But if you install Linux, it will cut disk usage in half and RAM use by perhaps 25%.
True, for workloads that don't involve a lot of web browsing. For web browsing, I've seen a single article on Ars Technica open 40 or more Firefox content processes: one for each origin that is running its scripts in the document.
How is one supposed to build and test a program for macOS on Apple silicon and a program for Windows or Linux on x86-64 without owning a Mac with Apple silicon and a Windows or Linux PC?
Even Linux Distros have "Arbitrary support dates". I guess there are not too many distros that will support a version released in 2021 beyond 2032 without making you go to the next version of the distro
Most well-known GNU/Linux distributions aren't charging for the next version, nor increasing the system requirements quite as sharply as Microsoft did from Windows 10 to Windows 11. The system requirements of Windows 10 differed little from Windows Vista's recommended specs. Windows 11 began to require much newer features in the CPU, particularly mode-based execution control (to limit the damage that an old vulnerable driver can cause) and an ongoing commitment from the CPU manufacturer to update microcode with new Spectre mitigations. (See williamyf's post on Ars OpenForum.)
There's also the small issue of Linux dropping 32-bit support going forward.
Some GNU/Linux distributions are indeed ending i686 kernels. But by 2010, practically all desktop and laptop CPUs were supporting x86-64, even netbook CPUs such as the Atom N450 in the Dell Inspiron mini 1012 that I used to have. So that's at least 16 years' worth of used PC hardware that you can repurpose. Anything older than that probably has 2 GB or less of DRAM sockets, and Wirth's law has corrupted the websites that people are required to use for work or for life administration for so long that 2 GB is inadequate.
But you have others like some mini-boxes, where there is RAM soldered to the motherboard, but they still have DIMM sockets to add extra RAM, if needed
I suspect that in the long term, after the memory crunch, this sort of design is the way to go. Instead of swapping to the soldered SSD's SLC intake buffer, as Macs appear to do, they could swap to a RAM disk in a CAMM socket, the sequel to SODIMM.
Unlike in the 90s, when there was a rapid growth in the demand for computing resources, today w/ multi-core CPUs, 64-bit computing and 8GB of RAM and higher, most laptops are likely to last longer
That's not the impression that I got from doomers griping about Windows 10 end of support coinciding with the memory shortage.
If anything, a K/V/M switch has become more useful for programmers who maintain software for both macOS and other platforms ever since the Mac mini switched to Apple silicon.
Typically in sound quality tests, you tell subjects which file is the original, then have them rate how close to the original the other samples are. In this he just gave them four samples, and had them guess which was which, turning it into a more subjective test of guessing what they think the track should like. In addition, based on the table he got a total of 1-4 responses per track, which is far too low to have any statistical significance.
This was a funny joke, but not the gotcha the article played it up to be.
Why are you attributing this story to The Register, when all your links are to somewhere else?
Android phones have supported ipv6 natively since 4.2 (2012).
Even if your device supports IPv6, if it's associated to a WLAN whose uplink is IPv4-only, it'll still have to operate on IPv4. The uplink of Frontier fiber Internet subscribers is IPv4-only.
You could almost say there's a stateless protocol.
Based on a very quick gloss of the California Notary Handbook, it doesn't look like Notaries can do this. All they can do is attest to the identity of the signer(s) of documents, and that said identity was verified via "satisfactory evidence," which is one of a variety of forms of ID, and then record that ID along with their fingerprint in their journal.
Point being: The identity being verified is disclosed (their full name) as part of the Notary's attestation. I don't think attestations without such a disclosure are possible under the current framework, but I haven't read the actual governing law. (AKAs/pseudonyms can be attested, provided "satisfactory evidence" can be provided establishing the AKA/pseudonym belongs to the person present. It is extremely unclear whether Internet account IDs qualify under this provision, much less what would be accepted as "satisfactory evidence.")
What he is, is a liar and master stock manipulator. That's all this is. No need to look for any science in it, or to dig any further (no regolith joke implied).
You didn't quite get the joke. "No Nazi ever called me racist"... because they wouldn't, would they?
Because it has sick drumming, dude!
This drone (an MK30) is 78 pounds, and about 6 feet diameter. They could easily kill a person if they hit a them. I think this is the fourth time I've read about their drones crashing, and all the cases seemed reasonably avoidable. They are currently operating under a special FAA license that exempts them from several rules that normal drone operators have to follow, like not requiring visual line of site. Given their safety record so far, I think that license should be revoked, and they can go back to a normal commercial license, until they have proven their operations to be safe again.
The first time, it's a KLUDGE! The second, a trick. Later, it's a well-established technique! -- Mike Broido, Intermetrics
