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Build PC with 16gb now, upgrade to 32gb in the future, not be stuck with surplus 2x8gb afterwards.

It’s a very typically American opinion to argue that you don’t have to be personally responsible for your actions if the law legally allows you not to.

Awesome, a whole new universe of crypto scams is exactly what the world needs right now.

Sick of this outfit polluting search results with paywall/loginscreen results. Pinterest can get fucked.

Yup, I asked it how long an azure subscription had existed and it could not even tell me that. Literally now() minus the object’s creation date and it had no idea what to do.

Exactly, half of a system exists as code but the other half exists as a mental model in the minds of the devs. With AI the former will, now much more quickly, outrun or deviate from the latter and then the problems of long-term reliability, maintainability and confidence in validation and delivery are just beginning.

Also recommend the documentary Riding Giants.

Been at MS 15 years, the unspoken “pact” is truthful.

"Theres a fucking goat outside."

"No, it's just 'a goat'."

"No! It's a fucking goat!"

This is why I do not use any google apps and deleted my google anccount. Their shitty software pisses me off.

Every time I try to use it, the UI elements shift around as I try an action as simple as activating a search box. But it is just laggy enough that you click on something a second time, since it apparently didn’t activate the first time. But by then it’s shifted everything around and you are either cancelling what you were doing, or you are taken off into some new workflow you didn’t want.

The absolute WORST is when you focus the search box and it shifts to the top of the screen. With lag, you click on the search box again, but now where it was is a list of completion suggestions and you are taken off to some search result page you never asked for.

It’s fucking infuriating and I won’t entertain it.

Dems were already the adult in the room, US voters decided they don’t want one.

I have quantum fiber and am using a Dynalink WRX36 running OpenWrt. Needed the vlan 201 configuration but works well.

OpenWrt is pretty amazing, my router downloads torrents, blocks ads, runs a VPN client (enabled per-device) for watching geo-blocked streaming, serves content from a USB drive to my TV, among other things.

https://openwrt.org/toh/dynalink/dl-wrx36

No, that aircraft (having taken off from Reagan, visible in the full not-cropped videos) is close to the Kennedy Center camera but is nowhere near where the CRJ and helicopter were.

Being that the concept of ACC is unusual, and it is run by the NZ Gov, means that ACC ads are some quite bizarre PSAs in a similar vein to NZ’s and Australia’s notorious road safety PSAs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u51OxZF1ltI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zVnErdPfE&t=0s

It’s a description of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect.

Not the exact same way — far from it. Look up ranked choice voting. It makes third (and beyond) parties actually viable.

Similar experience here. When I moved to a new place and had to find a dentist, the first one I went to told me I needed two root canals, even though I had been to my original dentist just 6 months before. The waiting room was filled with massage chairs and large flatscreen TVs (which would have been expensive 15 years ago).

The interior may be refurbished only 1-2 times during the economic life of the airframe, so the rule generally still holds. 747s are old enough that chances are, even the IFE tech installed during the refurb is outdated. A380s aren’t yet old enough to have had their interior refurbed for the first time, so their IFE tech is similarly outdated.

Many airlines have had generally available models of tablets (such as iPads) to hand out on their aircraft lacking screens. eg. Hawaiian Airlines when they still had 767s.

Really depends on the aircraft. It reflects the age/generation of the aircraft and isn’t crappy just because it’s on an aircraft. 747s had, and A330/A380 still have, these issues. Slow CPUs, washed out colors, massive boxes taking up space under every seat. Not because it’s an aircraft but because it’s early 2000s technology.

Any newer aircraft reflects the advances you see in newer consumer electronics: if you’re on a 787 or A350 the screens are large, colorful, highly responsive, with a much larger selection of content, and none of the ugly control boxes taking up space because the screens are basically modern fast and slim Android tablets.

Here’s one example of why it takes ages — drivers that grab the window handle of a control panel and hack at it to show custom UI. Old example that specifically addresses the Displays and Printers control panels, but similar hacks probably still exist today.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060410-17/?p=32...

HYSA varies with interest rates

To be fair, software and technology is so magically transformative that even with warranty disclaimers like “this software comes with no warranty, and we limit our liability to the purchase price”, every company in the world still lines up to buy it. Because for them it’s effectively magic, that they cannot replicate themselves.

No individual software developer, nor corporation, is foolish enough to claim their software is free of bugs, that’s why they put the risk on the customer and the customer still signs on the dotted line and accepts the risks anyway. After all, it’s still way more profitable to have the potentially-faulty software than needing an army of clerks with pen and paper instead.

Most software has to be this way or it would be exorbitantly expensive. That’s the bargain between software developers and the companies that buy the software. Customer accepts the risks and gets to pocket the large profits that the software brings (because of the software’s low cost), because it’s better than the software developer balking at the liability, no software being written at all, and having an army of staff every airport writing out boarding passes by hand. There are only a few softwares that aren’t this way - example the software in aircraft or nuclear power plants. That software is correspondingly extremely expensive. Most customers that can, choose to accept the risks so they can have the larger profits.

Yes. They are still there, and like milk bars, still have an anachronistic name: newsagents. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsagent%27s_shop

That stuck out glaringly for me too.

Elon Musk is like Donald Trump. They will say anything, whether they actually believe it or not, to get more attention on themselves and try to stay relevant.

No, it isn't.

Defined benefit pensions are unsustainable Ponzi schemes though. Attempting to guarantee market returns is silly.

That by itself is not commingling. Money is fungible, and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_(money_supply) is a well established and widely used concept.

Weird, highly distracting arrow things darting around the page. I gave up trying to read it after a few paragraphs.