RajT88

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by RajT88 4mo ago
New features trump optimization most times, in my experience. New business is easier to win than lose old business.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
That's certainly another way of looking at it. But the ground truth is: Cloud customers want to deploy more resources, and they can't build data centers and fill them with hardware fast enough to meet that demand. Cloud customer
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by RajT88 4mo ago
That is fair. Data centers are being built in my town, and indeed the city does not seem to care what people think. I ran the numbers based on some averages, and property tax revenue at a 50% discount would bring in about a billion dollars
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by RajT88 4mo ago
The mass data center build out is only partly driven by AI. There is a big cloud capacity crunch across the big providers, has been for a while and it is getting worse.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
The river I live next to had the same thing happen. The mussel populations aren't what they once were (said to be hundreds per square meter back in the 1800's). There was also button factories along the river, and they briefly t
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by RajT88 4mo ago
You are right, I whiffed and forgot about the 90's music services.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
Do not get me started on Lucasarts. I would watch the shit out of a Monkey Island show or film.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
Nintendo has shown the way, for better or worse. Tightly managed first party IP with a lot of retro throwback games/compilations/crossovers/virtual console and an overly aggressive copyright approach to managing what people d
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by RajT88 4mo ago
I am fine with "renting" a streaming movie, as an analogue to analog - going to Blockbuster and renting a movie. But I not for a single second trusted "buying" digital goods, and I was quickly proved right. The first di
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by RajT88 4mo ago
> Dating I have never done online dating, even though I was a teenager when it became a thing. It always seemed to be a complete horror show, and even today those are the stories I hear from people.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
"Microsoft Reveals" articles on this site are clickbaity. All this information lives in public docs, and is well known in the industry. It is cool that Microsoft is writing these blog posts for laypeople, though. And yes, kind o
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by RajT88 4mo ago
I feel like they made a movie with Matthew Broderick explaining why this policy was bad...
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by RajT88 4mo ago
Kids shred these schemes. The designers of them seem to forget that the social dynamics of the adult world are completely different - just one kid needs to figure out how to bypass the system, and the knowledge spreads like wildfire. Examp
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by RajT88 4mo ago
> because they feel that it is being forced on them. Which of course it is for a lot of us. Definitely, the tech industry has earned this skepticism, it didn't come out of nowhere. Decades of dark patterns, ads crammed down our thr
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by RajT88 4mo ago
Synthetic THC as well. Also "Bath salts": https://www.dea.gov/factsheets/bath-salts
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by RajT88 4mo ago
It is particularly bizarre given the increasingly frightening array of designer drugs available at gas stations and convenience stores. You probably have seen them if you live in the US, and had little idea about them.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
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by RajT88 4mo ago
I recall reading a similar story with powdered lizard. Also just a fingertip.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
Dell Docking stations are practically free, yes. Even on Windows, I've had issues, because of the Dell fuckery with docking stations - single cable docking doesn't work if your docking station is too new, and your laptop too old.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
Robot Chicken had a fairly cynical take on this. I won't link it here.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
There is a Country-Pop singer songwriter with my name. Also a 1940's running back for the Giants. Then there is a third one which might be a hallucination (that one ironically appears to be me, and the other two are hallucinations).
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by RajT88 4mo ago
3 Words: Dell Docking Stations
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by RajT88 4mo ago
2026 is the year of Linux on the Desktop! > At this point I'm convinced that no matter how much or little Linux desktop is improved, its market share is solely dependent on how much Microsoft fucked up. Lifelong Windows user here.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
I don't think flat out blackmail will come from LLM companies. It will come from data brokerage companies headquartered overseas. I'm kind of surprised it hasn't happened already, but I guess there hasn't been enough un
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by RajT88 4mo ago
> once a system is in place that gets all humans paid for our daily content (conversations, pics, videos, songs, movies, etc). That is never going to happen, lol. That's what Youtube was supposed to be, and the trend is to pay cont
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by RajT88 4mo ago
> Rich Dad Poor Dad is a right wing scam. I think he was actually saying that by calling it fiction, lol.
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by RajT88 4mo ago
It's a mixed bag. When you're (for example) repairing a lawnmower, being able to see parts from different angles and hear what it sounds like is very useful. When you're trying to repair a Playstation motherboard, you gonna
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by RajT88 4mo ago
I don't disagree with what you said, but as a workaround, why don't you just set your timers for 4 minutes and 50 seconds?
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by RajT88 4mo ago
My pet theory on why a lot of things happen in the US that don't happen elsewhere is one of disposable income. We have the biggest pile of disposable income (not per capita, but in total) of anywhere in the world. This enables people
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by RajT88 4mo ago
For a bit, our Amazon Echo's were pretty decent at doing things other than music, weather and alarms. Then there was a big regression, and we stopped trying to make it do more. I guess the exception is turning the lights on and off.

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