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Comment Re:We listened to Trump this once (Score 1) 121

I suspect a lot of them knew he was lying, but the Democrats are so fucking useless that they just wanted to blow the whole thing up in the hope of something better emerging at the end.

We have seen some actual left wing candidates doing well lately, but I doubt any of them will be able to push the Democratic Party towards the centre.

Comment Re:Trump a "lame duck" president? (Score 2) 121

I don't know what you mean by this, but let's just review.

First Obama had an SC pick, but the Republicans refused to hold hearings and he didn't force the issue, so you got another conservative. Then Trump selected two more who he thought would be loyal, and rammed through their confirmations despite serious issues with them.

Democrats seem to be unwilling to use those tactics, and okay they shouldn't be normalized. But also women have lost their bodily autonomy and that's a pretty serious problem. Even if you don't care about that, the fact that the system for selecting SC justices has been shown to be extremely lacking should be a concern.

Hopefully this is the US pulling back from the brink, but I'm not going to celebrate just yet.

Comment Re:just buy a tape drive then (Score 1) 38

The drives are very expensive and kind of shitty. I wish someone made cheaper LTO-8 drives, and that they were more robust and didn't cost so much to service. You can't get parts for them either, which would make repairs a lot cheaper.

I read that Huawei were coming out with their own tape format a few years ago, but it doesn't seem to have reached us.

Comment Re:Trump a "lame duck" president? (Score 2) 121

The Democrats seem kind of useless anyway. Under Biden they could have at least tried to reverse the SC ruling on Roe v. Wade, for example, but just... Didn't.

I have a feeling they won't do much this time either. You don't interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake, and clearly Trump is not helping the Republicans at the moment.

Comment Re:correcting repetitive reasoning? (Score 1) 39

"This AI unlocks 10 hours a week per person to finally address the backlog of strategic projects we've delayed for the past two years."

That's the right way to think about it, at least initially. And then there's the technical debt backlog, the documentation, and the aspirational projects and improvements that nobody has had time to work on.

Comment Re:Patrick Boyle explained to this (Score 1) 63

Not to mention that cellular works because the cells are relatively small. With satellite cell service, each vehicle serves a much larger area, but the radio spectrum is the same and can only service a limited number of devices.

If an area becomes overloaded a terrestrial provider can just add more cell towers and reduce the cell size. If a large area covered by one satellite becomes overloaded, SpaceX is screwed.

Recently they have been introducing limits on their "unlimited" satellite internet product, because it is getting over-subscribed. So you are absolutely right, they have already hit their capacity limits in some areas and are trying to wring as much revenue out of them as possible by enshittifying the service now.

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