I'm sure it's all about the money. Someone could get a credit card that gives 2% cash back. If the credit card company can get a partnership with an airline and convince people to get a card that gives 0% cash back instead (and could even include an annual fee on top of that),and the money they spend on the partnership is less than what they would payout for the 2% cashback card, then it's a win.

Really, all this does is tell me that on the average, the value of the perks from one of these airline credit cards is a worse deal than a 2% cashback card. Though individual circumstances will vary. Like a lot of these rewards programs, for someone who puts the effort into getting the most of out them, the benefits can be significant. They count on the typical person not doing that.

The problem is the decently paying white collar jobs are all 40 hours a week. There's few jobs out there that'll offer you 20 hours at a straight half of the pay. Sure, you can get some part time job, but you'll be earning something like a quarter of the pay, and likely with a significant cut in benefits too.

By default, a Slackware x64 install doesn't support 32 bit either. If you need to run 32 bit software, you have to install multilib support yourself.

The future of Edgium on some of these versions of Windows could be interesting. Microsoft is still patching IE11, which they have to do as long as they are still offering ESU support for Server 2012. Microsoft is able to do this since it's their browser. But with Edge depending on Google's whims, things may not be so easy for them. I suppose the most likely solution would be for Microsoft will be to fork the last supported version from Google and backport any critical security patches.

I would say that Dwarf Fortress helped inspire Minecraft, but as games go they are really quite different.

Nate Silver ran simulations based upon the poll data and the model he had, and in (roughly) 70% of the simulations Clinton won, and (roughly) 30% of simulations Trump won. So that's ultimately where the number came from - it wasn't just something he picked arbitrarily so he could have prediction.

There was also a wave of computers replaced in late 2019/2020 due to Windows 7 going out of support.

Windows 95 has built in networking. You'll have to go back to Windows 3.1 for a version of Windows that doesn't include a network stack.

Sandy Bridge had crazy overclocking headroom. At that time, Intel really didn't have any strong competition pushing them, and those chips were clocked very conservatively if you ran them at spec. You might be thinking Ivy Bridge where they changed the way they attached the heatspreader which reduced the overclocking headroom. Nevertheless, even those chips still overclock well, just not as good as Sandy Bridge.

The problem Intel has now is they have strong competition form AMD, and they're pumping insane amounts of power into their high end chips to squeeze out that last little bit of performance and that's coming back to bite them.

That's not how I manage it. but if I did, I'd have name the desktop folder "Program Manager".

The Windows 10 start menu isn't as good as the Vista/7 one. It's less customizable, stuff just gets dumped into one big list that's sorted (kind of) alphabetical. You can pin stuff as favorites, but it's horribly space inefficient. Most of those shortcuts are tiles, with few of them benefiting from actually being tiles. And your choice is either only a small number of pinned items, or making it huge to the point it is practically the start screen we got with Windows 8. Oh, and the search feature is nearly useless, though I suppose that's more of an implementation problem than a design problem.

I suppose in its defense, the right click menu with the start button is a nice addition. And I guess the shutdown functionality is better than the stupidity that was in Vista/7.

Of course, you've also got the non-Windows options. The XFCE "whisker menu", which actually has a lot in common with the Windows Vista/7 start menu, is also pretty good.

Those numbers don't tell the whole story. The AI miles are all easy driving because that's all AI can handle reliably - things like driving on a clearly marked road in good, clear weather. The human driving miles contain a lot of miles in more challenging driving situations which AI isn't even capable of driving - so it's no surprise really that the human driving pool has worse numbers.

In other words, nothing lasts forever so therefore it's all the same?

The issues I've had with AMD systems generally are chipset/motherboard issues. But you can't have one without the other, so you're kind of stuck. If I could drop an AMD CPU onto an Intel motherboard like we could way back in the day, it would be a slam dunk - the better AMD CPU combined with the stability of Intel's platform. But since I can't do that, I guess it's buy Intel and just put up with their space heater CPUs.

If you're doing that, then what's left? Are you watching comic book movies for the dialog?