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by jghn 2y ago
I do regret the 8GB with some frequency. There was a 2-3 week shipping difference when they came out and I was impatient. That said, the fact that a 5 year old laptop with 8GB RAM is usable even for coding situations is astounding.
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by jghn 2y ago
I have an M1 for reference, with only 8GB RAM which is the real limiter here. I *can* use Jetbrains IDEs and I *can* build/develop software on it. It's a bit sluggish but doable. I try to not code on that machine, but sometimes it
813.
by jghn 2y ago
Same. Each year I tell myself I'll get the new one. Each year when the new one comes out I notice that for what I use it for my M1 Air is still completely fine.
814.
by jghn 2y ago
The US was already granted its mulligan in 2020. And then 4 years later the populace went and double down on all of this. It won't be so easy going forward.
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by jghn 2y ago
It's hard to say as conflicting reports float around out there. Some things claim his approval rating is increasing, and others say it is decreasing. And of course there's plenty of stories out there about people who "regret
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by jghn 2y ago
One could argue that things were *more* transparent pre-DOGE. Just because people didn't know where to look doesn't mean the information didn't exist.
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by jghn 2y ago
I went through this 2016-2020. This time I'm all in on the "leopards ate my face" stance. Instead of feeling bad, I now laugh at people who voted for this and are getting hurt. I can't help that people are this stupid. A
818.
by jghn 2y ago
The point is that the media immediate glommed on to a "popular mandate" with Trump. Yet, it was very much not true. He arguably won a popular vote. That's barely a pop;lar vote mandate.
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by jghn 2y ago
Again: why do you seem to think I don't understand how the senate works. The senate works the way it does. The house is intended to be the chamber of the populace. Roughly 100 years ago we artificially limited the house of the commons.
820.
by jghn 2y ago
Yes, and that's my point. Anyone who truly, honestly "didn't know" doesn't deserve to have a vote.
821.
by jghn 2y ago
Why do you seem to believe anything I'm talking about involves the Senate mattering? I've discussed how the House had its membership artificially capped roughly 150 years into this country's history
822.
by jghn 2y ago
Despite what people say, land does vote. And you're right: land voted for Trump. But that's not what's being discussed in this subthread. The media portray Trump as having a popular vote mandate. That's not true
823.
by jghn 2y ago
I remember warnings of all this bullshit going around the socials. Kinda funny how it's playing out *exactly the fuck like those warnings portrayed*. For those who voted for him I understand the people who are happy about what's h
824.
by jghn 2y ago
Remember when it came out that Project 2025 was going to be the playbook? And Trump disavowed it but all evidence pointed to the contrary? And our priors pointed to him not being inclined to tell the truth? That's when we knew this wou
825.
by jghn 2y ago
yes it does. The house does not. The senate was always set up to artificially prop up smaller (by population) states. The House was not. But we've artificially capped the House. Now they both favor lower population states.
826.
by jghn 2y ago
Out of curiosity, why does this matter?
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by jghn 2y ago
Let's not forget that the house is artificially capped [1]. It should have a much larger membership. The senate already biases towards land over people. And more and more the house does as well. [1] https://history.house.gov
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by jghn 2y ago
No, they did. Absolutely nothing about what's happening is a surprise. Anyone claiming otherwise is either lying or so uneducated that they shouldn't be voting.
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by jghn 2y ago
Indeed. And yet with certain previous presidents we've been told that because the margin of victory is so slim, they're already a lame duck. But here, it's a mandate.
830.
by jghn 2y ago
> when the majority of people who decided to vote voted for the person You're not wrong. However the portrayal of a mandate is a bit of a media fiction. He didn't have notably more votes than any other recent president.
831.
by jghn 2y ago
> Other countries also get access at 1/3 the price. 1) Many other countries don't have the ass backwards healthcare system that we have 2) Then there are the poorer countries. It turns out that things like providing them cheap
832.
by jghn 2y ago
No. They are in the first year of their current level/role. That may mean the first year of employment. It could also mean they were promoted.
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by jghn 2y ago
I hope that you do not consume a single dime of government resources that I'd prefer not to pay for. But I'm going to be that's not true.
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by jghn 2y ago
Out of curiosity, how much direct experience do you have with the NIH? Or are you just assuming that what you say is true?
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by jghn 2y ago
> If an institute becomes stultified and corrupt Are you implying the NIH is "stultified and corrupt"? If so, care to back that claim up?
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by jghn 2y ago
> Flu vaccines are incredibly successfu A big part of the problem is a lot of people don't understand this. How often do you hear people say, "I got the flu vaccine and still got the flu". However, most people who say the
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by jghn 2y ago
The only time I went to the AF Museum was in the early 80s while in grade school. I still remember that thing. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I was completely floored.
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by jghn 2y ago
Because the pendulum of typing hadn't swung back to static being in vogue when the Philosophy of Software Design came out. At the time you had mostly the Scala & Haskell people standing in a corner screaming until they (well, we as
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by jghn 2y ago
I say this as someone who was very heavy into PvP in UO. There's a reason for this. Most PKs wanted to be wolves. Very few players want to play a game where they're sheep. I spent most of my time tracking down the wolves and fight
840.
by jghn 2y ago
IIRC the UO alpha looked even more like U7

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