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New comment by bluedino in "Deus Ex"

bluedino — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:32:41 +0000

Similarly, "Steve Jobs invented the ____"

New comment by bluedino in "Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case"

bluedino — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:09:50 +0000

We have to use the ones that cost 8x more than regular ones and are certified by something that our industry approves.

New comment by bluedino in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

bluedino — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:15:35 +0000

> It wasn’t a “help me!!!111!” site, it was an exchange.

That's exactly what it turned into, though.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/320536/what-is-the-...

New comment by bluedino in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

bluedino — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:37:34 +0000

I'm going to guess Best Buy's health insurance (for retail employees) is terrible.

Microsoft offers voluntary buyout to 60k employees

bluedino — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:35:16 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/microsoft-offers-voluntary-buyout-to-60000-employees-160011034.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249703

Points: 6

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New comment by bluedino in "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11"

bluedino — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:19:24 +0000

There are a couple versions of the Windows CD player here (along with other operating systems)

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/cdplayer/

I always liked the look of the more complicated ones like this:

https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/2021-09-29-media-rack-download-win...

New comment by bluedino in "Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI"

bluedino — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:31:56 +0000

If it were up to me, I'd drop Dell just because of the hoops they make you go through to get service on a server.

They want you to diagnose the issue, and to be the remote hands. Shuffling around DIMMs and drives and re-seating cables and all kinds of crap. Just send someone to out fix the damn thing like HPE does.

New comment by bluedino in "Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI"

bluedino — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:47:11 +0000

I've used some great AI support agents/bots, whatever they're called. An example of a great one is Lemonade (the insurance company).

Most of the others are terrible. I'll pick on Dell for this next one. Their website in general, is terrible. Why would their support agent be any better?

We purchased a switch from Dell, that cost more than my SUV. Having a hardware issue with it, can't remember if it was fans or a power supply or what. It needs someone to come out and repair it, and we have the big fancy service plan.

There's no way to find the switch on the Dell support website. It's not listed anywhere.

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/products/networking_...

You can't actually contact support, you have to identify your device, and then you get options from there.

https://www.dell.com/support/incidents-online/en-us/contactu...

However, this product doesn't have a service tag, or express service code, so you can't do that.

So you try to use the 'Virtual Assistant', who has no idea what you're trying to tell it, no matter which way you try. They link to a contact page but you just end up getting looped back around. There is no useful information to be extracted from this dumb thing.

I finally found a phone number on the website, and was connected to a woman who sounded like she was smoking cigarettes in a basement somewhere in Alabama. She looked through her notes on the computer, and found out for this particular switch I need to go through the OEM manufacturer. I was relieved to have gotten useful information.

New comment by bluedino in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

bluedino — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:46:30 +0000

I'm surprised domestic groups have not hit the US datacenters yet

New comment by bluedino in "Windows 11½"

bluedino — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:49:02 +0000

Do you still have to download things called GNOME Hacks to change things that should have regularly accessible settings?

New comment by bluedino in "Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?"

bluedino — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:47:31 +0000

I thought this would be focused on the parents coming in to assault the teachers.

New comment by bluedino in "Apple Mac mini review"

bluedino — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:48:59 +0000

I hate to be that guy, but computer prices, even Apple machines, are still so cheap.

My first 'modern' Mac was the 13" 2010 MacBook Pro, and it was $1299. The current Air is $1299. Inflation be damned.

Let's not even go back in time and look at what the PowerBook G4 or PowerBook 5300c cost...

New comment by bluedino in "The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings"

bluedino — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:23:55 +0000

So many parallels with Angry Birds.

Appeals to all groups, released on every platform. Then come the sequels, special editions (like Christmas Lemmings), and then it just kind of faded away.

Lemmings just didn't get a movie and merchandising.

Apple building M8 AI servers, talks with Nvidia, reports The Information

bluedino — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:05:55 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/apple-building-m8-ai-servers-134927360.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732221

Points: 4

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New comment by bluedino in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

bluedino — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:59:32 +0000

They'll be right back in two years

New comment by bluedino in "Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco"

bluedino — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:09:09 +0000

I started buying some this year when Slickdeals would post something, whether it was from Amazon or closeouts at the auto parts stores. Even grabbed some $18 Walmart Supertech.

New comment by bluedino in "Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco"

bluedino — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:04:42 +0000

2018+ Ford Mustang V8 for one.

GM V8's take 8 quarts

New comment by bluedino in "Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco"

bluedino — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:03:25 +0000

Kind of an odd viscosity unless you have classic cars or live in a hot climate

New comment by bluedino in "Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs"

bluedino — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:52:27 +0000

Write the program, punch the cards, send the cards to another building to be loaded, program runs, printout comes out in another building, somehow this takes 2-3 days

Microsoft to impose time limits on Xbox cloud gaming subscribers

bluedino — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:36:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-cloud-limits.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558604

Points: 2

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