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alexb_
·17 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Personally, I hope that nothing Elon Musk ever does for the rest of his life succeeds. Maybe that's just me though.
alexb_
·17 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The truck is cool. The blank slate looks good. Every other "suggested" design looks insanely corny, in the Cybertruck sort of way.
alexb_
·21 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Doesn't work at all for me. I keep jumping around and clipping through objects, can't even leave the first room without being stuck in the doorway to the elevator.
alexb_
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
As someone living in Omaha, this has just a little bit of a conflict lmao.....
alexb_
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Wow! This guy knew a lot about working in an environmental/social/governance framework, AND he knows enough about money to have been an international central banker?

I knew Carney was great, but I didn't know he was so well-qualified too.
alexb_
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yes. "Other people do it" does not make it any less anti-foreigner.
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·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/agency

Click down into a federal account and then change the drop down over the chart to "Recipient".
alexb_
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
https://www.usaspending.gov/ is another great website for this stuff. I suggest using the Budget explorer. Here's the map by function (e.g. national defense, healthcare): https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
alexb_
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yeah, it's kind of annoying. But middle click scroll is something I use literally every single second of every single day on my web browser. It's a deal-breaker.
alexb_
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Even skipping the first step (which requires a second readme) the next step involves opening a terminal. Instant fail. The entire point of an operating system is to make computers usable without knowing how they work, what a file is, what a command is, or having to look up anything. If something needs to be done, it needs a GUI.

Linux is an important operating system, but anyone under the delusion that it is desktop ready right now needs to actually watch someone use it. I say this not because I hate linux, but because I love it. I want someone to make it usable for a desktop, and people claiming that it is usable right now are not helping that.
alexb_
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Company? Most of the time this stuff is years (sometimes DECADES) old. That's why it doesn't work on Linux in the first place.
alexb_
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The last time I tried to use Linux, I said "fuck this" when I had to open up a text editor for something so basic as making a shortcut with command line arguments. This is the easiest menu in the world on Windows, but it took me looking up a bunch of things to get it to not work on Linux.

The real crime, by a lot, it middle click. I did not realize how often I use middle click scroll until I switched to Linux and it didn't work anymore.
alexb_
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Most people want a computer that works with their software. No, "learn the FOSS version" is not a solution. Especially because nearly everyone has some niche thing they like, some 5% that isn't covered by the FOSS solutions, that only a niche Windows program can actually do correctly.

And that doesn't even get into gaming.
alexb_
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
He actually died years ago. It just took until today for the Grim Reaper to work up the nerve.
alexb_
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This isn't what this is about, but I wonder if anyone has created a fully mechanized version of Conway's Game of Life. The fact that you only have to follow 4 rules, and each cell only needs to observe its neighbors to follow those rules, makes me wonder if it's possible to track these things mechanically. I unfortunately don't know enough about mechanical engineering to do such a thing.
alexb_
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Are you serious? This is Apple, the same company that purposefully made their messaging service less compatible so that children would get bullied into buying their products. You really think they would allow anything that isn't MacOS to be run on their hardware?
alexb_
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Disappointed to see that this is solitaire and not Riichi :( would love to see more implementations of actual mahjong
alexb_
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Riichi is the most fun one, in my opinion, but I would not go so far as to say "skill weights over luck". The absolute best Riichi players win less than 25% of hands.
alexb_
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The H-1B system is obviously flawed. For some reason, we've decided to tie the ability to live where you want and take advantage of your pursuit of happiness to having an employer. This creates massive power imbalances that are avoided by not engaging in national segregation policies. We don't demand that anyone born on this side of the border do anything like what people born somewhere else have to - how can a law applied differently based on how you were born be just?
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Unfortunately, their common sense has been rewarded by the stock tanking 15% in the past month including 4% just today alone. Dell shows why companies don't dare talk poorly of AI, or even talk about AI in a negative way at all. It doesn't matter that it's correct, investors hate this and that's what a ton of companies are mainly focusing on.