Nathan Anderson

@jmmv I'd be interested to see perceived Mavericks performance on that hardware compared to Big Sur (or later w/ unofficial patches). Especially since it's probably going to be difficult to get an up-to-date browser on that Mavs install.

Took the Mac trash can out of the closet and installed Mavericks on it. This thing _flies_ because, of course, Electron-like stuff wasn’t a thing in 2013. No M1 magic silicon necessary.

Kevin O’Leary absolutely TORCHES California’s proposed wealth tax: Graham Stephan: “[Jack] believes that it might be a good thing.” Kevin O’Leary: “Jack you’re going to hell for saying that.” Jack Selby: “There’s an argument to be made.” Kevin O’Leary: “No, there isn’t. It’s un-American. It will destroy the fabric of the economy. Punishing wealth and success —” “We’re going to steal your wealth just because we feel that a 10% wealth tax is appropriate.” Graham Stephan: “It’s not really stealing. It’s redistributing.” Kevin O’Leary: “You’re going to go to hell too. Both of you are going to hell. I feel sorry.” “I’ve heard that word before in Cuba, in North Korea, in Russia. They’re all sh*tholes now. How about Venezuela?... It’s a sh*thole.” Credit: YT/TheIcedCoffeeHour

@liamsmith86 @GenAI_is_real Two things can be true at the same time. 🤷‍♂️

unpopular opinion: 16GB is plenty if software engineers actually cared about memory efficiency. chrome eating 4GB for 12 tabs is not a hardware problem its a software disgrace. docker consuming 2GB idle is not a feature its laziness. we live in an era where people optimize every single token to save $0.001 on API costs but happily ship electron apps that eat 500MB to display a todo list. if the industry treated RAM the way we treat inference compute - obsessively measuring every byte - 16GB would feel luxurious. the hardware isnt the problem, the software is @adxtyahq

No Kings!!!!! 😉😉😉 They mock you. They steal from you. They ignore your votes. They cheer for themselves for doing it. Democracy Dies in Washington State

@PNWConservative They're not really sure, either. 🤷‍♂️

I just don’t want an income tax. Not sure what all these people are angry at Trump for

WHOA whoa whoa whoa whoa, HOLD the PHONE. There are people who have done way less than 1.5M of TOTAL (not per-year) misreporting on their taxes who get their lives turned upside-down. You're telling me that as long as it is not fraud specifically related to how someone reports their income to the IRS, one gets a free pass to the tune of 1.5M per YEAR?!?!?

This just BLEW my mind. JD Vance Revealed that the US Government does not Even Prosecute FRAUD Under $1.5 Million Dollars. "We do not prosecute fraud in this country if it's under $1.5 million dollars per year!” "One of the things we are trying to do with this task force is commit the DOJ to investigating ALL FRAUD.” JD Vance says the fraudsters in Minnesota are being HELPED by the Democrat politicians in power: “I do not believe that what happened in the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota happens without some cooperation from politicians, without people looking the other way, or maybe even being in the fraud themselves.”

there really is a "fix everything right now" button for buying a printer and its been the same for 20 years

@muthaPNW Stateline? Good prices there for sure.

At the gas station in Idaho, and all the plates are from Washington. 😂

me and claude code all day every day

@nosoup4knowles Every time that moniker was uttered during e.g. DW Backstage events, it was obvious on its face that it was tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic, and ribbing among friends / self-deprecating. I feel like you'd have to be a moron to have come to any other conclusion.

When Jeremy Boreing left DW, it quickly became clear how ignorant the haters were. "What kind of guy forces his employees to call him the God-King?" Smh. Even Candace, who was WELL aware of the backstory, gleefully perpetuated the rumors. So... here is the real story:

@WilliamWolfe Spineless? Or in on the take?

The biggest obstacle to success for the second Trump administration isn’t the biased media, lackluster cabinet officials, or even the Democrats. It’s spineless Congressional Republicans.

@Matuoht @KyleTrainEmoji But the practical "end result" is the same. If the software slows down at the same (or even greater) rate that the hardware advances...when it comes to most everyday tasks, what good is that fast hardware doing you?

@KyleTrainEmoji computers being fast and software being slow are completely different things blame microsoft for it

Computers certainly do not feel faster. Once upon a time you could open your Start Menu in a fraction of a second. Now it takes two or three seconds

@BrandiKruse Sure, but how was she not already aware that this was going down before the day rolled around?

THIS MOM IS MY HERO

"receives regular feature updates" Well, there's the problem. How about if Microsoft just stops doing that. Charge one-time for a single perpetual use license for ONE VERSION. Get security and bug fix updates, and that's it. Release new "features" only in new major versions, and charge appropriately for the upgrade. Users can either pay for it, or elect not to buy that upgrade if the new features aren't compelling, at their discretion. That's how you "fund ongoing development": *charge for the new major versions*. Not through never-ending subscriptions / rent-to-own. Somehow the industry followed this model for decades, and it was fine & very profitable.

