Stability is relative. Compared to reinstalling Win9X so often I only recently forgot my most-used 98SE product key, Win2K was a breath of fresh air, especially for dual CPU rigs formerly afflicted with NT 4.0.

There may be a silver lining.

Desperation will ensure sales to the only customers (PC building enthusiasts) who will still care about traditional removable RAM.

Normals never install an OS, never open their computers, and never install internal hardware upgrades. People who do are "techno-divergent".

Apple demonstrates soldered RAM and storage are no barriers to consumer sales with zero need for a hobbyist market.

Ancient Slashdotters remember COAST (Cache On A STick) and why it went away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Today we have ROAST (RAM On A STick) which only exists for customers who cannot afford to max out RAM on computer purchase, there being no (conventional user to whom computers are magic) downside to max RAM.

Being able to buy a PC with a cheap spinning rust hard drive and the least offered amount of RAM then binning those and maxing out with aftermarket parts (mostly Crucial RAM in my and many others case) was great while it lasted but the vast majority of PCs go from womb to tomb without upgrades and will in future.

That's actually a good question. Inks have changed somewhat over the past 5,000 years, and there's no particular reason to think that tattoo inks have been equally mobile across this timeframe.

But now we come to a deeper point. Basically, tattoos (as I've always understand it) are surgically-engineered scars, with the scar tissue supposedly locking the ink in place. It's quite probable that my understanding is wrong - this isn't exactly an area I've really looked into in any depth, so the probability of me being right is rather slim. Nonetheless, if I had been correct, then you might well expect the stuff to stay there. Skin is highly permeable, but scar tissue less so. As long as the molecules exceed the size that can migrate, then you'd think it would be fine.

That it isn't fine shows that one or more of these ideas must be wrong.

I'm always happy to see you no matter what, nospam007 !

Also: they have a superhuman AI, why don't they ask it to design better products to compete with Google? I've been told the world will end because the super sentient AIs are redesigning themselves and taking over any minute now......

But seriously, OpenAI doesn't need daily meetings and code red. They just need to prompt ChatGPT what to do. Are the employees so stupid that they can't even think of that? Pfft.

I'm not so sure there have even been enough incidents to decide if Waymos are more or less likely to run over an animal, but I *STRENUOUSLY* object to trying to soften it with 'made contact with' in the press release.

Right. I've seen that YouTube video too.

Terrawatts of power

Well stop worrying then. The entire world uses about 18 TW of energy from all sources. That's not electricity, that's everything. There's no possible way Austria is installing plural (or even singular) TW unless they've discovered zero point energy and are about to be all our overlords.

Or did you mean the charming unit terawatt hours per year of electricity? In which case, meh.

They say financial literacy is poor in the US.

Did you miss the part where it has to be invested in a market tracking index fund? The S&P 500, which is what people usually mean when they say "the market" has returned almost 10% / year over the last hundred years. Index fund fees are usually a fraction of a percent. So ~9% / year, subtract the US average inflation rate this century of 3% and you've got 6% real growth. No imaginary leverage scams needed.

Since he has comprehensive backups, just restore them, and then realize unguided / non-sandboxed AI is dangerous, and move on. Why did the drive or folder have permissions to let the AI remove everything? Why were the policy's setup to allow it? If he doesn't have backups, who fault is that? This is yet again an example of a careless person, carelessly using, careless software. Since you're using driver letters, you're on Windows, which again, careless software, hosting careless software, executing careless software, ran by a careless user.

What it means is very clear, especially since it's included in TFA's summary. Did you even bother to read the topic or did you just find an excuse to claim ML helps progress because AI?

When folded, the Z-flip is also about twice as thick as a non-folding Galaxy phone, but it's actually more comfortable in a front pants pocket if you climb stairs often enough.

I've experimented with this. It's because the tradeoff lets the folded phone slide around more freely (compared with a larger phone), and that's the key to comfort.

By the same argument, the Z-fold design combines the worst of both the regular, non-folding phones (namely their height is comparable to a pants pocket) and the extra thickness of the Z-flip.

That's not a gas station!

And it was as if a million people in the audience cried out at once.

And if that doesn't work, we'll appeal to an even higher authority.

It's already in the works.

The Pope is technically infallible.

He has a direct wifi connection to the Invisible One In The Sky.

So when he gets put to the question, it will take a day, two tops, and he'll relay the Big Boy's exact wishes to the old girls.

Two and a half, if saturday's barbecue party in the Vatican's garden is particularly bangin'