The past 30-days have been unusually cold and windy in my state, and people are getting their electric bills and freaking out. Social media is full of surprised people wanting to sue the power company for being "greedy".. lol. Not sure what they were expecting-- we were warned our bills would be higher in 2026 because of the influx of new data centers.
HDMI 2.2 allows 4K@240Hz (uncompressed). Gamers will appreciate it.
Microsoft's culture problem has only gotten worse. There's an uncanny desperation in their behavior that turns people off and they don't know how to stop.
Donald J. Trump isn't a complete idiot. He successfully ran The Apprentice. The man is turning real life into an absurd reality TV production-- a show the world cannot ignore. This altered photo is red meat for his crude, gullible audience who feel zero shame in acting on their authoritarian tendencies.
Regular Monitors don't have HDCP support without being a smartTV.
These days I would be surprised if any standard monitor lacks HDCP support over HDMI and DisplayPort. It's in most specs I see and I don't buy smart monitors.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/01/05/the-top-10-jobs-that-attract-psychopaths/
1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil servant
And organizational psychology tells us that narcissism, not competence, is often the strongest predictor of who emerges as a leader in unstructured groups. Groups led by a narcissist do not perform better-- they just think they do. This happens all the time in business, government, and politics. Simply put, HORRIBLE judges of character cannot distinguish narcissism from confidence nor Machiavellianism from principled, ethical leadership. So good news if you're a malignant narcissist and you want to be president of the United States-- just turn that shit up to 11.
Windows Pro Classic: latest kernel and security enhancements but removes the Windows 8 - 11 inspired UI changes. More importantly, it has none of the icky marketing desperation found in today's Windows. Target demographic: anyone with an ounce of self-respect.
Windows AI: an evolution of Windows 11 with all of the agentic clippy-on-crack baked-in, start menu advertisements, and 10 notifications/day about a non-essential Microsoft features/products. Target demographic: masochists.
They do it to meet quotas to the manufacturer, so they get more car allocations the following year, and/or more allocations for exclusive models which can be sold over MSRP, or dealer requires the customer to buy a few "regular" cars before being given a chance to buy the exclusive one.
Yeah, and that's how Porsche is pissing off its brand loyalists. They think they're Ferrari. Which, btw, I will never understand how very wealthy people can have so little self-respect to be treated this way.
I might have a huge cultural bias here, but if you're idea of politeness consists of lying to people, and then expecting them to argue with you, then your culture sucks. Of course, I am one of those idiots that takes everything literally, and I believe in being blunt about everything as well. How do you train logic to deal with something illogical? (Remember the one question Spock couldn't answer: "How do you feel?" I was rolling on the floor laughing at that, the best line ever in any Star Trek movie. Then I looked around the theater... and nobody else thought it was funny.)
I'll wager you're neither a bigot nor an idiot. It's called the autism spectrum.
We're not there yet, but being told to go into a trade may become the new "learn to code". In the meantime, private equity is buying up local companies that deal in skilled trades (plumbing, HVAC, electrical), consolidating them under one roof, which will result in limited competition and drive down wages.
Curious how this will affect OHLC data. Will reporting shift from market close to midnight?
Never seen it myself, but I have many interests and have been following the same 100 channels for years. But, I can see this becoming a problem. LLMs are very attractive for no-talent hacks who only care about making a buck.
The U.S. protected top national security secrets a bit differently back in the day. I suspect they initially fooled Mr. Lazar, but he wised-up somewhere along the way and has been milking this thing for all its worth.
I want to create a culture of innovation empowerment.
That's desperate, corporate BS speak. So sad. What happened to you, Intel?
Should the ultra wealthy become concerned about their security teams, the rest of us will have had bigger problems long before that. The case for building bunkers is the same as during the Cold War-- to buy time and hope for the best. It's the worst-case scenario for them and everyone else.
The most powerful people in the world see themselves as utterly incapable of actually creating a future in which everything's gonna be OK.
Our species has buggy features; we tend to promote and be led by those who score high in opportunistic sociopathic traits.
Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them.
