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@BadFaithComment @Ravenismeee "Go hard as balls in Bitcoin, it will hit 200k per bitcoin" I heard about bitcoin when it was still cents per bitcoin. I hate crypto bros, but damn if i knew the future back then i would sitting at the beach right now instead of shitting on company time

@Ravenismeee Buy Google Exclusively.

You meet your 18 year old self, you’re allowed 3 words. What do you say?

@aaliyahvtuber_ "good thing most women are racoons"

As a man, what’s your reaction when a woman says “All men are trash”?

@Existsindeath @KrystalFarr3 @ogisadaDMA Or high data through put. Imagine have camera cpu actually doing the data transfer for 4k 120 fps u compressed video from the sensor to the encoder hardware.

@KrystalFarr3 @ogisadaDMA DMA firmware has actual uses that are not related to anti cheat. Development is a key factor.

Game: Valorant AC: Vanguard (VGK) Today’s Vanguard anti-cheat update blocked the majority of DMA firmwares using SATA/NVMe. VGK suddenly triggered an IOMMU restart warning in-game, after which the DMA firmware becomes completely unusable, even without the game running or after uninstalling Vanguard. Only fix is a full OS reinstall. It’s using IOMMU to create read blocks, which permanently breaks the majority of almost all SATA/NVMe firmwares once triggered. Even the advanced H2-board got affected. Confirmed Firmware Block wave by @ItsGamerDoc

@KrystalFarr3 @ogisadaDMA DMA (Direct memory access) is a very common used technique to reduce cpu loads and speed up data transfers. Cameras for example use it to move the data from the sensor to the cameras RAM.

@ogisadaDMA For those who aren't willing to research: DMA Firmware is a separate piece of hardware, that bypasses the CPU and OS and writes directly to the RAM, allowing the cheats to ignore Kernel level anti cheats. The only thing affected is the illegal DMA firmware.

@iyoushetwt Same reason Vi(m) is still a thing instead of any sane text editor.

be honest, if Linux is so good why do most people still use Windows?

@multiplanet1 "The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past." Well yeah i would too would not care about a $40 thing (elons net worth divide by price of rocket then scaled to my net worth

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail. She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage. Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists. She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment. This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action. Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.

@Gratitude_Inher @ceraliza Tell that to the courts, as a man you have very limited time to object being named the father. If you wait too long and turns out your not the biological father you still on the hook for 18 yrs of child support.

@ceraliza Talk about wrong timings. Bringing a child into the world and navigating postpartum recovery is incredibly difficult. Women go through so much and truly deserve a lot of patience and grace. A paternity test is flexible, give your partner space to recover first.

Three weeks after I gave birth, my husband asked for a DNA test. I was still recovering, barely sleeping, still in pain when he said it like it was normal: “I think we should do a paternity test.” At first, I thought he was joking, He wasn’t. Apparently his coworkers had spent months feeding him stories about men unknowingly raising children that weren’t theirs and one even commented that our son looked nothing like him. So instead of trusting me his wife of 5 years he decided he needed “peace of mind.” “If there’s nothing to hide, it shouldn’t matter,” he said. That was the moment something in me broke, because I wasn’t just recovering from childbirth anymore, I was being treated like a suspect. I didn’t even argue anymore. I just agreed to the test. After that, everything between us went cold. When the results came back, they confirmed what I already knew: 99.9999% probability of paternity. He looked relieved and said, “See? Now we can move on.” But I couldn’t. Because the problem was never the test it was the fact that he believed strangers before he believed me. That same week, I filed for divorce.

@eurofounder The Swiss are part of the single eu market, and as such you can legally do what your brother did.

My older brother came over for dinner last Sunday I noticed his watch the moment he took off his coat A Patek Philippe, easily €30,000 "Nice watch, bro" I said "Oh yeah, I flew to Switzerland to pick it up, much cheaper there" I raised my eyebrow "Did you declare it at the border?" I asked "Haha, no, that's the whole point" he laughed I clenched my fist That is almost €6,000 of unpaid VAT he stole from Germany I excused myself and walked into the bedroom I called the Finanzamt's anonymous report hotline I gave them his name, flight number, and the model of the watch When I came back he was telling my wife about the "new boat he is thinking to buy" I smiled and poured him another beer Enjoy bro, you will see the justice very soon

@KateFantom The van every time. People talk about prestige, but everyone gets out of the fast lane when a white van shows up in their rearview mirror 😅

The one on the right is my van. The one on the left sits higher than my van, weighs more than my van, has less storage space than a VW Golf, weighs around 1000kgs more than a Golf and almost 700kgs more than our own EV. With the high risk of these burning down an airport carpark in Luton, their horrific emissions, reliability, fuel economy and weight, it’s a wonder why people buy them.

