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New comment by rangestransform in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

rangestransform — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:55:50 +0000

Those countries could keep their own talent through economic policy (i.e. fuck you pay me)

That they don’t is entirely their own fault and they deserve to be brain drained. “Talent” are people with agency and not possessions subservient to national interests.

New comment by rangestransform in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

rangestransform — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:48:59 +0000

A123 also owned the IP to lithium iron phosphate battery chemistry, which is now BYD’s claim to fame

New comment by rangestransform in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

rangestransform — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:44:45 +0000

re:2, proportional representation systems oftentimes have more extremist parties elected, they’re just severely kneecapped by not having enough votes to do anything extremist

New comment by rangestransform in "Ti-84 Evo"

rangestransform — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:57:47 +0000

I got an HP50g from Craigslist in high school that

- was cheaper than a TI

- had a primitive CAS system

- teachers had no idea how to put it into test mode

It carried me through AP calc BC, I would’ve gotten <4 off of my own knowledge alone

New comment by rangestransform in "PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC"

rangestransform — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:59:13 +0000

There were hardware supply issues around launch time that made consoles a much better deal than the equivalent PC

New comment by rangestransform in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

rangestransform — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:07:57 +0000

Funnily enough, I learned to code “depth first” by putting together enough documentation examples and stackoverflow answers to reach a working Android app, long before I learned to code “breadth first” in school.

New comment by rangestransform in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

rangestransform — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:49:15 +0000

And I will keep voting to benefit myself, my family, and my country in that order.

It’s their own fault that they do not have visionary leaders like Lee Kuan Yew or a dynasty like the CCP that’s willing to sacrifice entire generations for future generations.

To not allow a country to govern itself into oblivion is the peak of western paternalism.

New comment by rangestransform in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

rangestransform — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:46:34 +0000

I love explaining to Americans how Vancouver suburbia is slightly better than American suburbia in so many ways that matter like trees, real traffic calming, and walkability

New comment by rangestransform in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

rangestransform — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:00:20 +0000

That’s because Rs let NIMBYs and the fossil fuel lobby call the shots, and Ds let NIMBYs and degrowthers call the shots. I bet China isn’t powering their datacenters with gas turbines

New comment by rangestransform in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

rangestransform — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:58:06 +0000

It’s an improvement over spending 1b/mi building public transit in HCOL car dependent areas

New comment by rangestransform in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

rangestransform — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:44:16 +0000

The fact that they need to use gas turbines at all is a tragic condemnation of how the US can’t build shit at all. We should be consuming more (green) energy to make our lives better, and rushing toward diminishing returns on energy consumption. Instead, we have this unholy alliance of (usually right wing) NIMBYs and (usually left wing) degrowthers that make it much more convenient to use a gas turbine than build renewable energy somewhere windy/sunny and plumb it in with some transmission lines. Renewable energy is way past the tipping point of being cheaper, the gas turbines are just there due to regulatory burden at all levels.

New comment by rangestransform in "Data centers aren't breaking the grid. A broken grid is"

rangestransform — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:19:51 +0000

It’s entirely a self own that the US has to resort to consumer subsidies and fleecing AI companies instead of just building more (green) grid capacity. We are well past the point where green energy is cheaper than fossil energy, yet we are letting knuckledraggers like NIMBYs and degrowthers hold our society back.

New comment by rangestransform in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

rangestransform — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:11:44 +0000

IMO Pokémon go was the trendy app that actually bucked the trend of social media isolation, I talked to so many randoms that summer

New comment by rangestransform in "Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)"

rangestransform — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:18:46 +0000

IIRC this is to do with the phase in of RoHS and bad lead free solder

New comment by rangestransform in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

rangestransform — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:12:11 +0000

In the talk that the security guy gave, he said it just had to cost more than 10 games for a user to enable piracy

New comment by rangestransform in "'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images"

rangestransform — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:32:39 +0000

Mobileye builds their maps like this

New comment by rangestransform in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

rangestransform — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:46:30 +0000

Not all the processing needs to be done online, it can be done completely async offline on game logs

New comment by rangestransform in "UBI as a productivity dividend"

rangestransform — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:32:50 +0000

Part of living in a free society is being able to destroy your own life by various means

New comment by rangestransform in "I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine"

rangestransform — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:07:30 +0000

AMD APUs on PC still basically require setting up a fixed split between VRAM and RAM, instead of truly sharing memory like consoles or Apple silicon

New comment by rangestransform in "I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine"

rangestransform — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:03:29 +0000

Nobody is gonna buy the unlocked version if it doesn’t include the manufacturer subsidy that’s made back from users buying games