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- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 9 hours ago:
The US also has the best natural barriers to invasion in the world. The only access points are through the Arctic (good luck with that), or by traveling over a damn ocean to assault beaches on North American soil. When not only America has the largest navy in the world, but several of the runner ups are close allies, how do you plan on even getting to the US with your forces? You don’t.
As you say, the US is well positioned in this changing world. It’s one of the few countries almost guaranteed to continue to do well.
- Comment on Chart 10 hours ago:
Yeah, it’s blatantly dishonest for OP’s chart to be labeled “Federal Spending” when it doesn’t include the majority of federal spending categories. Particularly when the goal is for the reader to point at the largest spending category, despite the chart not including the largest spending categories.
- Comment on U.S. EO to take all power under office of President 1 day ago:
Congress has been giving the executive more and more power every administration for a long, long time. Any time the executive actually wields this massive amount of power they have been given by Congress, people rightfully worry about how strong the executive has gotten.
It has long been time for Congress to restrict the executive. And I hope everyone remembers this when their preferred party is in power and demands the same as your preferred party is, clearly, not the only party that will be in power.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
We got all this dooming 8 years ago as well. We were fine then, we will be fine now.
- Comment on No, Microsoft is NOT dropping Windows 11 support for Intel 8th, 9th, and 10th Gen chips 3 days ago:
If this is true, Microsoft needs to explicitly lay it out in their support docs. The fact is their support doc for the newest versions of Win 11 specifically lists supported processors, and makes zero mention of 8-10th gen processor support, doesn’t even mention them as a backwards compatibility thing.
This news article then claims 8th-10th gen processors are still supported, and links to a support article that is specifically about support on older versions of Win 11. Nobody is contesting that older versions if Win 11 support such processors…
- Comment on Microsoft won’t support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th 4 days ago:
Off the top of my head: LibreOffice Draw does what Visio does.
- Comment on Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs 4 days ago:
Yep, the game runs fine on Linux. The developer, however, is intentionally breaking the game if you run Linux. Just EA doing shitty things, as EA does.
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 5 days ago:
Why is 3/5 of the screen not the map? You know, the primary function of a map.
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 5 days ago:
About zero chance. But certainly doesn’t hurt to have some cash.
- Comment on Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs 5 days ago:
Man, those processors aren’t even that old. The i7-10875H came out in mid 2020 for example. That is a perfectly capable processor that can run most tasks without a sweat.
I’m so damn happy I got out of that ecosystem this year.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
i sometimes need to watch youtube videos. these can be black and white only.
I think you want a normal laptop with a software that makes the screen black and white.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
Why would one person, one SSN ever have two different birth dates? That sounds like an issue all into itself.
- Comment on Inflation picks up speed after Trump promised to ‘rapidly’ bring down prices 1 week ago:
According to the chart, inflation was 3% when Trump took office in January. IE: A month mostly run by Biden. Trump might be causing inflation, but this data certainly doesn’t show it!
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 1 week ago:
AI mostly seems useful when you don’t know a specific concept and just need the base ideas. That said, given it’s often confidently wrong and doesn’t involve humans actively steering you toward better ideas, I still find Stack Overflow more helpful. Sometimes the answer to your problem is to stop doing what you are trying to do and attack the problem from a different angle.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 1 week ago:
In Germany, NL, you can just plug it into socket and it works somehow.
This is incredibly dangerous as it will feed power into the grid even when the grid is down. You might say ‘that is great!’, yeah, well, the line technicians who cannot work on cables because you are energizing them think otherwise.
One of the reasons solar grid-feeding systems are expensive in the US is they have extra equipment to disconnect the system from the grid if it goes down. Your house can will still have local power, but you won’t be energizing powerlines technicians are trying to fix.
- Comment on Tesla stock is tumbling. Blame BYD 1 week ago:
BYD is heavily subsidized by China. Tariffs to offset the Chinese subsidies are reasonable.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 week ago:
Apple still has it as Gulf of Mexico.
- Comment on Where do I buy computer parts nowdays? 2 weeks ago:
B&H is my go-to, with Amazon as a backup. If you have a Micro Center near you, they are a great option as well.
- Comment on When would it make sense for someone to get a domain name? 2 weeks ago:
If you self host
It’s always fun to host a private game with your friends and tell them to just go to myname.whatever rather than listing out a full IP.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 2 weeks ago:
In a wider context. It prevents consumers of information from becoming producers of information. If you are in a thread (reddit, stack overflow, w/e) and happen to know an answer or have extra useful information, many people will type that out in a reply. However, with a chatbot, there is nothing to reply to. No place where the wealth of human knowledge can be expanded. Your experience and knowledge is kept to yourself.
This not only means the conversations never happen, it also means future chatbots don’t have this information to work with, as they require the conversations in the first place to draw from.
- Comment on Microsoft experiments with ‘Drag Tray’ — share menu appears when dragging a file in Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Used Win 11 at work recently, the explorer context menu still requires you to go through submenus to get to things like 7Zip; things I use constantly and aren’t in a sub-menu in Win 10. I’m not sure why Microsoft decided to ‘improve’ the context menu in the first place.
- Comment on Microsoft experiments with ‘Drag Tray’ — share menu appears when dragging a file in Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if this is good or bad, but every time they add a feature, all I can think of is the unfinished Control Panel --> Settings conversion that started in Windows 8, back in 2012. Microsoft seems to have a pathological inability to finish projects before they mess with something new (to leave it undone as well).
- Comment on Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid 4 weeks ago:
That system seems almost purpose built to be attacked…
- Comment on Microsoft opens testing for Windows AI search 4 weeks ago:
Y’all remember when the start menu would actually do a good job searching and opening programs, instead of searching Bing for “Steam”. I don’t want to search Bing for Steam, I want to open Steam, that is why I am typing into the start menu and not into a browser’s search box.
- Comment on FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from over 4,000 US computers 5 weeks ago:
The malware allowed arbitrary code execution, it sounds like the FBI sent the malware a command to delete itself.
That’s pretty darn cool!
- Comment on 'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election 1 month ago:
I’m not sure I want Facebook/Zuckerberg deciding what is and isn’t ‘fact’.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 1 month ago:
Regulating ISPs as a utility is a pretty big change, not simply a technical detail; it is in the purview of Congress.
Congressmen aren’t individually drafting bills, they direct their aids to draft the bills and hammer out the small details. We don’t need to overhaul our system, we need congressmen to do their job rather than offloading their job to the Executive.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 1 month ago:
Like most large changes, it requires an act of Congress. Doing these via the executive leads to weak outcomes like this.
- Comment on Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series 1 month ago:
The Switch mostly lives on the talent and creativity of Nintendo devs. Russia seems to be lacking in the quantity and quality in that regard as well.
Honestly, I would expect Russia to shoot more for PC gaming, rather than console gaming. But that would almost certainly require using home-grown or Chinese semiconductors. I’m not sure there are too many homegrown Russian semiconductor fabs, and Chinese chips aren’t known for their high performance like Taiwanese (TSMC, and by extension nVidia, AMD) and American chips (Intel) are.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
Thank you for the solid points. People are dooming way too hard, simply because their preferred candidate lost this round.