@carlwhiteside @KateFantom Says a lot about the other cars you owned 🤣

@KateFantom Best car I’ve ever owned.

@chain_vara @TheJeffPutnam While your at it, teach everyone old enough in your house how to shut of water, gas, and electricity for the whole house. And have them do it. Its simple to do once you know how, but its not something you magically know

Check your toilets too. The hardware guts get old and wall shutoff valves rot/fuse in place after 20-30 years. Better to do it before you have a new navigable stream start up at 2 AM. While you are playing plumber dude, check your water heater too. Walk the house with a can of WD40 and oil, lubricate all the locks/hinges/doors also garage door if you have one.

Driving on my to the store before coming home from work and my wife called. Wife: “The outlet by the tv just started making a crackling noise.” Me: “Kill the breaker, I’ll stop home first.” Got home, grabbed my wire cutters and a screw driver from my toolbox, pulled the outlet out and had my wife switch on the breaker. *sizzle* Then I realized the outlet is at least 30 years old, popped in a spare, problem solved. Guess I gotta go check all the outlets now….

@NightdiveronX @Handre What pops in my mind is how we are paying more for less now. Guess when the only metric a company is beholden to is shareholder profit, the consumer suffers.

@Handre Why does your story about Soviet shoe shortages bring to mind vast expanses of solar panels and the proliferation of wind turbines on once pristine countryside & oceans?🤔 …while economies & the livelihood of ordinary citizens are being crushed by unaffordable electric power😡

Mathematical proof that socialist calculation destroys human welfare emerges from this basic fact: when Soviet shoe factories received quotas measured by weight and volume instead of consumer satisfaction, they did exactly what any rational actor would do under perverse incentives. They mass-produced heavy, unwearable boots in a single size while millions walked barefoot. You can't blame the factory managers. They faced jail time for missing production targets, not for customer complaints that never reached them anyway. Without market prices signaling actual demand for size 8 versus size 12, they optimized for survival under the only metric that mattered to their political overseers. The result? Warehouses stuffed with useless inventory while citizens lined up for hours hoping to find anything remotely wearable. Free market economists call this the calculation problem, and it applies to every good and service under central planning. Prices are information systems that coordinate millions of individual preferences across time and geography. When you eliminate prices through state control, you eliminate the only mechanism that tells producers what people actually want, when they want it, and how much they'll sacrifice to get it. The shoe shortage reveals something deeper about socialist systems: they can hit every statistical target while completely failing human beings. Soviet planners celebrated meeting production quotas while their citizens developed foot problems from ill-fitting footwear. They measured success in tons of leather processed, not in the comfort and mobility of actual people trying to walk to work every morning.

@hoeua4e @BradCLemley If you ever come across instructional videos about technical stuff on the hun, its me. I dont make them for the money and the hub search works ok due to the lack of other videos on the subject. 😅

@BradCLemley Except the youtube search function has gotten dramatically unusable, so you can barely find these videos anymore

Here is a huge positive to modern life that gets no press. I have an old 2009 Toyota, and the AUX port crapped out about a year ago. Went to YouTube. Young, enthusiastic guy explains how to fix it. It is not obvious - involves taking the dashboard apart in a counter-intuitive way, but once you see it, it's a 15 minute fix. There are actually dozens of videos showing how to do this, and they collectively have well over 200k views. Had this happened in 1995, I would have just lived with it. But the combo of the replacement AUX jack available from Amazon and the video of the simple (but not obvious) fix, I fixed it. I HAVE DONE THIS DOZENS OF TIMES. Replaced the control panel of my dishwasher. Replaced the ice maker in the fridge. Fixed a wonky sanding head on my drill press. Mastered a bandsaw technique that I use for my sculpture. On and on and on... I think it is likely no exaggeration to say billions of fixes and skill upgrades have been performed worldwide that would not have been performed if it were not for the instruction freely given peer-to-peer on YouTube. Take a moment to be happy about this. The busted item keeps performing, rather than going to the landfill. The person learning and doing the fix gains a sense of mastery and saves money. It's an unmixed blessing. Stop doomscrolling. Think of what is busted in your house, find the YouTube video on how to fix it, and fix it.

@BradCLemley @TrumanEveryman And now the AI-bros trying to profit from it.

@TrumanEveryman Yes! Years ago, I heard the term "gift economy." It describes a sort of bottom-up utopian economy where people just give each other things they need. YouTube instruction is one of the biggest, most useful gift-economy institutions in the world.

@montana32494 @konstructivizm Wooden bombers were the dog bollocks. Lighter, faster and invisible to nazi radar.

