That's not what I said.

NYSE (and similar) datacenters give their customers (traders/etc) latency normed connections using these fiber techniques.

Nothing to do with you or I trying to connect from a discount datacenter.

Trading datacenters in the United States just give everyone the same length of fiber cable (adjusted for distance).

Say you want a 20 km circumference, then everyone starts with a 20km fiber spool, then you just trim off the excess amount to get the exact right distance.

The programmers of high end systems from major vendors struggle to avoid simple overflow bugs when parsing a string to print out some output with formatting. I was hoping that someone clever would fix simple parsing errors in the next few years.

I would have killed for a Chromebook decades ago so that I could write essays in class (not on paper) in way that allowed for useful editing and reflection.

Other than that, I strongly prefer books on paper and taking notes on paper.

As a parent, my ability to control and monitor my children when they are using school issued devices is diminished. It's also a big lift for tech savvy parents to limit what kids can do on computers or devices.

My kids don't know the passwords to their iPhone/Apple accounts. Apps are only added with my grudging permission.

I think the Subaru has the model of XM radio that allow for free access to some channels (news).

I would take two pop up ads per year to get some free XM radio access.

Ideally the pop up's should happen when the car starts and not during my driving.

Crucial was also my reliable place to buy RAM for decades. They will be missed.

Does anyone remember the mismatched / repaired memory sticks (lowest grade) at Fry's back in the 1990's ?

Oh my goodness. How do I compete against this state sponsored competitor?

My nephew is a Sophomore this year in a competitive engineering program.

He showed up with AP calc BC completed plus a bunch of other AP and dual enrollment classes that his high school encouraged.

Other kids are starting off in college with pre-calc. No chance they are finishing that degree in four years.

Having a higher standard to enter college is perhaps what allows some countries to shorten their programs to three years.

A degree is some validation that you can complete 30 courses each with a dozen requirements to some level of satisfaction of the instructor.

I have had a co-worker or two without degrees that were less able to complete tasks that were not interesting enough to them. Then again I have had similar issues with other younger workers who did have degrees.

For some the degree may be training where they learn useful skills. For others the degree is a filter that they can't pass through.

All bow to the Capital Allocators !

While I do like to win. I also want to make sure that everyone has fun when playing a game in person.

My actions are somewhat tempered by my desire to have fun vs. beating everyone into the ground every round.

This burst of EV manufacturing capacity is similar to the overproduction of housing in China.

The big differences are: 1) EV's can be exported to willing buyers 2) EV's depreciate 3) EV's from bankrupt manufacturers will probably plumet in value due to the lack of support and parts

If an accusation by an AI bot requires that I hire an accountant and I prevail, then the IRS should cover the costs of my defense.

It's going to be great when you elderly parent clicks on some offer that replaces all the native apps on their phone with some AI enhanced data scraper that violates their privacy and breaks their routine.

Can't wait for that.

With enough compute power Walmart could also just pre-calculate the cost of delivering to every address in the US.

To a certain extent you are just trying to screen out unprofitable customers. You want to put those unprofitable into a review bucket and not accept local delivery orders until you figure out a solution.