I grew up in a time juuuust before so for me turning my cell phone off and leaving it in a locker wasn't a big deal and, "Yeah I'm not carrying something around that can be used to target me while deployed" was good common sense.

Now the smoke break has been replaced by the phone break. On my walk to and from my car, from the badge scanner to the end of the covered walkway, is LINED with people on their phones. It's hilarious honestly.

I leave as an exercise for future scientists to decide if social media addiction had a bigger health impact than cigarettes.

Well, they do say the Universe is expanding... now we know why - Galactic Sugar is everywhere.

Right now, we have AI models that are good enough, what we need is for someone to focus on making them affordable, because even the Enterprise level for Github Copilot doesn't let you do anything remotely resembling the level of usage I was at before they changed their business model. I used to talk to Copilot all day long and I didn't really do anything manually anymore, with excellent results. It coded a lot better than I ever did and since it freed me from mundane work I could focus on making an excellent OOP architecture with great performance and security. Including refactoring legacy code to bring it up to the level of quality you can get in minutes. Now instead of minutes everything takes me entire weeks. Ah the joys of old-fashioned artisanal coding. After 3 years I barely know how to code anymore.

"A Modest Proposal"

I resemble this remark.

The thing that finally sealed the deal of dropping DishNetwork in 2020 was a home renovation that meant the dish had to come down. Rather than relocate it to a sub-optimal location (permanently or temporarily) I decided to wait until the renovation was done so I could put it back to the best location; but also as a test to see how bad we missed it. It took us 1 week to realize, "yeah we really don't need this anymore".

For us the biggest concern was the loss of DVR functions because I am epipen-level-allergic to commercials. Luckily there were enough affordable no-ads subscription options to make us forever cord cutters.

Broadcom: We are altering the deal. Pray we do not alter it further
T-Mobile: Fuck you we're leaving
Also T-Mobile: We're cancelling all legacy phone contracts despite promising we wouldn't.

Scientists have been saying that Europe will cool down with the shutdown of the Gulf stream... as far as I can remember they've been predicting this for at least twenty years. What happened?

harder daddy

Why did I have to scroll this far for this comment.

The answer is land cost, power access and cost, tax incentives, zoning. In no particular order.

Or said another way, until recently the impact of water-over-use was an external cost in the decision process. Just like power over-use was. Now they both are being factored into permitting requirements and that means cost have the costs finally.

By costs here I don't mean the rates they negotiate for consumption of either water or power. I mean the cost of scaling production and distribution to prevent everyone else having to pay more because a data center was allowed to come in and spike demand without and investment in supply growth / demand efficiency.

definition of "socialism", which is: worker ownership of the means of production

Bzz, false. The dictionary definition of the term is:

a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies

See? No "worker ownership" — government ownership. Schools don't need to be owned by the teachers for public education to be socialist, they need to be owned by the government. And they are!

Same goes for retirement financing, and medicine for retires — with millions clamoring to expand it ("Medicare for all!!") — what GP enumerated. The "single-payer healthcare" — another euphemism — would be exactly that too.

Workers can own shares of their employers — indeed, Anthrophic employees do (and anticipate to profit handsomely). That's not socialism at all — not by the dictionary definition.

I blame the libertarians for making the definitions unclear

I blame you for pulling the definition from under your tail — and the morons upvoting you.

"anything the government does that benefits the people instead of corporations."

That's spelled "KKKorporation$". Make a note of it. Benefits the people, eh? The per-pupil spending nationwide went up (inflation-adjusted) from $9083 in 1989 to $13790 last year. And what did this expense buy us — the barely literate population unable to even define such terms as "socialism" correctly...

And they've adopted the word "democratic socialism"

The term (not "word"!!!) was adopted by "former" Communists, who've proudly elected a Senator some Congresswomen and, most recently, New York mayor. Who immediately proceeded to establish a government-owned supermarket.

some wondering if they were being picked on by President Trump

Seriously? "Some wondering" — and it is on front page... What a contrast to Trump's supporters accusations, his electoral win was stolen in 2020 — no, any time someone mentioned those, a bunch people would jump up to add: "unproven" and "without evidence".

A colleague of mine working for Motorola patented encrypted memory sometime in the 2006-2010 timeframe. Maybe Motorola figured out that AMD was violating their patent and negotiated royalties privately with AMD. I don't know; I don't work at Motorola, but if AMD had to suddenly start paying royalties, it makes sense that they'd remove the feature from lower end, lower margin processors.

AKA: mass layoffs.

AKA: people doing stuff, that does not need doing, having to find something else to do.