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toddestan

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  • The problem is everyone expects Calc to be Excel, including full compatibility with reading and writing of Excel's file formats. As Excel is a constantly moving target, following that path means you'll forever be a second-rate Excel that'll never quite be fully compatible.

    I find Calc to be a fine spreadsheet program myself, though I'm hardly a power user. If you want to use Excel, then just go use Excel.

  • We are all at his mercy.

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  • There was that one episode where Data single-handedly hijacked the Enterprise-D and took it on a joyride to go visit Dr. Noonien Soong and there was basically fuck-all the rest of the crew was able to do about it.

    Turned out it was due to some sort of homing device in Data's head that wasn't supposed to work that way and it wasn't going to happen again, etc. etc., but after that I would have been a bit cautious of allowing Data access to anything important.

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  • That's really only needed at slow speeds. At higher speeds the tire noise is enough. Even for most modern ICE cars, at higher speeds the tire noise dominates over the engine/exhaust noise.

  • AI has ruined troubleshooting

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  • Sadly one of the solutions to this is to ask an AI. It's a bit of a crapshoot - often it'll just give back a bunch of slop or hallucinate an answer, but other times it's able to cut through the crap a lot faster than I would ever be able to and give me the exact information I'm looking for. Even better if you can get it to link to its sources so you can check its work.

  • How a patch of forest was saved from logging by a surveying error.

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  • I had the opportunity to visit that once. It's in the middle of nowhere. It was pretty easy to see the line that separated the patch of old growth forest with the surrounding second growth forest. It's crazy that forests like that used to cover huge portions of the state of Minnesota and it's (almost) all gone now.

  • Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB

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  • Earlier this year I needed a SSD for a PC I was going to use as a router. The smallest drive Microcenter had was 256 GB, which was massive overkill. It was also priced at $19, so I was like whatever and bought it.

    With the massive increases in price for flash memory, maybe we'll start seeing smaller drives again.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • If I remember right the first couple of books were originally published as a series of short stories in a sci-fi magazine and sometime later were compiled into novels. That's why the books seem a bit disjointed where they'll suddenly just jump ahead in time to some new setting.

  • We can play that game too

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  • That's exactly how it works, well other than me having the dates off as the Boomers weren't even born when Social Security was enacted by FDR. When Social Security was enacted, retirees started receiving benefits even if they never paid into the system, which was paid for by the current workers who were paying into the system. It's been like that ever since. Social Security is also not a pension.

    You are correct that for most people would be better off investing their Social Security taxes into a hedge fund but workers don't really have a choice in the matter.

  • We can play that game too

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  • That's not how Social Security works. The money the Boomers paid into the system went to paying benefits for the previous generations. The benefits the Boomers (at least the ones that have retired) are getting now is being paid by the workers in the younger generations. While it's true the program has run a surplus, if the young taxpayers stopped paying into the system that surplus wouldn't last very long.

  • We can play that game too

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  • Not that I disagree, but 90 would be silent generation.

  • Porsche Is Adding Fake Gear Shifts to Its EVs, 2027 Taycan Will Be First: Exclusive

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  • It's surprising to me as almost all electric vehicles have a fixed gear ratio between the motor and the wheels. It's essentially a single speed transmission. A CVT can modify the gear ratio on the fly so it can fake a gear shift if it wants to. But with a single gear ratio what are you going to do, blip the power so you get a bit of a lurch and play fake engine noises through the speakers?

  • solutions of the past

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  • They tried that (sort of) back in the Vista days. It was called ReadyBoost. Basically it involved using a flash drive to hold parts of the Windows page file instead of using the hard disk.

  • Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

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  • That's interesting. I've always wanted a bunch of blinkenlights but they also needed to be functional and serve some purpose. Kind of like the old Thinkpad I have that has a whole row of status LEDs under the screen. A bunch of meaningless lights just for the sake of having lights always seemed pointless.

    Anyway, with the last PC I built, the RGB stuff was pretty much unavoidable. I still went out of my way to get a case without a window though. I do have the RGB on, but it's a solid blue-greenish color so there's a bit of glow coming out the back of the case.

  • Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

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  • It's fine for things like office PCs where you just need it to work, don't want to spend a lot of money, and performance doesn't really matter too much.

  • Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors

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  • Honestly, I don't think she really ever cared what Bill was up to. The marriage was just a way to advance her career.

  • What's your power? Choose wisely.

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  • You wouldn't need a parachute to go skydiving either. Just teleport yourself before you hit the ground.

  • Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI

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  • My experience is an MBA from a T10 school is just as useless. On top of that, they think they should be paid more because of the school they went to.

    The sad thing, some of the material in an MBA program can actually be useful. It's just the type of people who enroll in these programs aren't the type to actually learn it and will just coast through doing the bare minimum. Or I suppose today, using AI to cheat. This is even more so for the people who think that the key to success is having a big name school on their resume. If anything, I'd put more weight on an MBA from no-name state U than T10 school. Which still isn't much, but anyway.

  • YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes

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  • Most poor people probably just take the standard deduction anyway. It's not like they have enough money to accumulate a large amount of deductible expenses anyway. Possible exceptions might be large medical expenses or a mortgage.

  • Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell

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  • Has Lenovo stepped their game up recently? Work used to be all Lenovo, and a few years back they switched over to Dell because the Lenovos just weren't reliable. Which is a shame because I still think the Lenovos are better designed with better keyboards, screens, port layout, etc. but it's all moot if the thing craps out after a couple of years.