What can one say at this point anymore?

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Easy. The only non-linux non-mac computer I'm using for many many years now is a gaming laptop w/ win (win11 currently) that only has antivirus & games installed.

It's almost as if these so-called 'reciprocal tariffs' weren't properly thought through. Nah, surely not!

What does surprise me though is why Congress hasn't stepped in to stop the Mad King from exercising this power - which is supposedly theirs, if I am not mistaken.

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Palm Springs has been hanging "We love Canadians" banners off street lamps trying to convince snowbirds who are preparing to fly north for the summer to come back next year. Basically any location in the US that is dependent on tourism and snowbirds is feeling the fear. Delta came out and noted a few days ago it is likely to cut number of flights between the countries due to a steep drop in demand.

You can also tell the difference between a Canadian report and an American one in the news cycle. If they blame it on tariffs, it's an American news report. If they correctly blame the annexation threats, it's Canadian.

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As a prime example, the mayor of Palm Springs apparently gave a speech saying how much they understand Canadian's feelings and they're looking forward to seeing the Canadians back next year.

Some people really don't get it.

I dumped chrome given Google dumped DE&I which btw economists say is profitable as well disliked the whole gulf of America thing. Even deleted chrome on my old android tablet. Deleted chrome, google maps, and gmail apps on my iPhone. Still use gmail via the Mail app. Also stopped doing google map reviews. Why should I volunteer to help google?

Hound of Cullen said:

Well... L.A. is hosting sperm races. Which is pretty dystopian, if you ask me.

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Love this bit from the article:

All jokes aside, the initiative isn’t just about racing sperm, although the founders note that the idea is “hilarious.”

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Yes, yes the idea is hilarious. Let's see if you can actually pull it off.

^^^ Just coming back to post that I think I like the Seasonic better. It's short a few of the SATA ports, but has the Nvidia specific port in case I go that way down the road

Tanks.

Frodo Douchebaggins said:

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Fucking dickhead will not answer a very simple and direct question (he was asked repeatedly if musk was in the room when he was interviewing). Another shady billionaire. Fuck him.

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Who cares? The question was made in hopes of merely making a political point, and there is no way Jared should answer it.

How the Whitehouse makes its appointment interviews is not the Senates business. It would be like freely answering police questions when pulled over, you have the right to remain silent to any fishing expedition questions and should always exercise it.

In this case Jared has no obligation to help senators on fishing expeditions. And there’d be nothing wrong with Elon Musk being in that meeting by the way.

If SpaceX is advantage in any way by Isaacman‘s appointment, the evidence will be in the contracts they get. Currently, SpaceX has received no cost plus contracts except for tiny research efforts. By contrast every contract that’s Boeing has ever gotten outside of COTS has been cost plus.

So I’m ready to lose my shit when there’s actual evidence of favoritism. And that evidence will be very clear if they get cost plus contracts. But until then I’m happy that Jared is one of the best qualified administrator candidates in many years and that SpaceX has done almost all work for NASA on performance based contracts that even outside auditors agree have saved NASA billions.

And that SpaceX pricing is a tiny fraction of what Boeing, Lockheed-Martin and ULA contracts have cost NASA, so any move to use more of its launch services at the expense of the others is clearly in this nation’s best interest.

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Jacinta Price not shy about showing her political stripes. If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, then...

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...en-accuses-media-of-being-obsessed-with-trump

I expect the ALP to exploit rapidly.

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So, both Jacinta Price and the leader of the Nationals are saying that her 'Make Australia Great Again' comment yesterday was not channeling Trump - and then these photos surface of her wearing a MAGA cap and holding a Trump Christmas tree decoration.

Remind me again Jacinta, who is obsessed with Donald Trump - is it the media or is it actually you?

After many, MANY twists and turns, I present 95% of the way done (just need to wrangle the wires through the holes and secure them to the 'inside'), a pair of hinged solar panels, with latch, and built-in stand!

Now I just need to do it all over again for the other pair...

wonn said:

I am so very glad I switched to Linux a couple of years ago. I've never looked back - even gaming works perfectly well 95% of the time.

Dreading my upcoming forced work computer upgrade to Win11 though...

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Same. Almost two years ago when Microsoft designed windows 11 to obfuscate browser choice with Microsoft edge, that's when I had enough. I wrote an article about the switch and never looked back. No with recall and copilot I'm really glad I made that decision.

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Hopefully your next comment wont be to ask, "Why can't we just print more money?" We have to "get real" at some point.

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You’re the guy who when driving a car down a dark road at night at 30 mph over the speed limit wants to turn off the headlights to reduce gas consumption. Could slow the fuck down, but that option you won’t even consider. No choice but to turn off the headlights.

Uzan said:

…it's also very easy to see the conflict of interest there from someone actively getting paid to write books that require that relationship.

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No. No it isn’t.

