Honestly, ditch the spinning disks, and get as much SSD as you can for the money, preferably NVME. The performance increase will be huge. If you need a big bucket for eg. videos then fine, but for gaming you want SSD, and 250GB is not going to cut it.
It’s April and I am sweating like crazy, it fucking sucks, but it also got me wondering what can I do? There is so much conflicting advice out there, even if I tell others about this, when they ask for a solution what do I tell?
Destroy the supply chain. It’s surprisingly fragile, and if it fell over it might even be impossible to rebuild. For instance, energy production has a whole bunch of dependencies on mining, which requires large amounts of energy - and all the infrastructure requires constant maintenance, which requires all the infrastructure.
One swift kick in the nadgers and the whole system goes down in a tangled heap, with all your tools at the bottom.
Large-scale industry would be crippled out of existence for a very long time, possibly forever - and maybe the oceans wouldn’t end up boiling.
There are plenty of chokepoints in the system, where a small disruption could have disastrous effects. Just look what one ship screwed up by getting temporarily stuck in a canal for a couple of weeks. If a nation or two set their mind to it, they could throw a spanner or three in the works that would rip the whole engine apart.
The human cost would be utterly devastating, of course. Billions would die, and the knock-on effects would just accelerate the decline.
But the way things are going, they’re all going to die anyway, and take the rest of the planet down with them. This way seems less-worse, and we get to play The Last Of Us irl.
THe phrasing of the message implies that you’re still subject to eg. your employer logging your network access, and third-party sites logging your IP - both of which would be physically unavoidable and not within the browser’s ability to control.
It very carefully avoids saying ‘we’re still selling your identity and browsing habits to ad companies and dataminers even though we could totally prevent that lol’.
So if I have to choose between a talent billions of others already have (and cannot make a living on), or a talent literally nobody has, which could save countless lives and entire ecosystems…
It’s more reasonable and realistic to expect hundreds of millions of people to abandon their moral principles, than it is to expect one man to adopt some.
Objecting to the bombing of children is sanctimonious bastardry.
There isn’t really a use-case for a fundamentally new OS. There isn’t a particular need that’s going unmet by the big three, and the existing base of applications and driver support on Linux/mac/windows is vast and extremely mature.
It’s like saying why hasn’t anyone invented a fundamentally new class of road vehicle that isn’t a car, truck, bus or motorbike, using entirely separate roads, infrastructure and fuel? Do we have a sudden shortage of inventors and engineers?
Well, no. No we don’t. I’m sure someone could come up with an absolutely delightful monowheel gyroflivver, and it would be all kinds of creative and neat.
But if it won’t fit in anyone’s garage, can’t share existing roads, needs a while network of clockwork-winding stations and can only carry your stuff in specially-shaped tow-pods you have to buy separately … then nobody’s going to use that to get to work, or go shopping, or wherever the hell do with cars I don’t have one idk - so only three people will ever buy one, and there’ll never be any infrastructure for them.
A weird civic religion like nothing that came before it.
The founding fathers are thir prophets, constitution is their holy scripture, the flag their holy icon and the anthem their hymn.
You don’t just change scripture :coughamendmentscough:, you don’t even read it - you get a priest to interpret it and tell you what it means in this context. You take it on faith that the things in it are infallible and eternal, even though you don’t understand them or know what they are.
Look at it through the lens of civic-relgious fundamentalism, and most of America makes a horrible kind of sense.
The best part is how his followers will turn on him once he starts to fail.
The key to their worship is untouchability. In their eyes, getting away with shit is the holy fire, the pure essence of status. Poor losers get in trouble, rich winners are teflon, and deserve to be, as befits their power.
All the gotcha moments and demonstrations of sociopathy and hypocrisy the media clung onto only boosted his popularity, because what his followers saw was an invulnerable superman that trouble just wouldn’t stick to. Look, he can strangle underage russian prostitutes and doesn’t even get arrested, see how he rises above the common man!
But oh, once the glow fades. Once trouble actually finds him, and they’re left with a big doddering pile of failure in diapers - failure is the one crime they will not forgive. Embarrassment, humiliation, betrayal, disgust, anger, hate. It will be absolutely glorious to watch.
Martyrdom won’t work. He’s going to try for it, but “see how they attack me!” doesn’t work with a broken nose.