@konstructivizm WW2 era Mosquito twin engine Royal Air Force fighter, fuselage made of wood; extremely fast but fragile. Wud disintgr8 with 20 mm Cannon shot

Japan has built a $2,500 cardboard drone. It actually flies fast while avoiding radar! At first, the military thought it was a joke. A plane made of… cardboard? Yet, this drone can travel nearly 80 km at over 100 km/h. And the craziest thing is that its material becomes an advantage. Cardboard reflects radar waves less than some conventional materials. As a result, it's harder to detect in the sky. Japan can even transport hundreds of them in a single container and assemble them in minutes. While some countries are building drones costing millions, they're focusing on machines that are practically disposable. Perhaps this is the new technological warfare: Simple, ultra-fast weapons… produced like Amazon packages. Subscribe to discover incredible human advancements in five minutes a day.

@BlokkedoosBjorn @RinaRodel90342 Schuldig aan wat? Zelf als je hem totaal anders opvoed zal dat weinig veranderen aan de wachtrij voor een woning...

@RinaRodel90342 Tjah, wie heeft em opgevoed? Dat is de enige schuldige hier.

Mijn zoon(35) staat 10 jaar bij woningnet regio Utrecht ingeschreven. Hij telt niet mee als dakloze omdat hij bij ons op zolder woont. Nav mijn vraag bij gemeente krijg ik een mail dat hij maar naar een andere regio moet gaan. Omdat het nog minstens 7 jaar gaat duren. @wierdduk

@Skwerilleee Lets go just do what they did during the wild west days. When you enter a town or city you hand your firearms to the sheriff and you pick them up when leaving.

Something that happens to me literally every time I'm talking politics with a liberal: I'll mention that the gun control is a total dealbreaker on voting blue for a lot of people. They respond with "nobody wants to take your guns, that's just republican fearmongering." I point out that no, literally every democrat candidate wants an assault weapons ban. That's not some republican lie, it's literally right there on their own issues pages. Rather than acknowledging that they were incorrect and continuing the conversation from there, they just immediately pivot to "omg nobody needs an assault weapon!" It's literally like a script, I've had the exact same conversation like 1000 times.

@pbertrand_dev @vrexec ALDI nord and sud just across the border though

@vrexec No Costco though

Been living in Europe 3 years now with my wife and two kids More and more questions lately about whether/when we’ll move back to the US We don’t know My Dutch and EU friends are typically shocked after I explain to them that, despite a 50% top income tax and a global unrealized wealth tax, we would still net far less disposable income in the US than the Netherlands, for example. Health+dental insurance for a family of 4 in the NL costs ~€350/month with a ~€300/year deductible which the Dutch call “eigen risico” or “own risk” We rent a 4 bedroom ground floor apartment with a huge back garden in arguably the most desirable part of the city… and pay less than our mortgage in New Jersey in 2020 when we had a 3% interest rate. We don’t own cars. Transportation is super cheap relatively.. I estimate 10-20% cheaper because we bike, walk, tram, train.. rent a car when needed for short trips. Kids go to a school that costs €0/year that costs $40,000/year in New Jersey.

@SamaHoole Easy. Try wearing a long sleeve 100% linnen short in the sun. You'd be surprised how well that works.

Why did farmers in 1900 not get sunburned despite spending all day outside with no SPF? Why did sailors in the 1700s not develop melanoma in the rates we see now? Why did Aboriginal Australians, the most sun-exposed humans on earth, manage their entire evolutionary history without dermatology clinics? Why does sunburn incidence track almost perfectly with the introduction of industrial seed oils into the food supply, country by country? Why do populations who maintain traditional animal-fat-based diets, despite high sun exposure, show consistently low skin cancer rates? Why does omega-3 supplementation, which displaces linoleic acid in the cell membrane, measurably increase tolerance to UV in clinical trials? Why are the people loudest about "no link between seed oils and sunburn" the same people whose careers depend on the conclusion? These are reasonable questions. Someone, eventually, is going to have to answer them honestly.

@honeyNonABG Ask any middle aged white woman in Negril why she's there...

I’m pushing 30. Was at the beach and some 18 year old lied and said he was 21. I told him I’m his mother. He wouldn’t go away. I told him I’m basically 30. He said age didn’t matter. He came up to me 3-4 times. And as courageous as he was, to me he was a child. A young boy just starting out. One that was offering himself up to be taken advantage of. Makes me think of all the 60+ year old men “dating” 20 year olds. Makes me think of that 65 year old who was talking to 21 year old me. How do these men do that? How do they look at a literal child and go “wow she’s mature” when i was looking at this 18 year old and thinking of how much younger he is than my younger brother. “She’s a fully grown adult.” And you’re excusing yourself to feel less guilty.