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New comment by jdubs1984 in "Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal"

jdubs1984 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:32:19 +0000

In a town of 12K people I'd say it's incredibly unlikely. Most of if not all the labor to build it will be flown in, most of the labor to staff it will be moved in.

And once it's built it's not like a Walmart or something where you need enough staff to police the crowds...there are not crowds. There's some rack and stack needs, and some ongoing cabling needs generally,and some other stuff, but they are staffed as lightly as humanly possible.

I suppose w/ all the out of town labor to build it there will be more waitress and hotel cleaning jobs for a while...a town or over...where they can actually house the labor.

Oh, and they are getting an Olive Garden...which will probably employ more local labor.

New comment by jdubs1984 in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

jdubs1984 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:31:25 +0000

Teams also respects some standard markdown, like italics, but not others…like bold.

MS is amazing in their ability to fuck shit up for no apparent reason. Like making a media player that doesn’t use space for play pause…

New comment by jdubs1984 in "Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance on Linux"

jdubs1984 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:24:23 +0000

Chrome is generally a bit faster and in some JavaScript scenarios a lot faster. But that’s generally a trade off I’m will to make because it’s also spying on you more…

I only fire up chrome is Firefox can’t handle the page for some edge case reason.

New comment by jdubs1984 in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

jdubs1984 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:25:41 +0000

The lawyers using the finding badly internally doesn’t mean the finding was fundamentally unsound and or won’t ultimately be a positive thing.

New comment by jdubs1984 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

jdubs1984 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:05:54 +0000

The efforts to make Windows a storefront and user data harvester over an OS will never be suspended, at least not under this CEO.

Nice to see them finally admitting user needs might be important to some level, but the way MS operates historically is that no bad idea ever dies, at best they get delayed and then shoehorned in with less fanfare at a later date.

New comment by jdubs1984 in "Altman says OpenAI agrees with Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon dispute"

jdubs1984 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:57:24 +0000

Altman says a lot of things.

New comment by jdubs1984 in "macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish"

jdubs1984 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:07:20 +0000

Slipping? Both Tahoe and the latest versions of iOS are an inconsistent mess that screams of managers demanding changes for the sake of having something to ship…and bullet points to throw in a slide deck for their boss.

In the last year or so Apple has completely lost my confidence when it comes to UI design.

The choices these days for a functional desktop are pretty abysmal. Either pick a Linux distro and tune the hell out of it to your liking for a week or battle AI on the MS side and a start menu that can’t even be consistent with search strings, or fight Apple changes for changes sake…and doing insane things like throwing a full screened YouTube video onto a virtual desktop for no apparent reason past the rule of cool…which seems to dominate their thinking on UI these days (see: stage manager, what a joke).

New comment by jdubs1984 in "Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans"

jdubs1984 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:38:56 +0000

In what context? To show up at work and convince everyone you’re a steam deck?

Thats probably pretty difficult.

New comment by jdubs1984 in "Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More)"

jdubs1984 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:13:22 +0000

Blockbuster went out of business because they made the video rental market incredibly boring and had no vision for the future. Once they got market dominance it became just 500 copies of the first fast and furious as a guaranteed rental, and all the cool and interesting stuff gone.

New comment by jdubs1984 in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

jdubs1984 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 03:06:02 +0000

Patch cables, per the spec are twisted copper pairs not to exceed 15 feet, usually stranded copper if you’re using cheaper options.

Horizontal cabling, from the panel to the jack, is up to I think 350’ of solid core twisted pair.

5e gets you gigabit if it’s done right end to end.

New comment by jdubs1984 in "LLM Inflation"

jdubs1984 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:06:12 +0000

> Bob’s manager receives 4 paragraphs of dense prose and realises from the first line that he’s going to have to read the whole thing carefully to work out what he’s being asked for and why. Instead, he copies the email into the LLM.... The 4 paragraphs are summarised as “The sender needs a new computer as his current one is old and slow and makes him unproductive.” The manager approves the request.

Bob’s manager is lazy and or an idiot.

Probably both.

New comment by jdubs1984 in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

jdubs1984 — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:28:29 +0000

This isn’t a dedicated device for something a phone app replaced though…assuming it even is a pocket or wearable way to interact with chatgpt…it’s going to need some sort of cell/data service and replace an app that already exists with a whole other device.

I also am rolling back in certain areas, like writing instead of phone notes and such, but the idea of a wearable or portable chat bot device makes zero sense to me. It’s an added cost and yet another thing to lug around.

As it turns out though nobody seems to know _why_ they hired Ive or what they intend him to make.

New comment by jdubs1984 in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

jdubs1984 — Wed, 21 May 2025 23:01:50 +0000

On a dedicated device no less…what’s the point?! You have a phone.