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- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 2 days ago:
If their costs went up by 3%, they could hold prices level by taking the credit card fee out and making it an explicit surcharge.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
In case no one caught your reference that indeed, Google issued a hundred year bond for this bubble build out. Which is of course crazy as either it pops and is a waste, or continues and they need to issue more debt with 97 years left on the bond they already issued…
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I think O365 is a bigger lockin than anything else. But you are right that AD/Entra, for example, is pretty much only because they also have the desktop market locked up. To the extent anyone bothers with Windows Server, which is almost no one anyway, it’s only because the desktop market, so that slice is at risk.
So you have Excel/Powerpoint as the biggest lockins for them outside of Windows itself, but Azure is broadly considered an acceptable choice alongside AWS or GCE, and your cloud provider selection tends to be pretty vendor locked pretty much instantly.
Of course, the bigger threat to them on the “desktop” is not so much RedHat/Ubuntu/SUSE as much as it is Android/iOS.
Not about Windows 11, but another discussion where laptops are infeasibly expensive this year drove some people to report that their companies have begun moving technicians they formerly required to use a laptop to tablets and phones. Having a tablet-in-a-laptop form factor with Aluminium flavor of Android may be an attractive option between hardware costs and Windows 11 nonsense piling on top of long-term Windows desktop nonsense (companies pay microsoft and several security companies to try to wallpaper over security, and Android/iOS are very appealing for their more restrictive privilege model).
- Comment on Website 5 days ago:
Saw a generated site, but it just made up plausible image links and also went image heavy so it was a bunch of broken image icons as it linked to nowhere.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 1 week ago:
I would imagine it’s nowadays at the point where employment verification is automatically fired off to some vetting agency automatically during the process where software does all the cross referencing and anomalies would be caught and reported.
I don’t think they have to go all private investigator to get basic employment verification from the actual employers anymore.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 1 week ago:
PLEASE
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 1 week ago:
That’s why you have to keep it modest at ‘regional manager’, significant enough to be useful looking, insignificant enough so you can’t possibly be to blame for the downfall of the company.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I suppose the takeaway is once the weather is 100 or higher, I don’t care it’s just too damn hot.
After being in 115 degree heat, 100 degree heat still feels just terrible.
Similarly below zero, subjectively I didn’t need specifics anymore. I know that salting ice outside is probably not going to work anymore. Yes it does make a difference, but comfort wise I just hate it either way.
So I can see, mostly joking but a grain of truth that you have “stupidly cold” then 0 to 100 scale of usual air temperature then “too damn hot”.
It’s like the only way the farenheight scale is kind of appealing from a “humans like 0 to 100 scale”, but it’s mathematically painful and nonsense apart from comfortable human temperatures.
- Comment on how could this happen😔 3 weeks ago:
Funny thing is that at least in my wedding day there was no sex.
It was just way too exhausting to have energy left over for that.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
Blasphemy, TempleOS requires 512MB, so everyone has to at least have that.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
Well the good news about 365 suite on the web is they made it even worse… wait…
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the croplands came up in a discussion here…
A farm was shutting down because a datacenter operator bought the land, a fully functioning farm. It was more profitable to sell the land than keep it viable for food production…
Now the chances of that land ever being appropriate for farming again…
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
Now you have me imagining the volume of investment currently thrown at LLM datacenters instead being thrown at solar and energy storage and I’m even more disappointed. Areas that seem to have some legs where we haven’t pushed the physics quite as hard as we have computing yet.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
In hopes of making you feel better, the cache amount consumed hardly matters. It’s evictable. So if you read a gigabyte in once that you’ll never ever need again, it’ll probably just float in cache because, well, why not? It’s not like an application needs it right now.
If you really want to feel better about your reported memory usage, sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. You’ll slow things down a bit as it rereads the stuff it actually needs to reuse, but particularly if your system has a lot of I/O at bootup that never happens again, a single pass can make the accounting look better.
You could at least do it once to see how much cache can be dropped so you can feel good about the actual amount of memory if an application really needs it.
