It's a metaphor for how easy it is to get things into the Microsoft kernel.

Yes, it would be nice if we evolved beyond violence. But consider this analogy...

Ralph sees a $250 pair of heavy selvedge denim jeans that he absolutely loves, and he thinks is worth every penny. The store has all sizes in stock. He has a size 44 waist right now, but has been trying to lose weight for the last two decades, and doesn't want to buy a size 44 because then if he loses weight, he'll have a useless pair of jeans.

So he buys a size 36, all excited about how his new jeans are going to look on him.

Is this a good or bad decision? I think most of us will agree that the nice new jeans are going to gather dust in his closet, most likely permanently.

That's the same thing modern progressives are doing when they make all their plans around a world free of violence. Right now, people with guns effect change - from way before I was born, when they were storming Normandy. Even Karl Marx was an advocate of arming the workers. And I doubt it's going to change in my lifetime. So make plans that work, not plans that rely on rosy visions of enlightenment.

LMAO - if you think learning a new language isn't "hard", then you shouldn't be doing any development work in a professional capacity. There are too many of you types out there who've learned the language features in a 3 month boot camp, and now fancy yourselves developers. I'm not talking about learning how to do a while loop or write a Towers of Hanoi program. I'm talking about modular organization, language idiosyncrasies, etc etc.

"Better than C" isn't enough. It needs to be so much better that a programmer is willing to devote hundreds of hours of their life to learning all the language features, the paradigms, reworking their coding workflow, and on and on. There are about a brazillion languages out there looking for a reason to exist. But I already know how to write C/C++ code, and I don't have a big bucket of time sitting in my garage.

The power connector issue is real though? I know the 4090 series have a problem with loose power connectors. Are you saying that the issue is overblown and we shouldn't consider it?

Then change the power connector - that's the simplest and most effective solution. There are 36V 10A connectors we use at work that are smaller than Molex - more than enough for any graphics card (or the whole computer for that matter).

The vendor is trying to pull an Apple - muscle a proprietary technology through based on market share, and then "own the standard". Fuck the greedy pricks.

Your CFO giving out their password and 2FA information absolutely IS a failure of your IT department. In the same way that if a fire breaks out, and no one knows how to use the fire extinguisher, it's an organizational failure. User training needs to be ongoing and persistent. We run phishing tests routinely and identify the users who fall for it, then follow up with them. Users who fall for the hoaxes are down to 1-2% now. And there's an additional level for senior management and finance staff. Those training requirements are non-negotiable.

This was something interesting that Richard Marcinko found in his shenanigans. He was able to penetrate almost all the secure military compounds he went into, with one exception, the Delta compound. He said the difference wasn't technology - it was that everyone within the Delta compound down to the janitorial staff were always alert and always on the lookout for intruders.

The goal isn't perfection. It's to get the failure rate so low that it might as well be zero."

Coldest I've biked in is -12F, with wind chill of -30F. It becomes more of an issue of keeping inner layers dry when you get down that low. Once you know how to adjust the layers, it's nowhere near as uncomfortable as most people imagine. And these days the software controlled heated socks and gloves are insanely good, if you can budget for them.

Most cultures have some version of the old Irish proverb: "'There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing."

If the one hour difference is causing their entire body to crash, just change bedtimes and wake-up times by 15 minutes starting 3 weeks out. The clock changing doesn't benefit you personally, but for those of us who do things outdoors before or after work, it's fantastic. On Friday sunrise was at 6:20am which meant I could get a run in before going to work. And tomorrow, sunset will be past 7pm, so I smoothly transition to evening workouts. Zero incentive for me to want to change the status quo.

You guys aren't getting the point... the status quo is fantastic for those of us who need daylight EITHER in the morning or evening, so before or after work.

On Friday, sunrise was around 6:15am here. That was plenty of time for me to get a good run in before work.

On Monday, I won't have enough time in the morning, but sunset will be at 7:05pm, so I smoothly transition to evening outdoor workouts instead, and get a bike ride in when I get home at 6. If you left DST in place year around, I wouldn't have enough time in the morning to work out in winter, because the days are short. And a half hour adjustment is even worse.

It's this entire bloated suite which includes something callled Cortex, which is supposed to be a "game booster". I don't need my fucking mouse manufacturer tweaking my system internals, thank you very much. Then there's other software for wallpaper control?! It's a full-on mess, and is Razer seeing how much crapware they can get onto your system under the guise of selling you a mouse.

I bought a Razer mouse last year on the advice of a younger friend who does some gaming, because I wanted more buttons on the mouse. What it needed:

• - a 120GB bloated software package that's CPU intensive
• - an account created with them so that have my email address
• - regular marketing emails

Razer is a marketing company using a good hardware product to justify insanely bloated software that collects data. Stay the fuck away from them.

"Everyone" is a very broad claim, considering that there are 330 million people in the US alone. You're succumbing to that favorite of American logical errors - the false dichotomy. The 300+ million non-vegans are not neatly split into two camps, of vegans/vegetarians, and people like you. There are plenty of omnivores doing "meat free Mondays" and so on, who don't intend to switch between your two imaginary camps.

Impossible and Beyond are targeting people who want to reduce their meat consumption, and they don't need "everyone" switching over to do that. A few million regular customers is nothing to sneeze at. If anything, their problem is that there are so many competitors now - the vegan meat section at my Walmart is 30ft long at this point.

This is typical Apple-think. Having the 3.5mm jack doesn't mean all other options must be excluded - it's perfectly fine to ALSO have a dongle option, in the same way that my desktop has both a 3.5mm output and USB headset.

But more importantly, I don't need Apple making a decision for me that the quality is too bad. I run an AV team. I'll make the decision. If I need to plug a device into a mixer to test the amp and speakers, my phone's quality is A-OK. What I need is speed, as in plugging that cable in without searching for a dongle.

For most of us, phones don't need to be thin enough to cut cheese with. The 3.5mm jack going away is so that Apple can sell overpriced dongles and overpriced headsets, not because they're concerned you'll miss out on the best experience with Scriabin's piano sonata 2.

I've been in IT 30+ years, and this is very much the wrong perspective. Technology should revolve around the user's needs, rather than mega-corporations telling users what they should and shouldn't be doing. I don't use voice commands, but regularly use the power button. So instead of buying some overengineered crap from Apple or Samsung, I bought an Asus Zenfone.

And yes, I still use the 3.5mm jack. I don't have time to go looking for a dongle if I need to connect my phone as a music source into an AV system. The 3.5mm jack is the most compatible audio interface out there, and getting rid of it is a fashion decision. I like to buy tech from engineering companies, not fashionistas like Apple.

If more people said "go piss up a rope" every time Apple's marketing department tried to sell their grandiose view of the future, we wouldn't have to put up with this crap. While on that subject, I'd like to swap batteries again someday, since I don't do a lot of scuba diving while browsing the web.