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When I was a teenager, I had an Italian greyhound who would collect fallen apples from our tree in our back yard. He'd make a pile and leave it for a week or so. Then he'd go out a…

It's not really "random", there is a coherent story (and a moral to that story) underneath all the weirdness and you'll sometimes forget how crazy it's gotten because your current …

>WET - Write Everything Twice I've always heard this as the "Rule of three": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_progra...

Agreed. If you want to just make parts and not tinker with a CNC machine, get a Z1. I had near-zero experience with CNC and got a Cavera Air last year and it mostly "just works" fr…

> You can still film ICE / CBP from the ground. "How do you tell the difference between a protestor with a camera and a protestor with a grenade?" Do you see how the assumption of …

I've been a watercooling "enthusiast" for about 20 years now and, while the DIY-ness of the old school builds was a lot of fun for young me, I'm also glad I can just buy some off-t…

> Is it all to support the biggest and baddest high end GPUs that cost more than the rest of the system? I think it's more to have a big window with lots of RGB LEDs to show off on…

Solid copper projectiles are the primary leadless solution on the market but they're much more expensive than the traditional copper jacket over lead core construction. There's als…

This is my experience as well. LLM currently produce pretty mediocre code. A lot of that is a "garbage in, garbage out" issue but it's just the current state of things. If the alte…

Same with Chrome on desktop. There's an animated background element with shooting stars that seems to be updating per-pixel. The more pixels it draws, like for a high res screen, t…

tl;dr seems to be: "Steam makes my work as a modder much harder so I'm done spending my time making broken games on their platform work well" plus a lot of salt. Bummer for the com…

I think part of the issue is that Zuckerberg is a smaller dude and they're pretty big sunglasses so he has a bit of that "Look! I'm wearing dad's glasses!" thing going on.

> then why on earth is the Tesla stock not going down? “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” TSLA's value has never been correlated to the fundamental…

> Because fragmentation is apparently good? I think it's more "they are no longer piggybacking off our work for free". I also think what they actually wanted was that plus "...and …

> Why does chrome demand $400m in input spend ongoing, if it no longer has to deliver Google specific changes? I don't know if it needs $400m but I wouldn't be surprised if it's $2…

> Who's the audience for this announcement? Probably whales who can afford to rent one from Google Cloud.

I think every major console already has software calibration. IIRC PS5 likes to hide calibration inside each game vs. having it system wide like other systems. Unfortunately, recal…

> What is the incentive? You reward them with praise when they pee in the toilet. People are pretty receptive to praise and kids even more so.

Yeah, DisplayPort "lost" w/r/t the connector but it seems like DP-over-USB-C is the way forward. Being able to put video, audio, power, and USB connectivity over one relatively com…

Vertical integration. Nvidia is making big bucks "selling shovels in a gold rush". Google has made their own shovel factory and they can avoid paying Nvidia's margins.

Yeah, I suspect that's why they're trying to focus on how Google is campaigning rather than what they're campaigning for. Because it sounds like Microsoft is trying to force curren…

> then shouldn't I crave it the way I crave sugar? Or at least not actively dislike it? As someone who's been lifting weights and doing regular cardio 4 or 5 days a week for 25+ ye…

Part of the problem (as I understand it) is Oregon didn't really have the actual treatment capacity to make their decriminalization approach work when the law first rolled out. Ore…

> That's the whole point of reusing and recycling. Reducing my cost. When reuse or recycling is saving consumers money and/or making companies money, everyone already does it. Thin…