The ST didn’t multitask, but Amiga multitasking wasn’t memory-protected, so crashing something meant you could (would) lose everything running. It also couldn’t do the graphical tricks the Amiga could do, ceding the VFX market to the Amiga with its genlock. The Amiga’s graphics and sound were both better than the ST, but games were comparable on both, and did I mention the ST was cheaper ?

What the ST could do (and well) were things like DTP (Calamus, Calligrapher,…) and MIDI (there are still rare sightings of ST’s in audio studios, 20 years ago they were ubiquitous). Those two gave it legs to run for far longer than you might expect, because Macs were outrageously expensive at the time.

FWIW, I retired to the coast in the NW, I have a beach on one side of the house and a park on the other. It's pretty nice :)

Even up here in the NW though, it's been too damn hot recently...

I can afford to not work at all here. With health insurance, property taxes, and general outgoings per month being so much higher in the US (California, at least), there was no way I could retire early over there.

And whereas it's easy to hand-wave away "Trump, the healthcare, guns, ... " in a dismissive sentence, those things have real impact on a society and on the individuals living in that society. There's a reason [1] I moved away from the US, and will never return. Money-über-alles has its downside.

It's also worth noting (since the author brings it up) that the Mississippi comparison is pretty bogus. According to data from the Office for National Statistics and the US Census Bureau, median household wealth in Great Britain is substantially higher (around £300,000, or $403,000)[2] compared to the US ($175,000) [3] and Mississippi ($59,000). GDP and personal wealth are not the same thing.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217106

2: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...

3: https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p70br...

My weekly limit resets at 10am on Monday. My current (Sat, 11am) usage is 23% used. Now I regularly used to run out of credit on a Saturday, about a month or so ago, but I've actually been thinking of reducing the package to the 10x because recently I've been nowhere near.

This is with 3-4 agents constantly (even when I'm asleep) working away - it's hard to get them to do a full nights work, but I generally leave them with Big Problem^TM to solve overnight and we take it from where they left it in the morning. Sometimes they've even done it....

Even if Apple benefits though, I'm not sure American law binds foreign subsidiaries, otherwise I think they'd be taxing them as well :)

You're probably right, and even if not, theres probably a whole slew of regulations they could impose to make it non-useful. Still seems odd that Washington gets to decide what a company in other country B does, forbidding the export of RAM by that company B to other country C.

Apple Europe (or however it's set up) is presumably not an American company, and not subject to American law, being based elsewhere...

(and if you think Texans have it bad regarding being understood, try being a Scouser [1])

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5Isx6Hi0E

How you hold it is, of course, up to you.

I trust they know more about their business model than some rando on the internet, sorry.

1:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217106

And it's not just HN either, video is a very poor substitute for a well written article. Video can augment a well-written article, but it can't replace it.