The value proposition in a console has never been in the graphics, it's always been in the games. You bought the N64 not because it was 3D, but because you couldn't play Mario 64 on your SNES. You talk about the jump from PS2 to PS3 ... well the PS2 outsold the PS3.

On PC where hardware capability is variable for the same released games it's a different story, where better hardware = better graphics for the same games. But on consoles the games dictate the console not the graphics quality.

That is a simplistic single variable (technically 3 variable) view of a very fucked multi-variable scenario.

Yes RAM prices are high, however that is just making and already shittacular year for sales worse than it already was. We have hardware prices raised thanks to tariffs (globally, thanks to Microsoft distributing the loss in profits and not just passing them off to Americans alone ... in a way Trump was right that other people are paying *throws up*), we have had a truly shit year when it comes to AAA releases, major anticipated releases delayed, less major releases were an incredible flop, and thanks to Nintendo for teasing the ability to sell expensive titles gaming in general got more expensive too.

Also there's always a new NVIDIA launch on the horizon. That has little impact, especially considering the cards have been flops in recent memories and there's no reason to think they won't be next year.

Also the Steam Machine was only just announced mid month, so it has had no impact on half of November or indeed any of the shit months prior.

It is being done properly. We're just doing more complex shapes *properly* now than the horrendously inaccurate abstractions from the days where this kind of shit may have been done in Fortran.

Welcome to the modern world. But I get it man, I look around and too wish I was back in the 90s.

His salary is irrelevant, he is billing that to you. The cost of business is passed on to the customer. I doubt the OP is sitting there running CFDs just for their own shits and giggles on the weekend.

Windows isn't the reason for an OS to feel sluggish. Linux would run like absolute dogshit on 4GB if you were to run Teams on it. Heck I disagree with your premise, Linux runs like dogshit on 4GB with a significant browser heavy workload as it is.

Applications chew through RAM. The OS is quite insignificant.

Simply raising money isn't a reason to go public. The reason to go public is fundamental capital flexibility, and allowing investors to flexibly cash in when they want.

The fact that OpenAI doesn't make money is only loosely related to why they would go public. Even if they did make loads of money there would still be good reason for investors (i.e. Microsoft) to request the company to go public. Specifically with a high evaluation now is a great time to cash in.

What movie has things happening in the background in that deal that matters to the story?

Citation required. Your feelings about motorised seatbelts or rust is irrelevant. Show us statistics. Here's a statistic for you: Number of unsafe rust actions able to be performed without declaring code unsafe: 0%

Sounds like a pretty good outcome. Maybe people who don't drive without seatbelts shouldn't be programmers because they make poor life choices?

Who said accidents? Are you being intentionally dense? Seatbelts do the thing are claimed to do when they are used correctly. Rust does the thing it claims to do when it's used correctly.

Did you wake up on the stupid side of the bed this morning? ... And yesterday morning? Are you drunk every time you post on Slashdot?

Except no one is replacing any collective coding experience. Your comment is stupid on the face of it as that would preclude the inclusion of any new language for any purpose. C wouldn't exist by your own requirement as it was just replacing coding experience that came before it.

In any case no one is talking about C coders who throw out everything to learn Rust. The entire premise of your post is stupid.

On the other side this isn't as unreasonable as it sounds. Pricing structures may be setup in a way that a finite resource is abused to the detriment of all others.

Think back to the early days of crypto mining. What happened to free Amazon EC instances? Gone, because some people abused them to automatically spin them up, mine as much as the free case would allow, shut it down, rinse and repeat. Should paying users cover this cost?

Or what about public APIs? Many paid APIs are unlimited but the payment is small enough to cover only the costs. Then along comes someone with a bug in their code that causes some python script to endlessly reload hitting the API over and over again. Or someone purposefully abuses the API in ways that weren't intended (I've seen for example a program hit OpenWeatherMaps for updates every minute despite weather predictions (and this is true...) not changing every minute.

Company announces the "unlimited" plan will now be limited to x number of requests per day and that 96% of customers are unaffected. Is that unreasonable? If you're a non-typical user, maybe you should be paying a non-typical price.

This was my first thought as well. I suspect Meta has not shown itself to not be a trusted business partner which may effectively cripple any future plans they have in any industry they may want to play in.

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Trust me no one needs to assassinate anyone in the USA to keep them behind. The Russian plant in the whitehouse is doing that plenty himself by gutting universities, research, and destroying the economy.

In related news, countries around the world are seeing record numbers of Americans applying for highly-skilled migrant visas and HPI educational visas.

No, I treated my car the way people treat cars in a country with infrastructure that supports cars. The story would be different if I lived or travelled in a country where infrastructure only supports a subset of specific cars.

Welcome to my point. When you have infrastructure you stop using the word "EV". If your post sounds absurd for an ICE vehicle, but you apply it to an EV, then you don't understand what proper infrastructure actually is.

I don't drive an "EV", I only drive a "car".