Because it costs trillions of dollars to retrofit a city?

Source? Billions at worst. Like I said, this is a solved problem, and places like Amsterdam have solved this for way less than "Trillions".

Yeah, the really old processors aren't the cheapest option because of the unit cost. They're cost effective because changing your production line is expensive. You need engineers to update the product, testing, updating the production lines, new supply contracts, etc. You need to sell a lot of units to make back those costs.

It's especially a big deal with heavily regulated productions. Things like cars and medical devices will often rely on very old components because changing them would require a lot of expensive testing to ensure they meet the legal standards.

How much more inefficient is it? Because on my budget smartphone I can easily last two days with heavy use. So now I will only get 1.5 days?

If you play a long AV1 wide with CPU only decoding you are more than likely to get only two HOURS instead of days.

Vastly less useful than Teslas also driverless miles driven in MANY other states and conditions than Waymo drives in.

Tesla has a far broader range of conditions to train with.

How exactly has a non-profit helped women get jobs in tech fields?

Just recently I ran into a woman having trouble finding coding work despite a solid background and resume, some people had suggested to her she try Women Who Code to get some connections that could help her find some job opportunities.

I had contributed to them in the past as they also held women only coding camps for teenagers, that is I think the key way you actually get more women into coding as opposed to simply juggling the few professional woman coders in a sightly different mix across existing companies.

I had kind of lost track of them though and hadn't contributed for a few years, I think the coding camps were shut down... maybe the organization just lost track of the core mission.

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.

Yes

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.