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Comment Re: "aims for functional parity" (Score 2) 83

Reportedly that bug would have been caught if they passed the preexisting date test suite, but their attitude was 'meh'.

I'm not advocating for C but I am advocating for Level I software engineering. Rust doesn't fix this.

Breaking updates is one of the worst positions to be in. Press coverage is a poor substitute, though it's good that it got some.

Comment My Comfort (Score 1) 35

I want all the comforts of a modern life but I also want to stop all industry because I heard that energy is bad and I want to feel good about that and also I don't know how anything actually works that I believe is essential in my life.

(anybody remember the Greenpeace campaign to ban chlorine?)

Comment Re:What, no outrage over freedumbs? (Score 2) 48

> You're still gonna ego post to YouTube .... amirite?

Is it ego or people trying to make a buck and the other platforms failing to achieve a meaningful monetization mechanism?

Even Rumble, which bills itself as a platform for the deplatformed, only pays out to Paypal accounts, from which the deplatformed have been deplatformed.

It's tough to not have infinite VC money to buy warehouses full of hard drives. But subsidized platforms exist for other reasons - surveillance, now AI training, propaganda, censorship, etc.

It's also tough to say if that's worse than the legacy demon-controlled Hollywood media empires. But they did serve their stuff up with a smile.

Comment Re:Never a good sign (Score 1) 38

VC's will seed it and buy the politicians and thus government contracts will fund it. The direct gains will be privatized and direct losses will be socialized.

Same way SpaceX spanked NASA and ULA. Just competent management and the drive to build rather than punch a clock.

As much as I dislike this form of National Socialism on principle, the best case a State can make is that it needs the capacity for sovereign production of defensive weaponry.

A State is sovereign to the degree that it is not reliant on other States for defense against aggressors.

So let's wait to cancel these contracts after most of the others are already off the books.

Comment Re:You still need a domain name (Score 1) 34

Without disagreeing on your principles, you could do this with a $3 numeric .xyz domain and the free DNS tier at Namecheap.

https://www.namecheap.com/doma...

There's probably noone building a prototype network app who can't swing $3 and run the ACME client.

The people who make money on certs really hate distributed ideas like DNSSEC and DANE and its successors.

There are Ethereum domains too now but Ether gas is way more than $3.

Comment Re:Next up: screw us over by disabling HTTP entire (Score 1) 34

Same. I made the bonehead move of upgrading the firmware on a large TrippLite UPS which forced Java applets instead of HTTP and of course Eaton abandoned it with haste so now I have like a Fedora 14 VM just to change its settings. Which is such a pyramid of stupid decisions.

Yet it keeps on trucking on a lonely VLAN and replacement batteries every several years are quite cheap.

Comment Re:oh, the irony (Score 1) 47

Not really - John Bolton just got indicted for sending Top Secret NOFOR documents to his AOL address. The report says Iran hacked his computers but without further detail.

Betcha several other Boomers in this category still use it for similar scenarios.

Probably a good investment by foreign intel with a recurring dividend in Metamucil ads.

Comment Volume (Score 2) 176

I was at a local Indian place the other day for some lunch off-hours.

In the 20 minutes I was there they had three tables going and four takeout orders.

The idea that they are losing money on every order is silly. They wouldn't participate.

Even if they're breaking even (doubtful at $4 per samosa and $16 for chickpeas and rice) they can get better pricing on their inputs in larger volumes.

If they do better as a business by catering to an affluent crowd that doesn't want to go out then that's good for me because they'll stay in business.

I would probably need to be laid up in a full body cast to order delivery for myself, but whatever.

Comment Aux In (Score 1) 218

I have a Honda with an obsolete "infotainment" system, but at least it has an Aux In next to a USB port that provides power, so I can plug in an $11 UGreen dongle and listen to whatever I feel like. If I cared there are some nice 7" 1080p screens for cheap in the Raspberry Pi space that could be shoehorned in and run at 12V. But I'd rather have no screen at all.

Funny thing is that UGreen pairs faster than any other bluetooth device I have and never doesn't work. For eleven bucks.

