>Who needs 16GB ram on a PI! Like what are the actual use cases?

If you use it as you would a PC then it's actually not enough RAM. I have 16GB on my laptop and desktop computers both, and as I always keep browsers running they're always out of memory, even with 16GB swap added.

Just came in to my office.. and my office computer with the same spec had killed all the desktop applications due to memory overuse, just as it always does when I leave it alone for a few days.

Granted, I do have a lot of windows and tabs open, that's because I need to move away from stuff and do other things for a while, but when I go back I need it to be there just as I left it. But browsers are eating memory. All of them. Chromium, Firefox, Vivaldi.. you name it.

For something working as a desktop PC I'm looking for way more RAM than a meagre 16GB. For a Pi which I use just for a single purpose I'm fine with those I have.. 2GB , 4GB, 8GB (which I use for different things). I'll never run a browser on any of them though. No way.

It works fine in Opera on an old Android tablet.

The first time I didn't move at all (except for targeting), and before I knew it it was "solved". Just a few seconds.

I admit to not understand how the trick was done when I read the beginning of the article. I of course realized it was a trick, it's just that it didn't occur to me how it was done. Then I continued reading and of course the resolution was obvious, but only after I had read it. Now, of course, I can't unlearn it. And the reason I didn't get it was exactly the point put forward in the article: The title of this thread.

I go to a lot of choir concerts. What I've found is that I much prefer (good) choirs singing without accompanying instruments, because when there are instruments involved the harmonies always fall into equal temperament. There is a quality when they sing a cappella which simply isn't there when they don't.

Presumably that was sarcastic..

I worked with a 16-bit minicomputer as late as 1995.. word addressable, not byte addressable.

I worked on embedded code in the early 2000s using 16-bit DSPs. Texas Instruments C54x if I remember right.

Not being byte-addressable was a real pain. There was a C compiler, but off-the-shelf C code hardly ever worked properly because everyone assumes CHAR_BIT is 8.

The one I worked with had a C compiler as well, though it was K&R and not ANSI. The instruction set supported operations on 8-bit values by op codes which selected the lower or higher 8 bits of a word, so the compiler itself worked transparently as you would expect (the architecture was big endian so that had to be taken into account sometimes, but that's true of byte-addressable systems too).

In Norway the switch happened almost overnight, approximately 1980. Good riddance, the plural polite forms didn't exist in my dialect anyway and it always sounded extremely cringy when somebody tried to use those forms in dialects which didn't have them.

I always say that it's not the words you use which matters for politeness, it's how you say them.

A species isn't defined by if it can interbreed with other species or not. Horses and donkeys can produce offspring (although they are mule - and there's some discussion about how certain Neanderthal/Sapiens combinations could possibly also be mule, but that's not important). And Darwin's finches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_finches) are defined as different species, but can technically interbreed.

I have an inner voice when I think about dialogue. When I construct a discussion in my mind. And only then.

I don't use an inner voice when I think about other things, how to do things, or figure out problems. Way too slow, and after all you can't use an inner voice to figure out how to get through a tricky four-car driving situation. You have to figure out what do do by entirely non-verbal means.

(Just to add - I also don't use an inner voice when I read, unless I decide to. And when I do, reading slows down to a crawl, obviously. So in general I don't)

It's not solely about the inner voice. Abstract concepts, symbol manipulation, mathematical logic and reasoning are for the most part "linguistic" constructs.