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It makes you wonder how many companies were sold to private equity to avoid having to leave control to a family member. I know of a very large company that was until recently famil…

Yeah I can get a byd dolphin for half the price of the cheapest tesla. I'm sure the 2 aren't equally comparable, but considering all we need is a second car for my wife to drive at…

We bought our kid a balance bike for £45, there is no need to go much above that price.

Its a perfect illustration of the tradeoffs between synchronous and asynchronous logic. Synchronous logic allows for maximal consistency at the cost of wasting time. Asynchronous l…

I've reached an age where I don't actually buy games anymore, I just load up my wishlist with games and between Christmas, birthday and fathers day I get all the games I will care …

If Valve wants users to compare the Steam Machine to a PC, then it's going to be outdated in 6 months.

Is it really unified memory? AMD Strix Halo is "unified" but you still have to allocate memory separately for cpu vs gpu. Apple Silicon is true unified memory.

"Unified Memory" still means divided address space right? You have to pre-allocate system vs gpu and copy from one to the other?

Ireland has this and honestly I hate it now. It's impossible to get tickets unless you win the lottery to buy them when they first go on sale. Paying a premium to buy them on the s…

"When is Stephen Colberts last show?" "The last episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is airing on Thursday, May 21, 2026. Based on your interest in The Late Show with Step…

personally I just hate this -> http://[0123::4567]:5000/whatever

I've not really used Rust, and I can certainly appreciate the goal of the language. However this code bothers me, and I can't really articulate why. struct Node { value: i32, child…

People with cryptocurrency and no idea what to do with it.

He just does this with all his blog posts, don't overthink it. The tech industry is full of people with unexpected quirks.

> The appropriated FY2026 budget has the largest discrepancy from the White House Request since 1987 at nearly 30%.[3] The request, submitted in May 2025, proposed a 24% cut to NAS…

Does this also apply to sites like instagram that simply erase your entire back button history if you visit the site.

Do the satellites broadcast their own position, or is that all held in a database on your phone? Also why is it so draining on your battery to get GPS location, if it's just solvin…

I remember reading something awhile ago in regards to why people were investing in NFTs when it seemed so clear they were a scam. The gist of it was that it's easy to get into cryp…

I wish I could donate without entering an email address.

When I was in college I got lured into one of those pyramid schemes advertised in the middle of the night hoping to make extra money. I wonder how much money I would have lost if I…

I think about this a lot. How much anxiety do most people feel from the millions of options that are available to them daily, or young adults that are told they can be anything the…

"This is so clearly a matter for government oversight: prevent abuse, protect the citizen's safety, rights, welfare, etc. It's not reasonable to expect consumers to figure out if t…

I wasn't surprised to learn that when Linus Tech Tips released those new usb-c cables, that they all sold out almost instantly. They put their entire reputation on the line to clai…

I agree. The biggest lesson I try to drive home to newer programmers that join my projects is that its always best to transform the data into the structure you need at the very end…