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Comment Re:so say our betters? (Score 1) 123

What if they find Charlie Kirk persuasive? What if they like the Art of the Deal?

Does that change your opinion?

Katherine Maher - the head of NPR.
Shall we recall her Ted talk?
https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/...
"Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done"
Think about that statement.

Comment Re: Poverty doesn't negatively affect wellbeing? (Score 1) 124

It doesn't hurt when an ideologically captured judiciary refuses to punish people they agree with politically. Suddenly a spiteful little act is not only normalized, but protected - as long as it's directed the right way.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top...

$20k in damage GOVERNMENT employee - no charges at all.
https://www.fox9.com/news/tesl...

Funny that my above comment about thinking that it's envy not actual poverty was downvoted to troll.

Comment Maybe (Score -1, Troll) 83

They should have thought that whole "we will become the propaganda arm of the left" through more carefully?

Katherine Maher - the head of NPR - is an example of the privileged leftist elite.

Shall we recall her Ted talk?
https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/...
âoeOur reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.â

Think about that statement.

Or from her own wiki bio:
"In April 2024, Uri Berliner, NPR senior business editor, published an essay in The Free Press[33] critiquing, among other things, alleged liberal bias at NPR both in management and content, leading to an erosion of trust with the public and with internal staff. Following Berliner's critique, conservative journalists and activists, including Christopher Rufo, criticized Maher for tweets she had made supporting progressive policies and about Donald Trump in 2018,[33] as well as comments Maher made about the First Amendment as "the number one challenge" in the fight against disinformation in a 2021 interview.[34] Berliner was suspended without pay for five days, ostensibly for failing to secure approval for "outside work".[35] On April 17, he resigned after 25 years at NPR and criticized Maher's appointment as CEO. In response to the criticisms, Maher defended NPR's record, stating that her comments regarding the First Amendment had been misrepresented and that she has a "robust belief in the First Amendment".[36]"

Or the trans'ing of Sesame Street? https://www.toughpigs.com/sesa...

I know a lot of leftist "progressives" are angry. They thought they'd won the fight. The first Trump was neutralized by (what turned out to be entirely nothingburger Russiagate). Then they had a dessicated marionette that happily auto-penned whatever came along.

You know what? HALF the country disagrees with you. (Given the last election, thanks to your overreach, more than half, but I'll concede it's basically even-up)

In a SANE society we could talk about things and find compromise. But "the resistance" doesn't want compromise, it never has.
So finally, you got Trump, a conservative (he's still basically a NY liberal, but opportunistically put on an elephant suit) willing to actually fight over this shit rather than allow the left's agenda to progress unchallenged. I know it's uncomfortable.

Comment Re:Fuck "Eat the Rich" (Score 1) 96

And here's why that study was meaningless - "We are not going to consider the impact of the principle being decided. Rather, we just want to know who got the money in the case in question." That is, they ignore the single most important factor and focus only on the least relevant - the private fiscal implications of the ruling.

There may be something of interest in the findings, but in regards to the nature of cases being heard, not the relative finances of the claimants.

If it's the principle that's driving the decisions, not the affluence of the beneficiaries, across a sufficiently-large set of cases we'd expect to find no correlation between the political leanings of the justices and their votes benefiting wealthy vs poor people. Which is what the article said happened for many decades.

Unless, of course, the principle being applied is "Who benefits?"

It's worth pointing out that although gtall framed it as the Republicans siding with the wealthy, it's equally true that the Democrats are siding with the poor. Both sides are inordinately focused on who benefits.

Comment Re:I mean (Score 1) 137

I don't doubt that HP-UX was capable but it's exactly the situation that the guy in the article is describing -- it was 100% an enterprise product sold to banks and similar customers with zero effort made to make it sexy or accessible to even broader commercial customers.

I used HP/UX as a development platform in the mid-90s, cross-compiling to m68k boards running pSOS and VxWorks. It was a little weird, but rock solid, utterly reliable, as were the HP workstations it ran on.

Comment Re:More complicated (Score 1) 136

The 'killer app' will be a smaller lighter (and safest) solid state battery with a range over 500 miles Thats when adoption will take off to get the people that are hesitant to switch

Nah.

All that's required is that EVs be cheap. A 300-mile range is sufficient. When the purchase price of a car with a 300-mile range is at or only slightly above the purchase price of a comparable ICEV, EVs sales will explode because they're cheaper to operate and maintain. All of the range anxiety and concerns about fires (which are silly, since gasoline vehicles are a lot more prone to burning) will inhibit a few people, for a little while, but pretty soon they'll all have friends and relatives who are driving EVs and happy about it, and they'll start making the switch, too.

It's all about the benjamins.

Programming

Stack Overflow Went From 200,000 Monthly Questions To Nearly Zero (stackexchange.com) 111

Stack Overflow's monthly question volume has collapsed to about 300 -- levels not seen since the site launched in 2009, according to data from the Stack Overflow Data Explorer that tracks the platform's activity over its sixteen-year history.

Questions peaked around 2014 at roughly 200,000 per month, then began a gradual decline that accelerated dramatically after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch. By May 2025, monthly questions had fallen to early-2009 levels, and the latest data through early 2026 shows the collapse has only continued -- the line now sits near the bottom of the chart, barely registering.

The decline predates LLMs. Questions began dropping around 2014 when Stack Overflow improved moderator efficiency and closed questions more aggressively. In mid-2021, Prosus acquired Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion. The founders, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, exited before the terminal decline became apparent. ChatGPT accelerated what was already underway. The chatbot answers programming questions faster, draws on Stack Overflow's own corpus for training data, and doesn't close questions for being duplicates.

Comment Re:Space dust (Score 1) 39

I'm a native speaker of English. If you say something stopped, that sentence gives no information about how or why.

In English, you don't make huge complicated sentences such that the entire article with all its details is written in a single sentence that you can conveniently also use as the headline. The headline is not the article. "There is information in the article that isn't in the headline!" is not a valid criticism.

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