kescusay

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What I really want conservatives to contend with is the fact that cutting the size of the federal workforce this way has done LITERALLY NONE of the things they always insist shrinking the government will accomplish.

  • It has not reduced prices. In fact, those are way up.
  • It has not reduced taxes on the middle and lower classes. In fact, those are up too (while taxes on the ultra-wealthy continue to drop).
  • It has not made government services more efficient. In fact, those are now substantially shittier.
  • It has not made health care less expensive.
  • It has not made unemployment go down (obviously).
  • It has not made the private sector step in where government services falter.

Everything is more expensive and less efficient now. Small government does not equal good government.

Conservatives, this is what happens when you elect people who will actually follow through on the batshit insane garbage you've always wanted. You own this mess.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Hmmm. The NVMe standard has existed since 2011, and Samsung released their first commercially-available drive with it in 2013. So Microsoft has had at least 12 years to make nvmedisk.sys the standard driver for these disks.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Unless you know your history and recognize that every single time one of these fantasies takes over the economy, the failure to actually, y'know, be a profitable business ultimately dooms it.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

I wonder what it's like being an investor in one of these companies. You're watching them shovel mountains of money into the AI furnace, with literally no profit to show for it, but the stock keeps going up. What's your "get out before the whole thing collapses" number? I mean, there must be some voice at the back of your mind going, "This is unsustainable."

Tech bros and their sycophants have started saying things like "the old rules don't apply anymore." That also happened in 2007-2008. That also happened just before the dotcom bubble burst. That happens before every pie-in-the-sky idea that takes over the economy but has no actual plan for profitability finally burns out.

So what's your get-out number, investor guys?

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You use his work and derivatives of it every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Holy shit, I can literally just copy and paste the text?!?

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Loads fine for me. Maybe their servers were taking a beating when you tried?

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've been somewhat avoiding the news (for my sanity), but I have heard that some of the PDFs turned out to be badly redacted and the original text is accessible programmatically. Do you happen to have a link to one? I'm a developer and have worked with PDFs extensively in the past. I'd love to delve into one and un-redacted it.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

If I won that, my very first thought would be, "I have to get rid of most of this as soon as humanly possible."

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I like that you called it poison because all options are bad, but I prefer the one I consider the least bad: Angular.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

His main mistake is that the child in question is Eric.

 

Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone's minds. It's certainly on mine.

But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, "By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America's finest news source." A lot of stories being posted lately don't even remotely fit that.

That doesn't mean political stories aren't allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it's a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don't fit.

 

There it is, plain as day. He literally just admitted to his crimes.

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