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New comment by cgannett in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

cgannett — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:40:37 +0000

Hopefully the EU can get the battery situation to mirror the charging cable situation. IE force them all to adopt an industry standard.

New comment by cgannett in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

cgannett — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:36:27 +0000

You can go wherever you want whenever you want... until everyone does this and now you are stalled in traffic with no end in sight.

New comment by cgannett in "God Sleeps in the Minerals"

cgannett — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:15:35 +0000

pretty crystals are pretty, gonna file this under "cool game dev inspo"

New comment by cgannett in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

cgannett — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:26:36 +0000

Literally giving children the means of production is way out of line. To the corporate owned gulag with you! /s

New comment by cgannett in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

cgannett — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:40:20 +0000

if people believe its a threat and it is also real then what matters is timing

New comment by cgannett in "Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game"

cgannett — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:21:12 +0000

reminds me of a friend of mine who turned his alabama football passion into a cameraman career

New comment by cgannett in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"

cgannett — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:41:06 +0000

ugh what a pain

Another issue is that often effort is the only lever one has in providing value as what tasks you are assigned constrains potential value output.Hypothetically, If my boss assigns me a stupid project destined to failure and tells me to shut up when I push back I'm really not going to get much value regardless of how much effort I put in... unless I was wrong in my assesment which is admittedly possible. Good management I suppose would then use effort as a proxy to try to find projects with potential to match one's effort.

New comment by cgannett in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"

cgannett — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:46:32 +0000

This is further complicated by the difference between direct and indirect value. I build a thing that produces n value and is directly attributable to me. I also do things that help 100 others produce 10% more value themselves but most of that is attributed to themselves producing 10 * n value overall. How will I be rewarded if at all? Most likely as someone who produced n value.

New comment by cgannett in "Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds"

cgannett — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:11:45 +0000

3. Private equity has made long term investment a poor mans game.

New comment by cgannett in "Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase childrens autism and ADHD risk"

cgannett — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:36:50 +0000

I have had to tell several people I know they can't just take whatever OTC meds they want whenever they want with no side effects and it is always important to read the bottle's instructions/warnings.

New comment by cgannett in "Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone"

cgannett — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:54:45 +0000

I suppose to mitigate that you could have that data not immediately viewable to the patient because seeing "stress line go up" would be pretty stressful and would skew the data anyway.

New comment by cgannett in "New records on Wendelstein 7-X"

cgannett — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:48:21 +0000

mmmm plasma cruller uhuhuhuhuhu

-Homer Simpson

New comment by cgannett in "The daily life of a medieval king"

cgannett — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:44:34 +0000

Also because salt itself was much more valuable back then you wouldn't have as much or even any salt in your fresh food so you use the "preserved in an intolerable amount of salt" food products with the unsalted food products to get a quite tolerable middle ground at consumption time. Mash potatoes and pickle bits mmm

New comment by cgannett in "Master Foo and the Script Kiddie"

cgannett — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:20:57 +0000

Did anyone else hear mystical music in the background and smell fragrantly burning incense while they read that? I loved this, short, funny, interesting.

New comment by cgannett in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

cgannett — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:16:14 +0000

Also almost everyone who works at that company gets laid off and the few remaining have the worst job ever now. LINE GO UP THO!!

New comment by cgannett in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

cgannett — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:11:58 +0000

Publix has a model similar to this and it seems to work well for them both as a former employee and a customer. Their stores and products are always nice and they pay above average for their sector. They are on the expensive side but also they have good deals when you look for them especially the BOGOs. I definitely had a better time working for them than I did when I worked for Sprouts which is publicly traded and aiming at a similar market segment. I think if we are going to stick with some capitalism we need to switch to models like Publix and away from models like Sprouts and Walmart.

People on both sides of the capitalism/socialism divide also always conflate "Current Way Stock Markets Work" with capitalism. We do alot of extra damage to the average person's health and well being with the WAY we do capitalism. The plutocrats use the heavily propagandized stick of "SCARY SOCIALISM" to give you a more shriveled carrot year after year and tell you you should be thankful you dont get beat with the "SCARY SOCIALISM" stick while they still hit you with the "NO HOUSE, NO FOOD, NO HEALTHCARE" stick if you can't sell your bodily capital for enough value to please them.

The extra damage is all this profit over anything else no matter the circumstance. Look at United Healthcare getting sued because the new CEO, even if it was purely out of self preservation, decides they are going to actually give people some of the coverage they paid for and not do quite as many dirty tricks to skim as many denials off the top as they possibly can. MANY SUCH CASES

New comment by cgannett in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

cgannett — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:54:39 +0000

literally proving his point with this question

New comment by cgannett in "XMLUI"

cgannett — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:40:35 +0000

I am simultaneously in the seemingly opposite camps of "haha we reinvent HTML lol" and "Actually this sounds immediately useful to me".

To be human is to be multitudes.

New comment by cgannett in "Perfume reviews"

cgannett — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:07:38 +0000

I am just trying to figure out if they are the bigger nerds or if we as commenters on the quality of their nerdy commentary is the nerdier group.

New comment by cgannett in "Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century"

cgannett — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:12:08 +0000

even if its not faster than DRAM I wonder at what point would it just not make sense to have two separate modules. Like all the volitile storage in a system could be in the L-cache/s on the CPU and for most things that plus this faster non-volitile storage would do the trick. I wonder what kind of optimizations would have been made in a world where stuff like DRAM just didnt exist and we just had to deal with the bottlenecks of non-volitile storage media