Though the memory usage of VMs gets tricky, especially double-caching, since inside the VM it is evictable, but the host has no idea that it is evictable, so memory pressure won’t reclaim stuff in a guest or peer VM.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 weeks ago:
I could see a refusal to use codegen as a potential liability, but that’s not “skills”. The biggest thing about codegen is you have to review it and just lower your expectations that the code comes from a technique dumber than the dumbest human intern you have ever seen and approach it with supremely thorough skepticism. It’s exhausting how dumb it can be and how you have to be paranoid for every single piece of output. But it’s not a “skill”
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 weeks ago:
Now you can’t win some awards…
- Comment on US labor unions gear up to fight against Trump’s ‘Billionaire First’ agenda 4 weeks ago:
I remember 2024 when I was inundated with union guys saying Trump was best (because of protectionist tariffs). Then in 2025 lamenting that tariffs were making things they want to buy more expensive, and that there should only be tariffs on the products their specific union makes, but tariffs on things they want to buy should not be a thing.
I guess we’ve come around to remembering that somehow the quintessential rich guy for the “trickle down” party isn’t going to be good for workers after all… what a shock…
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 4 weeks ago:
I’ve heard that people think he tried a variety of quack treatments alongside doctor prescribed treatments. Basically generally desperate and ready to try everything all at once. Which is a common theme among terminal patients.
But he did say antivax stuff, after having been vaccinated. So at least when his own personal stakes are low, he was willing to roll with the MAGA rhetoric, but he wasn’t about to let his own life be at additional risk for it.
Because he and Biden had the same cancer. He actually explicitly said Trump was wrong for being mean to Biden over it. If Adams didn’t have the same disease, he probably would have piled on.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s not a subjective thing. Cold medicines treat symptoms, not the disease. Cold and allergies have common symptoms.
If your concern is that cold medicines don’t work for your allergies, thwn those tend not to work for colds either.
If the medicine is trying to use phenylephrine in a pill, that doesn’t do anything. You might also want to skip the acetaminophen usually included and you have zero need for that, but not every co of d medicine has that.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 5 weeks ago:
This is a perspective that the leadership in general should keep in mind.
They are relishing in ignoring laws and treaties and just opting out of consequences. Generally people understand that honoring laws and elections leaves the populace broadly with a sense of justice even with misdeeds and the punishments are, generally, pretty light. Even the light punishments satisfy people.
Continually flaunting these mechanisms and denying people a civilized path to feelings of justice and being heard is a dangerous thing.
It’s why the control bounces back and forth between two sinilar political parties, most people get a sense of “my team won” or “my team will probably win next time” and this placates people. To decide to nope out of these conventions is to invite great risk.
- Comment on genius 1 month ago:
UNTIL IT IS DONE
- Comment on Ready set go 1 month ago:
Look at the people trashing AI 2 years ago, how it would constantly hallucinate and produce gibberish code.
In my experience, this is absolutely still the case…
- Comment on Hospital Bill 1961 1 month ago:
Another thing to keep in mind, this was a bill for a 9 day hospital stay. Generally speaking a vaginal birth has you back out the door in 24 hours, maybe 48 if something warrants a little more observation.
- Comment on get out of my head 1 month ago:
Everything reminds me of him…
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 months ago:
Fax machines, fine, certain organizations still require those mostly because people fall to understand that a fax machine is just a scanner and printer and this some bearaucracy failed to keep pace.
Same story for checkbooks.
AOL is still a thing and you can even sign up for it today, email address wise.
Record players are in use, though more people own records than record players, more popular as display pieces than actual music medium.
I would say everything else on the list is pretty much dead unless you go out of your way to do them, and nothing else on the list has so much nostalgia appeal compared to the problems and difficulty with them.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 months ago:
Lost count due to the dementia
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 months ago:
He just have died while typing…
- Comment on Actual theft 2 months ago:
I haven’t seen the ads to have any idea about this person, but I will but from the stores.
GameStop very rarely, because a game console store price is dumb and getting a used copy of a popular game is cheap, but overwhelmingly will get/wait for PC editions of games, so it comes up very rarely.
Best buy I’ll buy something because they frequently are competitive with buying online, and I like the ability to just pick something up now without waiting. Also when a controller has an issue or was similarly instant to exchange. Didn’t wait a few days just to get a botched one and then wait a few days for a replacement, got it, find out of was not working, and exchanged it all in the same day.
- Comment on Proof you don't have to wait for the new year for self improvement 2 months ago:
Dunno, she might be very much ready to “give a fuck”
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 2 months ago:
It existed before that use case was prominent. Basically it was for whatever trivial for people but hard for machines task you could have people do over the Internet.