited to commercial property only. The next county over has a base tax rate for real estate of 0.865% instead.

The analysis you are probably citing for "Texans pay more than Californians in taxes" is wrong -- laughably so, for example by imagining that California's typical home value is the same as the national median of $245,000: https://www.cato.org/blog/are-...

I understand the logic, but it's not valid: if Google didn't say that Premium subscribers would be allowed to use adblockers, then the OP was just assuming that was allowed.

Not that I am on Google's side here -- I don't use YouTube enough to care about ads there -- but I wanted to know if the OP was actually claiming that Google did something wrong or just something that the OP didn't like.

I am confused. The advertising I see for YouTube Premium calls it "ad-free", not "adblocker-allowed". Are they actually showing ads to those users, or does some of their advertising say they allow ad blockers?

If your enterprise depends on a product that can't parse a textfile correctly without appropriate and simplistic sanity-checking, you absolutely and desperately need a new product for your enterprise.

And if that product says "Oh, we can't do that, because it's undocumented and the format could change at any time, so no warranty for that..." take that as a hint.

I would guess that absolutely nobody is paying the kernel team to solve their boo-boos with their third-party, out-of-tree, unnecessary KConfig parser for enterprises that they're charging a fortune for. It's on them to fix it if their parser is so immature that it can't handle a space in an often manually-edited config file.

If it's undocumented, third-party integrators should be asking for such and/or KNOWING that their integration could break at any time and that they should therefore do a lot more sanity-checking.

Well, I've gotten comfortable not owning Ubisoft games. Companies that are not so user-hostile still get my money.

Apple's market dominance in the U.S. means that people with Android phones face significant headwinds. Being the only Android user in a group chat is its own special Hell. That lack of interoperability works against Apple in places where Android phones are more established. It is hard to convince people that your phone is so much better than theirs when every time you put a picture in a group chat it looks like you took the picture on a flip phone from 1995. Everyone else's pictures look fine. In these cases Apple is clearly the problem, and it is a bad look for Apple.

That doesn't stop iPhones from being a status symbol, and there are certain parts of the population, where all of the rich and powerful people have iPhones, where being part of the crowd is worth the price of entry. However, in a country where 90+% of the population is using Android you have to be pretty darn snooty to justify buying an iPhone. I suspect that is a very hard market to sell into.

It's actually incredibly likely that we're NOT.

But the problem is that simple physics gets in the way and the chances of two civilisations existing at the same time, within communication distance of ANY kind, and who notice each other and can do anything about it (beyond having conversations with 4000-year round-trip times), are infinitesimally small, even with a million such civilisations.

Basically, the limiting factor here is the speed of light - and if that's literally the limit of the universe, every civilisation that exists will basically be forever isolated from all others, just by sheer probability. It doesn't matter how advanced they get, how fast they spread through their galaxy, how many millions of years they last.... the chances are they won't meet another, or even catch a glimpse of evidence of their existence.

It's far more likely we're one of countless civilisations, even in our own galaxy, but almost certainly in the countless trillions of galaxies we can see, but that we'll never actually know that. The maths tells us so.

And if someone can "break the speed of light" (without tricks like holes in space, etc. but actually break the speed of light), they could probably also go spend all of eternity locating every civilisation that ever existed anywhere from the point they discover that, and basically visit them at any "time" in that civilisation that they desire. Would they choose 2024 Earth and humans from a universe of possibilities? Almost certainly not.

We're not alone, we're not the most advanced life. But we will likely be entirely unable to provide any evidence of that for the complete window of our entire existence. That's, by far, the most likely scenario for every civilisation in the entire universe.

Spectre is an information leak through a side channel. The attacker tricks other code (such as the kernel) into making a branch that is followed by code that affects the CPU state based on secret information -- such as loading value X into the cache if some secret bit is 1. The CPU will erase the effect of the speculatively executed code on registers, but not the cache, so the attacker can see how long it takes to load value X after the vulnerable "widget" runs.

The information leak is not nearly as direct as you seem to think it is.

By your definition, a car that one drives while standing would be a walkable amenity. I'll leave it to readers smarter than you to decide whether that makes any sense at all.