Going into debt is stupid unless there is an emergency. It is not ever sustainable, as we are seeing now. One cannot spend their way out of it. Try it some time. The US has been able to keep going because the rest of the economy has grown fast enough to keep making the minimum payment, but that's a dead end.

Corrupt people and those they have fooled came up with this idea that money isn't real and can just be spent. One of the proponents of "Modern Monetary Theory" actually said that "it's just numbers on paper", as if they represented nothing. That is absurd. As is the idea that there are any competent people in the DSA. I've seen their conventions. Gutless fools waving their hands in the air lest someone be offended by clapping. It is not hard to see how the nascent Stalins among them would take over.

Which would be inevitable. Socialism is always a dictatorship. It cannot exist otherwise. Next time you're around Socialists, ask yourself which one is going to kill the rest. If they get power, that will be the second thing to happen.

And then take note of how they are all children of affluence. Know then that it is to preserve their own status that they want change, not for the benefit of anyone else. This is always the way. Pol Pot and the Khamer Rouge were wealthy enough to have been educated in France. Lenin was descended from nobility. Castro was from a wealthy family. Mao was from a wealthy family. Marx was from a wealthy family, as was Engles (who owned a textile factory).

Costs and wages are tied. It is unwise to put too much artificial pressure on either as things will spiral out of control.

Everything has a cost. Europe traded growth for comfort and is now a retirement home for a dying civilization. I'd rather that didn't happen, but they seem to have decided upon a comfortable decline (which will suddenly cease to be comfortable within, oh, 20 years or so). The only clear vigor that remains is with migrants who wish to supplant it. This has happened before. The US is facing a similar decline, but is not as far along. In both cases it can be reversed, but only if people don't give up. Canada is, as always, somewhere between Europe and the US.

This decline is bad for everyone. The only powers in a position to replace the West detest democracy and the notion of individual rights.

I get where you're going and it's a fair (well, agreeably snarky) point, but you might be surprised. Especially the newer members. Most of them would feel the loss of that paycheck, even if they can get by without it.

The downside is that if they get desperate for money, there are plenty of crooked people out there to help. I'd be tempted to sequester them, but their constituents need to be able to get in touch to voice their opinions.

Ideally, we'd lock them in the Capitol with food, water, and a new lion every day they don't pass a balanced budget. I think there are enough zoos in the surrounding area to provide sufficient lions, but we can always switch to tigers if they run out.

Yup, Claude just helped me diagnose some backend stuff for it that wasn't working right, and since I have very little Docker experience, how to update the container at fault. I could take any error message, google it, read through some forum threads, and eventually figure it out, or Claude can sit there for a few seconds and tell me. That's one of the most time-consuming things I do.

I do worry about it making me lazy (I have time to type this after all), and I may miss some useful but unrelated info you turn up doing that sort of thing, but on the whole it's a great tool.

Working set matches. Private working set matches... Were you looking at the Private Bytes column in Procexp? That one doesn't exist in Task Manager (unless I missed it).

That said, yeah, it's confusing. There's a lot involved. Russinovich gave some lectures on it if you have a couple of hours to kill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I don't think many new embedded computers will run Windows from the late 90's, but point taken. Do they use VXWorks in these cars?

I like how the horn is listed there. As if someone was going to make a car where you had to scroll through a menu and tap a screen to honk.

I mostly hit my horn with my fist, so a touchscreen would be less than ideal.

Money. Think about the money. That infotainment system is expensive. It's expensive to fix. Anything added to a car is a new thing that can break, and cost too much to fix.

Most of them probably do. What other OS are they going to use on a lightweight embedded computer?

My wife drives a 2012 Audi. It has a 2g cell modem built in. Guess how well that works.

You're right, that really doesn't add up. Nor did the last story about this where (I think) Dell said they'd have to raise prices 5-10%, when their cost increase was considerably less.

Because Congress decided it's safer that way. Can't have a backup camera without a big display. Even though mirrors worked perfectly well for a hundred damn years, now you need to pay a couple extra grand to look down at a monitor instead of up to your rearview. Which you still need to have, for safety.

I don't want a big display. I don't need a small one. My 2012 Altima doesn't have one, and I like it. My wife's 2012 A6 has one, and while it and the backup camera are convenient, they aren't necessary for anything other than managing all the other computerized crap a car doesn't actually need (no touch though, all knobs and buttons). But that's a pipe dream since Congress, in its infinite wisdom, deemed expensive backup cameras a necessity. It's not possible to buy a new car that doesn't have a dozen computers, because Congress keeps insisting they have more.

Thanks Congress, you found a way to make new cars infinitely safer. By ensuring nobody could afford to drive one.

Not necessarily. I can turn off my radio really fast without looking, I'm used to where the button is. Plus, it's a big fat button in the middle of the volume knob, within my peripheral vision. I can silence it before four notes of the !#@#%!~$~$@#$#@ K4K song can play.

Oh, and task manager does show GPU memory usage. You have to enable the column in the Details view, but it can show dedicated and shared GPU and NPU memory use.