It doesn’t. If you’re doing anything in a web browser you’re going to need that much RAM for a reasonable experience no matter what DE you’re using. Ubuntu are just trying to set more realistic expectations.

They’re basically saying “Our software doesn’t need more RAM, but most of what you run on it does, so this is a more realistic expectation for what will make for a good experience.”

This $1tn valuation is based almost entirely on what they think Grok is worth. Whether or not markets agree will be a big test of how much gas is left in the AI tank.

Trump has flirted with a withdrawal in the past and has successfully pressured NATO members to increase their defense ⁠spending.

That’s a really weird way to describe that. He was successful in convincing everyone that the US is no longer a reliable ally, and well on its way to becoming an enemy. Is that what we’re defining as “successful” now?

He’s not a mafioso. He’s a schoolyard bully. He’s never outgrown that mentality because he’s never had to.

To steal a wonderful turn of phrase, Putin doesn’t pull Trump’s strings because he doesn’t have to. Getting him elected was enough. “Trump is a fire and forget idiot.”

Keep in mind that the US are the only NATO member that refused Ukraine’s offers of assistance, training and intelligence sharing on anti-drone warfare. The rest of us have been actively wargaming how to deal with these kinds of threats for quite some time. The US is not a litmus test for the cutting edge of NATO anymore.

Step 1; find a whole lot of other people who want to do the same thing.

Once again the “most powerful military on earth” has to beg for help to defeat a single rogue state, and throws a tantrum when they don’t get it.

A little of both. I think it’s good for software to be customizable, but layering on plugins often tends to lead to instability or other issues, so the ideal for me is where the program does 90% or more of what I want out of the box, and plugins fill the gaps.

Projected by a company that makes RAM and wants to juice their stock price.

That’s the problem. They never had a clear goal. Or at least, not an achievable one.

Broadly, in his more lucid moments, Trump wants Iran to agree to an absolutely devastating list of demands. They won’t, because they’ve been down this road before and they fully expect that whatever they agree to now, they’ll be asked to agree to twice as much tomorrow. So Iran is trying to get to a manageable list of concessions before they settle in and prepare for the next round of negotiations. They’re not going to simply give up all their leverage.

As for the goal of military action… It’s pretty obvious by now that Trump has no idea. It seems very much like he thinks that threatening military action, of any kind, would be enough to make Iran capitulate to all his demands, and he can’t understand why that isn’t working.

So he’s unwilling to come down to something Iran will agree to, but he’s also not eager to get stuck into a prolonged war, so instead he’s stuck constantly tightening this “military escalation” ratchet in the desperate hope that this time will be the one where Iran gets scared enough to give up. What they’re actually going to do with those troops could be any number of things, but really it’s all just flailing attempts at further intimidation mixed with vague wishful fantasies about opening up the strait, because despite it being the most obvious move for Iran they somehow did not plan for it.

They’re also contemplating some escape route options, primarily in the form of “seizing Iran’s uranium”, a plan that doesn’t sound remotely plausible, but which would theoretically give them a way to declare victory and walk away.

What they ultimately go with is impossible to guess, because there is no long term plan and never has been. It’s all going to be determined by the ever changing mood of an idiot child and the raging hate-boner of a racist alcoholic. Some kind of action to reduce Iran’s control over the strait seems most likely though, as that’s what’s pressuring the US the most right now. If they could - hypothetically - prevent Iran threatening the strait they would have a lot more breathing room. The problem being that it’s also by far the least achievable of the options in front of them.

It’s cost cutting. They’re burning cash faster than they can raise it.

Micron make RAM. I don’t think we should give any more credence to their claims than we do to Elon’s. Their goal here is to pump their share price, nothing more.

If I remember right, wasn’t shutting down Sora one of Ed’s signs of the apocalypse?

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The only rational response to this.

They’re not.

I want to be clear; they want to and expect to make money from this. But they have no plan for how to.

Right now absolutely no one in the data centre industry can figure out the math for how to make a profit. But because everyone else is building data centres, they’re all just assuming that someone else has figured it out and they don’t want to miss the boat.

Yes, but you see Leviticus is from the old covenant and none of that applies anymore, because the blood of Christ washed away the original sin so now humanity no longer has to follow those rituals.

Except the part about gay people being bad. That part still applies even though nothing else does. Because… Reasons. Yeah. That makes sense, right?

After everything my wife has told me about the Sikhs she serves with, I’ll honestly be happy if the US kicks them all out; if it comes down to a war between Canada and the US, the last thing I want is for our troops to be going up against some of the most relentlessly committed, brave and selfless soldiers you could ever hope to meet. The US military will be weaker without them, and at this point that’s a good thing.