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Comment Re:Remember? (Score 1) 8

The N64 controller had the shittiest everything Imaginable. GC wasn't much better, either, it was ergonomic for nobody. Wii was pretty bad too, you had to have an ergonomic condom for the wiimote, and the controller was too rounded. Since Famicom was kind of janky (though player 1 had a headphone jack) I'd say only NES and SNES were actually worth a crap. Neither one had any ergonomics, but neither did anyone else's controller until Genesis, Epyx aside.

Comment Re:That's not actually true (Score 1) 106

I agree with all of that stuff, but there's also Biden going around congress to fund genocide, and Kamala saying she would be different from Biden but not saying she would stop the funding of the genocide. I can tell you that a whole lot of people were talking about that constantly, and stayed home because of it. That was fucking stupid, but we need votes from the stupid too.

Democrats have power but they absolutely despise using it

They love using it to crush actual progressives.

Comment Re:Web connected devices... (Score 1) 57

For that kind of money you could DIY something excellent, without compromise. Listening to sensors and controlling relays is pretty trivial stuff, and there must be lots of free thermostat software out there. You could literally do it with an Arduino Nano but I wouldn't, I'd probably use a Pi with their fancy display, or at the very minimum the new esp32. At that point you could do it a lot cheaper, but I'd rather have something I can log in to.

Comment Science a Global Endeavour (Score 1) 47

The US had little to no competition long before WW2.

Hardly. The US was definitely gaining rapidly before WW2 but Europe, and particularly the British Empire, was still very much the world's superpower. WW2 ended the empire and caused massive damage throughout Europe allowing the US to take the lead.

Regardless of that though science is a global endeavour and the knowledge gained benefits all of humanity. None of us will be better off if the US science program is diminished because it will mean less science is being done.

Comment Re:Existing instruments give us a data firehose (Score 1) 47

It's not as if the CMB is going to evaporate or something.

No it isn't but there are countries other than the US doing research and they are not going to wait around for you to get your act together. Those funding such research will attract the brightest minds from around the globe and it will be there that the discoveries are made, including the spin-off breakthroughs that come from pushing technology to its limit in the name of research.

Once the US drops the ball and gets behind on the science and technology curve it is going to find it extremely hard to take the lead again.

Comment Re:Stop Killing Things (Score 1) 57

Well I use off-device, remote configuration often when we have been away for a few days if it's hot so I can turn on the A/C a few hours before we arrive home. I also use it to program and adjust the schedule. None of this functionality needs any thirdparty server, it just needs the thermostat to have WiFi connectivity which it clearly does.

A law that requires companies provide updates necessary to maintain the device functionality that does not need a company-run server is clearly needed. Fortuntely our Nest looks like it will continued to be supported but I am now asking myself for how long and an offer to purchase a new Nest, even at half-price is not very enticing - I do not want to have to buy a new thermostat every few years!

Comment Re: That is rather limited point of view (Score 1) 203

I can not have kids I can't support.

If they wanted me to have kids they wouldn't have fucked me over in a zillion ways, like for example funding genocide in Gaza instead of health care here. Oh yeah, and Israelis get national health on our dime, too.

Then they cry about replacement rates, what fuck faces.

Comment Bull. Shit. (Score 1) 203

You can tell this paper is shit because they don't define high income countries before making declarative statements about them. I have no doubt that the definition they used is in there somewhere, but A I'm on my phone right now which makes it hard to skim a research paper and B they would have explained up front of they weren't using a bullshit definition.

Who are they deliberately not counting?

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