It's Apple's fault they're charging 32GB prices for 8GB of RAM.

It's iFanboys' faults if they fall for it.

And also a stone cold SSD killer.

They can't get this kind of performance (for those short-running tasks that actually perform well on an inadequately cooled system anyway) with modular RAM. It would also take some of the profit out of the machine, or they would have to charge an even more ridiculous price in order to maintain their enormous margins.

You do realize that Safari is basically just an inferior version of the same browser, right? If Safari ever gets updated enough to be as good as Chrome, it will use just as many resources. Using less resources only makes it slower, it doesn't make it better, unless your criteria is "better on a machine with an inadequate amount of RAM". For what Apple is charging, 16GB ought to be the absolute minimum.

If you read the BBC article, you'll see that they didn't just rely on local sources, but interviewed experts from around the world.

Yeah, I read that. Some of the worst statistical proofs I've seen have been written by economists who know something about statistics but don't understand epidemiology, and are advocates trying to win an argument. This guy, a biostatistician, can explain the problems with Wyner better than I can:

https://liorpachter.wordpress....
Bits of DNA
A note on âoeHow the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbersâ
March 8, 2024
by Lior Pachter

In a Tablet Magazine article titled âoeHow the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbersâ posted on March 6, 2024, Professor of Statistics and Data Science Abraham Wyner from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania argues that statistical analysis of the casualty numbers reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health is âoehighly suggestive that a process unconnected or loosely connected to reality was used to report the numbersâ....

Customer service jobs have seen high losses. As soon as the current AI is combined with a physical presence then jobs like stocking, shelving, janitorial services, security, and many more will see rapid replacement.

I agree there's a problem with confabulation. But see the CNBC article, 'TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Recent data shows AI job losses are rising, but the numbers donâ(TM)t tell the full story" where it says, "According to a recent report of 750 business leaders using AI from ResumeBuilder, 37% say the technology replaced workers in 2023. Meanwhile, 44% report that there will be layoffs in 2024 resulting from AI efficiency."

As I said,

You haven't been following A.I. closely have you? Because it's being used in many high value applications and exceeding the current human experts in those fields.

Even in it's current dumb state, combined with robots, the current A.I. can replace about 60% of human beings and that includes some fields that require a masters degree or doctorate to get a job.

Most manual labor jobs are easy to replace (stocker, shelving, janitorial services, landscaping, simple assembly, etc. etc. etc)
And A.I. is already replacing radiologists and other analytical jobs.

I agree with the other guy, if your breakeven is over 9 years, then solar isn't worth it yet.

Get a smaller off grid system for disaster planning and then wait for prices to drop further (and another 40% decline is due within the next 5 years.) Plus the panels are getting smaller for the same power. 10 years ago, a 100w panel was 32sq feet and $750. Last summer, a portable 100w panel was 16 sq feet and $129. A fixed panel was under $100 and also about 12 sq feet. And that's after 10 years of inflation on the price.

You face significant risk of inverter failure over 15 years. Maybe twice. At about 10 years, you would need new batteries.

But you can have a small, non-grid tied system to keep your refrigerator, a fan, a router, a laptop/tv, and a couple lights going. Saving a fridge full of food is both a reduction in misery *and* potentially a $200 to $400 savings so one disaster outage will reduce your payoff period quite a bit (2 to 4 panels are suddenly "free" or 1 battery is suddenly "free").

You haven't been following A.I. closely have you? Because it's being used in many high value applications and exceeding the current human experts in those fields.

Even in it's current dumb state, combined with robots, the current A.I. can replace about 60% of human beings and that includes some fields that require a masters degree or doctorate to get a job.

That's why you combine generation and storage (and note I didn't say "batteries"). That storage can include turning atmospheric co2 into fuel.

But underlying your point is that we simply have too many people. Generating baseline power for the current population is rendering the planet uninhabitable.

Seems to me that focusing on increased efficiency would have huge payoffs. Brains do this with a very tiny amount of electricity so the potential power efficiencies are vast.

Oops... senior moment. Should have said 2024.

The Palestinians are more semitic than the Jews. That's why Israel doesn't allow people to get genetic origin tests.

"Words like Holocaust and Holodomor have pretty specific history behind them"

The word Holocaust predates the Nazi Holocaust, but you seem to have bought into the Zionist propaganda that says it can only be used to describe what happened to the Jews.

"Their robots could vastly reduce the costs of labor, making high quality goods available to everyone."

Hahahahahhahhaa

Available to everyone

Are you fucking new? That is not how the technology will be used. Trickle down is not just a myth, it is a deliberate lie.