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by delecti 3mo ago
I didn't ignore that. That solidly fits under "completely predictable colossal failure". But the next 50 years of funding they received came from money we spent prior to us leaving. Certainly we could have done a better job w
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by delecti 3mo ago
The Afghanistan exit was a completely predictable colossal failure, but it did mean we stopped lighting money on fire in Afghanistan.
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by delecti 3mo ago
The US in general, and this administration in particular, has bought into US exceptionalism and action movie tropes. Just gotta blow up the death star with the leader on board and then the war is over. In reality there's a chain of com
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by delecti 3mo ago
Part of why I like "tech debt" as a term. Much like actual financial debts, some tech debt has a low enough interest rate or is easy enough to declare bankruptcy on that it's not worth paying off.
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by delecti 3mo ago
What about the people receiving traffic that fraudulently looks like it's coming from a different location?
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by delecti 3mo ago
But the revenue is coming out of the same org. That $5bn revenue only exists because of the $4.85bn expense. That money doesn't exist to put into bonds unless it's coming out of the games org. They can only make their margin perc
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by delecti 3mo ago
Those will be cheaper and/or more powerful. If that's all you care about, then the Steam Machine probably isn't worth the price or wait. But they'll also be bigger, louder, probably not support HDMI-CEC, may or may not s
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by delecti 3mo ago
You, via your electeds, (in theory) have more power over a datacenter in your own jurisdiction than not. Though that does depend a lot on your electeds not being in the pocket of the datacenter's owners, and on the regulatory environme
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by delecti 3mo ago
CEC support was added in to the Dock in May 2024 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200?emclan=10358... Bluetooth wake made available for LCD Decks in September 2025 (it was already available in OLED mode
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by delecti 3mo ago
Both Google and Amazon know a great deal about me and my purchasing habits. Neither shows me ads that feel very relevant.
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by delecti 3mo ago
The Steam Deck itself doesn't have an HDMI port, but the official dock does, and that does support HDMI-CEC (support was added to SteamOS a couple years ago). The Steam Deck also does support controller wake from sleep (added in the
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by delecti 3mo ago
I don't mean it in a "super bowl commercial" way; the products in Instagram ads are the consistently interesting part. It seems like a safe assumption that the advertisers for plenty of uninteresting products are trying to
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by delecti 3mo ago
You can't build a machine which is as powerful, small, quiet, and cheap, nor can you take for granted that a machine you build can have a controller that can wake it from sleep, or which has HDMI-CEC (both are possible, but take extra
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by delecti 3mo ago
Instagram ads are the most consistently interesting ads I see online, and by an enormous margin. Ads suck, and I resent that their inherent purpose is to manipulate me, but they accomplish their goal better than any other ads I've ever
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by delecti 3mo ago
There's a lot of capital that stands to gain from banning local AI, but there's also a lot that wins either way, or only wins if local AI sticks around. Apple is paying for their cloud AI, but they can make customers buy devices f
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by delecti 3mo ago
I worked at a car company. It's not arrogance, it's greed. They do want their own proprietary infotainment to be good, but it's more that they don't want to abdicate control, both out of a possessive feeling over what yo
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by delecti 3mo ago
> What I'd like to see is Congress be entirely unable to draw a paycheck while the government is shutdown Rich congresspeople already don't need their paycheck. I want more people in congress who need their paycheck, not more w
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by delecti 3mo ago
> term limits for congress Then the most knowledgeable and experienced people in the room are lobbyists. And at its root, lobbying is just "asking congress for things".
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by delecti 3mo ago
Yeah, annual heat deaths in Europe (about 70k) exceed annual gun deaths in the US (about 44k) in absolute numbers. They're slightly under US gun deaths if you adjust for population (about 13 per 100k gun deaths in the US, and 12 heat d
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by delecti 4mo ago
I wonder if it's still a good thing to have taken the picture. There's something to be said for pausing and having the conscious thought "this is a nice moment". (though of course, moderation in all things)
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by delecti 4mo ago
We can hold differing opinions about whether state sanctioned threats of deadly force are whimsical, but that is unarguably what being pulled over is.
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by delecti 4mo ago
Being pulled over is a command under threat of violence, by an agent of the state empowered to use deadly force, who is mostly insulated from the consequences of poor judgement or abuses of power. Being pulled over by cops cannot be whimsic
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by delecti 4mo ago
Leaving aside that Canada is huge, waste is really just not that much of a problem. It would be easy to safely store all the waste that will ever be produced at a dedicated storage site, if you could drum up the political will for such a si
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by delecti 4mo ago
I'm actually looking forward to AR glasses getting more mainstream. My dream is glasses with displays that show live captions for people speaking. My auditory processing kinda sucks, and live captions would be a huge help in conversati
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by delecti 4mo ago
You've never tried it but are still convinced it's a hellhole? I took a bus and train downtown yesterday and it was a perfectly smooth experience. And at least as far as I noticed, nobody stabbed anyone or pissed in any seats. You
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by delecti 4mo ago
As a defense of Garmin, even without reflective/transflective/whatever displays (which would be better in sunlight), they still manage decent battery life. I can easily go a full week without charging mine, or several days with a
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by delecti 4mo ago
No, quite the opposite. Laws can kneecap efforts to make executive orders (in contradiction with those laws). That's why he's lost in court so many times about so many of his orders.
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by delecti 4mo ago
It's in the constitution. Article I, Section 8, clause 8: > The Congress shall have Power [...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
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by delecti 4mo ago
In 2026, a discussion of a bill proposing to make an existing position into a presidential appointee is very different if that bill was proposed by Democrats or Republicans. To pretend otherwise is to ignore virtually all of the current a
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by delecti 4mo ago
Could the Cuban economy be run better? Sure, but Cuba is being actively blockaded by the US. To act like that isn't the proximate cause of their power outages is ridiculous.

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