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Comment There's a name for that? (Score 1) 189

I assumed that's just called 'typing on a keyboard'.
When you hone a skill to a good level of proficiency you usually develop muscle memory that offloads the conscious effort from your brain, like knowing where to place your fingers on a violin, balance on a bicycle without training wheels, determine the doneness of your steak without a thermometer.
From my experience it just something that develops on its own, you don't have to 'learn' anything. With that said, I've worked with a guy who would did typing speed challenges on his downtime, seemed pretty silly to me because I never felt typing speed was ever a significant bottleneck.

Comment Re:Nate White on Trump (Score 1) 218

Oh horse shit. I heard on a podcast, talking about Canadian vendors (and avoiding American products btw), saying how their customers would just stare at the prices of European cheese being sold. They would be in shock saying, you want us to pay that, for that!? So, whatever. I'm sure European organic, location of origin, cheese, wine, everything, is already expensive and have their prices already jacked up. You can enjoy your expensive beef. Frankly, as a liberal/centrist American I hope that we don't sell any of our American beef anywhere else, its too expensive, herd counts are down. I feel for the general situation. Some prices are up. Some (like commodities, soy, alfalfa, etc) are down. It is gonna be a K shaped shitty economic situation for a while. But keep some context please. Like we're jacking up your prices, whatever.

Comment Re:Targetted by DOGE? (Score 1) 127

He won because he said enough nice things to a broad enough coalition to get angry people to vote for him. Mad about inflation well I'll get groceries down. Mad about your school library book choices well I'll defund them. Etc. Democrats were mad at their leadership and so their only choices were to vote third party, not vote, or plug their nose and vote for their chosen next in line. Republicans were mad enough to have one of many reasons to vote for the orange clown show. The real story is that in the first Trump term he was surrounded by enough establishment conventional Republicans that there were sane voices in the room. They're all gone. Now it is yes men, yes women, and only those self selected by their indiscriminate loyalty to him. They no longer hear the voices from the center or anywhere else. It's all about the Stephen Miller and the Breitbart flood of shit. Their base no longer consumes sane/centrist/other media. These are farmers who will tariff their own (or their neighbor's) farm out of existence to own the libs. And then not even second guess their fat government check when they plant soy beans again anyways. It is insanity. No one thinks critically anymore. Idiots everywhere. I hope the left can learn from this and return to the center instead of talking about drag shows and reparations all the time. Democratic candidates can win in Montana, Minnesota and all these rural mostly conservative states when they run centrist liberals and mostly stay in the center as a party.

Comment Re: Jobs available, yes, good, no (Score 1) 211

Thatâ(TM)s due to republicans fighting it.

There is a reason states went to $15 minimum wage because they got tired of people living on welfare. And if the minimum wage goes up the number on welfare goes down. It isnâ(TM)t as drastic but making companies pay people instead of the state is smart.

Comment Nice. (Score 1) 34

I just decided to transition to an all-SSD NAS due to a bunch of considerations like portability, low power consumption, low noise, fast access speed, etc.
I just received my Terramaster F8 SSD a couple of days ago, and it's essentially an Intel-based computer with 8 M.2 slots in the size of a paperback book.
My understanding is some SATA 8TB SSDs were around $350 a couple of years ago, so hopefully prices will drop near those levels so I can grab a couple in the near future.

Comment Re: If you don't use cash, your credit will use yo (Score 1) 54

Privacy was always an illusion. In the mid 1990â(TM)s my boss paid for not 1 but 4 books every other year. A couple of copies of the white pages. But then also two different reverse lookup books. Sorted by phone number and address.

It is kind of like the people who live off the grid but still get Amazon deliveries every week. From their mobile and sat computer links.

Comment Soft Vendor Lock-In (Score 3, Insightful) 73

I use my home computer to occasionally play games but also for professional applications for 3D, video, and the like.
Most of that software is written to take advantage of CUDA, so while GPUs from AMD might have advantages like sharing system RAM with the CPU, or Intel's new GPUs might be competitively priced, I guess I'll have to stick with Nvidia for the foreseeable future.

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