Whatever did happen to that, what did they call it, "Internet"?

There seems to be an almost universal problem with connected devices getting worse after you paid for them. It's one thing with a service, but different (worse) when you're also paying upfront.

This will kill ads based on your live location. Hurray!

Maybe some people's minds are warped from Covid when stuff got hard to purchase and it was safe for people to just buy as much as they could of certain things (like GPUs) and selling them.

Cars, even. I think they're returning to reality, but sheesh used car prices have been silly.

Try buying the postage through a 3rd party like Shippo if you didn't already.

Although I'm not understanding the $70 because you can ship an "extra small" 8x6x2" box anywhere within the US for a flat rate of $10.85.

https://www.ups.com/us/en/supp...

Mainly it's an annoyance when I copy and paste something from the web to back up my argument.

I just checked and in the last year I've received $225 cash back by getting 5% back from my Amazon Prime Visa.

Of course I would have got 2% back using my normal cashback card anywhere, so the Prime is really only netting me 3/5 of that $225.

I'm actually a bit surprised they've managed to get heavy items like laundry detergent to a competitive price when drop shipped.

All I can figure is, the heavy stuff at the store still has to be delivered to the store by somebody. And then stocked on the shelf. Automation seems to have drastically reduced the premium for shipping things individually (to your house) instead of in bulk (to the store).

Way to turn a positive into a negative.

My general perception is that shipping is incredibly cheaper and faster than it was 30 years ago. I guess it's mostly due to automation in logistics (tracking and routing), but really it is hugely improved. As a kid I'd mail order things and they'd say "allow 2-4 weeks for shipping."

It helps to buy the postage online for some reason. I recently shipped a fairly large 20 lb package by UPS ground to another state and it was only $19, vs. a quote from the counter at USPS for like $60 or $70.

And here I can't even get it to show open- and close-quotes.

âoeThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself.â

What about non-ASCII letters in your name?

Such as?

(This is a trick question on a slashcode-powered forum)

Along the lines of the GP post, the biggest reason I've upgraded RAM and SDD in recent years is because they grossly overcharge for the soldered-in stuff. Kinda like how cars' base MSRP is based on some rock-bottom trim level they don't even sell and then they overcharge for the mandatory 'options.'

The article gives zero context to interpret that quote. My guess is that's what he reply when they asked him how many times Paris could fit in his power plant or how many homes in Zimbabwe it could power

I do need to figure that out. I am a little worried about locked out of my entire life the next time I lose my phone.

Meanwhile NVIDIA is, obviously, making bank.

I wonder which does more IOPS/FLOPS on the average computer, the CPU (Intel) or GPU (NVidia)?

I wonder how the ratio of $$ spent on GPU to CPU has changed over the years, on both home computers and servers. (On the server side, a single H100 GPU is $40K+, and I don't think Intel has anything that can command that kind of money.)

My first GPU was a Canopus Pure3d which was, apparently, $179

http://www.3dgw.com/review/pur...

The CPU I used it with was like $700

https://www.latimes.com/archiv...