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    Empire in Decline

    I think that has to be a record of sorts. Even Hitler didn't lose his goodwill that fast. The fact so many people believed Trump's lies speaks to how bad our education system is. His base is going to be the ones suffering the most from his shortsighted policies. I'm going to be using the words...
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    Empire in Decline

    I'm honestly hoping the EU declares war on us if we withdraw from NATO. It'll be worth it just to see the dumbfounded looks on his MAGA supporters. "But I thought he was going to bring peace." Last I checked the price of groceries is still high. But we're talking about making Gaza into a resort...
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    Mirrorless Cameras (MILC) and Lenses

    I haven't been following stuff lately but that sounds like a game changer. 16 cores, 40 CUs, AND 128GB of memory. I've been saying for a long time AMD should put dedicated memory on their APUs. I guess the chip would attempt to cache the most frequently used stuff in the on-chip RAM, and use...
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    Mirrorless Cameras (MILC) and Lenses

    Speaking of Lunar, he hasn't posted in a while. Do you know if he's OK?
  5. J

    Something Random

    I'd probably just ship my luggage to a UPS store near my final destination where they can hold it until I get there. All this lost luggage stuff honestly sounds like yet more reasons to just take Amtrak if I ever start traveling.
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    Something Random

    I second Mercutio's sentiments. :cry:
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    Something Random

    Cars in NYC generally always cause more problems than they solve, starting with finding where to park them. Lots of reasons why I never owned one, even though I have a driveway to park it.
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    Something Random

    Didn't you tell her driving in Manhattan is slower than walking? Real NYers never drive into Manhattan. Besides being the most congested place in the US by a large margin, it also has the greatest public transit system by far. The only parking in Manhattan is insanely expensive garages.
  9. J

    Something Random

    Can you still go to Canada without a passport these days? I only went there once, in 1973, to Montreal, with my parents and siblings. Actually that was the only time I was ever out of the country.
  10. J

    archival storage options

    I'm aware the date of manufacture matters also. The 2.88 MB format didn't really catch on but I wonder if the early versions of those were also reliable, or if the bit density was just too high. The larger problem with floppies was that their mechanism for finding a track was purely mechanical...
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    archival storage options

    My thought about USB drives failing is if your carry them around you build up static charge while walking, especially on a carpet. Touch the drive before discharging yourself and you may well cause it to fail. Probably the USB drives with metal cases would be much better protected. I actually...
  12. J

    Mech keyboards

    To be fair most average people in the US can't ditch a personal vehicle because of development patterns and lack of public transit. Suburbia was arguably the biggest, most costly mistake of the 20th century which will take decades to fix. Of course these high profile people should ditch the...
  13. J

    Mech keyboards

    Clean means when it's making energy it's not emitting pollution. Of course there's an energy cost to make anything, be it wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, EVs, etc. Overall though these things are far cleaner than burning fossil fuels. It's always better to repair than replace if...
  14. J

    Mech keyboards

    China is making $10K EVs. If Trump removed the tariffs and allowed them to be imported they would sell like hotcakes. The major reason we're having trouble electrifying is our insistence on clinging to ridiculously sized vehicles which need 3 to 5 times the battery and electricity to go any...
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    Mech keyboards

    Oil is yesterday's news. The country should be moving towards renewables. How did Trump's attempt to revive the coal industry in his first term go? Coal isn't economically viable any more. Oil won't be within a decade, either. Drilling new wells is a huge investment which oil companies won't...
  16. J

    Empire in Decline

    The 1933 reference is more about how Hitler was able to become a dictator in a democracy than about what followed. We're already in the process of this happening less than two weeks into the new administration. If our checks and balances don't hold, Trump will likely be President for life. He...
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    Empire in Decline

    Interesting stuff about XXY. There's also XYY. There's even XXX, and in this case it has nothing to do with porn. One common theme with MAGAs, and in general any type of authoritarian, is their black and white world view. Besides gender, truth is none of us fit neatly into any prepackaged...
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    Empire in Decline

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    Something Random

    I didn't know anyone was even still making single pane windows now, much less that a building owner would be dumb enough to install them. Really, that's Trump level stupidity. Now to mention I'm pretty sure it's illegal under the building codes virtually everywhere in the country. Nowadays 3...
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    Something Random

    Very nice picture! Regarding the windows, cellular shades (the double cell type) would help. Or if you don't care about light get 1" foam insulation board and put it in front of the window. Surprised new windows would be worse. Are there any air leaks? Sounds like it could be a botched...
  21. J

    Something Random

    Lots of parts of the south got more snow than NYC had. And there were blizzard warnings also. This is a first in my lifetime. Reminds me of the movie The Day After Tomorrow.
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    Something Random

    After hearing Trump's inauguration speech I was reminded of this: Grand Moff Tarkin : The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
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    Something Random

    That basically means anyone roughly 80 or older stands a good chance of dying of natural causes. The rest of us will be killed off by disease, famine, natural disasters, war, etc. Pretty depressing. I hope we change course. Merc's post illustrates exactly the reason why tax laws should make...
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    Something Random

    This is semi-relevant to the discussion: https://www.yahoo.com/news/end-world-know-theorist-warns-150030341.html Forget 300 years. What we do in probably the next 10 or 20 will decide our fate on one of two paths. I strongly feel it'll either be Mad Max or Star Trek, without much in between...
  25. J

    Something Random

    Same thing with the ongoing hysteria about how dangerous the subway is. I took the subways to high school and college from 1977 through 1985. The earlier part of that period especially is when statistically subway crime reached all time highs not seen since. I sometimes passed through the Port...
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    Something Random

