I have an "Intel Underside" sticker on a riscv64 board. Some vendor dumped a bunch of 16GB Optane nvme modules at ridiculously low price; I guess they got a shipment of laptops with these marketed as "accelerators" and had no use for the modules. The "accelerator" idea was broken because of Windows being inept of making any good use of them. On the other hand, for a proper operating system, a 16GB disk is plenty enough. This way, instead of some lousy SD card I got much faster than Flash nvme.

And it prevents infecting others, too! Compare: bleach + ivermectin + cremation: removes pain quickly, stops the disease, stops further spread after the treatment is complete. Whereas, science-based medicine leaves patients suffering a lot of maladies, including but not restricted to, old age related diseases.

While there are massive problems with UN's ability to fully enforce all its decisions, do you have any better alternatives?

The employee specifically tasked with security, or with providing departments with funding they need, are paid to stop the pests.

That the pest is guilty doesn't need to be said. But if you were supposed to keep the pests at bay and failed to do so, you're guilty as well.

Were you paid for the building's security? Or were you the person who requested that a screen door be installed instead of a solid one to reduce costs?

If you answered "yes" to either question, then you do share the blame.

The weak link were the bean counters. Unless their IT was of the CEO's nephew variety, they repeatedly asked for money for backups but had the requests refused.

Bold of you to assume that this administration, which also includes Pete Hegseth ('Germs are not a real thing': Fox News host says he hasn't washed hands in 10 years) in addition to Robert F Kennedy Jr and Christi Noem, has the capacity or will to do what is the proper health response.

Trump killed hundred of thousands of citizens with his reckless covid-19 response in his first term, there are absolutely no indications that he or his administration has improved or learned anything (on the contrary, they are now in the process of killing hundred of thousands of persons world wide by gutting USAID).

Or more likely, trying to source smaller memory chips would cost more. And as C64 already uses bank switching, there's no reason to not allow switching to more banks. Like, C128 shipped with 128KB, could be easily extended to 256KB, and its CPU could handle up to 640KB.

As 128MB = 32768 4KB pages or 65536 2KB pages (I don't know the granularity of the I/O port used for bank switching), I suspect this limit is due to bank numbers not the memory chips' size.

And the fun thing being, original software that was able to handle different memory sizes (64/128/256/640) might be able to use all 128MB without modifications.

And how the hell is how to manage DoD, an executive department of the U.S. federal government, not politics?

Well, minimal government oversight is good for business when your goal is to purely grift for your own benefit at the expense of everyone else, so as such it is not that surprising that this is happening under the Trump administration.

Speaking of intolerance and dehumanizing language, Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech: When you replace ‘Jew’ with ‘Immigrant’ and ‘Germany’ with ‘America,’ you get MAGA.

Yes, a deposit should go a long way in mitigating this.

Well yeah. The difference is, GPS works with a signal much below the noise floor, while the magnet inside Earth is quite powerful.

A punk with a briefcase can jam GPS. A malicious state actor can deny GPS to a large area -- or worse, spoof it. This is routinely happening.

Also, it's a prototype vs a system with decades of refinement.

Thanks, those are very interesting links with solid information.