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The original M1 (I assume that's what GP meant by "at launch") uses LPDDR4x DRAM modules, the same as many x86 laptops that have soldered RAM. You can literally look up the part nu…

> I don't think modern Apple Photos is built to handle slow spinning rust very well. Apple's software is garbage so I'm sure you're correct, but modern hard drives can do several h…

Why would you not want an extra 8GB? The point is that it's dirt cheap to add, and Apple's refusal to do so is an insult to its customers.

This is whataboutism, but yes, the Surface Go 2 base model has 4GB of RAM. It's shameful, but that laptop is also half the price of the cheapest Mac laptop, and doesn't absolve eit…

Did you intend to reply to a different comment? The speed of the memory has no bearing on the capacity, obviously, so I'm not sure how this is relevant to what I said.

I don't think this is correct. https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/understanding-apples-un... is an article which describes the architecture. It's not on-die, it's next to the CPU…

Citation needed for your claims, please. My understanding is that at least for the lower-end machines, there are no additional DRAM chips in the 8GB vs. 16GB machines, they just us…

Yes, and? Apple's wholesale RAM cost is likely even lower than a computer with socketed RAM, due to economies of scale and fewer parts overall (RAM soldered directly vs. RAM on a s…

Because the alternative is to add literally a few dollars to the bill of materials for the machine, double the memory, and give everyone a better experience. This also means the ma…

8GB of general-purpose RAM, regardless of form factor, is dirt cheap. In fact, not having the sockets might make it cheaper than socketed RAM in volume, since there are fewer parts…

Can you define "sweet spot" in this case? Usually I see that term used when the thing being considered is a pricey upgrade, and you need to strike a compromise between price and pe…

Almost certainly. The Thunderbolt spec requires any port labeled "Thunderbolt 4" to support dual 4k/60hz displays. You'll note that, for example, on the Macbook Air (both M1 and M2…

I think it's worth taking a step back here to say that IMHO regardless of whether the OP's previous comments justify his expulsion from the issue tracker, having the only other ava…

This is true but irrelevant to the parent's question -- in the article, it's made clear that Google's requests are happening over HTTP, which is the most obvious reason why robots.…

After reading this and your response to a sibling comment I wholeheartedly disagree with you on both the specific definition of the word crawler and what the "main purpose" of robo…

I'm taking the OP at his word here, but he specifically claims that the proxy service making these requests will also make requests independent of a `go get` or other user-initiate…

Read the OP; it's obvious based on the references to robots.txt, the User-Agent header, returning a 429 response, etc, that most (all?) of Google's requests are doing git clones ov…

Why does the Go team and/or Google think that it's acceptable to not respect robots.txt and instead DDoS git repositories by default, unless they get put on a list of "special case…

Wow, what an absolute moron. If this is how he runs his other companies, it’s amazing anyone stays for more than a month.

> I still think Elon is a smart guy. > Plus I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media. Given his behavior and the resu…

Agreed re: Tesla, but heads up that there are very few Twitter shareholders now, since, you know, Musk bought the whole company.

Got a citation for those claims? As far as I’m aware, journalists were only referencing ElonJet, which, as OP established, is only re-publishing already public information. Despite…

Mastodon will not die in the same way Napster did; it’s decentralized and there’s no way it can be completely shut down since anyone can run an instance.

This is great info, thank you! I agree that it’s strange that Finney wouldn’t have posted this message to the blockchain. Unfortunately I think most people superficially familiar w…

Thanks for the clarification! I didn’t explain myself well at all, but what I was getting at was that Shkreli claims the sig “decrypts to” the message given, when it does nothing o…