16GB, depending on your use, can be constraining and, sometimes, you need to get creative with complex processes. My colleagues complain about developing with several containers running peripheral services. In similar situations we asked the services teams to provide mocks that answered the same APIs without needing a large memory footprint.

You could get away with 8GB 5 years ago and you still can do it now, but Macs are expected to last longer than that, and starting now with 8GB might become limiting 5 years from now. Here we retire them at about 10 years, or when the last OS they can run is EOL’ed.

Most of the time it’s the political right that is at odds with Christianity.

> speak about things I didn't agree with, I would have dropped the class

This attitude bothers me a bit. It robs you of being proven wrong. You might be right, but you might also be wrong. If you consistently avoid listening to why you might be wrong, you rob yourself from the chance to learn, which is why we all go to school.

What would “conservative” universities teach? The role of chemtrails in minority violence? Creationism? Why the Earth, despite being flat, is perceived as round? Cognitive differences between races of people? Why is climate change actually a Global Cooling?

Universities should be places where truth is sought without prejudice.

That’s what you should do when proven wrong.

I don’t think you remember, But the first Archimedes smoked the just-launched Compaq 386s with a dedicated 387 coprocessor.

It was not designed to be one, but it ended up being surprisingly fast.

If your hardware is new, you get the nicest extensions though. You just don’t use the bad parts in your code.

Probably because that's just the infrastructure they have.

> At this point the most likely place for fast RISC-V to appear is China.

Or we just adopt Loongson.