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New comment by throwaheyy in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

throwaheyy — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:15:07 +0000

Build PC with 16gb now, upgrade to 32gb in the future, not be stuck with surplus 2x8gb afterwards.

New comment by throwaheyy in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

throwaheyy — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:56:25 +0000

It’s a very typically American opinion to argue that you don’t have to be personally responsible for your actions if the law legally allows you not to.

New comment by throwaheyy in "DAiFi Whitepaper Released: A New Era of Decentralized AI Finance"

throwaheyy — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:45:10 +0000

Awesome, a whole new universe of crypto scams is exactly what the world needs right now.

New comment by throwaheyy in "Pinterest CEO fires 'obstructionist' employees who created tool to track layoffs"

throwaheyy — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:18:44 +0000

Sick of this outfit polluting search results with paywall/loginscreen results. Pinterest can get fucked.

New comment by throwaheyy in "Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems"

throwaheyy — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:22:05 +0000

Yup, I asked it how long an azure subscription had existed and it could not even tell me that. Literally now() minus the object’s creation date and it had no idea what to do.

New comment by throwaheyy in "Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday"

throwaheyy — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:49:20 +0000

Exactly, half of a system exists as code but the other half exists as a mental model in the minds of the devs. With AI the former will, now much more quickly, outrun or deviate from the latter and then the problems of long-term reliability, maintainability and confidence in validation and delivery are just beginning.

New comment by throwaheyy in "California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record"

throwaheyy — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:26:42 +0000

Also recommend the documentary Riding Giants.

New comment by throwaheyy in "The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management"

throwaheyy — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:58:29 +0000

Been at MS 15 years, the unspoken “pact” is truthful.

New comment by throwaheyy in "Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Effects of Novel Swear Words"

throwaheyy — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:45:04 +0000

"Theres a fucking goat outside."

"No, it's just 'a goat'."

"No! It's a fucking goat!"

New comment by throwaheyy in "Fast machines, slow machines (2023)"

throwaheyy — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:07:01 +0000

This is why I do not use any google apps and deleted my google anccount. Their shitty software pisses me off.

Every time I try to use it, the UI elements shift around as I try an action as simple as activating a search box. But it is just laggy enough that you click on something a second time, since it apparently didn’t activate the first time. But by then it’s shifted everything around and you are either cancelling what you were doing, or you are taken off into some new workflow you didn’t want.

The absolute WORST is when you focus the search box and it shifts to the top of the screen. With lag, you click on the search box again, but now where it was is a list of completion suggestions and you are taken off to some search result page you never asked for.

It’s fucking infuriating and I won’t entertain it.

New comment by throwaheyy in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

throwaheyy — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:09:48 +0000

Dems were already the adult in the room, US voters decided they don’t want one.

New comment by throwaheyy in "Avoid ISP Routers (2024)"

throwaheyy — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:36:21 +0000

I have quantum fiber and am using a Dynalink WRX36 running OpenWrt. Needed the vlan 201 configuration but works well.

OpenWrt is pretty amazing, my router downloads torrents, blocks ads, runs a VPN client (enabled per-device) for watching geo-blocked streaming, serves content from a USB drive to my TV, among other things.

https://openwrt.org/toh/dynalink/dl-wrx36

New comment by throwaheyy in "Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport"

throwaheyy — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 07:08:29 +0000

No, that aircraft (having taken off from Reagan, visible in the full not-cropped videos) is close to the Kennedy Center camera but is nowhere near where the CRJ and helicopter were.

New comment by throwaheyy in "The 'no. 8 wire' tradition in New Zealand"

throwaheyy — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 02:45:07 +0000

Being that the concept of ACC is unusual, and it is run by the NZ Gov, means that ACC ads are some quite bizarre PSAs in a similar vein to NZ’s and Australia’s notorious road safety PSAs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u51OxZF1ltI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zVnErdPfE&t=0s

New comment by throwaheyy in "Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)"

throwaheyy — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:52:46 +0000

It’s a description of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect.

New comment by throwaheyy in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

throwaheyy — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:32:09 +0000

Not the exact same way — far from it. Look up ranked choice voting. It makes third (and beyond) parties actually viable.

New comment by throwaheyy in "A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones"

throwaheyy — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:46:06 +0000

Similar experience here. When I moved to a new place and had to find a dentist, the first one I went to told me I needed two root canals, even though I had been to my original dentist just 6 months before. The waiting room was filled with massage chairs and large flatscreen TVs (which would have been expensive 15 years ago).

New comment by throwaheyy in "Qantas apologizes after R-rated film plays on every screen during flight"

throwaheyy — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 07:50:25 +0000

The interior may be refurbished only 1-2 times during the economic life of the airframe, so the rule generally still holds. 747s are old enough that chances are, even the IFE tech installed during the refurb is outdated. A380s aren’t yet old enough to have had their interior refurbed for the first time, so their IFE tech is similarly outdated.

New comment by throwaheyy in "Qantas apologizes after R-rated film plays on every screen during flight"

throwaheyy — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 06:23:48 +0000

Many airlines have had generally available models of tablets (such as iPads) to hand out on their aircraft lacking screens. eg. Hawaiian Airlines when they still had 767s.

New comment by throwaheyy in "Qantas apologizes after R-rated film plays on every screen during flight"

throwaheyy — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 06:18:18 +0000

Really depends on the aircraft. It reflects the age/generation of the aircraft and isn’t crappy just because it’s on an aircraft. 747s had, and A330/A380 still have, these issues. Slow CPUs, washed out colors, massive boxes taking up space under every seat. Not because it’s an aircraft but because it’s early 2000s technology.

Any newer aircraft reflects the advances you see in newer consumer electronics: if you’re on a 787 or A350 the screens are large, colorful, highly responsive, with a much larger selection of content, and none of the ugly control boxes taking up space because the screens are basically modern fast and slim Android tablets.