Lots of the Netherlands sits below sea level.

So why should we be concerned even slightly about cities subsiding when we already can easily deal with places that exist many meters below sea level?

A modern news article is loaded with high resolution pictures and videos. Our screens are way higher resolution than they used to be. Drawing a modern web page requires compositing a bunch of layers of images. All of that takes a lot of memory.

You can keep your memory usage a lot lower by decompressing your JPGs and PNGs as you draw the page and immediately discarding them. You can discard all the layout you've computed as soon as you draw. Your memory usage will go way down if you do. But scrolling the page or animating anything on it will be really slow and choppy. Most people wouldn't like that.

Modern browsers use a lot of memory to make things smooth and fast. They also release most of this memory if you haven't looked at the page in a while. And some of them even have settings to be more aggressive and totally unload background tabs if you want.

It's also a case of selectively reading stats without knowing the big picture.

Chrome obviously needs to decompress your PNGs and JPGs to be able to draw them to screen. While you're viewing a page, it'll keep the decompressed images in memory. If the page has been in the background for a while, it'll free the decompressed images and just keep the compressed versions in cache. When you go back to a tab you haven't used in a while, it'll decompress everything again. This reduces the memory Chrome uses a lot, at the expense of a slower load for a tab you haven't look at in a while.

If you load a few large complex sites and then look at memory usage, yeah, it'll be really high. If you've got a lot of tabs open that you look at occasionally, memory usage won't be nearly as bad. And like you said, the remaining memory used by those backgrounds tabs will get swapped out to disk if needed.

I know Firefox does this too, and I think Safari does as well.

And why is a lawyer the one finalizing the divorce order?
Shouldn't that power solely lie with the judge (or the judge's staff)?

Decades ago, there was an Italian music star named Adriano Celentano that came out with a song called "Prisencolinensinainciusol". The lyrics were nonsense. He wanted to make a song that showed how English sounded to the Italian ear. It was his biggest hit.

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Yeah, it sounds like they're intentionally driving away anyone but paying customers at this point.

That was the entire reason this grant happened. We wanted chips being produced locally. Intel has historically been great, but they fell way behind TSMC a while ago and only recently started to get back on track.

You're right tho, having the finishing local would be better. I wonder if Intel would be able to handle that part of the process if it became necessary.

Pretty much every chip fab is built where they get the best subsidies. They easily cost over $10 billion to build and generate a ton of business for the area, so it's pretty easy to come to a deal that works for everyone involved.

This particular fab is being built because the US is heavily reliant on chips from TSMC, and most of their fabs are currently located in China. The US really wanted local chip production in case anything bad happens in the China/Taiwan situation. China taking over Taiwan and cutting off the chip supply would wreck the US economy. Even if this deal was a loss financially, it's got huge value for political reasons.

Based on what evidence? Faith in Musk?

Over one billion miles driven using FSD.

Looking that that graph is should be obvious where it is going, and how soon.

The last I heard about the taxi idea, they mentioned they were considering letting people send out their cars as taxis when not in use, and thus owning a Tesla could actually make you money.

That does depend on true self driving to work but it seems like they are pretty close now.

A fact which renders these trackers completely useless as anti-theft devices

Not really, even if a thief is alerted something is being tracked if they can't find the tracker they will throw out the object they stole... which you can then recover. and also potentially get video evidence from around where it was dumped to ID the thief if they still have something from your backpack...

I have a hidden compartment in my backpack where I often put cash so I very much would be happy to recover even just the empty backpack without contents.

Or if you had an AirTag hidden in a car they might just ditch the car rather than take it to a chop shop, and you can at least find where it was ditched.

Also did you forget "unintentional theft" exists, where for example an airline rather than flying your bags to your destination, takes them elsewhere... and when that happens sometimes they have no clue where the bags are. If you have a tracker, you can tell them what city and facility your bags are in, and even play a sound to help locate them.

AirTags (and the new Android form) are incredibly useful even with tracking detection abilities, you are really missing out on this super cheap insurance and recovery aid.

Got it, thanks - good to know!

I guess since it considers it an "unknown tracker" it would only warn you about it, not feed back to Apple information about that AirTag location.

Didn't see this mentioned in the summary, when support for this launches does this mean Android will also warn you if an AirTag is tracking you? Which would mean it helps with the recognition network being larger for both tracking devices.

Or has Android already supported detecting AirTags tracking?

There is a famous investment quote that goes "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".

If you join in the pack shorting something like this, you open yourself up to the possibility some kind of irrational buying flood comes in and wipes you out.

Remember that these days very few stocks are actually priced according to value, so it doesn't seem like a Trump based stock would be any exception.