With RAM access being the one big bottleneck of a modern PC, can anyone in the know tell me about those SoCs? How much RAM did they have, and was it faster than external DIMMs?

The best way to get a good answer is probably to ask the man on anything cuneiform, Dr. Irving Finkel.

And the reasoning? As always Terrorists, pedophile, criminals, etc. Guess what: If those guys have not learned yet to make a big detour around official chat apps, they deserve getting caught. My bet is, those people already have their own secured means of communication. Maybe they have their own encrypted app, or they have a forum somewhere in the Darknet, whatever. But the chance that this new law will catch anything worthwhile is practically nil.

You don’t have them yet?

GNU Image Manipulation Program (or Project)

Well, if normal placebos don’t work, try Placebo Forte+ with three times the amount of active ingredients!

A bank tried to sell me a pension fund contract. Luckily, I know my math and found out that it was so bad that I’d call it a scam.

I had it worse. I needed to book a hotel for a business trip, and they offered me two prices: Either take them cheaper, but you cannot cancel or get a refund, or you can spend a bit more, and cancel it up to one day before arrival for a “cancellation fee”, which amount was not disclosed at that moment.

I booked the latter one, and in the booking confirmation it said that the cancellation fee is exactly the same as the cost for the room!

Well, the LLM was prompted to find the odd one. Which I consider a (relatively) easy one. Reading the headline, I thought that the LLM was able to point this out by itself, like “Excuse me, but you had one sentence about pizza toppings in your text about programming. Was that intended to be there for some reason, or just a mistaken CTRL-V?”

The Mitochondrial Eve.

Sometimes you learn things before, and sometime by doing them. This was the latter case.

Brave guy.

The problem in the US is not the “barefoot” thing. It’s the walking. For many people, someone strange walking in their area is a prime suspect, so this guy better avoids any “stand your ground” states in order not to get shot for walking suspiciously.

That depends on what level you want to achieve. Some plasma blob with a membrane around it that is able to just replicate in a perfectly controlled and balanced nutrient solution is one thing is probably not easy, but the lowest level that needs to be achieved to claim this term.

If you want something that you can drop into a petri dish with some agar-agar and real, competing bacteria, and be able to survive and thrive, well, that is a completely different level.

Are you saying parking is gambling in Amsterdam?

No, but our family of four went on a visit to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the by far most expensive part of the trip were neither the museum tickets nor the restaurant bill, but the parking: about €16 per hour.

We do have casinos. And parking in Amsterdam.

Not only on Jerboa. Basically all titles are affected, and it is not only the ampersand which is an issue.

Especially when history has shown that Microsoft had and has issues with security basically everywhere.

The other word for “finish the job” is “Endlösung”.

Well, a lot of the Leavers wanted to bathe in a perceived Victorian Empires’ Greatness. At least in that aspect they have reaches Victorian levels…

I was just using it. But the behavior/reaction to button presses showed me that a button was obviously connected to the wrong function.