Think Scar and the hyenas. Or think Redmask and the K’Chain Che’Malle, if you’re that way inclined.
While their glorious leader is being assailed, they will fight and die in his name, definitely. How dare the weak attack the strong?
But once his plot-armour falls off and the punches actually land? The plot-armour is what they worship in the first place. That’s their whole MO, their entire paradigm. They need a bigger, more-invulnerable bully above them to give them cover, and an underclass of vulnerable-therefore-contemptible victims beneath them to make them feel both powerful and vindicated every time they oppress them.
If you upset that whole structure, and show their leader to be vulnerable… where does that leave them? How do they regain their honour?
Universities aren’t there to teach marketable skills, and they never have been.
In fact they get quite snotty about the distinction; they’re not some trade school, ugh.
They go and market themselves as employment-enablers, because that drives enrolments which drives funding, but a large percentage of adademics see undergrads as a vexing and demeaning distraction from their real work of writing grant proposals. Which to be fair is what their whole career (and the existence of their employer) depends and is judged on, so…
The other thing is that there’s two skillsets involved here: learning to use a specific set of tools and techniques to produce a desired outcome (the trade part), and learning to wrestle large, unwieldly and interconnected tasks in general, while picking up the required specific knowledge along the way (the adademic part).
Teaching just the trade part gets you people who are competent in narrowly-defined roles for now, but it doesn’t necessarily get you adaptable, resilient, bigger-picture people with common sense and a strategic outlook. Teaching just the academic part gets you people who aren’t necessarily productive right now, but have a lot of potential wherever you put them.
Employers would like to hire people who are both. They’re also lazy and cheap, and will use anything they can get their hands on as a resume-filter because they aren’t willing to put time and money into usefully evaluating someone’s potential usefulness as an employee. If they can farm that off to the universities to do (and the students to pay for), they’re happy to let a degree stand in as a not-chaff marker they can require of all their candidates. It’s like bad video game designers using bullet sponges to ‘increase the difficulty’.
Teaching CS is important and useful, but the benefits only really pay off longterm - apart from the bullet-sponge factor.
Teaching programming is important and useful, but the benefits can be short-term and dead-end.
If you only pick one… depends on whether you can afford to eat while those nebulous long-term benefits slowly kick in.
Universities should communicate these things better, and employers should be incentivised to stop using junk degree-requirements to offset their laziness and incompetence. Make it so for every position they require a degree for, they’re taxed the tuition fees for that degree every year.
Most English accents make a strong distinction between most of the voewls in that sentence. If you relentlessly turn everything to schwa, you get a cross between the aforementioned Forest Gump and “Ermagerd, shers”.
United Nations adopts historic, first-ever resolution on rights of intersex people (www.advocate.com)
bOtH SiDeS!!1! (i.imgur.com)
Looking for feedback on a future gaming build.
Please let me know if there's a better place to seek information /answers....
How do we actually get out of this climate disaster?
It’s April and I am sweating like crazy, it fucking sucks, but it also got me wondering what can I do? There is so much conflicting advice out there, even if I tell others about this, when they ask for a solution what do I tell?
Google to delete records from Incognito tracking (www.bbc.com)
The search giant will block third party tracking by default for people searching the web in private mode.
I like to eat a tomato like it's an apple
Which would you rather do, create art or summon rain?
Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)
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Idiot Trump Confesses He Actually Has the Money to Post Bond (newrepublic.com)
Donald Trump is close to the deadline to post bond in his fraud trial—and he’s screwing himself over even more....
Trump claims he has $500 million in cash, undercutting lawyers' claims on bond money (www.nbcnews.com)
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem (news.slashdot.org)
The Real Reason No One Is Giving Biden Credit for How Good the Economy Is Right Now (slate.com)
Israel launches night raid on Gaza al-Shifa hospital (www.bbc.com)
Israel ‘yet to give any evidence’ UN staff were linked to Hamas massacre (www.yahoo.com)
Police stopped Brad on his morning walk for wearing a hoodie. Ten minutes later, he was dead (www.abc.net.au)
Alternative title: NSW cops murder a kid because he ran home when 4 people in plain clothes pile out of a car and accost him. For wearing a hoodie.
xkcd #2907: Schwa (imgs.xkcd.com)
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