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Comment Sure, I'll bite (Score 1) 185

Trump's disastrous mishandling of the covid pandemic and his inability to do what Obama did and keep the virus overseas like Obama did with bird flu means that it spread and devastated supply chains. Furthermore 4 years of trump refusing to enforce antitrust law created even more consolidation with less competition and more monopolies. Finally Trump gave away trillions of dollars to the 1% who used it to buy up even more companies and jack up prices on everything.

Biden came in like a Democrat always does after a republican crashes and destroys everything and started putting things back together. But because he didn't do it fast enough and because you are easily distracted by woke PC dei trans girls telling you happy holidays while playing esports Mortal Kombat Mortal panics you didn't go by the 8 years Democrats normally get to undo some of the damage while the Republicans sabotage everything they can in the meantime.

So even though Joe Biden had a plan to lower prices by doing extensive trust busting all that's gone now because you're a 12-year-old child and a grown man's body and orange man good.

You will spend the last few years of your 12-year-old life homeless and if you're lucky one of your crotch fruit will let you crash on their sofa.

Comment I'm seeing a lot of MRI related content (Score 1, Insightful) 33

In my feed lately. And I'm guessing it's because the news media really really wants to cover Trump's MRI but isn't allowed to. I mean except for the British press.

A member of Congress just pointed out that the spots on Trump's hands are probably from an IV used to administer in Alzheimer's drug and that the MRIs are likely because the drug has a side effect that can cause brain swelling and they are monitoring for that.

What's weird is while this is going on suddenly I get all these stories in my feed and on pages I frequent about mris. The algorithm knows that MRIS or being searched for by people because even though the regular news media isn't allowed to talk about Trump's medical condition people have Google and are using it.

I suspect what's happening is that most newsrooms will monitor frequently searched keywords and start running stories about them to soak up ad revenue. People are searching for MRI because Trump is in the news and The newsroom is ordering stories about it.

It's kind of bizarrely cool and a cyberpunk kind of way.

Comment Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score 1) 185

You guys have absolutely deranged yourself on trans stuff. You think it was important in your political success, but you will find out that it was absolutely unimportant to most people, who care much more about the economy. Lots of them believed that their economic woes could be blamed on the Democrats and that Trump would fix them. And now a substantial proportion is finding that the grass turns out to be shittier on the other side, and are moving away from Trump and the Republicans.

Comment Re:Is It Legal? (Score 2) 98

No. That's the answer. Even with just one side of the story no it wasn't legal... well more of a civil case. People may not like it, but property destruction is generally not looked on favourable by the courts simply because someone didn't like something.

Maybe she made a fake-out lunge at him and he knocked them off his face.

Actually... still illegal... well... more of a civil case.

Comment Holup (Score 0) 65

I know we often make jokes about America and their cheques (especially their spelling of it), but at some point in the past decade I thought it had been relegated to just that, a joke. I hear nothing but talk about credit cards and cash lovers, I actually thought cheques disappeared. Are they still a thing? It's been legit 3 decades since I've seen a cheque book.

Comment Re:Ok but (Score 1) 47

If Netflix shouldn't buy them then neither should Paramount

Yes and no. There's a very VERY big difference between Netflix (the world's largest streaming service with over 1/4 of the market share in the USA, and significantly more globally) buying Warner Brothers and Paramount, a company that can't even crack double digit market share in its home country.

Yeah mergers of large companies are rarely good, but don't pretend these two options are equal.

Comment Re:To All the AI Haters Out There (Score 1) 43

the shortage is manufactured

Hardly. There's no memory manufacturers in any way restricting production to "manufacture this shortage". They may be price fixing (they have a history of that) but right now they are producing memory at full tilt.

And if you ask why they didn't invest years ago, can you please tell me tonight's winning lotto numbers since you are so good at predicting the future?

Comment Re:did anyone answer that question? (Score 1) 70

Because TPM takes the users computer and makes it Microsoft's. It is a builtin, pre-installed rootkit. It was never about making the computer safer for the user, but safer for Microsoft.

It has a side benefit of showing the world who the ignorant people are, like you. TPM 2.0 doesn't restrict anything. It's nothing more than a secure storage area.

Comment Re:did anyone answer that question? (Score 1) 70

Why didn't Microsoft push for this instead of TPM 2?

That's like saying why doesn't the government focus on creating regulations for meat rather than funding a cure to ear infections. The two have nothing at all in common with each other. Not in use, practice, or application.

Add to that, ECC has downsides. It's more expensive and it's slower. It has its place, but that place just simply isn't on most desktops. If you're running a computer crunching critical financial transactions, yeah ECC is a good idea. If you spend your time teabagging other players in CoD then the impact of a RAM error will very likely go completely unnoticed. What will be noticed is that ECC tops out at 7200MHz at a significantly higher CAS latency than the comparable non-ECC memory which is 8800MHz at a lower price.

On the flip side TPM 2.0 provides some meaningful security benefits. You may not care, but many people do, especially laptop users with full disk encryption.

Comment So paper does seem to be (Score 1) 42

A better way to learn. The more tactile feel of it combined with the accumulation of physical notes seems to be an improvement.

What I am wondering is if you have a stylus and also probably one of those gloves to keep you from smudging the screen how does that compare.

One thing I do know is that if you are really going to learn things you have to use them in a effective way. Basically you need projects that use the data and the learning. But having students do that versus just testing them on problems individually is very expensive and we don't like spending money on kids that aren't ours. It's really kind of an every man for himself world these days.

Comment Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score 1) 185

No worries!

My MIL had Alzheimer’s, so I had to find out about it quickly. I happen to have a pal who is an incredibly senior dementia physician in the NHS, and he was helpfully blunt with me in managing expectations. She ended up dying of oral cancer, and probably the AD was helpful in that it took the edge of what was happening for her.

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