Would you pay for a subscription to a "Windows Professional" if it included NO telemetry, ads, sponsored links, or upsells, bloat, or junk? Clearly, they have to make money. Today, however, it seems everything is predicated on monetizing the customer post-purchase. And that's largely because people don't pay for Windows. Put another way, if Windows were clean and didn't include any bloat or upsell, would you actually pay for it?

Why does everything have to be a $^#%@! subscription?? I would be happy to pay for a one-time perpetual use license for every new version (or to skip buying a version, at my prerogative)...y'know, the way it USED to be, back when MS seemingly had no problem turning a profit on it? Why is that model suddenly deemed not profitable when it was for decades? Windows has turned to crap precisely because they basically started giving it away. Anybody who bought a copy of Windows 7 at retail has basically gotten every new version released since then for free, with that single license seat transferable from old PC to new PC. And OEM installs of Windows 7 have gotten free upgrade to 10 & 11 assuming that the PC continues to function and still serves the needs of whoever currently has it in their possession. Maybe just start charging for major version number changes again. Simple as.

@bkingkohl Missed an opportunity to make the coupon code "KILLARY" 🤔

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@virtuallyfun @davepl1968 "Yes...but" There is truth in what you say; however, as a *user* I do appreciate having such things be in human-readable and directly-editable formats.

@davepl1968 People made the mistake of trying to read and write XML directly It's for and by machines.

Back in the 90s, some of the Windows team drank the XML Kool-Aid. It was going to solve everything, and everything would be XML. I never got it. To me, an XML document is an INI file with structure. I frequently derided it as such, which made me one of those who "didn't get it". Sure, it's a handy abstraction, but it doesn't enable anything you can't do with INI files and a validator. I still don't get it.

@WrongSort @tjthurston13 @WallStreetApes Your instincts are likely correct. "I have three videos and three different Walmarts with three different meats and three different brands; I found all of it in under seven minutes in each store." Soooo...not just Kentucky Legend's hams. brobible.com/culture/articl…

@tjthurston13 @WallStreetApes I want to believe this, but if I was trying to make this go away as easily as possible, I would say the same thing. What a shame we can't simply trust anyone anymore.

The Walmart pricing scandal continues American puts multiple pieces of meat on the scale and every one of them is marked at a higher weight than it really is - Marked at 5.62 pounds -> real weight 2.53 pounds - Marked at 4.80 pounds > real weight 1.17 pounds - Marked at 5.51 pounds -> real weight 2.41 pounds Americans are being robbed blind

@jtregunna @AlfaBeetaGumma @T3chFalcon Sure, but there's no money to be made in that metadata 😁

@nlra @AlfaBeetaGumma @T3chFalcon Yeah, but the base packet data is still not encrypted even in a perfectly encrypted end to end world. If it were, the fundamental compatibility of the internet would break.

"YOUR ISP CAN SEE YOUR TRAFFIC, USE A VPN" What they actually mean: Yes — your ISP sees: Every domain you visit (e.g. twitter[.]com) How much data you're sending/receiving Your real IP address Timing & patterns (can figure out habits even without content) sold/used for ads/profiling. But NO — with HTTPS: They CANNOT see exact page (/login vs /profile), passwords, messages, or content inside encrypted connections. VPN fixes the domain/IP visibility by routing everything through their encrypted tunnel (ISP only sees Proton's server IP). But now you trust Proton instead (no-logs audited is good, but still a shift). HTTPS protects content. VPN protects metadata + location.

Precisely. People don't understand how much additional compute overhead is required to not only deep-packet inspect, but then to take decisive action on that, especially if it involves manipulating the contents of payloads. It's astronomical. ISPs have a hard enough time just making sure that they can forward traffic from point A to point B at the rate that they need to without all of that. Doing more than that would be prohibitively expensive, and I'm hard-pressed to believe that any additional $$ that you think you might be able to extract from that exercise would cover the additional expense and complexity. You might say, well okay, that might have been true a decade ago, but compute has gotten cheaper since then. But even if it were cheap enough now to make this worth their while, the point is moot since nearly all payloads that anybody actually cares about these days are protected end-to-end.

Yeah back in those days I was running my ISP. We didn't have the compute to do it, but we would have done some of it I'm positive to optimize peering opportunities if we did. Because that use case doesn't care whose traffic is whose, just that fine grained classification is possible. We also didn't capture port 53 traffic, just provide the DNS lookup services for people, but it was all unlogged and we didn't restrict any names either.