Stay the course, this will go great.

At this level, maybe not. When you owe the bank $10k and can’t pay it back, it’s your problem. When you owe the bank $20B and can’t pay it back, it’s the bank’s problem.

This is how 2008 happened.

This is a very longwinded way to say “EA will die in a few years”.

Yes, that’s all correct. They still need to believe it about themselves.

I’m guessing Hegseth actually does workout regularly. It’s part of his Master Race schtick. He likes to look good while showing off his white supremacy tattoos.

All the brass right now: “this could have been an email”.

Let the federal government stay that way. Blue states should start picking up services where the federal government left off. And the feds don’t need their tax money, either.

Republicans want to believe they’re the party of Fiscal Responsibility. They need at least some evidence to that affect, or else they lose their own perception of themselves. The debt ceiling is one of those.

Can you narrow down which parts cover this?

For more than a few, the answer is luxury prepper bunkers. Spez has one of those.

But I think it DOES ignore the reality that adding actual support for a new platform does drastically increase the testing and build/deployment overheads which are usually the realest of costs anyway.

John Carmack thinks it’s a worthwhile tradeoff.

Quake III had an official Linux retail release back in the day. It apparently broke even on id’s costs. Carmack said it was worthwhile, anyway, because code that works on multiple platforms tends to be better code. It makes fewer assumptions about the underlying system.

I fucked around once in the open source release of Q3, and yeah, it’s really good code. I had an idea for a game that would need specific joystick support, and with no experience with the code base and limited gamedev knowledge at all, I found exactly the place to change and made a working build within an hour. Carmack isn’t just good at optimization, he’s good at clean, organized code.

I was able to follow it, but it meant finding a completely different community from the one I was in. That’s not an easy thing to do.

The rewards are 100% worth it, though.

Kuro5hin (pronounced “corrosion”).

It started with a lot of people who disliked Slashdot. Kinda like Lemmy is full of a lot of people who dislike Reddit. It had a broader subject matter than Slashdot, though. You might end up reading about someone’s experience of being fully immersed in a BDSM relationship where all windows were covered, all clocks were removed, and they spend the entire day in service to their master until a safeword is called. (IIRC, that went on for something like 6 months, but when they came out, the person thought it was closer to 4).

Or it might just be about how badly WEP on WiFi broke this week. There was a lot of that at the time.

There were probably three waves of users. I was around for the first; my UID is around 2,700. Second started around UID 30,000 and I think it was also mostly Slashdot refugees. Third was around UID 50,000 and it really went downhill with that one.

A good handpan in a quiet room will, especially stainless steel ones.

This has become a common thing. It’s assumed brick-and-mortar is dying due to Amazon and Temu and such. It’s not; they’ve been on that path for a long time, and the companies that were going to die to it have already gone. However, it is a popular perception.

Private Equity gets to use the popular perception as a cover for shady ass shit.

Shopko was a midwestern chain of department stores. In their final years, they typically staffed like three people for the whole store. It’s not as big as a Super Walmart or anything, but it’s a sizable store in any case. They had one person on checkout, one in customer service, and one more running around the rest of the store. Maybe one or two more, but suffice it to say, it was deeply understaffed and it felt like it.

Behind the scenes, private equity had been taking out loans against the store’s real estate, gave themselves big bonuses with that money, and left the company as a whole with unaffordable debt. Also, the money being taken out at the register for sales taxes wasn’t actually being paid to the state.

Shopko was murdered. There is a standalone optical division that still operates, but the rest is gone.

It’s not likely to get that far. They should feel lucky they even got a Grand Jury to let this farce go ahead. That’s by far the easiest step, and there’s other cases where they couldn’t even get that.

It’s not speed so much as torque. Class 3 ebikes are already pushing the limit. You have to be careful with part selection, and tolerances on derailier adjustment is tighter.

And brakes. Then it is a matter of speed. You just need bigger parts to take more heat so you don’t get brake fade. It’s why anything more than a class 3 needs scooter/motorcycle parts. If they don’t, run away.

Legally, yes. The drive train on bikes has something else to say.

If you disagree that the problem is penis, you’re just a prude. Maybe more cocaine will help.

Those are lithium batteries. This stuff isn’t degrading as fast in the real world as was initially found.

A 350 mile car would become a 280 mile car in 10 years. It’s sufficient for 95% of drivers.