Depends on what you're developing and what you want. I got a mid-level AMD based Acer. I don't even remember the specs but something like 6-8 cores and 16-32GB RAM, and probably on yhe lower end of that range. After removing the bloatware, it works just fine. It cost about $450 from ANTonline. I do smaller personal projects on it, with the most resource intensive being some Android dev with emulation, or maybe some "small" big data analysis. If you were running multiple large servers for a single project and running performance tests, then I'd probably get something beefier. Anything graphics intensive would benefit from a discrete graphics card. At that point, you might be better off setting up a desktop or workstation and just remoting in from a cheap refurbished thinkpad.
Bonus points are that the ones affected most are families, so the companies save even more on the benefits they don't have to cover. Basically, this is roundabout maritial/family status employment discrimination.
It depends on the level of needs for the child. There's a certain age range where a child can basically take care of themself for a few hours bur can't be trusted to be home alone (or haven't met the legal age).
This is probably between age 6 and 11, so with the average 1.94 children family with ~2 year spacing, there's a need for something like 7 years of after school monitoring...
Varying intestinal permeability has usually been related to inert compounds. More recently there has been some study on the significance of certain microbe metabolites, but the evidence for any kind of large scale microbial translocation in people that are not very sick (ie septic) is extremely tenuous.
"Key controversies in blood microbiome research are the susceptibility of low-biomass samples to exogenous contamination and undetermined microbial viability from NGS-based microbial profiling"
Just because you can amplify some sporadic bacteria DNA from the blood does not mean that bacteria are hanging out in the blood in a physiologically meaningful way.
A lot of it is frankly junk science in disreputable journals.
And that's probably the gist of it, manufacturer find it cheaper to get rid of a legacy piece of infrastructure than "fixing the shielding" (and also support the vehicle that are already out there).
The funny thing is, some EVs like the Prius had AM radios all along. It seems like some manufacturers might be taking short cuts. I guess maybe interference regulations aren't strict enough to force the shielding issue.
Great analysis. This must be the crux of it, meaning the engineering tradeoff between good EMI mitigation and lower cost. Shielding is one way to go. I do not know the details here for cars, but in digital systems people tend to use spread spectrum clocking (SSC) to lessen the interference. Others on the thread seem to suggest the culprit is not the electronics, though, so that technique probably is not applicable.
I think it's more like a radio in a plane. You sometimes have travel advisories and signs telling you to tune to an AM frequency when flashing. A radio in the trunk doesn't do you any good and could lead to a real mess if everyone had to pull over to use it. If you're already putting FM radios and stuff in the car, it shouldn't be a problem to put an AM radio in. If interference is an issue, then they should be working to clean that up with better shielding.
And the intended purpose is emergency use. It doesn't matter if the audio isn't spectacular, all that matters is that a human voice be understood.
And note that AM is much more forgiving of terrain than FM. You can still be shadowed but the lower the frequency the less likely you are to be shadowed from the transmitter.
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