Don't forget inflation and the usual graft. Plus the fact that just going to the moon seems like a waste of money if we aren't going to build a base or do anything with it. Maybe if we sent a few rockets that landed base modules you could build a base or at least get power on the planet. Hell we could have the whole thing done with remote robots with the success with the mars rover. Though I guess practicality doesn't give you as much clout as putting a person on a ship.

As it was back in shit posting in 1920 classified ads or on MySpace, people want a platform to scream into the void.

And just as an aside, one of the most talked about VHS videos at my school was the "Faces of Death" series. With no internet or phones, we were trading bootlegged copies of these things not even knowing the original film had been out for 10 years and that it was fake. You can either forbid it and punish your kid or you can sit down and watch the video with him and say, "Wait, is that monkey brain a cauliflower." and try to replicate "monkey brains" in the kitchen.

Seriously, after seeing cauliflower in red jam, I suddenly knew it was all stupid and fake. At the same time, I knew I couldn't tell anyone about this or I would be ostracized. We are continuously always in High School (or Kindergarden). You cannot stop society, you just learn to live with it.

This is a run to the bottom with people on prices. I mean I get it, paying $70 for a AAA game with DLC's and a battle pass is outrageous. Paying full price for No Man Sky is worth it only because its been out 10 years and you know your going to spend the hours in it. But what about the guy who makes a decent 2D game, not as good as SilkSong, but passable with a good 20 hours of play? You cannot even judge your enjoyment by price either. Look at Undertale. Its not the kind of game for everyone, yet its loved by those who grok it. On the other hand, SilkSong took 7 years and after a few months the hype will die out. They made enough on the last game they could take their time and not worry about the profits.

  Meh I am just confused on what I should or shouldn't pay now. You got Steam sales, thousands of games in the market, great gems with like 20 reviews because they were never featured yet want $30 bucks. It's a mad house I tell you.

I am just waiting for swarm bots to determine a shelter for civilians gets glassed because they determined it was a "hostile army". You could even go farther for an enemy to make it look, just enough, to fool an AI but not a human operator. War is just an extension of Politics they say.

Might of been the whole reason they bought Github initially. Use the brand to move people over to DevOps but who wants to move everything over to a poof when Microsoft wills it. The second the shoved Copilot in there I knew DevOps days were numbered:P

Honestly they are better off doing what Opera did and spin off a Chromium browser with their built in "search". Perplexity is one of those "shady" AI's that just scrap off anything they can regardless of "robots.txt". It also doesn't help that while its valuation is at "500 Billion" in reality they are probably burning through money with all the "free year" subscriptions they throw at you. The only reason they did that offer was for the publisty to get more donations. The only reason they are big is because they were the "mostly first" AI startup.

I very much doubt they even have any real assets they could even put a downpayment let alone try. Google isn't going to give up its baby easy.

I have to agree. I doubt there is no manager or CEO that would ever admit that. At that point I would promote him to management to learn a thing or two about shifting blame.

Humm. Maybe there is some reason why managers aren't using them to like "manage".

Problem with those Epstein files it could all be a red herring. Unless it's literally "Trump and Putin were having fun on the island; Photos included!" I doubt much will come from it. We have all seen his campaign and while I think he is a bad leader, you cannot fault his charisma on his base.

Hell, to be truly honest, I am angreyer to the democrats than anything else. I was watching during the whole Bush v Gore thing in Florida and the republicans there did everything in their power to swing that state. Ever since then it just seems the democrats just don't "try". Biden only won because the middle didn't want Trump again but saw how weak he was while president. They need an "anti-Trump" candidate who can yell just as loud and not keep underestimating him.

People want "change" but they didn't get it with Obama because they also conceded and that just emboldened the republicans more. Ugh I shouldn't rant and I know voting counts, but its hard to do it when everyone is scared of the elephant in the room and the donkey is out eating grass.

I just got a $3.45 "expected tarff tax" from mouser for just $20 bucks in parts. Since Mouser stocks the stuff in the thousands and weeks in advance it seemed odd. Now I wonder if NVIDIA is using the threat of tariffs for customers to do a buying spree then curry favor with Trump to remove the tariff's. I really wish congress could do like ANYTHING right now. They have the power but they don't seem to want to do anything about budget, or tarfs. At least we would have some better guidelines than whatever happens on twitter.

Besides this doesn't stop the use of the USB port on it. As soon as someone is able to sideload software on to it you can still use that or the WiFi. I think this is more to stop what happened to the first Switch and the PR nightmare of bad docks bricking the Switch.

USB PD operates off a side band so they can support hat ill regardless of any vender stuff. Also from the spec Additionally, vendors may support proprietary modes for use in dock solutions. So if they wanted to implement a custom display interface they can just do it as long as the other USB parts work. The alt mode they used on the first switch was just off the shelf so now they can implement a custom vender built dock.

I am not saying this is good or bad. Alt mode was specifically designed for venders to implement their own custom protocol over a high speed link and all alt modes are managed by other consortiums implemented by their own standards. Its why some Display Port and HDMI converters don't always work on come chipsets.

Also remember when the Switch first came out and it bricked a bunch of them using cheap docks. I doubt Nintendo doesn't want "untested devices" to keep bricking their device. I don't think this is malicious its more that kids plug anything into everything and rather do this than having another PR fiasco.

Good or bad, this is an expensive device for kids to break. Though I do hope a portable dock does come out.

As an aside my grandpa hated trump because of all the failed businesses and depts he had. He felt Trump contributed nothing and just lived though taking advantage of the government.

You cannot argue with these young die hard conservatives anymore. My grandma, god rest her soul, was a 100% "liberals will eat your children" kind of woman. At the age of 80 living though the first trump administration she went strangely quiet. Both my grandpa and her HATED Trump and stopped donating and practically gave up on all politics at that point. Its because they remember who he was back before the 2000, 1990, and even the 1980s. They just silently "stopped" talking about because they had the context of what fascism truly was and how Trump bulldozed his way. When he was on that reality TV show, they told me it was just embarrassing.

It will be a generation before these kinds of opinions change. Books will be written, people thrown in jail. I suspect there are millions of these silent conservatives that are just quietly pulling their support because of this while these proud people try to defend them without donating a buck.

First 2..no 3 years that is. The problem is much higher level course's require knowledge of 1000's of so research papers done over the decades in that specialty. The whole point of a masters or PHD program is to teach someone how to dig though the mess of published research to get you started on your own projects. Your spending those years mostly alone, sometimes in a group, digging though some dark library. Maybe waiting months for some copy of research from another state or god help you, country to find out its not what you need. All this at a low bar of a PHD or master's paper. This is also just the academic side. All those millionaires that dropped out of college happened because it was a melting pot of ideas but it wasn't till people networked make a plan.

Is the price worth a 4 year degree? Fuck no. Is the masters/PHD program worth it if your getting into research? Yes....? Its hard to quantify master/PHD programs as they fluctuate WILDLY per college, degree programs, teacher personality's etc.