Klinn said:

In that article I linked, Trump said "So we may be ordering top-of-the-line ships from those countries. And within a fairly short period of time, we’ll be building our own ships". Yes, because it takes such a short period of time to spool up a new shipyard, find and train skilled workers, arrange all the rest of the procurement chain to get the materials and equipment needed, etc, etc.

The idiot has zero clues about anything.

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Often there’s some vague way you figure out what wrong theory he has latched on to, but this is just bizarre. Like does he think we need ships from other countries to copy their designs? That’s the only way I can read that buy, then build progression.

But that makes no sense. I mean surely he is aware that we have a navy already so we could copy our own designs?

Are we tired of all the winning?

you guys know that he's going to rug pull it by Wednesday, right ?

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This is true but thinly-facaded nature of his support also implies that the current MAGA movement is much more fragile than it appears and we can see things fragility in some historical parallels such as McCarthyism. That immune response can remain suppressed indefinitely and, yet, the madness and stupidity can also pass overnight should that protective illusion crack even slightly.

Ultimately, Trump doesn't get to decide if he remains politically shielded, instead we will all decide that collectively. If we can manage to break the illusion that the GOP lacks serious dissent toward Trump, then his commitment to remaining shielded will be irrelevant.

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I'm sorry, but where are you seeing this "thinly-facaded nature of his support" and "their private doubts about him"?

So change things every five minutes so THEY STAY THE SAME. How much more time can thee imbeciles waste accomplishing exactly zero.

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I wish I was still actively trading because I would have made a small country's GDP out of trading Apple options during this shitshow. I'm sure a bunch of people did.

This is increasingly a transfer of wealth from retirees and retail investors to the rich. Never lose sight of that.

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Apple's stock moved hours before it was publicly announced. Someone knew.

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It's always been a quality thing for me. It costs the same, but all my components are better because I'm not eating a profit margin. Better quality SSD, better quality RAM, better quality Case & Fans, better quality CPU cooler, better cooled & binned GPU.

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For me it was picking parts to last another decade, this time without feeling cramped or creaky by the end of it, and trying to go for power efficiency. A high-end (for me, $350-ish) motherboard with lots of power gating and current-gen connectivity options was important given my last few long-lived machines' limitations.

I still need to figure out how to turn off the dang unicorn vomit, though. Windowless case or not, it still leaks out through the ventilation grating. Mocking me.

Oh, and as a long-time Linux desktop dabbler* but first time Mint user, Cinnamon is a thing that I liked today. It just feels like home. No jank, no compromises.


*I stretched Ubuntu from 6.06 to 7.10 to bridge the gaping maw of Vista and reach the blessed shores of my dear departed Windows 7, and now I'm planning to do the same to elude 11's all-consuming hellmouth before 10 goes EoL this autumn. In between then and now, I've played with various distros in virtual machine form but haven't really used it for more than keeping in touch with the Linux side for years.

You can call it the Tanakh rather than Old Testament. Only fair to those who use it as their book. I don’t know where he got the story about electricity and fire, but the commandment is to not do work, so it doesn’t matter if electricity comes from fire. I’ve never seen Haredi (“observant “) Jews ask someone to do work for them, whether pressing elevator buttons or turning lights on. The closest they can do is drop hints and many refuse to do that.

Yes, I live in an area where lots observe Sabbath rules. For it’s time at least the Tanakh demanded some measure of feeding the poor, respecting the stranger, and treating animals decently even if people often were people and didn’t live up to the intent.

pS Many don’t believe in an afterlife and faith doesn’t matter so much. More what you do. Agreed some get bogged down in the trivia and miss the intent.

EngineerX said:

And, in 20 years we'll be able to turn that helium 3 into energy/s

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Earths oceans are awash with Helium 3 available far cheaper, if it’s ever needed at all. It’s not the only fusion fuel, and true energy generation from fusion (in excess of all input/output losses) is decades away at best.

Happysin said:

Completely fails at any apartment complex that has controlled access.

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Never heard of Amazon Key?

Generative AI is inherently bad at debugging because it forgets stuff when you have mutliple prompts, as you would need in debugging.
This is because it ranks terms in a prompt based on the context within the sentence. As you add more prompts, items in previous prompts will drop out of ranking - it will 'forget" them.

An AI agent isn't the program like ChatGPT, its a subroutine within the program that checks the output of the program and compares it with other outputs and chooses the "most likely" based on another layer of vectoring.

For debugging to work, the agent would have to create another context tree (that is, more agents) so that items in a prompt don't lose ranking.

You can still uses AI, theoretically, to run tests, and that's part of debugging anyway.

Linux is terrible. Not worth the effort. This seems like a cool feature.

If gizmos like the Switch 2 aren’t exempt, then it’s not a category, just specific companies and products. I wonder what Tim Cook had to do to get his iPhones in Donald’s good graces… there was the donation, the truth social features on the App Store…