For a processor able to access only 1 MiB of address space (some of it which had to be reserved for memory-mapped devices like video cards), 640 kiB memory was indeed more than enough.

Depending on your actual program, the x86-64 code can be up to 10% larger. It is (and it was not) a slam dunk victory for the 64 bits extension for x86.
The 64 bits extension has many advantages in many other metrics, but code size is not one of them.

(but Intel was originally a memory company, so code that uses more memory should have been a wake up call of their legacy roots)

There is probably some Russian law + gag order related to national security access to company data.
I would not be surprised if the content of the law is also secret.
We almost had something like this in Romania.

And I think even the USA, the flagship of democracy, is not foreign to laws containing gag orders (you, as a company, are not allowed to tell that one of the three letter agencies have requested information).

" One can install Windows 1.0 on a PC and upgrade it to Windows 11"
Yes, there were some Windows 10 PCs (sold new with Windows 10) that were unable to run Windows 11 due to the TPM being version 1.2 instead of 2.0).
So yeah, no.
The Windows 1.0 memory model supports at most 16 MB (or maybe less), while (for example) Window 7 needs at least 128 MB to start but 256 MB to install (my memory might be unclear on exact numbers and versions though).

Once you understand that you quit carbs, eat fatty meat, drink water (ideally spring water), and most of the time the pounds come off. They lied about red meat and animal fat being bad for us. But you can't keep the Sickcare Industrial Complex at 20% of GDP if people eat correctly.

Bonus points for finding local farms raising livestock on pasture and patronizing them. Their animals are healthier and they're building soil without herbicides, pesticides and synthetic fertilizer. Best way to put Monsanto etc out of business.

Yes, there are some people who seem to handle plant-based diets well. If you're a fatty you're not one of them.

I hate to rain on your parade, but Dacia Spring is fully built in China.
Other Dacia models are built in Romania, Tunis (I think) and a few other places (even in Russia not so long ago, if I remember correctly).
But Dacia Spring was built completely in China at the launch, and I do not think this has changed.

Big tech has first mover advantage in AI. They are lobbying governments to create barriers to entry via regulations to prevent new competitors from entering the market. It's a form of corporate / government corruption.

So many jobs are unproductive/anti-productive and don't need to exist. With the massive tech-driven productivity gains it should be easier to support a family on a single income, or to retire early. Fun read and the free Kindle sample is generous.
https://www.amazon.com/Starving-Monkeys-Fight-Back-Smarter-ebook/dp/B0032JSL1Q/

gets "corrected" by midwit meatbags one too many times.

In Another Step Farther Out the late Jerry Pournelle talks about this. Like many such grand plans it depends on a heavy lift vehicle to get materials into orbit. Pournelle assumed that only governments could fund the expense and they'd grown bored of such things.

Hello Starship.

I think that we'd still be better off getting serious about nuclear power but once Starship is debugged it could be done.

Customer: Why isn't this working?!!!
Retail employee: I'm sorry ma'am, there's a problem with your face. ... much drama follows ...

It could be named "The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer". Hopefully it will be available to children beyond just the Neo-Victorian phyle.

The issue is that, except salt, sugar is probably the cheapest ingredient in a kitchen. And, locally, we paid double or triple for sugar as compared to salt.
I pay for sugar around 6 per kg, and good cheese for cheesecake is 30/kg. Eggs would be around 20+/kg, double cream also some 30/kg.
You can see the economic part too - replacing 200g of cheese by 200g of sugar in a 1kg cake saves about 10% of ingredients cost.

I make home-brew cheesecake, and the added sugar is about 10%.
The biscuit base has its own sugar content, but I add nothing to that.
All in all, it probably is above 10% pure sugar, but that is sweet enough for us.
We tried going lower, and it wasn't really sweet enough to classify as a cookie

Some kind of dark chocolate sweetened with Stevia has a declared content of 0.05%.