I wish GNU Make would be support spaces in filenames. There have been numerous times I've thought that a Makefile would be a great way to quickly solve a problem, only to be fouled up by some files with spaces in their names.

Came here thinking the same! This sounds so much like the examples of phishing messages we are warned to ignore that any encouragement to "take this seriously", if anyone listens to that, is going to result in more people caught in phishing attempts. IMHO, the notification should instruct people to find and navigate to a proper site/utility/whathaveyou to check for such issues/notifications; Something like, go into your settings, security notifications panel, and review any warnings there, and also warn them not to click on any links in messages as they will never provide warnings that include links.

1. Your premise if false ("Allowing people to freely cross over to the U.S. means we have ZERO control over the type of people coming through"). Though you didn't actually say that people could freely cross today, that's what you are implying and it's simply not true.

2. The "problem America has with the flood of illegal immigration across our Southern border" is nothing new nor specific to political party. The proposed solutions to that do vary, and I would argue that more wall isn't where the money should be spent. Rather, I would propose spending that money to increase our capacity to legally process immigrants, which seems to align with your statement that we should be vetting them, which would not align with the MAGA agenda.

3. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -- Emma Lazarus
I truly hope that America continues to lead in this regard, see no problem with this, and welcome all.

If it doesn't, then it's not 100mbps. The streams always buffer out some, so they'll be fine, even while you check instagram on your phone.

You also neglected to consider anything past the first sentence I wrote. 4k streams are generally around 25Mbps and are not the norm. Most content is streamed at a lower rates, like:
SD is 1 - 3 Mbps
HD (1080p) is around 5 Mbps
4k is 16 - 25 Mbps

Outside of the huge streams and occasional giant game download, a tiny little T1 would suffice for everything else. Just how many streams does an average consumer need at home, and of what quality? I'm sure you can find a use for any amount of bandwidth, but I'm perfectly content to consider 100mbps to be more than sufficient for most users today.

FWIW, my cable internet connection currently tests out at 91mbps down / 11.3mbps up. My household streams everything and never sees any buffering issues playing content. I doubt much of it is 4k, let alone full bandwidth 4k, but I also doubt that most consumers are ensuring all their kids programs are streaming in 4k. Peppa Pig is fine in HD, LOL.

Are you fucking kidding me?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And that's not even touching on his racist birtherism stuff (ex. Mexico is "bringing drugs, crime and rapists" to US). Qualifying the racism by limiting the "othering" to fellow citizens and domestic population is a neat tactic.

Get out more. They frequently and openly do so. That's not to say that everyone in a MAGA hat does so, but many are so polarized that seeing the left support Ukraine leads them to defend putin - something trump also does. How do you call yourself MAGA and say none of them praise putin, while trump is praising putin?

Faster, cheaper, better. Pick two.

Let's assume a chipmaking company deployed fabs to diverse locations, and kept the tech updated in all of them. YAY, you got your redundancy, but they'll have to put out more infrastructure and investment and risk and it'll all cost more.

Then a competitor comes along and does just one big FAB in the cheapest location. They'll undercut the other business in every way except that a disaster could end their business, but hardly anyone buying chips is going to care. Those diverse FAB's will lose business and not be sustainable.

All this has already happened, more or less. Countries and country sized businesses keep getting involved in various ways, but we're talking about things that must be made at scale to be feasible.

Technologies saving grace in this, IMO, should be that we can reproduce that elsewhere if/when needed and, if that whole facility is lost, we won't lose the knowledge to rebuild it. It's not viable to build a spare now, and technology doesn't mean it would make sense to do so, but we should have the info and data and planning in place.

"Scientists" doing (data) science aren't going to have sides. They're on the side of the numbers and science. You don't want people from both sides; You want people that won't allow any preconceived notions to impact the science (IE: scientists, like those in the climate groups). People comparing their local weather phenomena to AGW to raise doubts about the science are likely biased and not accounting for the complete dataset.

Any prediction should come with a probability factor. There are so many unpredictable variables but, as time passes, we keep seeing the probabilities going up and the windows of time to slow it getting smaller and smaller. Sorry, grandkids!

I think GP was accurate: "most consumers have little use for more than 100Mbps on a residential line in 2024."

Your own example would support 2x 4k streams of 50Mbps with no issue. And yet, 4k streams are generally around 25Mbps (https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/how-much-speed-do-i-need-to-watch-netflix-and-hulu), and are not the norm. Most content is streamed at a lower rates, like:
SD is 1 - 3 Mbps
HD (1080p) is around 5 Mbps
4k is 16 - 25 Mbps

You could have 10 active HD streams going and still have an extra 50Mbps left over.

