It feels like no matter where I move to, a communist seems to move in at the exact same time… It’s uncanny.

The specifics matter, but generally no.

When an actual fraud investigation is being done into something major like a casino laundering money, my government tends not to turn it into a media circus until after investigations are underway.

When a politician tells me they want to ‘tackle fraud’, especially welfare fraud, I hear “I want to arrest people for being poor”. It sounds like a dog-whistle to me, because every time I hear it used, it’s by people bearing a “the cruelty is the point” mindset.

I had a similar issue, low frequency or crashes after gaming for a while, turns out the fan control wasn’t setting the fan correctly and the GPU was overheating. Utilisation didn’t show it, but frequency did.

Restarting the game could be giving it enough time to cool off?

Cost to manufacture is not more than wages, but cost to purchase a good is always more than the total cost of labour needed to produce it, so long as profit exists.

The money isn’t free so much as redistributed from taxation elsewhere, think of it as the same as subsidising industry except only to the workers of that industry (instead giving it to owners and expecting the savings to trickle downwards). You could also consider it an income tax rebate with more fine-grained control of who gets it.

It doesn’t seem particularly ground-breaking of a concept; I see the value in investing money into necessary but unprofitable industry though my concern is that if you subsidise wages of a business with a profit incentive, management may lower wages to compensate.

That’s… Always true though?

Money backed by precious metals is the same fabric with numbers on it, and sure the idea is that you can always exchange it but if the government/bank refuses an exchange what are you gonna do? The exchange guarantee is backed by the state as much as the value guarantee is for fiat.

Say you buy literal gold and use it for transactions, it’s value as a currency is still based on the trust that people will accept it in exchange; gold is not intrinsically valuable to an everyday person the way for example water is, so it’s value comes down to how much you expect to be able to exchange it for later, which is just taking currency faith the long way around, and in addition you need to consider purity concerns and the like.

When you use crypto, you at minimum trust that it won’t be forked, and probably need to trust that the exchange mediator won’t rug pull. You also to some extent trust that the currency will be about as valuable tomorrow as it is today.

Expecting your currency to have a “real backing” based on a physical property is just ignoring the basic fact that all exchanges of goods revolve around a debt relationship between at least two parties, which always requires some level of trust.

When people trust a currency held by a state, it’s not just based on whether the state keeps its word, but also based on the fact that the state will use it’s monopoly on violence to maintain the integrity (large fines/prison for currency fraud) and value (requiring taxes to be paid in the currency) of that currency, which is a guarantee no other medium of exchange can have.

While I think the cynicism is well-earned, we should pay attention to when we’re proven wrong and highlight when companies do something right. Bitwarden’s fuck-up gave them an opportunity to signal that they’re not intending to build a wall for their garden, and they took it.

It really depends on what you’re most comfortable with; when you go for such a custom option most of the design decisions are about personal preferences.

I suggest you draw out some layouts on a piece of paper, adjust them until you feel happy and then plan out how you want the keymap to look. When you’re happy, look for a layout that fits what you want or build your own on KiCAD.

I bought a kyria from Splitkb, and I’ve been very happy with the design. If I needed another keyboard, it would probably be a very similar layout, but have slightly fewer keys, be low-profile and no oleds.

My parents treated my device access something they had to keep a keen eye on. They were good at manually making sure I wasn’t sitting around having my brain rot, but their spying on what I was doing into my teens left me with some trust issues.

They briefly tried to use technological solutions to control my access and monitor me, but all that served was to make me very good at circumventing them. Outsourcing parenting to a computer program doesn’t work, and kids notice when you try.

Did the citizens of that country take the loan? No

Did they benefit at all from the loan? No

Did the world bank make any effort to ensure the above were answered ‘yes’? No

When you make a leveraged loan are you supposed to be guaranteed that the it was risk free? No

If leveraged loans could be made risk-free ‘breal your legs’ style the way the world bank does to countries, banks would be offering loans to every punter who wanted to bet on the dogs.

I have a 7800XT on Linux and I want to point out that I still run into their “drm_fec_ready” and “no edid read” bugs every day.

amdgpu is miles ahead of what NVIDIA is offering, but it is still a GPU driver on a second class platform. Do not expect a flawless experience on bleeding edge hardware.

What kind of idiot workplace would allow that? Perhaps if you don’t assume the people you talk to are literally brain-dead, you might understand what they’re saying.

hat’s a bad faith interpretation of “the people control the means of production”.

I want you to consider the difference between the work needed to complete a task, and the work needed to manage a workplace: for one of those tasks, only the experts in that task can meaningfully contribute to the outcome, whereas for the other, everybody who is part of the workplace has meaningful input.

I don’t know about your experience, but everywhere I’ve worked there have been people “on the ground” who get to see the inefficiencies in the logistics of their day to day jobs; in a good job a manager will listen and implement changes, but why should the workers be beholden to this middleman who doesn’t know how the job works?

I’ve also had plenty of roles where management have been “telling me where to cut”.

Sure, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing; if the Linux version is missing useful output that would be bad, but if the DX to Vulkan translation ironed out a performance regression, or the scheduler works better in this scenario, or filesystem access had issues with NTFS it could also cause performance differences in Linux favour.

Spyro the Dragon on PS1

Any government which makes caffeine illegal must be prepared to enforce that law with mass violence, or let it be ignored.

Given how unlikely your average cop is going to enforce a law they regularly brea… Oh, nevermind. Yeah it’d be a shit show. Demonstrations, arrests, black markets, the whole nine yards.

Eggs are pushing $10/doz where I am 💀

You can absolutely put together a relatively healthy meal for reasonably cheap, I’m talking about “getting your gas cut-off” budgeting though.

They most certainly are not. If you’re buying unhealthy food only as snacks, you mistake your subset as all unhealthy food.

If you need calories and are on a shoestring budget, your options are potatos, bad bread, Coles cakes etc. You can eat for a week on a few dollars but you’ll become overweight and eventually die of malnutrition. Your options become even more limited if you don’t have a working stove due to being cut off your gas.

Even if they don’t, buying this game still goes in to lining JKRs pockets, something she has explicitly considered as validation of her beliefs.

The makers of the movies, and the publishers of the books also probably didn’t all have anti-trans views, but they don’t have to for JKR to use them to cause harm.

I get it, the devs of a good game don’t deserve to be attached to her, but you’ve got to draw the line somewhere and this is where I’ve chosen to draw mine.

Quantum Mechanics’ hard indeterminism doesn’t prove the multiverse interpretation, it’s just one of several potential explanations for the randomness we see.

I’m honestly more worried about science communicators projecting life-changing properties onto it because “superconductor”, and then the public coming away with “these scientists are all hyperbolic hacks”.