Retribution. Trump was very unhappy with Amazon when they mentioned tariffs, and he can be extremely petty.

Of course it is, don't be ridiculous. Insofar as we have issues with trade with China, those issues can and have been addressed more effectively and with less self-sabotage than this. "At least he's trying something" is not justification for stomping all over the economy and then yelling, "China made me do it!"

Trump makes a big show out of everything he clumsily does. Because everything that he does is so big and stupid people pay attention. It's not that he's doing something new, he's just doing something visible. And if, somehow, it goes well then he puts his name on it. If it goes poorly he puts Biden's name on it, or China's or Mexico's, or someone else.

There was anonymity. Before Facebook, the rule was that you never posted any personal information. You never used your real name anywhere, and you never told anyone anything about yourself beyond broad generalizations.

Now, you could argue that with data scraping broad generalizations are still enough to compromise your privacy. There's no such thing as anonymous data, after all. But data scraping is also new. (newish. compared to the old internet anyway.)

So I'd blame Facebook for some of our present, and data aggregators for the rest.

So you don't deny that Malaysian peasants will be starving, but the important thing is finding the right people to blame for it. Fine, whatever. I'm actually more interested in this article that you linked. The article only talks about suffering, and yet you describe that as a benefit. The tariffs screw us both, so... that makes them good, and not bad.

It's not about supporting them with money, the old web wasn't for-profit, but there's no point in writing something if no one's ever going to read it. "Supporting them" means visiting their website.

Except the bots ruin this too, for the reason given in the summary. So this isn't going to get us back to the old web, instead it will likely drive us even further into the walled gardens.

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.