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Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:33AM (#50166156)
its not enough tho. because even the most basic of users still need to open and edit files from advanced users.

recent only office builds are not quite there, but far superior to office Web.

Re:The Gap Between GPU Obsolescence and Accounting Life on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:41PM (#49935585)
the main issue is they don't account for the firesale prices when all these data centers need to liquidate their hardware in 3 to 5 years time. In 10 years time these ten billion dollar data centres today will have the compute of a flagship mobile phone..
Re:US interest rates raised for first time in three years on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:30AM (#49740509)
They definately think.

The thinking process is just line their pockets with as much as possible before they lose their position to someone else.

Once you understand that everything is rational. If not desirable.

Re:US interest rates raised for first time in three years on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:30AM (#49737952)
From the adminstration

Fed independance is about tempering that policy so UST still has buyers.

Re:US interest rates raised for first time in three years on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:00AM (#49737762)
The administrations choices are fairly binary now.

Inflate away the $40Trillion+ debt they can never pay back

Or

Hard default on the debt, and be the one holding the hot potato as the union breaks up.

Fed is trying to thread the needle between the two and keep the music playing as long as possible.

Re:People are worried about America's solvency on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:32AM (#49329813)
The US ticked all the boxes that are credited with the break up of the USSR last year aiui.

Anyone not taking that seriously is in for the most hilarious of surprises.

I dont see how there would be remotely enough entropy in most model outputs for this to be close to feasible with any kind of accuracy.

Either they false positve on pretty much everything ever written, or the chances of catching a true positive is so low as to be useless.

Basically Cinavia for text, and that often falls over and is easy to remove even when there is megabytes of data streaming over a long period of time rather than 2 or 3 bits per wall of text, let alone what most people use claude for, when there is a strict dictionary and other tight output constraints.

Re:London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:45AM (#49256091)
Fascist monarchy has facist policies shocker. So glad I left that hell hole.
Vivaldi for the win.
Re:Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43% on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:10PM (#49147825)
Inflation is different.

Rule 72 is nominal prices.

Inflation accounts for a 2026 xbox being significantly more advanced technology than a PS1

Re:Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43% on Sunday August 02, 2026 @03:53PM (#49147695)
Sounds about right.

"Prices double every 10 years" is a fairly standard economics benchmark.

Its 2026, that distinction doesn't exist any more. Android and ios devices are orders of magnitudes more powerful now than desktops were when desktop was actually important as a category.
There are zero android and ios users because reasons.

Realistically, windows probably doesnt even break 1% these days.

Different order of magnitude in my experience.

Wayland mouse movement lag is/can be/could/was in the order of several hundred milliseconds.

Its that that people notice, not 3 or 4ms difference in click response.

The main issue is with mouse movement rather than clicks tho...
Didnt claude recently post its entire codebase online?

Seems like it upgraded to doxxing its entire userbase.

Why remove identity from Double and Integer? This is going to break so much stuff for no reason when double and int were already a thing.
Re:AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:20PM (#48485850)
Some certainly are, just not this one.
this is almost certainly a us tarriff/China sanctions thing rather than an AI thing. sticks here outside of the us tarriff system never really changed, I just bought like a month or two ago 128GB DDR5 for $500 at a time when US best buy was listing the same kingston 32GB sticks for $200 each.

That said, getting hold of them was hard and needed a special order.

Re:A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft on Saturday May 23, 2026 @03:54AM (#48245688)
xserver only takes about 10 lines of code, that doesnt sound as impressive as 8,000
Re:Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid on Thursday May 14, 2026 @07:35PM (#48142624)
I'm still just refusing to buy this garbage in the first place.

All these car manufacturers pushing this horrorshow deserve to go under. Tbh it looks like most will soon....

Re:Getting arrested in Japan on Saturday May 09, 2026 @07:23PM (#48079310)
Whole new level of respect for the Yakuza, no wonder they end up running everything there.
The irony is this arrest is most probably the first most people have heard of them getting flattened.
Re:Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered on Saturday April 11, 2026 @12:02AM (#47727263)
So you accept the earth was hotter than now and the sea levels much higher than now in our recent history then?

