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.

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.

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.

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.

s/done/sometimes done/
Try attaching any monitor above 1920x1080 via HDMI. So if the cable is known to be good, the computers in question have all "HDMI 2.0 4k" in big letters in their specs, all should work, right? Mwahahaha.

The particular case on my disk right now: EDID and DDC properly report 1920x1200 (native), 1920x1080, 1600x1200, etc., yet it fails to work in the first mode. 1920x1200 needs HDMI 1.4 bandwidth, the two other HDMI 1.3. The same monitor, the same cable work with some computers, fail with others. Hrm.

My low-res monitors are DVI, which is supposed to be carried over HDMI (same protocol), but guess what? It's also random which computers they work with.

Meanwhile, in the DP land, I have yet to see my first failure. But sometimes I need HDMI for $REASON. :/

And that's bad... how? There's so many less idiots to contend with there than on the old rock.

Likewise with PCI 4.0 cards in a PCI 3.0 motherboard:
[ 0.768734] [ T1] pci 0000:43:00.0: 126.016 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link at 0000:40:03.1 (capable of 252.048 Gb/s with 16.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link)
or in a physically-x16-really-x4 slot:
[ 0.777737][ T1] pci 0000:09:00.0: 31.504 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x4 link at 0000:00:03.1 (capable of 126.024 Gb/s with 16.0 GT/s PCIe x8 link)

The second card has same problem as yours, when in a real x16 slot it'd use only 8 lanes despite physically having the connectors.

No. On the other hand, high and middle management believes in buzzword-driven logic, and thus adopts it, ready or not.

And that's the reason sane countries have outlawed it. It's nothing but shitting on the customer.

apt install edlin

The English name of the country remains Turkey not something we can't even write on Slashdot. Just like we say Germany not Deutchland. And their Führer can go <censored>.