With the fickleness of Google and Apple there's no chance they'll even support the current CarPlay and Android Auto in 20 years. I like to keep my vehicles 15-30 years, depending on how well they handle rust.

Maybe Crutchfield will make bypass harnesses for these systems in ten years when absolutely nothing works but the screen and speakers are still useful.

We really should be looking for standards at that level, so the compute modules could be upgraded after the manufacturer abandons their platforms.

As Louis says, you shouldn't be a felon for disabling ads on your refrigerator that you never agreed to.

Comment Re:Horseshit (Score -1) 100

Wind, solar, and batteries isn't likely to get an electrical grid as close to zero carbon as France sees with heavy use of nuclear fission.

Nuclear uses gargantuan amounts of concrete for cooling towers, ponds, and underground storage bunkers. Which produces a lot of CO2. As always, renewables beat the pants off your radioactive water heaters.

Comment Re: Spoils of war? (Score -1) 69

To stop the advance of Ukrainian troops in the occupied part of the Herson district.

Russian artillery does that with ease, without flooding Russia's own troops and equipment. Your propaganda is as self-debunking as the assertion that Russia would blow up their own multibillion dollar pipeline and top negotiating tool that they could have turned off with a switch.

Why did the ruzzkie destroy dozens of cities that according to their own propaganda were "Russian"? Mariupol, Bakhmut, Volnovaha, etc. etc. etc?

Because your Azov pals were heavily dug in, especially with the tunnels under Mariupol. Duh.

LOL, which ruzzkie troll farm did you crawl out from?

There's a nice meme that neatly addresses this dipshit dumbfuckery. It's a clear picture of a banana, with a caption that says "this is an apple, if you see anything else, you're a Putin Puppet". Twenty years ago you losers would have been smearing Iraq war skeptics as Saddam Lovers. SSDD.

Quite strange then that the Ukrainian people have been resisting ruzzkie "approach" since the 90s, and are either trying to fight this invasion off or running away, mostly westwards, don't you think?

Quite colossally ignorant. Crimea was voting for more indepenence from Kiev and closer ties to Russia in the 90's. People in Donbass also overwhelmingly voted to re-join Russia. Small wonder as Kiev had spent eight years bombarding them.

Their war crimes are well-documented, numerous and unprovoked.

Annnnnnd more projection. Less than half a percent of Ukraine casualties are children, compared to 30% or more in Gaza. That's the difference between a war and a genocide. Russia hasn't even done decapitation strikes to take out the Banderite regime.

Basically, a terrorist shit will do terrorist shit anytime.

Using a HIMARS or an M-777 for your projection? Nazi America and Nazi Israel are by far the worst terrorist states the world has ever seen.

And once you see "banderites" and other similar propaganda shit, you know you're talking to a zetnik.

Western media was awash in reports on Ukraine's Nazi problem before it was time to forget all that to pretend Russia was the bad guy. Including NATO itself via their Atlantic Council think tank telling you of Hitler Youth camps set up in Ukraine.

Enjoy your bowl of shit, NAFO troll.

Comment Maintenance (Score 1) 99

> Why? Absolutely no idea

This isn't surprising to anybody who's studied the psychology of political science.

Those who identify as 'conservative' value maintenance much higher than those who identify as 'progressive'. You're more likely to see them in their driveway changing their oil and measuring their tire tread depth. It's just different kinds of people with different time-preference mindsets.

Note that with a limited budget maintenance spending is money that cannot be spent on immediate benefits.

You need to allocate some of the benefits money to upgrading the IT systems so there's less to hand out. "How could you possibly cut their benefits?" is the kind of misplaced empathy that undercuts the system that they feel is valuable.

Of course there's usually a Federal bailout in the wings for people who don't plan ahead so the incentive systems are all completely misaligned for good governance. Since the Lockdowns we've seen the weaponization of the Dollar through sanctions and tariffs that have pushed world oil markets to the Yuan and cross-border settlements in sovereign currency exchanges, so the Dollar is in freefall compared to commodities which means those bailouts are going to end very soon.

As this reckoning becomes too real to ignore the populations will move strongly to vote for candidates who seem to understand the value of maintenance.

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