Do you know why the earth is so much colder when the southern hemisphere is in winter than when the northern hemisphere is in winter?

Because anyone not seeking money from the green energy VCs will tell you all about that and how the earths axial precession causes 26k year ice age cycles - what happens to the climate when the sun is mostly shining on ocean rather than land. Guess which phase of that cycle we are in right now...

what was your rationale for accelerating that descent into the next ice age again? Cos yeah, no amount of claims based on zero facts is going to convince me of anything, I find your assumption that humanity under miles of ice a worthy endeavour to be nothing short of grotesque malthusian snake oil.

Re:Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:18PM (#47725051)
Your idea of debunking must be different than mine.

Posting a link that says exactly what I said: "but you can easily appreciate that sea levels have been much higher than today for much of this period of the Earth's history"

Is pretty much the opposite of debunking as far as I know.

Re:Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:54PM (#47711348)
What do you mean no evidence?

Do you understand sea levels rise when it is warmer and fall when it is colder?

In our very recent history, sea levels were 10 meters higher than they are now, that means in our very recent history it was significantly warmer than now. back when the nile was the green cradle of humanity.

From here the only way is colder - enough ice formed in the last few thousand years to drop the sea level by 10 meters, and even if it did warm and melt enough ice to rise the sea levels back to 10m higher than now, Penguins already survived it. We will to.

going back to 2 miles of ice above your fav city puts us back in the era passing bible stories verbally (but at least we know now they will use gaza and tel aviv instead of soddom and gommah).

Oh, and btw, the decline in the Penguin population is almost certainly China overfishing, do you have any idea how huge Antarctica is?

But don't let a few facts stand in the way of you believing what you read in the local tabloid.

Re:Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:18PM (#47710993)
We have all the "proof" we need.

https://courses.ems.psu.edu/earth107/sites/earth107/files/Un...

We are due to enter another ice age, quite possibly in our lifetime. It has already been warmer longer than 2 of the past three warm periods. Quite possibly because of/thanks to AGW.

The oil has run out and now 2 miles of ice above new york is coming to a store near you.

Everything else is a distraction and propaganda.

But either way the Penguins will be fine.

Re:Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered on Thursday April 09, 2026 @04:44PM (#47709739)
The implicit question was whether you think we should endeavour to return to an ice or not.

Personally I'm on the not side.

And also

The only people I have seen deny climate change are the AGW idiots who think the climate has ever been stable, and who demand global action to try to put it into some sort of climatic stasis.

The rest of us have always accepted the SCIENTIFIC FACTS that:

(a) The Earth's climate has always changed and always will.

(b) The Earth's climate is EXTREMELY COMPLEX and cannot currently be accurately modeled in a computer.

(c) While humans, like EVERYTHING ELSE, have SOME effects on climate, there are plenty of other causes of change including many we probably do not know/understand. Some of these other sources, like the sun, have a far greater impact than humans.

(d) The Earth has been both significantly hotter and extremely cold many times in the past before there were enough humans to have had ANY effect on any of those previously very extreme changes.

We ALSO embrace things like the laws of economics, the record of human history, and accept basic human nature - so we:

(a) Believe humans will continue to advance technologically and thus we as a species become better able to deal with climate change with every passing decade, making it retrograde to go nuts trying to offset it now - even if we could, and if we could afford it, and if its happening.

(b) Know that far more people are dying today from other sources than from climate, and that reducing some of the deaths and suffering of people TODAY is achieved using some of those fossil fuels people like you want eliminated or made too expensive because YOU claim it will save some future persons from some imagined future horror.

(c) WE actually believe a pet theory should be PROVEN before we implement policies that have a negative impact on the lives of millions of people in the name of "solving" the supposed problem. In fact, we'd like to not only see the problem PROVEN to exist, but we also want to see that the proposed solution will actually work, will be the most cost-effective option, and will have the least impact upon the lives and liberty of the people who are alive today.

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