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- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 18 hours ago:
What’s the worst that could happen if we eradicate all the rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows?
- Comment on Thoughts?? 1 week ago:
They were living in 2025 when they posted that in 2023. I don’t think the stats software is the biggest story here.
- Comment on Trump despises the future because it threatens him 1 week ago:
He was born in 1946. The world came together to reject what he stands for before he was even born.
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 2 weeks ago:
Ok, Agent Smith.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 weeks ago:
Win10 EOL is surely driving some people away, but it’s difficult to put a number on that. Measuring by market share is tricky and can be misleading. Steam Deck popularity may be driving increased usage, but those users aren’t necessarily migrating their main OS, just adding a new machine to the mix. But maybe “migrating” their time spent in a given OS counts? It’s messy.
- Comment on How differently would have information technology developed if most of the world were under authoritarian regimes instead of liberal democracies? Would encryption have been more restricted? 2 weeks ago:
I mean its not even too late for this to happen starting like right now 2025, right?
No, it’s not. The US, and increasingly the rest of the western world, is infected by a bunch of politicians who think ‘1984’ is an instruction manual rather than a cautionary tale.
IT being used to weaponize surveillance against the people is happening right now.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s not an argument, that’s somebody who only looked at the cover of the cliff notes on presidential terms but didn’t read it.
Right, but he can’t read, so it can still be his position.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
And of course, anything passed by the normal legislative processes can just as easily be repealed that way.
Lasting change is going to require constitutional amendment(s) to harden the democracy against bad actors.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 3 weeks ago:
The question is basically answered now, so I’ll just drop this video here for some additional context about Microsoft’s history of trying to build a file system that solves the problem, and the challenges they faced even in the early XP days:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5d5H92c4Mk
tl;dw: MS tried to understand the context of each file, not just the name. Once you add dozens of pieces of metadata to each of tens of thousands of files (even 20+ years ago), the whole system became too difficult for them to properly index and manage efficiently.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, my wife teases me all the time about not answering. “Going to the store after work” doesn’t, IMHO, require me to do or say anything about it.
A direct question will almost always get a response.
It’s going to be a little different for married couples, though. Even if I don’t respond, we’ll be talking face-to-face in a few hours tops.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 5 weeks ago:
Might be too late. They changed the policy a few years ago when they introduced mod packs. They didn’t want entire packs to fail if one person pulled their mod, so total deletion was disabled.
Folks can still hide their mods and make new individual downloads impossible, but it’s still there in the background.
(All this is from memory. I hope I’m wrong)
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 5 weeks ago:
As soon as I graduated, ‘too many people are fighting for IT jobs, depressing salaries, meanwhile we’re paying plumbers $100/hour.’
That was 2001. Almost 25 years later, I recently paid a plumber $300/hour.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 weeks ago:
I’ve always maintained that the first was a fine game that was tanked by the price. It was priced to drive gamepass subs, not sell the game. At $35-40, it would have been received much better, imo. Years later, now that it’s more appropriately priced, it seems to be more well-reviewed.
Unfortunately the second is going down the same path. It may take 5+ years for the game to be appreciated to its fullest (assuming no glaring issues), through no fault of the devs.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This is why subject matter experts matter. Support for the vague idea of “deport people here illegally” is pretty high, but any specific method of actually doing it is much more unpopular. Media is essential in getting that distinction out to the laypeople, but they’ve largely failed.
And I’d argue that it’s not just immigration where this disconnect exists. Lots of policies have broad support until you start talking about specifics. People just want to “get things done” but the “how” is either boring or unsavory.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You can handle what you can handle, and trying to drink from the firehose will only burn you out. Be as active in your community as you can, when you can, then take a break when you need to. Your own mental health matters, too.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 1 month ago:
Can’t be. I was born in the 70s and I’m only what the fuck?
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 1 month ago:
Wasn’t that long ago that people even had pet rocks.
- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 1 month ago:
For many people, “drugs,” with no other qualifier, is just short-hand for “illegal drugs.” Plenty of people who say they don’t use drugs also take prescriptions or OTC medications.
It will be interesting in the next few years to see where marijuana ends up on that spectrum. Still largely illegal (federally), but if that changes, will people still consider it a “drug” in the same way they do now, or will it fall into a separate category like drugs that are mostly legal?
- Comment on You can now format text in Windows 11's Notepad 1 month ago:
What Microsoft says: We’re getting rid of Wordpad.
What Microsoft means: We’re getting rid of Notepad. - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
IIRC James Cameron intended Terminator 2 to end the series. The monologue at the end was full of hope that everything had changed and the future wasn’t written in stone.
Then the studio saw dollar signs and shit all over the message.
- Comment on Safe to run a box fan face down? 1 month ago:
You could always build a plywood box/cube thing to duct the airflow downward, but with an opening on the side so you can use any cheap box fan.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 month ago:
See also: census designated places, a collection of people with no formal town incorporation/government. My dad grew up in a “town” (CDP) of about 250 residents. It’s about a half hour drive from the nearest real town, for things like groceries and hospitals.
- Comment on New ‘Marathon’ Info: Bungie Morale, Launch Worries And Changing Plans 2 months ago:
Bungie is a lot like Bioware in that regard: Some real bangers on the resume, but none very recently. It should serve as a reminder that companies don’t make games, people do. If the right people aren’t involved, or too many of the wrong people are, past successes are entirely meaningless.
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 2 months ago:
Do middle names count? My grandmother’s first name became my mother’s middle name. Then my sister and her daughter also got that middle name.
- Comment on Top 10 PC exclusive platformers -- not available on console. 2 months ago:
Let’s not overlook the historical significance of another PC-exclusive (until some much later ports) action-platformer, the Commander Keen series.
The success of the first release inspired the creators to quit their day jobs and start their own company, id software.
- Comment on Every week has WTF in it (MTWTFSS) 2 months ago:
After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar is like, “WTF”.
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 2 months ago:
TGI Fridays stands for Thank God it’s Friday!
Lol, they can’t even decide if “Friday(s)” is singular or plural.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 2 months ago:
It’s harder to do insider trading if you aren’t manipulating markets by posting contradictory statements every morning from your gold-plated toilet.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 2 months ago:
Always eat your veggies first. I recommend asparagus.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 months ago:
Yeah, I don’t remember all the details myself, so you’re probably right. I was basically trying to support your thesis that Bethesda getting nasty over mods would be something entirely new and out of character. The only example someone could even try to point to had a bunch of other (better) explanations than “mod bad, Bethesda mad.”