    Look. I respect that. My parents refused to leave NYC when things started going bad in the 1970s. They figured eventually it would turn around, which it did. Hopefully this too will pass. Before it does, I suspect Democrats are going to learn to love guns. Harsh language won't stop the Trump...
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    Something Random

    I guess I took the part of your post about divorce out of context. Glad she's never married. It's better if you both have a similar experience level in that area. And yes, the way things are going in the US, find a way to tie up up your affairs here, then run, don't walk, to Canada. If you can...
  28. J

    Video Cards

    What I find interesting is prices for things like a PIC16F628A are way higher than microcontrollers presumably built on smaller nodes with much greater capabilities, like the PIC16F18046. 3.5kB program memory, 224 bytes RAM versus 28 kB program memory, 2kB RAM, plus a whole bunch of peripheral...
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    Something Random

    Wow, so she married really young by today's standards. I guess context is everything. I can understand a divorce if you're beaten or otherwise abused. Barring that, it tends to raise some questions. I've been alone all my adult life really, so I have to be OK with it at this point. Honest truth...
  30. J

    Something Random

    I don't mean the growing up baggage everyone has. I mean the kind they have just by virtue of having kids or being in many prior failed relationships, perhaps even prior failed marriages. If a person has kids from a prior partnership, you're going to be second fiddle to them. And I fully...
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    Something Random

    Japan is at the forefront of the aging crisis, with Italy not far behind. Both groups tend to live long to start with going by genetics. Add in medical science and they're living even longer. We're facing a shortage of both medical personnel and caretakers. Japan is actively working on robots to...
  32. J

    Something Random

    Going by that rule I'm good down to a 38 year old partner. I want younger for several reasons, including not having baggage like a prior marriage, or especially children.
  33. J

    Something Random

    In which direction? Is she the older one? We're you uncoupled just a few months ago? This happened pretty fast. I'm not one to pursue people myself. That could be both good and bad.
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    Something Random

    I'm surprised people still bring up age gaps these days. It's only a number. You and your partner are only one generation apart, same as your grandparents. It's different if you're maybe 40 or 50 years apart. At that point a young person could be faced being a caretaker for their aging partner...
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    Something Random

    Unfortunately, at least once my ribs fully heal, I'll be among the few who could probably get through basic training. At age 62. Ditto for my brother and sister. Besides who would mind our cats if we're gone, I wouldn't relish the idea of being part of an invasion force. The last honorable war...
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    Something Random

    Everyone in the US should be worried about a draft also if he plans to invade Canada and Panama as well. During WWII the draft age was expanded to include 45 to 64 year olds.
  37. J

    Nvidia 50xx

    On the bright side the cards can double as space heaters in the winter.
  38. J

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - 2024

    Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Glad to see 2024 go. Really shitty year for me and my siblings. Mom passing away, my bike accident, my brother's bike accident, my sister having back trouble, and then Trump being elected to put the final shit topping on an awful year.
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    Something Random

    Any reason you're not considering moving with her? Is there anything keeping you in Indiana? Of course, if hot weather isn't your thing then I get not wanting to move to Florida. That's a state you couldn't pay to move to.
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    Something Random

    I started that yesterday, at least until he ran away. I'll give him a dose of flea treatment also. He had fleas earlier this year. No idea how given that he's strictly an indoor cat. Evidently the fleas in this part of the country developed a resistance to FrontLine. Advantage II worked with one...
  41. J

    Something Random

    Thanks but I managed to get him. I checked under the car around 6:30 PM yesterday and he wasn't there. I didn't see him in the yard, either, so I looked all around the block. Turns out he was hiding in the vegetable garden between the compost bins but I forgot to look there first time around...
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    Something Random

    Anyone know how to get a cat out from under a car? My cat ran outside last night. When I tried to get him in the yard he ran under my brother's car in the driveway. Good news is he's staying there, and with the fences he's contained to the driveway and yard. Bad news is he's been there for over...
  43. J

    Something Random

    They already did. They claim the government can control the weather, so it's sending hurricanes to punish red states.
  44. J

    Something Random

    Upstate NY is one the more affordable places to live. The only caveat is there aren't that many jobs there. Of course, if you can work remotely then that doesn't matter.
  45. J

    Something Random

    Was this person born blind, or became that way? Usually the ones born with a particular disability adapt to it amazingly well, which is what this sounds like. I'm around 20/200 but I've adapted to it well enough to only use my glasses when I'm watching TV. For everything else I can see "good...
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    Something Random

    No secret the GOP wants to take us back to at least the 1800s, if not earlier. At one time it wasn't uncommon for much older men to marry girls as young as 12. Not sure what the lower limit on Matt Gaetz's tastes run, but he'd probably be OK with this. Allowing 9 year olds to marry is just...
  47. J

    Something Random

    Trump just picked Matt Gaetz for AG. If Congress is dumb enough to confirm him, I guess his first action will be to get rid of age of consent laws.
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    Something Random

    I have to do manual duplexing on my LaserJet 1022. The only issue is if pages get stuck together, and then you have to reprint some pages all over again. My CLP500 and Phaser 6510 both have duplex printing.
  49. J

    Something Random

    If he doesn't have a massive coronary from eating too many Big Macs I think Trump will be mentally unfit before his term is halfway up. He has the same signs of dementia I saw in my mother. It took her less than two years to go from mostly functional to not being able to get out much resembling...
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    Something Random

    If I had the means I'd leave the country now and never look back. For the sake of everyone I hope the worst fears about a second Trump term don't come to pass.
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