Calculus 1 pretty much is the lowest-level math class at Berkeley. There's a math fundamentals refresher class, which is for people who are pretty much at pre-calculus level. But if they're saying students really don't understand fractions, it's a mystery how they even got into Berkeley. California has an amazing community college system that will teach you all the way down to basic algebra if you need it, and once you spend a couple of years there, there are easy avenues to transfer to the many high-quality California four-year schools. I sense the op-ed author has an axe of some kind to grind, because even without the SAT, it's not like admissions to Berkeley aren't competitive.

Granted it's in a different discipline, but the instructor having to use AI to write backs up the claim that people are forgetting things by using AI. It's a bit ironic for other reasons, but still supports the point.

Well, no. The two things are very different. Data leaves down the same "pipe" it came through, while sewage systems and water supply systems are both separate (you hope) and VERY DIFFERENT. They have almost completely different considerations in every department. Also, if you live in the sticks, there's no real drawback to not having a sewer connection.

lolololol

Double down forever, dumbass.

In fact it's just a lot of bullshit. Embedded refers to how a product is used, and there are plenty of non-embedded ARM computers.

What do you mean by embedded/non-embedded? Apple uses SoC and SiPs, they are as "embedded" as anything else being used in a PC. Embedded systems are systems hidden within something else. PCs are the opposite of that.

I regret not getting more GPU. I have a 4060 Ti 16GB, as the minimum card with decent VRAM. I did buy some 8TB HDDs too, but I only got 3 of 'em.

99.44% chance that this is about sending more tax money to ol' musky.

Yes, they might prefer slower internet!

This guy has passed right by needing to determine whether people would like fire which can be fitted nasally and on to deserving to have it fitted rectally.

I feel like I'm in a constant race to flee enshittification : Used to use Cursor (it's still my only option at work), but then Musk bought it, and they instantly went in on hard-sell tactics. Switched to vscode + copilot + OpenRouter, but was getting concerned about API costs. Just yesterday I set up a Tencent TokenHub account with their Max package, which required that I switch off copilot if I wanted to be able to use some models like Kimi K3 (had a temperature=1.0 requirement, copilot doesn't let you set temperatures and hardcodes them to very low), so now it's vscode + Pi + TokenHub.

Sigh. Please don't make me move again...

(Not that Tencent is in any way "the good guys"... but they're also providing a very generic product)

Yes, but only in the same way as I remember there was a global cooling scare supported by a tiny minority of scientists but in fact perpetrated by media — which has always been sensationalist. The actual scientific statement was that most of the brain is not active at any given time. We found out that more of it is doing something more of the time, but some areas remain way more active than others so there's still a kernel of truth to that idea — the same as it ever was.

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

Don't encourage him. The peak of his thinking is that we're more responsible than China so unfettered capitalism is great actually.

I did the same, although I "only" got 64GB. I have a 5900X. I bought the MiniPC in part because they are both Zen3, that's handy since I run Devuan on both so if I build a package specifically for this architecture I can use it in both places.

Anyone who suggests they know better than someone else what they wanted the computer for should spend less time touching themself publicly.