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New comment by roody15 in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

roody15 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:34:12 +0000

I remember getting my first 486 33mhz computer and being able to play Ultima 7 the black gate, and later Ultima 7 part 2. This was a turning point for me as the game was way ahead of others on the console side of things. DOS 6 !

New comment by roody15 in "CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI"

roody15 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:46:19 +0000

This should not be surprising. The CEO's primary objective is likely to increase profits and so this will be his/her primary focus. Even if the technology is not ready for prime time just making announcements like this likely helps increase negotiating pressure on radiologist group contracts and salaries.

New comment by roody15 in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

roody15 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:54:02 +0000

MacBook Neo is going to sell like crazy. In the education market, educators, students, aides... nothing close at this price point. With memory and SSD prices so high I don't see how Dell, Asus and others are going to be able to compete. Unless the build quality is significantly worse than a M1 macbook air not sure budget PC makers will be able to compete.

New comment by roody15 in "CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider"

roody15 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:47:36 +0000

Agree this reminds me of the level my Herman Hesse “The Glass Bead Game”. Academics and researchers have a moral duty to give back to the larger society that enables their endeavors .

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

New comment by roody15 in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

roody15 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:19:36 +0000

Same I am in outstanding physical health and my diet / exercise is excellent. Taking Lexipro has made a massive improvement on my emotional bandwidth. I take vitamin D / fish oil and bits of other supplements. At least for me no question this medication even at a 10mg dose has made a major positive impact.

New comment by roody15 in "Bugs Apple loves"

roody15 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:17:03 +0000

Searching email in Mac Mail is truly horrendous. I honestly like the program and use it almost daily … but when needing to search I absolutely open a browser window and login / search. The search has been a disaster in Mac Mail well over a decade.

New comment by roody15 in "Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking"

roody15 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:32:50 +0000

It has improved my understanding of emotional dynamics between people. If anything has made me realize may be a bit more on the spectrum that I had realized...

New comment by roody15 in "The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't understand"

roody15 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:35:00 +0000

Think these were made by animals / a long long time ago. They are burrows.

https://youtu.be/7HLqleFVoDg?si=9UdJLMS-pD6G9G5G

New comment by roody15 in "US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief"

roody15 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:38:36 +0000

What exactly is international law these days? For example the ICC is ignored by the US, by Russia, by Israel, by China... among others. The UN does not seem to function quite like it did originally post WW2. In regards to Rule based order.. not sure exactly what this even means as well. Power in the world appears to be shifting or reshuffling and not sure these institutions and concepts apply like they once did.

New comment by roody15 in "Dead Internet Theory"

roody15 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:51:53 +0000

The amount of AI narrated videos on Youtube is seriously alarming. This is like Blade Runner level dystopian at this point. With AI help once you go down a rabbit hole you can just stay there indefinately with a never ending supply of AI generated content. Shades of truth or not doesn't seem to matter.

New comment by roody15 in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

roody15 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:31:31 +0000

The big one being ublock origin

New comment by roody15 in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

roody15 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:42:32 +0000

Thanks for responding. Orion on iOS with extensions has been outstanding.. looking forward to linux version.

New comment by roody15 in "Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium"

roody15 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:38:16 +0000

“ Dr. Peterson said he would reluctantly alter the course and replace the disputed modules with “lectures on free speech and academic freedom.” But he was angry, he said, as well as bothered by the sense that students would receive a less rigorous, challenging education in his classroom. ”

Quite sad to see the school administration get compliance here.

New comment by roody15 in "Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips"

roody15 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:38:25 +0000

“ Such metrics are often closely guarded trade secrets. But according to the Dailian report, Samsung's yields for SF2 are in the 50% to 60% range, just high enough for commercial production. The same report puts TSMC's upcoming N2 node at 80%”

Looks like Samsung is actually closer to production than Intel 18A which is still having issues with yields.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/samsungs-nex...

New comment by roody15 in "Implications of AI to schools"

roody15 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:28:34 +0000

Exactly this. It really is this easy. You have the full class period to write an easy on the economic causes of the civil war .. or on gender roles in pride and prejudice, or on similarities and differences on morality from the stoic ideals to Christianity in the Roman Empire. Kind of like most of my 90’s era college experience.

New comment by roody15 in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

roody15 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:26:48 +0000

I think you are correct here. If you want to look at the decline of the US ... this is perhaps a good place to start. Short term capital extraction little long term strategic planning. Maybe Cisco is a good example.. lets move all of our switch hardware production to China and still charge the consumer 3500$ per switch. Equals short term gain, makes lots of millinaires... and then just a few years later.. now Huawei makes excellent switches that are mostly on par with Cisco at a better price point.

New comment by roody15 in "FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices"

roody15 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:33:29 +0000

Wow decent results.. impressed.

New comment by roody15 in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

roody15 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:54:33 +0000

Exactly. This pattern I think accurately describes the state of the US economy in general over the last few decades. Wealthy extracting wealth from what’s left of the middle class and further extracting wealth from the already poor. The decline of the US is now openly visible and attempts to hide this through economic language / indicators / propaganda etc are now openly not reflecting reality and often come off as in a dark way comical. This applies to some other western nations like France, England and perhaps Germany.

New comment by roody15 in "Steam Machine"

roody15 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 11:48:25 +0000

SteamOS does run on regular PC’s I believe unless something has changed?

New comment by roody15 in "Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban"

roody15 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:15:25 +0000

This is unfortunate and another sign that perhaps the "West" is unable to compete. TP Link for what it is... is a great product for home use and maybe even small office. Performance and price is unmatched and I have found they hold up over time pretty well. The price point of LinkSys/Netgear products is not even close. To ban the products under some bogus "security" concerns just leads me to believe on this side of the world a slow decline is in full effect.