You remind me of Dovetail, the artisan community that lived off of the largess of the rich Vickies in The Diamond Age. The Vickies could 3D print anything they wanted, but they were willing to spend a tiny portion of their wealth to pay people to make things by hand. Because... money.

In the real world that was how artists survived, back when the middle class didn't exist. We seem to be approaching that again, from multiple directions.

You made a sweeping unsupported claim, someone responded with an example of how your claim is incorrect as well as a personal anecdote, and you criticized them for lack of support. Useful. Rigorous. You're clearly the smart one in the room.

Take a moment to think about this statement. The whole problem that we're currently having with misinformation stems from the fact that many people who are not experts in a field believe that they can tell the difference between real information and fake.

I know it's tradition to make fun of politicians and lawyers, but this thing where politicians just make up ridiculous lies right and left: this is a new thing. In the past they might have done that occasionally, or more likely bent the truth, or taken a true thing and misrepresented it. But this thing that Trump does, and now also his toadies like Vance, this is new. It's not "politicians," it's Trump.

Any word can be a slur if you use it that way. And if a lot of people use it that way then it turns into a stereotype.

It was the best of the remake trilogy. Which doesn't make a great movie, or even a good movie, or even an okay movie, but after watching Rise of Skywalker you might think of it as a good movie in retrospect.

Yes, I got that. There were two separate things there: the parent was saying that the greater speed of the SSD would imply lower total power consumption by the drive, even if the drive consumed more power while in operation. And I was saying that it seemed as though they had accounted for speed.

And then the parent was also talking about total system power consumption as a separate point.

It's more complicated than that. The arsenic in the bran apparently isn't as bioavailable as the arsenic in the endosperm, and so while brown rice does have more arsenic it's not as much of a difference as you'd think. Also there's just a lot less bran than endosperm. I read a thing which claimed that brown rice has anywhere from 30-70% more arsenic in practice, compared to white rice. The variety of rice and location where it was grown also matter a lot. Here.

It looks like they did account for this. The W / TB value is a little hard to parse, but what they really meant was: "Power efficiency, measured as the average power consumed in watts to write or read 1 TB of data." So it does account for the greater speed of SSDs... but doesn't give them much credit for it. The numbers they give are for an SSD which is only 33% faster than the HD.

Also, this is for datacenter drives so the computational overhead is probably going to be pretty small compared to the couple dozen drives that are probably in the server.

Well if she's following the Trump model, it's nothing but a way for her to get a lot of money. Trump's shares in Truth Social are the majority of his wealth, and the company is ultimately just a Twitter clone used by basically one person.

I can certainly see why Truss would want to get in on that. I think "Lettuce Talk" may be a little too clever though. This is not the venue for witticisms.

I mean, I did. I said, "I know that gamers are particularly prone to brand loyalty, and throwing around random bits of biggoted bullshit as though it were factual, but this is just stupid." That's you. I was talking about you there. The room. You.

And clearly I was right. Presented with evidence that your specific factual claim was bullshit, and that inflation... exists, your response is, "Grr! I no care about facts or inflation! Why not Nintendo use magic?" And you give a link to search results, and the very first result on that list is a ten minute video talking about how Nintendo games have been roughly $80 for decades (in now-money), and are cheaper now than they were in the 90s.

Okay, now I know you're not using that term correctly. Here, let me google that for you.

Come on, what? There's been one game announced for $100, and it's a limited edition of a third party title that comes with extra goodies. There's a price list here. I know that gamers are particularly prone to brand loyalty, and throwing around random bits of biggoted bullshit as though it were factual, but this is just stupid.

The Switch 1 came out in 2017 for $300. Go find an inflation calculator before you start claiming that the Switch 2 is overpriced. If you want to complain about the $80 pro controller then... yeah, okay.

I don't think you're using that term correctly. If there are any neoliberal Democrats, they either keep it to themselves or are Republican refugees from the cult of Trump.

"Predatory pricing" is one way of describing lax environmental regulations. We don't want to do rare earth mining in the US because it pollutes to an exceptional degree. But we've probably lost those regulations by now, and also the regulators, so maybe you're right.