Indeed, the Ryzen laptops are very nice! I have one (the 4800H) and it lasts ~8 hours on battery, far more than what I expected from laptops of this performance level. My last laptop barely achieved 4 hours of battery life.

I had stability issues in the first year but after one of the BIOS updates it has been smooth as butter.

If proper SATA ever goes away, I’d wager that there will still be SATA-to-USB adapters on sale. Heck, people still find ways to connect floppy drives to their modern PCs.

If history is any indication then more lock-in will be the future trend. And they will sugarcoat it with reasons such as “this is more secure”.

Indeed. I would love to have a “modernized Morrowind” experience – an RPG game that really nails the role-playing part of RPG, but without the cheesy parts of Morrowind like the unintuitive combat system – but all of us know that it’s just not gonna happen.

It’s just a notable milestone. For as long as I can remember Linux marketshare never went above the 3.something% mark.

I am using it now as I’m commenting.

Been using it daily for years at this point.

And that’s why the MTU is typically 1500 bytes for Ethernet

“it just maxes out the ram and then does nothing.” is absolute nonsense. The programs need memory to operate.

If your RAM is maxed out and the programs seem to operate just as fine, the OS is doing something behind the scenes, it’s just a matter of what that something is. And memory swapping / virtual memory is a well-known method of alleviating RAM overuse, at the cost of murdering your SSD/HDD lifespan.

Tell me you know nothing about Chinese EVs without telling me you know nothing about Chinese EVs. BYD’s best sellers are actually plug-in hybrids, which is in no way “stolen” from Tesla.

Most likely we are never going to be 100% renewable. All (except maybe hydro…) current exploitable renewables are inherently unstable. Take solar for example, it’s only available during the day. Or wind power, where it is difficult to predict how much energy will be produced at any given time.

Using nuclear as a supplement to renewables is probably the cleanest solution we have. If the renewables aren’t producing enough power, let nuclear fill in the deficit.

The other choice is to build lots and lots of grid energy storage.

Not nearly as performant as either Java or COBOL.

If I follow your search terms, the first Google result is this. If the data were to be trusted, then most of the employees are absolutely paid much less than the “top positions”.

Where did you pull those numbers from, then?

Edit: And yes, if you are not productive, you get paid less. That’s the whole point. If you are not 100x productive, you don’t deserve to get 100x the wages of a regular employee too.

I am pretty sure we don’t need to raise every employee’s wages. Some of the upper management who sit in their offices biting nails, for example.

The point is to reduce the wage inequality inside a company.

Cut the CEOs’ pay and you’ll be able to get both

As an anecdotal though, I once saw someone simply forwarding (ie. copy and pasting) their exam questions to ChatGPT. His answers are just ChatGPT responses, but paraphrased to make it look less GPT-ish. I am not even sure whether he understood the question itself.

In this case, the only skill that is tested… is English paraphrasing.

If your name consists of non-ASCII characters, like Thai words or Arabic or Chinese, it’s pretty easy to rack up >15 bytes in your username alone.

Modern Linux systems are slowly moving toward Btrfs at least… which is pretty young compared to ext4 and Ntfs.