First of all, I am not a Democrat, so it's no concern of mine.

Second, the DOJ still does not decide tax rates.

Finally, Remember. The pendulum swings both ways.

I probably am misreading it then...

It could not have happened to a more deserving bunch.

Welcome to the panopticon. Be seeing you!

schedule sex? "She even proposes that her AI assistant could coordinate plans with her husband's AI assistant."

And if they do, will she and her husband both be there. That Woody Allan movie with the orgasmatron was so ahead of its time.

By definition, because it's vibe-journalism pandering to the fad-trend of the moment.

That article is in production for next week, I'm sure.

Well the answer is of course they are out of touch and I don't actually have a 'right question', I just wanted to fit in.

Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho

(now I owe Disney royalties)

Covid 19 ... Plague26

Many people are underpaid. But the solution is not simply pay more money and suddenly everyone is smarter and happier and better at their jobs. More money is not a magic bullet. If everyone received a 100% raise tomorrow, nothing would change, except inflation.

... and it's still a really useful and powerful tool. Truly impressive IMHO.

Didn't use EMACS or vi. I used NED, which came out of DARPA I think. I first used it in 1978 I think and thru the end of school in 81. IBM where I first worked did not have it, then next co had VAXen with EDT. But around 85 I got a tape with source from somewhere for the VAX. Ported it for sun3, then sun4. I did a total rewrite in Linux around 2004. I couldn't get the port to go in Linux with all the crud from the ages. Easier to rewrite.

Damn, dude. According to PG&E, my home averaged 3.39kWh per day last week.

I bought one for my business.

I need to haul boxes of books. Small, heavy, sometimes new and clean, sometimes old nasty and bug riddled. I got tired of exceeding my car's weight limit by putting dirty stuff in the back seat -it was hard on the suspension and the leather.

The Maverick does a good job at hauling the things I need to haul. It has also carried full sheets of plywood, and 2x4s, and bags of mulch, and a (small!) load of gravel. It has a hybrid engine, and is averaging over 40 mpg for the past year. It has full-time AWD which improves traction on rain-slick California roads.

I haven't found a use for the back seats. I would have preferred more bed instead, but it does the job.

No, it's just the sort of thing that the UEFI design kind of does.

You load a bunch of stuff that all initializes, just in case it might be needed. One of the key optimizations in some UEFI implementations is trimming down the things that get loaded based on an early assessment of whether this or that would be relevant to the expected boot. For example, hit key to enter setup and suddenly it has to load all the things to make sure all the various menus work.

Kind of like setting up the NIC in the OS before anything asks for network access, so that every network access isn't burdened with having to set up the network access. If the driver is already loaded then a variety of potential UEFI network code could just use it (PXE, HTTP, iSCSI, various crap from vendors like pre-OS firmware download)