Or more likely, trying to source smaller memory chips would cost more. And as C64 already uses bank switching, there's no reason to not allow switching to more banks. Like, C128 shipped with 128KB, could be easily extended to 256KB, and its CPU could handle up to 640KB.

As 128MB = 32768 4KB pages or 65536 2KB pages (I don't know the granularity of the I/O port used for bank switching), I suspect this limit is due to bank numbers not the memory chips' size.

And the fun thing being, original software that was able to handle different memory sizes (64/128/256/640) might be able to use all 128MB without modifications.

Well yeah. The difference is, GPS works with a signal much below the noise floor, while the magnet inside Earth is quite powerful.

A punk with a briefcase can jam GPS. A malicious state actor can deny GPS to a large area -- or worse, spoof it. This is routinely happening.

Also, it's a prototype vs a system with decades of refinement.

s/done/sometimes done/
Try attaching any monitor above 1920x1080 via HDMI. So if the cable is known to be good, the computers in question have all "HDMI 2.0 4k" in big letters in their specs, all should work, right? Mwahahaha.

The particular case on my disk right now: EDID and DDC properly report 1920x1200 (native), 1920x1080, 1600x1200, etc., yet it fails to work in the first mode. 1920x1200 needs HDMI 1.4 bandwidth, the two other HDMI 1.3. The same monitor, the same cable work with some computers, fail with others. Hrm.

My low-res monitors are DVI, which is supposed to be carried over HDMI (same protocol), but guess what? It's also random which computers they work with.

Meanwhile, in the DP land, I have yet to see my first failure. But sometimes I need HDMI for $REASON. :/

And that's bad... how? There's so many less idiots to contend with there than on the old rock.

Likewise with PCI 4.0 cards in a PCI 3.0 motherboard:
[ 0.768734] [ T1] pci 0000:43:00.0: 126.016 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link at 0000:40:03.1 (capable of 252.048 Gb/s with 16.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link)
or in a physically-x16-really-x4 slot:
[ 0.777737][ T1] pci 0000:09:00.0: 31.504 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x4 link at 0000:00:03.1 (capable of 126.024 Gb/s with 16.0 GT/s PCIe x8 link)

The second card has same problem as yours, when in a real x16 slot it'd use only 8 lanes despite physically having the connectors.

No. On the other hand, high and middle management believes in buzzword-driven logic, and thus adopts it, ready or not.

And that's the reason sane countries have outlawed it. It's nothing but shitting on the customer.

apt install edlin

The English name of the country remains Turkey not something we can't even write on Slashdot. Just like we say Germany not Deutchland. And their Führer can go <censored>.

4., of course. Those who refuse to sing and dance get deported.

Where did I claim that only capitalism and socialism exists? And while you're right that other massive ecological disasters exist, ruining the whole of Central Asia with a single megaproject is, by far, the biggest damage done by a single instance of human ignorance. Not even greed, just pure stupidity: after soviets ended Lysenkoism (which cost them decades of research and lives of thousands of scientists), they moved to their next political idea. And this kind of agricultural project was one of favourite pasttimes of communism, see eg. Four Pests Campaign that lasted just 4 years but was so disastrous that the instant famine offed tens of millions.

But, if you love socialism so much, please explain to me: could you give me even ONE upside of it? All I see is north of 200M dead (~11% national, the rest reds). If an idea has been tried in 100+ countries, and every time has resulted in concentration camps (well, Grenada had "only" disorganized killing, but it's a microstate where communists got spanked after 4 years) -- perhaps the idea is not that good after all?

Even religions which claim Jesus as a prophet haven't managed so high a number, but as they got quite close (~100M christianity + ~75M islam), it's not for a lack of trying.

Not block, that just makes the bot herders come from a new set of IPs and with a slightly different method to ward off detection. And instead of a single article, give them endless content they so crave. Be it AI-generated to match current fads, or dissociated press generated as we used to do in the previous millenium.

If only we had protocols for bulk downloads that scale according to the content's popularity...

Sorry but it's socialism that has done the worst ecological disasters. The Aral Sea is now the Aral Desert, the rivers that provided Central Asia fertile steppes are now small polluted streams, and the land is too salty for any productive use.