Gosh, that wasn't what I observed. When 1c and 2c coins were removed in 1988, prices were rounded to the nearest 5c. Initially I thought this could be gamed, since the consumer decides what to buy and can ensure it rounds in their favour - but since the whole situation arose because 2c wasn't worth people's time, this was short lived.

It's true that the long run effect has meant fewer $1.99 items and more $2 items, and it's true that implies a one-time inflation hit, but it also seems to benefit both consumers and businesses to get rid of those goofy prices anyway.

As someone who also worked in several companies that were heavily Microsoft-ified and thus used Team Foundation Server for source control, it wasn't the worst. The norm at the time was CVS or SVN, to be honest TFS felt like a step up from those, with pretty smooth Visual Studio integration.

It was a tool of its time and I'm sure it's still used today, but I don't recall anything too offensive about it, it just isn't really needed anymore now that almost the entire industry has standardized on Git.

I can already tell from the comments posted so far that nobody reads TFA, so let me explain what this actually is.

It is not a speed limiter. It does not limit your maximum speed. Cars in the EU can still go as fast as they did before. The now-mandated tech is a system that ingests speed limit data and notifies you that you are about to exceed it. If you want to, that's still your choice.

Doesn't sound as bad now, does it? In fact, I'd bet a lot of cars sold in the US have this same feature, it's just that it's either off by default or you've been happily ignoring it. Every car I've owned for the last several years have had it, even though it wasn't a requirement then.

If the frustrations and anger of 2024 are different, what are the new areas to reboot and reimagine?

(I miss the revolutionary days and can't believe there's nothing out there to overthrow, while everything today feels so ... settled.)

Pay you back? For oil you gleefully slurped up to build your standard of living? Jesus, you people are fucking dumb. I think a few mega billionaires should buy all the oil companies and just shut down all oil production immediately.

That look of smug joy on your face as it morphed into absolute terror at what the world would become and how your standard of living would go to shit would be worth it.

We all did this, only liars claim to be a victim of the oil companies. Our lifestyle is built on oil. It's time to wean ourselves off, but stop lying about the root cause and drearily scapegoating.

I get it, everyone wants a bad guy and they want to use mental associations to trick people into thinking this is "just like cigarettes!"

But it's all lies. Everyone fucking knew about climate change, it's as simple as can be. Carbon dioxide (and other gases) are greenhouse gases. And we're making them from carbon in the ground. It's not fucking rocket science.

Yet you have retards who deny that it does any such thing to this day. Literally people who can't concede even the most basic of science, and they gish gallop absolute nonsense that they believe because the people who are against climate change are "leftists".

Then you have the fact that even if "Big Oil" had, in 1980, said "Sorry guys, we're killing the planet" and stopped producing oil they would have nationalized that shit at gunpoint immediately.

Nobody wants to compromise their standard of living. They want to demonize "Big Oil" to salve their conscience, but look at how people absolutely panic at $5/gallon gas in the US. Imagine $20/gal gas and what it would do to the economy and our standard of living. You are a fucking liar if you think people would stand for that, and the same people crying about oil companies would shriek hysterically about the impact on the poor.

It's all a farce and a made-up narrative where "if nonly Big Oil had told us, we would have stopped!!".

Rarely. The freeways are mostly 65Mph. If you go 65mph you need to be in the far right lane, and you'll still get tailgated. Then the next lane is for the grandmas going 70 mph. Lane 3 is for 75-82, and the left lane you will get tailgated even going 82 or so pretty often.

The company I works for runs HP workstations on Ubuntu. Works great. The only issues I've had are with the discrete nVidia graphics, which uses proprietary drivers that work great - when they work. Even the smallest kernel update seems to make them crap out in a big way. It's kind of unfortunate that you can't run a high-end workstation on Linux without these issues, but fortunately, I can live with an older kernel.

Fucking bullshit. They have to be developed to the point where they are better than humans, that takes time. But once it's done it's done and the roads are both safer and more efficient.

You lot call everything "hype". The "hype" around AI is deserved it's going to be transformational over the next decade. But I get it, it's cooler to be all cynical and shit, ahahaha.

Yes, because huge chunks of photoshop travel along with the image and provide its ongoing functionality. Jesus.

It was published as an MFC sample, then samples were published under the MIT license. I kept the pre-ribbon one. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmalxau%2Fword...

Lol.

Note the data here are per-student. I've always been suspicious of per-student numbers, because there's another narrative that colleges are accepting more students than ever (since the tuition fees are so lucrative!) then complaining that state funding isn't sharply increasing in response. Note that's also neatly compatible with the claims in this article of huge capital expenditure (if you want more students, you need more buildings.)

Looking at Washington (my home state), the fiscal service reports spending $6.78bn on higher ed in 2014, rising to $11.99bn in 2023. This is roughly in line with overall state spending (which went from $38.6bn to $74.5bn in the same timeframe.)

Do you have good nationwide data on absolute spending?

You guys always crack me up with your Stick it to the Man nonsense. Go ahead, the watch as our phone and internet bills go up commensurately. Consumers pay for this, not the companies.