The one thing low RAM will impact performance-wise is audio-playback in some situations. If you overload the RAM on these machines while playing a live DJ set the slowdown will be audible when it will start to glitch. Folks should be aware of that and close all their browser windows before going off to their big gig.

Yes they should pay you to use the tools they're forcing you to. But their trillion dollar bet is that you're training the tool to do your job for you. So I'd rather bank a cheque than have a discount called a perk. And anybody who's working in tech now and not saving up (while investing in ???) isn't thinking ahead

Or go cheap like me and trade up your 27" DisplayPort for a ten year old 27" Thunderbolt Display from Craigslist for $200 at an $1800 savings. Let the pros have the top-end if they want them, but these creaky old 2560 × 1440 27" monitors look about as nice as they did when they came out, and better than any other $200 monitor I've tried.

Report says: 7% of teens living in higher-earning households say they do all or most of their schoolwork with AI chatbots’ help. Rich kids have actual human tutors on salary who either do their homework, or help them learn stuff if they want or have to. Or they are taught as a class to lie on questionnaires.

And the person who got a "useless humanities" degree years ago when it cost tens of thousands of dollars less, when there were way more jobs to get with it, got a much better deal out of it. So it's no surprise the numbers have changed. It was a smarter investment then. Today's kids have also been screwed in the housing market by the wealthy buying up everything on speculation. It's not a mystery. The world isn't the same as it was in the 1960s or 1990s when education and housing was cheaper. What are we going to do about it?

They say that surprising people may make them more aware of their surroundings so politeness kicks in. Or that we need more billionaire vigilantes to ride the subway. "...this study highlights how situational disruptions alone may be sufficient to produce similar effects. This suggests a potential mechanism by which novelty and unpredictability foster prosocial behavior, reinforcing theories that link attentional shifts to increased social responsiveness. At the same time, alternative explanations should be considered. For instance, the superhero figure may have increased the salience of cultural values, gender roles, and chivalrous helping norms.... More studies are warranted to better understand the mechanisms underlying these effects and to disentangle whether they are driven primarily by attentional shifts, priming, or other contextual processes."

It's tangential to the death, but shouldn't there be basic measures social media platforms can take to prevent such occurrences? Same with url squatters. Can't there be an automatic waiting period after names have expired? Like if I have "TheBest" twitter handle, can't we make it a five year turnover or something? Like, threaten me if you want, it's not going to be available for years either way? If people are being threatened, there needs to be some creative response from providers. They've got a few smart people, spend a few hours and come up with a solution. Should prevent such a thing again. Just a thought on prevention. That, and don't have cops breaking down doors based on anonymous tips for gosh sakes.

Well, if we charge companies (rather than after-the-fact charging the public) maybe they'll choose not to pollute in the first place? If somebody made billions and I get charged, how are they supposed to learn to do something better? So, I'd rather have them pay.

I understand that Wall Street will not insure new nuclear plants, at all. And they require subsidy and federal investment guarantees in order to pencil out. Now if we had given "alternative" energy that kind of treatment for fifty years, we'd be in a different situation. And if we gave that kind of government (state-socialism!) support to solar or whatever now, somehow I think we might compete with the unviable-without-subsidy nuclear industry.