The example of downloading a 50GB day one patch is, IMO, silly. That's not a bandwidth figure; it's a total bytes transferred figure.
50GB at 10Mbit takes 11hr
50GB at 50Mbit takes 2hr 13min
50GB at 100Mbit takes 1hr 6min
50GB at 242Mbit takes 27min

You'll just wait longer if you don't have the bandwidth, and your upstream is unlikely to be delivering a 50gb day one patch to all users at those rates anyway.

And your home users won't be impacted very much. Traffic prioritization is in effect on most lines and, even without it, your media streams will get plenty of bandwidth still. None of those streams needs low latency, so it'll all be fine.

Now, upload a fraction of that 50gb on your average US home cable connection and your latency will go to shit. But this /. post was about fiber, and if we're talking fiber then one likely has a symmetrical line (same upload and download speeds), and 100Mbit will still be so much that your average user will rarely if ever see any issues related to their connection bandwidth.

FWIW, a very straight forward open source command line TOTP tool: oathtool

Get your secret key from the QR code or extract it from your existing authenticator.
Then feed it to oathtool:
    oathtool -b --totp "your secret seed"

Get the next key:
      oathtool -b --totp "your secret seed" --now "+30 seconds"

It also supports HOTP, different time steps, different digit output counts, etc.

Distribution? That's the benefit you get for a 12% cut (after the first 6 months)???
And the other main players (Apple and Google) take 15% until you make 1mil/yr then take 30%???

Why would distribution per unit cost MORE as time goes on, or why would distribution be valued more after more time and/or sales? That's back-asswards.
And the more traffic you bring through their app store, the more of a benefit you are to them... why would one have to pay more for that honor?

Distribution costs go down per unit when volume/throughput goes up, but they charge more when that happens. It makes more sense to do your own app store when you have higher volume and/or revenue, and yet they think they should get a bigger piece of the pie? I suspect they reason you have the money at that point so let's take it cause they can.

IMNSHO, the main app stores should be turned into certificate authorities; they can certify someone is the author for a certain app and grant a cert (charge for that process - a one time fee per app); users can then host their stuff anywhere they like and digitally sign their work; app store would just verify the cert and your phone would fetch from their configured distribution point. NOTE: the app store could still offer a plan for hosting on the app store and implement whatever draconian restrictions they'd like and take whatever cut they'd like for that service, but there should be an option that has no per-download/install fees going to the app store.

This is nowhere near the same. YouTube hosts that content for free, and delivers it to end users without charging you nor the end user. YouTube takes the ad profit (or a percentage thereof).

If this was the same, then your friend would be on the hook to pay some amount for every person that streamed that content. At $0.50 a view, it would cost your friend millions (7-8 digits). Instead, your friend simply didn't make any money, but didn't have to pay when it went viral either.

That sounds an awful lot like how coins work, except coins are often worth less as time goes on, whereas bitcoin is often worth more with time. There are also fees associated with modern banking transactions. And if the gov't was the one issuing the bitcoin and accepting it for taxes, it would bring the same legitimacy to the object, no?

FWIW, I'm not a fan because of the electricity requirements just to process or mine a virtual currency. I get that it makes the mining more real (if anyone could mint new coins with very little computational effort, then the coins wouldn't be worth much), but it's too much of a cost for the value IMO.

GP post had said, "Biggest mistake America ever made was asking, much less fighting, for the South to remain. Lincoln should've built a bigly wall instead."

That war was about slavery. Talking about North versus South in a historical context is about slavery. To ignore that aspect is ignorant AF.

YOU were just talking about this. WTF short term memory?
The maga folks flying the Navy Jack at every trump rally would disagree too.

I don't need to turn this into a 2fa pissing match - the south already lost. Get over it.

Why would those be shut off? Trade exists between all manor of countries, especially neighboring ones. Also, it's not like oil can't come in from the 3 other sides of the country.

Again, why? That would only be if we were at war or something and, even then, there is usually still ongoing trade and access agreements.

I think there are plenty of other points that would justify maintaining the union of states, and plenty of other negatives to separation, but those above are pretty weak. IMO, the more critical one today is that beliefs don't strictly follow geography. Back then, the biggest reason was that it was a fight about slavery, and I'll give a big fuck you to anyone that wants to reestablish that practice. Would an unfertilized embryo have rights while slaves do not? What version of the south are we talking about?

Mod parent up!
Lucky talks like the majority of people need the bleeding edge 8000MHz memory and don't care if their game crashes once in a while.
The converse is true. Most PC's aren't running high end games most of the time, but they would certainly benefit from more reliability. Most PCs would benefit from more memory, even if it was slower.

And bringing up overclocking??? Cause that's something EVERYONE needs, right? That's a corner that can safely be cut without impacting a single average user. "Because adding it means wasting silicon and software work time to support it," is such a stretch for ECC, but is certainly true for the overclocking features.