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by ajross 7mo ago
In a practical sense, from the perspective of the world as a whole, sure. It's also true that it leaves Iran in a much more powerful position than they held before the war[1]. So it's a "loss", strategically. It&#x27
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by ajross 7mo ago
> By that same logic that fact that we only lost 1 F-15 in, what, almost 3 weeks of bombing is actually a pretty good sign. "Good sign" of what, though? Air superiority? I guess, sure. But we've constructed a strategic
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by ajross 7mo ago
> it seems the correct muscle memory response [is something other than] never download and execute anything Arrgh. You're looking at the closest thing to a root cause and you're just waving over it. The culture of "just
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by ajross 7mo ago
No one claimed that, though. I was responding to a hypothetical. You're nitpicking, basically. Stop it.
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by ajross 7mo ago
FWIW, you're misreading that chart. It shows a wild increase in memory prices, no matter how much you try to cherry pick. An example might help: in July of last year I bought exactly this 2x32 DDR5 kit for $141: https://w
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by ajross 7mo ago
No, they signed a bunch of contracts for future deliveries. That's not a supply constraint. The factories making RAM continued operating and serving their existing deliveries, and in fact they still are. Freshman economics would sa
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by ajross 7mo ago
I said that badly. What I meant was that ASCII 0x2d is, in fact, used as the only minus sign in basically all markup and presentation layers. (Mostly because math layout tends to go through its own interpreter -- what lives in "the u
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by ajross 7mo ago
> Reality begs to differ Honestly you're both wrong. RAM prices spiked speculatively, and they're going down for the same reason. Market people always want to argue in fundamentals, when in practice *ALL* the high frequency c
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by ajross 7mo ago
> If you’re picking a substitution for “--”, en dash makes more sense. No, it doesn't? This seems like crazy talk to me, like "If you're picking a substitute for saffron, blood plasma makes more sense than monocrystalline
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by ajross 7mo ago
But... it's not more appropriate than an em dash for representing command line arguments? I don't see how either is any more incorrect than the other. There's a uniquely correct answer here and the em-dash is not it. Perio
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by ajross 7mo ago
It's a command line argument. The undeniably correct way to render it is with two minus signs[1] and absolutely not something non-ascii. [1] Not strictly a hyphen, which has its own unicode point (0x2010) outside of ascii. Unicode em
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by ajross 7mo ago
High oil prices hurt the US economy much more than China anyway. We're vastly more dependent on shipping and transport and even more vastly less elastic with our fuel demand. The only US interests who would want this are domestic oil
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by ajross 7mo ago
That's something that normal boring suits can and do remedy. Companies sue and win over denied government contracts all the time.
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by ajross 7mo ago
> it's actually very hard to find a ship, even as large as an aircraft carrier, in the ocean I just ran some googled numbers over my envelope, and I get that the Mediterranean sea (great circle distance between Gibraltar and Beirut
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by ajross 7mo ago
> adding more people to an area increases congestion, period Yes, but so what? That's tautological. "Adding more people" isn't an independent variable, it's the economic ground truth over which we're tryin
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by ajross 7mo ago
> now the city has a bunch of more soulless condos and is horribly congested The first bit is a taste thing; obviously lots of people view modern sprawl as "soulless" too. But the latter point is just plain wrong. Dense housin
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by ajross 7mo ago
Sigh. I didn't say the wealthy don't commit crimes. I said the wealthy don't commit crimes to avoid paying routine investment losses. Actually what I really said is that no one does this, because it's insane. So I t
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by ajross 7mo ago
> Why do you think that some rich person who bet, say, $1 million they can actually afford will not still seek to recoup their investment, especially if it only takes some bribes and threats? Because "only bribes and threats" a
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by ajross 7mo ago
So... no, it's not? You're saying everyone who makes a bet on anything is doing so compulsively? Literally everyone has bet on something . The absolutely overwhelming majority of "bets" placed (via whatever definitio
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by ajross 7mo ago
So, just to point it out: people don't get violent and criminal magically because they made a bet. They get violent and criminal to backstop a bet they can't cover . The story here isn't that horrible criminals are using P
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by ajross 7mo ago
So weird to see this kind of flaming more than a decade after it got stale and silly. I mean, yeah, kinda: a 64MB K6-300 was pretty great! But as to the 4G quip, that's showing some ignorance of where the market is. The value segment
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by ajross 7mo ago
Good grief. I was responding to "Most of what banks do is private credit", which is wrong. Bank lending is not private credit.
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by ajross 7mo ago
That's not correctly stated. "Private Credit" is defined as non-bank lending. Banks are doing "public" lending in the sense of being regulated. Private lending is any sort of financial instrument issued outside
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by ajross 7mo ago
> No, you can't do real work on a $350 windows machine. Sigh. I mean, even absent the obvious answers[1], that's just wrong anyway. You're being a snob. Want to run WSL? Run WSL. Want to run vscode natively? Ditto.
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by ajross 7mo ago
> I’ve been tempted to buy one and do “real dev work” on it just to show people it’s not this handicapped little machine. But... you can do the same exercise with a $350 windows thing. Everyone knows you can do "real dev work"
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by ajross 7mo ago
And I repeat: you are refusing to engage with the privacy crisis right in front of our eyes and insisting instead we treat with your personal crusade against a threat that is almost entirely theoretical. That's just not rational dis
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by ajross 7mo ago
> have no reason to believe there's not at least some exfiltration Is it genuinely your opinion that that activity (just look at all the equivocation!) constitutes a risk at the same level as alleged by the linked article? This is
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by ajross 7mo ago
Right, because indiscriminately hoovering data about people and their activities and affiliations for the benefit of someone else is clearly immoral. Oh, wait.
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by ajross 7mo ago
I knew it. I was saying from the instant they started we'd have a scandal like this. Bunch of tech bros walking into the government with personal MBPs and administrative authority to demand data from anyone and everyone was a privacy
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by ajross 7mo ago
> i dont intend to be on the side of flipping mcdonalds burgers So say the kitchen staff at every Denny's too. And yet... The analogy is apt, but your coping strategy falls down because of numbers. There aren't a lot of spots

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