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Comment Re:Pricing (Score 1) 41

But do remember, there are a LOT of people out there with a LOT of disposable income.....

I don't think there are *quite* that many who can *responsibly* buy a $2,000 cell phone...but, at least in the US, carriers will effectively finance phones with little to no interest, so it ends up being an additional $56/month on their phone bill for three years (maybe carriers will do a 2-year contract at $83/month, but I doubt it'll be as popular).

While I think that's exorbitant personally ($700 is kinda my limit, my last few phones have been $500 or less), I can at least understand that there are a lot of people for whom their cell phone is their primary computing device, with the laptop on the side for the occasional task that requires a full-sized screen and/or keyboard. I've spent $3,500 on a laptop in the past ($5,000 in 2026 dollars), so perhaps on a per-hour-of-usage basis, $2,000 isn't absolutely atrocious if the phone is truly kept for three years. Assuming three hours of usage per day = $0.61/hour.

Comment sanctions (Score 1) 188

ensuring they can't be traced or confiscated due to sanctions

This got me interested. What exactly is he saying there? Does it mean what I think it means - that they immediately shift that money around, possibly through some mixers, to muddle the origin? And, of course, make it better suited to pay their proxies now that Qatar isn't sending suitcases of cash to them anymore?

Comment Re:Pyrrhic Victory (Score 1) 188

It's designed to keep people off balance, uncertain, distracted and misinformed

Thank you for writing that. I was starting to think I'm going crazy and I can't possibly be the only one who sees through that.

If you ignore the messaging, and pay attention to what's actually happening

And if you realize that Trump is just the clown at the helm. There's literally an entire bureaucracy underneath him doing most of the planning, deciding and executing.

Douglas Adams was right. The role of the president is not to excert power, but to distract from it. President of the Galaxy, president of the USA, no difference.

Comment Re:on the one hand (Score 2) 76

This.

You don't need billions to be care-free. Even double-digit millions in some nice safe assets already give you enough fuck-you-money to be good. And while everyone looks at the super-super-rich and they're in various public lists and tracked by not just the tax authorities, barely anyone knows the multi-millionaires. I know three or so that I'm sure nobody on here has ever heard anything about. They stay quiet, comfortable, private.

Comment Re:Absolutely needless (Score 1) 70

It's not difficult - Iran must be balkanized if Israel is going to conquer the Middle East and expand its proper borders to "those promised by God". They will demand a regional empire beyond their borders as a "buffer zone".

The Eschatological Christian Zionists want them tp destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque and build the Third Temple so Jesus can come back. Much of the Senior Brass at DoD (or Department of War Crimes) believes in this.

Is it all absurd and crazy? Doesn't matter, it's what motivates the people with nukes.

That and Trump being blackmailed with Epstein Tapes. The news says it's specifically an audio tape of a phone call between those two.

This is what the people who want peace in the world are up against. We can't counter what we deny.

Comment Re:They checked the writing. Nobody checked the ch (Score 1) 76

> when your investigative toolkit is journalism

Exactly. The English Majors went where other investigators have previously gone and ruled out.

The stack of blockchain, Merkle Trees, halvings, etc. show a level of insight a quantum above Hashcash.

There's noting wrong with being "quite good" but "engineering genius" is something different.

Besides, Satoshi would never have stood for not funding mining with txn fees. The BTC chain is in danger of being unmineable very soon.

Comment Re:It's too expensive to do that (Score 1) 27

Observed Traits:

1. Intense focus on specific topics
The user writes frequently and at length about niche technical subjects. Linux desktops, memory management, retro gaming systems, low-level programming, and kernel internals.
This narrow but deep interest in a few topics is consistent with autistic "special interests", where an individual becomes highly knowledgeable and invested in a domain over time.

2. Formal, precise language
Their tone is usually very factual, sometimes pedantic.
For instance, they correct minor inaccuracies, cite specific versions or system behavior, and show a low tolerance for vague statements.
This aligns with the autistic trait of preferring clarity, precision, and correctness, especially in communication.

3. Low concern for social cues or audience tone
Many of their posts are direct or even dismissive, e.g. 'that's completely wrong,' or 'it's not bloated, you just don't know how to configure it.'
They appear less concerned with how their tone might be perceived emotionally.
This could reflect difficulty in modulating tone for social harmony, which is often found in autistic individuals.

4. Literal interpretation of discussions
Some responses suggest they take other users' questions or comments very literally, missing subtext or humor.
This might point to reduced instinct for implied meaning or sarcasm, another common feature in autism.

5. Resistance to ambiguity or generalization
The user often pushes back when others make broad claims or assumptions, offering exact technical explanations or exceptions.
This need for specificity over generality is also in line with certain autistic thinking patterns.

6. Obsessions about mod point in line with certain autistic thinking patterns.

What this could suggest:

There are indeed several traits here that align with what's seen in some people on the autism spectrumfocused interests, literal communication style, detail obsession, and a direct tone unconcerned with social smoothing.
These don't confirm autism, but they do suggest a cognitive style that might be described as "systemizing" (per Simon Baron-Cohen's theory), which is common in neurodivergent individuals.

Lets put aside for a moment that you are literally describing yourself without even realising it (evidently), I would take 10 overly-concise aspies over.. Whatever the fuck it is you're doing. Not even mad. I just hope you get the help you so clearly need.

Comment Re:Great, more marketing myths (Score 3) 61

Yeah, "LLM's are gods" and "statistical ML networks are good at finding defective code patterns" are extremely different claims.

The people who are True Believers on both extremes look pretty silly.

I appreciate really good closed captioning while having no use for chatbots. Both ends get to call me a heretic!

Comment Compared to? (Score 1) 104

To be fair I just wasted a week tracking down a radio telemetry problem because of a forum post that many people said worked great but it definitely pulled a pin high that was supposed to be low, which shut off an antenna.

Only diving into the spec sheet and some sample embedded code convinced me that the forum post was exactly wrong and after making a simple change to do the opposite did all the telemetry devices mesh up and start reporting correctly.

So ... how does 90% compare to human content?

A wrinkle is that everybody knows humans are flawed and too many people treaty the LLM as omniscient.

Comment $1000/mo (Score 1) 47

Why should anybody care if this drives electric bills up to $1000/mo for the typical household?

We have unlimited energy, no?

Dipshits aren't creating a global energy crisis right now.

The world economy isn't headed for a global depression.

Natgas should be burned for LLM hallucinations and cats driving motorcycles, not converted into fertilizer to stave off a massive African famine.

Western woke governments haven't spent the past fifty years blocking new energy generation at every opportunity.

Right?

Don't invite the guillotines, dudes.

Comment Electric Company (Score 4, Insightful) 27

Why not notify their electric company to cut their power to halt infringement?

Or their water company so the house is uninhabitable?

The Courts need to recognize that Internet has become a necessary utility and that the music companies need to deal with the individual directly through the Courts, not in a lazy clandestine way.

Grande seems based.

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