My hot take: it’s not really a “computer” unless it’s Turing-complete. The Antikythera mechanism is incredibly cool and all, but it can only perform a finite, fixed set of calculations and thus fails to meet that definition.

“As is tradition” – oh wait that’s Blondihacks, sorry.

I’ve been buying AMD for – holy shit – 25 years now, and have never once regretted it. I don’t consider myself a fanboi; I just (a) prefer having the best performance-per-dollar rather than best performance outright, and (b) like rooting for the underdog.

But if Intel keeps fucking up like this, I might have to switch on grounds of (b)!

As a 'murcan who took Latin in high school (because SAT scores were a higher-priority goal than actually becoming bilingual, LOL) and is now learning French of my own volition, I think maybe the Olympics would be a relatively good candidate for watching in French. At least with the simpler/less-subjective sports (e.g. track and field, as opposed to e.g. gymnastics), it could be possible to follow along just with the infographics on the screen even if you struggle to understand the commentary.

(Also, thanks for the advice. I’ve got a PIA subscription that I really don’t use enough, so this is a good push to finally figure out how to set it up properly.)

It’s crazy how it really is always projection, isn’t it? Their primary argument against public media is invoking the boogeyman of government censorship and/or propaganda (but that doesn’t really happen unless all the country’s media is controlled by the government and that’s not what’s happening with PBS/BBC/etc.), when it’s really that they’re butthurt that their own censorship and propaganda is being resisted.

If these are the tacos we get, imagine how awesome the other timeline’s tacos must be!

How would that [Trump going down for making some false statements to law enforcement] happen?

They hate them because they’re the rival gang.

I’m convinced that “analog sounds better” is just an inaccurate way people describe preferring the experience of listening to a record, and they just can’t articulate that what they really like is the tactile ceremony of loading it in the player or looking at large-format album art or something like that. Surely nobody actually believes that less accurate sound reproduction is somehow an improvement.

But if he dies, his sentence ends.

The timing snuck up on me and I haven’t figured out how to get viewing access to them (whether broadcast, subscription, or 🏴‍☠️). Any suggestions?

Any second-in-command that was actually popular would be a threat to Trump, so that cannot be tolerated. He’s got to find an uncharismatic sycophant smart enough to help him purge enemies, yet dumb enough to be incapable of plotting against him himself.

I think a workbench (maybe minus the shelving) is a better first project idea than a table anyway, since it’s a work surface you expect to get beat up and so it doesn’t need to be fine furniture craftsmanship.

It does need to be flat and sturdy, though, so have fun planing all those studs so that you can laminate them without gaps and such.

Also, good luck going down the rabbit hole of workbench design and never actually building the thing because you’re overwhelmed with choice.

Tl;dr: some GATTACA-type shit?

*hep cat

But it’s a laser. However fast it’s going, it’s going the speed of itself!

“Ackchyually” indeed, LOL

And that tenet lives in their heads rent-free.

I remember the last good Pizza Hut I had. It was a personal pan pizza I got from the Pizza Hut kiosk at my college’s student center, sometime in the '00s.

In every jurisdiction with misogynist judges.

The issue is that the FTC is letting him get away with it.