After 9/11? What do you mean reversed? The Right have always been bootlickers. It's where we get the term from, the Natzees wore those shiny jackboots.

It is the Left who have always been the rebels, the throwers-off of authority and freers of humanity. Just look at the LA riots: neo-Confederate ideology declaring federal authority null and void inside their state because they don't like the law. They're trying to free prisoners whose only crime is not wanting to live in a shithole country and who have the human right to go anywhere on the planet they want.

For anyone wonddering why this is. this photo This photo is worth a thousand words to explain the difference between US government-funded space travel and Elon Musk's space travel. Slashdot won't let me do an href so here's the plain URL.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages2.imgbox.com%2Fa5%2Fbc%2FKq5HzNmJ_o.jpg

Yes, excess energy that the grid can't accept should be stored for later use when possible, or perhaps used to generate hydrogen (or synthesize gasoline or whatever fuel is most appropriate) for resale.

Mosquitos provide an essential service to mankind by keeping the rapacious humans out of vital wetlands. These are inhabited by mosquitoes with malaria, making the area uninhabitable. Remove the mosquitoes, you remove the malaria, then in a decade or so the swamp has ben drained, the remnants converted into slash-and-burn agriculture, and soon after it's a desert, which it will remain.

An ecological disaster. Mosquitoes are good guys which prevent devastation for the profit of a few humans for a short time. Let them remain for centuries to come. REmember what happens in the petri dish when all limits to an organism's growth are removed.

If you're going to spend 30000 hours typing then surely it's worth some investment: to speed it up a bit, make fewer mkstakes, be more comfortable, avoid RSI.

Touch typing is only one thing you could do. If you will type a lot then I recommend trying different mechanical kryboards and layouts until you find what works best for you.

I use a keyboardio 100 with an Apple Magic Trackpad between the two halves instead of a mouse. While coding, the transition to the trackpad is quicker and easier on the wrist than a mouse would be.

In terms of layout, I think my top two features are home row mods and chording for symbols and arrows. I don't think it really adds speed but for comfort and RSI prevention I think minimizing finger reaches and wrist moves is important.

Lots to try, some of it you will probably like :)

A "J**" eyboard? Oh, you bigots just can't stop revealing yourselves, can you? You revel in cruelty and getting your comments modded up by other bigots.

The war's over, Curtis LeMay. You did it, you used nuclear weapons against the defenseless civilian population of a beaten foe. And then planted that flag on Iwo Jima and built a statue of it so everyone will remember who's good: you whites, and ho's not: the J**s and the sl*nts. They're treacherous and untrustworthy by their race, just like Russians (yes Rus is an ethnic group, detectable in DNA, just like Jewish).

Nah, they're the worst kind of locusts. They fouled their nest, so they move to Texas to get away from the mess they created. They still vote Democrat, nothing will ever change that. So they're just going to fuck Texas up and turn it into the shithole they fled from. They've already done it. Enshitification just takes a long time, decades. San California didn't turn from a golden state that regularly produced great AmeriKKKans like Ronald Ray-gun(the fascist) overnight. It took a long, long time for it to be transformed into a literal shithole with used needles littering the streets. They already ruined Austin, which used to be a wonderful place to live. The bad drives out the good. When I lived in Austin(I'm a native Texan) it was a Texas city through and through. Now they say, "oh, it's not really part of Texas!" We never had "keep Austin weird" bumper stickers, either. You know why? We never needed 'em.

Austin was just its own thing and that was OK. It was all part of the Texas family, like an uncle who is a bit daffy but you love him all the same. Now, the Californians ruined it and it will never be the same again.

Stay the fuck out of Texas. And Florida too. We don't want you. You are not welcome. Also, we vote Trump, own guns and are the worst people in the world: racists. If you got a table with one racist and eleven people talking to her, you got a table with a dozen racists.

Even if you're a racist too we don't want your kind.

Being able to code without having to look away from the screen whenever you need to press a key seems like a big win for efficiency to me. Every time you look away from the screen, you have to relocate your text-line of interest again when you look back; that may take only half a second, but if you're doing it 10 times a minute, those half-seconds add up.

The Texas that it was parodying, the North-of-Dallas Texas of the 1990s, is gone. Not only the Californian invasion but the rest of the world's invasion makes Hank Hill a poor fit for modern tastes. 100% Hank is a Trump voter and there's' no way that's acceptable to anyone in the entertainment business. Look at how Tom Hanks ruthlessly parodied Hank Hill and his movement on the 50th anniversary SNL. Hell, domestic terrorists were firebombing cars and spray-painting hate symbols on the mere suspicion someone had voted Trump(owning a Tesla was a good hint of this). Dale Gribble's "conspiracy theories" have been proven all too true. Who knew there was a secret operation run by Israeli Mossad to fly our elites to a private island to rape little kids for the benefit of a foreign country? Glenn Greenwald, a real journalist in a world nearly empty of them, went on Tucker Carlson's show they other day and openly admitted that Israel controls our country and our intelligence services. Within 24 hours Mossad released a nonconsensual video of Greenwald having sex. Dale Gribble can't hold a candle to any of these real-life conspiracies. It's like Southpark, they can't make any more episodes because reality is too tragic to parody.

The fact that you blame AmeriKKKans for being so stupid as to not be able to see the obvious correctness of what you're saying IS WHY YOU LOST. That, and the child-sacrificing mutilation cult for 12 year olds. Oh, and calling us stupid. Well, you've just done it again. Maybe calling people who are against pedophiles and surgical mutilation stupid isn't a winner. Well, you're morally right, and that's what matters in the end. Have all the "moral victories" you want. We'll take the real victories. Like finally prying open the corrupt ocean of USAID and finding out it was funding all sorts of harmful social movements in America and in other countries.

Something that has gone largely unnoticed is that the people who used to litter Slashdot screaming "racism" have disappeared. They have not gone away, but they have suddenly been marginalized. They spend their days on sites like Bluesky wondering why no one seems to care what they have to say anymore. The sites that used to pay for them to be pests are no longer interested in their material.

This, the Washington Post, the community newspaper of the blob, doesn't want you using Yandex. That's enough of an endorsement to use them. Search is a commodity today, just getting away from Google is a big win. I've been using Yandex for a while and it's fine. Google's heyday is long past. B-B-B-But muh Rooshins! Yeah, no Rooshin gives a shit about you. I'd rather they have my data than Google, which regards me, a middle American who voted my conscience, either as property or as ENEMY. Be sure to check under the bed for TEH ROOSHINS tonight, though. I use Deep Mind too (oooh!) and it's great. It's wonderful doing the exact opposite of what authoritarian state media tells us to do. WaPo (and all the rest) covered up Biden's dementia and actively lied to us. No Rooshin ever did that to me, eh. It's like The Chap said: "No Viet Cong ever called me N."

Isn't it odd being a dissident these days? All the former dissidents come up to you and shout at you to obey the US government and lick those boots.

I think "dedicated coprocessors" are going to have longer traces, and thus be slower, unless, perhaps, you connect them with an optical link. (That, of course, has its own problems.)

Everyone here is reading the comments page of a Slashdot article, speculating about what will or won't happen at an upcoming Apple WWDC.

I think we can take 'incredibly dull lives' as a given.

That seems like short-term thinking. A better approach would be to figure out how to do the future-prediction optimizations in ways that malware cannot exploit, so we can reap the benefits of the optimizations.

Hell, what stops one of these rich people from using his money to take care of those who need it now? The only one who tries is Gates, and he gets routinely villified for trying.