thescriptkiddie

the article talks a lot about PSOs but never defines the term

anyone want to buy a 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 kit that only fails memtest86 some of the time?

in the us, gas stations require you to pay before filling

also bring back the 50-cent piece, eliminate the redundant dollar bill, and replace the 2 dollar bill with a new 2 dollar coin

imgur could simply not comply, they aren't a UK company

we need personal liability for the owners of companies that make things like this

i have uninstalled onedrive at least 6 times on one computer. i never intentionally installed it

zero-knowledge proofs don't work like that

this reminds me of something i've observed. it seems like there is a general trend in software of doing things that look good (either in an ad or in a sprint review) rather than things that feel good to use. one example among many is nvidia's frame generation feature, which makes 60 fps look like 120 fps when you're watching somebody else play, but feel like 30 fps when you're the one playing.

imho the entire point of this for nvidia is to kill arc

somebody once said oil is too valuable to burn for fuel. the important part are the petrochemicals, but the demand for fuel is so high that's where the money is

i think product management is an unsolved problem. like there is a genuine need for the role, but we haven't figured out how to do it right yet.

maybe replacing everyone's defined-benefit pensions with 401(k)s and IRAs wasn't such a good idea

i'll pick option 1 every time. you can't make me but a computer with a camera in it

no they aren't, they are asymetric key pairs

there are reactor designs that work that way, but most civilian power plants are pressurized water reactors. it is important that the water stays pressurized or you get a chernobyl

i have at&t fiber and their ipv6 worked perfectly fine for years, until a one day they started dropping packets like mad and it never got better

in the long view, much of the US's economic success (prior to the post-wwii economic miracle) can be attributed directly or indirectly to cheap and plentiful food. this of course means that farming is not a very profitable business. but that could change if a handful of large corporations buy up a plurality of the farms and exert their monopoly power to push prices up. this would be very bad.

ah shit, nobody told them that that one blog post about a future in which javascript is a universal ABI was satire

edit: i might be thinking of this talk? https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

an interesting implication of this is that the government probably didn't want to issue them life insurance because then they would have to explain why they don't do that for all military personnel

exactly. all i'm saying is that if you have this problem it makes way more sense to pay the offending party to stop producing excess power (or fine them for not stopping) than it does to pay someone else to intentionally waste it.

there are no circumstances under which it makes sense for energy prices to actually be negative. it is a sign of a market behaving very badly. propping up prices by intentionally wasting energy only treats the symptom not the cause.

very noble, but when your enemies are the harlem globetrotters, firm commitment to principles just makes you the washington generals

oh i misunderstood, i was thinking about live performances. unfortunately you do technically have to obtain a license from the composer in order to sell a recording of a cover.

> Or even do a cover song of "Beat It" entirely with throat singing. Copyright would still apply.

bad example, in this specific case copyright would actually not apply

sorry if this is an unpopular opinion, but i have absolutely zero problems with them reverse-engineering nintendo code, nor do i really care that much about GPL violations against a project called "Real-Time Executive for Missile Systems"

as always it's not that automation is inherently bad, it's a matter of how it is used and to whose benefit. the luddites knew this. a lot of people misunderstand, but they didn't want to destroy the mills, they wanted to own them.

Ok, I'll elaborate.

US freight railroads used to carry a larger variety of goods and serve a larger variety of customers than they do today. They were never in the business of delivering finished goods directly to retail stores, but they did transport a large amount of single-carload and less-than-carload deliveries between factories and warehouses. This is why if you visit older industrial areas you will see train tracks everywhere, including in the middle of the street and sometimes directly into buildings.

When the trucking industry was deregulated in 1980, trucking companies undercut railroads on low-volume high-profit routes, leaving the railroads to focus on low-value bulk goods like coal. The total volume of freight actually went up, but both revenue per unit and gross revenue fell. The railroads struggled to justify the cost of maintenance on now less busy lines, so they abandoned many of them and neglected the maintenance on others. That made it impossible to win back the lost business from the trucking industry even as the cost of trucking skyrocketed. Everyone is now worse off except for the owners of the trucking companies.

As for Switzerland, they invented a special kind of shipping container and that can be loaded/unloaded from a train or truck with no need for a crane. This allows them to make carload and intermodal deliveries without building any new infrastructure.

https://actsag.ch/index.php/de/system

obviously re-industrializing a de-industrialized economy is not something that has ever been tried before, it's not clear it would even be desirable, and industrializing in the first place was a traumatic process. that said, machine tools and similar specialized equipment are exactly the kind of high-margin low-volume goods that you want to be manufacturing in a developed country. well, that and microchips.