justin66

> Because unless it’s convincing enough that republicans also agree, then it’s death spiral.

So what you're saying is that the Republicans would become an angry party consisting of those who embrace impunity for their politicians regardless of the brazenness with which they break the law.

I really cannot imagine what that would be like.

> As someone who's very well informed on that corner of financial markets, you probably realize that China controls much more than $660 billion of US Treasury securities.

How much do they control? Please cite your sources.

I can find some information about "shadow holdings" (exciting!) held in Luxembourg and Belgium [0] but I cannot imagine those treasuries would add up to a multiple of what's officially on the books and held by the Chinese government and Chinese companies. Interesting thought, though.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/central-banks-offload-us-tre...

I’m sure smart and well intentioned American leaders will act for the global collective good, since that’s totally the way things work now.

Just Googling here: 10% of China's holdings would be $66B. Daily trading volume for US Treasuries is $1.2T.

The most the Fed has ever held on its balance sheet is $5.8T.

Maybe I missed a zero somewhere but China's sale of 10% of their holdings seems in isolation like an awfully manageable problem. A different discussion if there were a ton of other crazy stuff going on in the world economy and they just piled on, perhaps.

It's a schooner!

You're totally right, at this moment he must be seriously reconsidering his career as a politician.

I played with the first, somewhat buggy version and what I remember very vividly was that they introduced a second version (and charged for it) without fixing the first one.

> They're in stock on Amazon.ca for goodness sake.

I'd expect extremely high prices buying them this way.

Characterizing technology whose presence or absence will affect the survival of a lot of people as a “bandaid” is not going to advance the dialog in the way you seem to want.

I think we can all agree that if we just stop talking about climate change, maybe it will go away.

> they're going to have to start selling future chips that cannot possibly be physically produced.

…but that would be unethical.

cue the laugh track

> Quake Live has held it down since 2012-ish, and was always a free-to-play game.

They had subscriptions for a while.

> a C64 with "the commodore name" printed on it

It's really not mysterious why something like that would find an audience, even if it's not everyone's cup of tea. Their beige C64 Ultimate is a well-executed clone of the legendarily popular original. Compare and contrast with some of the really bad stuff that has had the "Atari" name slapped on it in the 21st century.

Of course the phone is stupid. Regarding the Amiga:

Amiga is now in a position to restore the iconic SoftVoice speech synthesis to AmigaOS. Several versions of the historic Boing Ball demo are also being prepared for release.

Come on. The boing ball demo. I don't know what that is but doesn't it sound awesome?

> For the most-dominant military power in the world to "whoopsy" run out of weapons because of a low-stakes engagement isn't readily believable.

Wow, yeah, you'd need to have morons at the top of the chain of command and subordinates afraid to speak out in order for something like that to happen. Nothing like the US government today at all.

And when an F-15E was shot down they got spooked. They're relying heavily on missiles because it doesn't cause a multiday story in the news when one is shot down on its way to the target (and because they're incapable of thinking more than one move ahead, and because it's not their money...).

> I see it more like a couple of misbehaving misfits.

Those zany kids!

I cannot imagine why you find the statements above odd but compare and contrast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Dvorak&ol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak

Enough scrolling through the edit history and you could determine when wikipedia finally got their shit together on his birthdate.

This is a good link and the Practical Engineering guy doesn’t appear to reference a “myth.” Which is a good thing, because there’s nothing mythological about the high performance of Roman concrete.

Sometimes the jokes just don't land.

Oh no. First the Europeans took away Lightning connectors and now this.

There’s a whole body of work in the form of public statements and documents from Vint Cerf on that topic. You could explore Google for hours…

https://spectrum.ieee.org/vint-cerf-mistakes

I suspect the only thing at risk of being smeared by a more complete retelling of that story is Google’s interview process.

It’s hard to imagine that guy sitting still.

Developing with sqlite isn't quite like developing software that generically works against an ODBC or JDBC interface with minimal tweaking. You probably will want to peruse the documentation.

Paying the worker bees more because they've unionized might potentially take money away from the nonprofit's important mission. Not to mention the salaries of senior staff, who are paid over a million dollars a year. [0]

[0] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/911...

A classic.

> It seems more academic if that makes sense

I remember a naive cultural bias in the US towards regarding the English as possessing an elevated degree of education and refinement. I would have assumed the greater presence of truly idiotic British figures in American news media and comedy in recent decades might have clubbed that misconception to death like a baby seal.

I hope you don't think that is the odd one out.

Oddly enough, the SGI Fuel (also the Tezro, I think) had PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports but also offered USB ports and support for HID devices in IRIX.

I have no idea whether the keyboard and mouse that shipped with those later SGIs were PS/2 or USB devices.

edit: IMO there was nothing wrong with preferring PS/2 to USB 20-some years ago. Higher theoretical refresh rate on the PS/2 mouse at that time and the PS/2 keyboard offered better n-key rollover, although I question whether any of that mattered one way or the other to an SGI owner

A decade’s worth of SGI machines combined MIPS processors with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports.