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New comment by creaturemachine in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

creaturemachine — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:36:49 +0000

I still love my 5800X3D. Drop-in upgrade from a 3700X so I kept my board, RAM, cooler, everything.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time"

creaturemachine — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:15:45 +0000

Luckily, for the bean counters, the dead can't speak.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm"

creaturemachine — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:57:14 +0000

I've yet to find a more suitable use for a tablet. Maybe the whole device class is cooked.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables"

creaturemachine — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:02:19 +0000

I installed some HP slide-out rackmount keyboard/monitor units that used these as the host connection. This was back in the days when PS/2 was still around so they usually weren't used.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care"

creaturemachine — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:08:30 +0000

Canada. No gated suburb necessary, just a walkable neighbourhood.

New comment by creaturemachine in "AirPods 5"

creaturemachine — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:51:22 +0000

The marketing kool-aid must flow. Many other earbuds have swipe volume, but because they aren't open-ear Apple gets to claim this amazing breakthrough.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Rivian's gambit for full autonomy"

creaturemachine — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:27:32 +0000

Yeah about that, 16 is indeed far too young but it's somehow what has been agreed upon, no doubt whole-heartedly by the automotive industry.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care"

creaturemachine — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:17:11 +0000

Where I live they are dismissed on their own as young as 8, and so long as they have a safe way home then a couple hours alone isn't going to hurt. There are enough electronic distractions at home now that they won't turn to delinquency.

15 is bonkers. There should be no need to keep your teenager on-leash for that long.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

creaturemachine — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:55:15 +0000

It's counter-culture and I'm here for it. I had a fun convo with my daughter about why rail cars are so frequently tagged. More fascinating are the hidden pieces in tunnels and the like, where only few people will ever see it.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

creaturemachine — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:43:50 +0000

Are you trying to conflate wildlife tracking and monitoring with this police state dragnet? If so that's a wild take. I'm pretty sure modern wildlife tracking practices are not what's at stake here.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

creaturemachine — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:33:06 +0000

All that karma farmed with paywall bypass posts. Kinda greasy.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Elevator of the Year Winner Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building"

creaturemachine — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:11:17 +0000

Unless I'm missing something, that photo is of the new hoist installation.

New comment by creaturemachine in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

creaturemachine — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:50:53 +0000

It used to be out-of-work firefighters doing it for a paycheque. Now I guess they can collect without leaving the couch.

New comment by creaturemachine in "I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't"

creaturemachine — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:18:28 +0000

The idea is you shouldn't have to have any sort of computer on your person to participate in public life. If a proper eat-in restaurant can't maintain a paper menu then it's an indication of the level of service that's sure to follow.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

creaturemachine — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:25:36 +0000

I have a feeling we're already there.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Lake Ontario ("Lake America")"

creaturemachine — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:15:38 +0000

You're reading into it too much. It's more likely they needed a comical backstory, and Flagpole Sitta was playing on the radio.

New comment by creaturemachine in "A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history"

creaturemachine — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:16:35 +0000

So, Pied Piper?

New comment by creaturemachine in "Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology"

creaturemachine — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:56:24 +0000

It's the normies that are missing out.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Windows 95 released August 24, 1995"

creaturemachine — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:57:53 +0000

Don't forget the guy they hired to rappel off the tower while demonstrating it on a laptop. Why not, right?

New comment by creaturemachine in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

creaturemachine — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:20:18 +0000

Considering Meta lives and dies by the White House, where abuse and manipulation have become SOP, I'm not sure the CCP stacks up as the boogeyman anymore.