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).

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.

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%.

No, because the competition is no longer fair. Those with the deepest pockets will win.

Actually, if you mount the file system (device) as read-only, the "Accessed" time does not change.
You could easily do this in Linux, I'm not sure about how to do this in Windows though.

Even if SPARC is 10 times better than ITER, we need to get to about 100,000 times better than ITER.
ITER longest energy production phase lasted minutes. A thousand hours is about 40 days, and you probably want more than that between maintenance intervals).

Such a wonderful post, and no mod points :(

You could use drapes and outside rollers to protect a house from heating during the day, and ventilate it during the night. This assumes that the night temperature is a decent 20 Celsius or less.
With nobody in it and nothing heating it, a decent home can be kept at 22-23 Celsius even during 30+ Celsius day temperatures (assuming you can actually cool it during the night).
Heat waves when night temperatures are also high (we're living in a hilly region), or areas where night temperatures are also high are an exception.

Disneyland in Paris has a somewhat similar ride with wheeled vehicles on Remy the rat of Ratatouille. It has multiple paths around the ride (even though they are mostly similar). You can kind of see the other cars of the ride (they're all independent) converging and diverging from your own, so showing different scenes on different paths is a solved problem.

" but if it's a TN or VA panel"
I have a 2560x1440 VA (maybe MVA) 32" panel on my desktop. It's not significantly worse than any other display I've seen, and it's better than most. It suffers when sunlit with only some 300 nits, but the 4000:1 contrast is glorious, the colors seem accurate enough, and I don't see any purple fringing.
The display is about 3-4 years old.