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New comment by pipes in "Lenovo saying RAM prices may never go back to how they were"

pipes — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:28:27 +0000

Do you mean you need 3x the ram to run your pc than you did at some point in time?

Maybe not, anyway, this graph puts the current memory "crisis" in perspective for me:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...

New comment by pipes in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

pipes — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:40:03 +0000

Can anyone explain to me (a non US citizen) how this won't be found to be unconstitutional (eventually)?. I would think it falls under freedom of expression. And given the attempted classification of encryption as a munition that failed, I don't see how this can possibly last?

New comment by pipes in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

pipes — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:34:51 +0000

You are not. :) my memory is disturbingly fried.

New comment by pipes in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

pipes — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:35:27 +0000

I'm missing something here, are you streaming from your pc on to your deck? But then why would you need a dock?

New comment by pipes in "Supreme Court Gives Pesticide Corporations Immunity from Cancer Lawsuits"

pipes — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:50:02 +0000

Just so I'm certain I understand, you think the reason Donald trump got elected is because you think the republicans want to end the world and need Israel to start the process for them? But you also think trump leveraged anti semitism too pull in another demographic?

I don't recall either of these two things being election issues.

New comment by pipes in "Supreme Court Gives Pesticide Corporations Immunity from Cancer Lawsuits"

pipes — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:29:31 +0000

What do you mean?

New comment by pipes in "Supreme Court Gives Pesticide Corporations Immunity from Cancer Lawsuits"

pipes — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:19:06 +0000

Where is the evidence for your Jewish conspiracy theory?

New comment by pipes in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

pipes — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:56:02 +0000

I can see how any password manager can be safe. Especially from supply chain attacks. I use password safe on android, it writes an encrypted file locally. I'd really like to be able to flat seal the app to prevent network access. But I don't think android has such a feature.

New comment by pipes in "Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs"

pipes — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:22:37 +0000

What did it improve? Sprite flicker? Slow down? I'd no idea this was possible on real hardware!

New comment by pipes in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

pipes — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:18:15 +0000

Ddos is a great framing of this :)

I'm extremely pro free markets etc, but the uncomfortable truth is anthropic stole the work of thousands of authors for profit. I think it will end one my favourite things in life: programming books.

New comment by pipes in "Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot"

pipes — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:23:59 +0000

To be fair. I grew up in Ireland and have never lived in the USA. I just admire the protections for the individual that your country aims for. Anyway I appreciate the correction :)

New comment by pipes in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

pipes — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:20:54 +0000

Thanks for posting that. I'm constantly thinking about lymes disease when my two young daughters play in anything approaching long grass. I'll file this away in my mind for if worst ever did happen.

New comment by pipes in "Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot"

pipes — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:41:30 +0000

But the constitution doesn't say: "all white land-owning men are created equal"

It said "all men are created equal". It took a long time to get to this point in human history and it's worth defending.

New comment by pipes in "The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat"

pipes — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:17:30 +0000

Thanks for posting. The other term for it "what aboutism" (which given your background you are probably well aware of, but others here might not be).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Countering these arguments is exhausting.

New comment by pipes in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

pipes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:25:47 +0000

The "you don't know what it's like for me" argument swings both ways.

New comment by pipes in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

pipes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:22:39 +0000

A truthful, nuanced, well reasoned answer will be well received by an employer with a culture you want to work in.

New comment by pipes in "How to earn a billion dollars"

pipes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:02:55 +0000

The amount of negativity to this is depressing. No one seems to be contradicting anything he's saying here, instead it's just vacuous ideology "extraction" etc etc. Purposely narrow reading. I've got kids, I want people creating start ups they can work in, the alternative is too grim.

New comment by pipes in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

pipes — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:06:13 +0000

Well this is surprising for a few reasons. And pretty offensive. For what it's worth I'm pretty much the reverse of an anti Semite.

Pointing out that the Nazi party called themselves national socialists and had socialist policies does not make me a holocaust denier, Nazi apologist or anything else that you are attempting to label me as.

Your reaction to what I said is genuinely baffling to me. I'm a liberal through and through. The common enemy of communists and Nazis was liberals. In my view Nazis and communists are both sides of the same brutal coin.

New comment by pipes in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

pipes — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:14:25 +0000

It was also attempting a to create a centrally planned economy that would provide for all the populations needs and eliminate the concept of class. Which to me is socialism.

New comment by pipes in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

pipes — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:03:01 +0000

Are you calling me an anti Semite? Or am I missing the point you are making entirely?