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levocardiatoday at 8:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

Yes, you really need "dollars per amount of RAM you need for standard computing tasks." Windows 11 requires a bare minimum of 4 GB of RAM, Window 10 only needed 1 GB.


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fc417fc802today at 11:43 PM

If what you're interested in is fluctuations in production versus demand then you absolutely do not want a subjective metric. Measures of the form dollars per unit, units per watt, units per flop, etc are what you're interested in.

noosphrtoday at 11:24 PM

That's just as wrong in the opposite direction, y2k was a thing because two bytes were worth the saving in 1980, and we really needed those two bytes.

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ElFitztoday at 10:56 PM

I still don't get where all that memory goes.

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