Side note: if you say you’re 6.5" long, it sounds like you care too much about that extra half inch. If you say you’re 17cm, that’s just how long you are.

You’re welcome, penis owners.

Maybe not on mobile keyboards? Giving the benefit of a doubt here.

Always have to remind myself of this when managers ask me if something could be done. If it’s easy, I naturally get a little annoyed that they’re even asking. But knowing that is my job, not theirs, and it’s good that they ask. There’s lots of places where they assume and things go badly.

And the thread is wrong about one of those. I rarely touch them for tech news.

How the fuck is that supposed to fix anything? It’s easily cheaper for the state to pay for their lunch.

The few survivors deal with it the only way they know how: another late night orgy on your face.

And then I accidentally found this article on ACPI debugging, which references the memo written by Bill Gates in 1999:

One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows-specific. If seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. … Maybe we couid define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something relaled to this.

What. The. Heck.

This is insane… Isn’t it like the textbook definition of lobbying? I wasn’t expecting to find a whole conspiracy while trying to fix my Deck, perhaps the memo is a hoax or something, but this all just lines up so naturally. If it really was his plan, then he succeeded.

Given that the the memo was submitted in court as evidence in a 2002 case, Comes v. Microsoft, it’s probably real. If anything, it didn’t succeed enough. It probably would have been possible to lock Linux out entirely, but by 1999, there were already too many Linux and *BSD x86 server deployments. Couldn’t ignore them. Had to make it just kinda shitty rather than battening it all up.

Server Linux has exactly the same ACPI problems and manages fine there.

That house is in the “so bad, it’s good” category. Vibe coders can only aspire to such things.

It’s very satisfying when someone who thinks they have all the power suddenly realizes they don’t.

Somehow, they actually are a good source for political news. The tech press (them and Wired) have been some of the best at covering the second Trump Admin. Possibly because it’s crawling in tech bros, and the tech press already knows how to deal with them.

Hide your ricin.

It works like Mr. Burns’ immune system. Everyone is trying to listen in on Trump, but they step on each others toes and cancel out.

Star Fleet Intelligence also operates on this principle.

Lead-acid batteries aren’t great, and you do need some care to recycle them to make them like new, but it can be done. They’re good enough to run a small hauler that would be useful in and around your bunker.

In a bunker, class consciousness happens on speedrunning mode.

May not matter. Authoritarian mindsets might be quite happy enslaving just one other person. Here’s a documentary about it.

I think there’s a kind of sunk cost fallacy at work with preppers. Many of them start with the notion that it’s good to be prepared, just in case. However, being prepared for this sort of thing isn’t a casual exercise. It’s a whole hobby.

What if the collapse doesn’t come? All that time and effort would be wasted. Better do something to make it collapse.

Electric motorcycles? Do preppers have an understanding of how gasoline absorbs water from the air and is substantially worse within a matter of months? Even with stabilizer, you get a few years out of it, tops. What are you going to use for the rest of your life?

To be fair, the writers of post-apocalyptic Hollywood movies don’t understand it, either.

they repeat what i said, did you read them? previously ai model training was entirely based on simply buying more chips as fast and as hard as possible, deepseek changed that

Yes, and it says exactly what I claimed. DeepSeek is an improvement, but not to the level initially reported. Not even close.

Youtube uses a fuck ton of power but is an incredibly efficient video delivery service

What a colossally stupid thing to say. We’re not looking at starting up new nuclear reactors to run YouTube.

Or Putin dies of natural causes. Which isn’t too farfetched. Then the oligarchs find themselves a Deng Xiaoping-like figure who says “ok, all that was bad, let’s do something else”.

Probably, Russia will have to face the facts that they can’t build their own fighter jets, bombers, tanks, or fighting ships larger than a destroyer anymore. Not on the scale they need. Even if you assume some of the designs they’re putting out are good (a big assumption), they can’t possibly build them at scale. China is sitting right over there with the factories for those things. Xi Jinping will be happy to take their check, but will make sure it clears first.