The RAM and SSD have gotten that much more expensive to source. Anyone who sells a product with similar components either raises their price, or takes a loss.
Even laggy crap DDR4 RAM is at almost $6/GB; DDR5 (like the Deck uses) is double that. The absolute cheapest appropriate-sized 512GB M.2 drive is $100, from a no-name brand. The whole market has gone down the tubes thanks to AI companies buying up absolutely everything.
The real indicator of global warming.
Corporate lobbyists. They’ve played a large part in the gradual destruction of the USA in the name of profit for their filthy-rich overlords.
Goto CAN be readable, it’s true.
The problem is that it’s easy to make code that is LESS readable; in order to prevent horrible unmaintainable spaghetti, it is forbidden nearly everywhere. A lot of coding ‘rules’ are really just ways to try to cut down on stupid coding practices by greenhorns and enforce code maintainability.
That’s because it’s not. It’s ignoring the meme format and just using the image without the context.
It’s pointing out the conflict between two coding ideals - first, reducing duplicate code so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel and/or copy-paste code (which often means making calls to libraries) which is represented by the red penguin facing right, and second, wanting to reduce dependencies so that external variables are reduced (which would mean including code in your codebase that otherwise would be an external library call) which is represented by the blue penguin facing left.
The closer you get towards one ideal, the further away you get from the other.
IF and GOTO are the only flow control we need; everything else is for cowards.
There was a lot getting lined up, and then the fucker got re-elected. I’m pretty sure he would have faced consequences if he wasn’t president.
He’s spent his entire second term dismantling the nation, probably in part to try to make sure it doesn’t actually have the ability to punish him.
They didn’t need to privately fund highways. They just removed the competition.
Took me a bit. I was staring at it for a while thinking ‘What part of this is socially awkward?’
If a fairy asks “Can I have your name?” They aren’t being polite, they’re trying to take your name away.
I should mention that without blur reduction, you won’t see flicker - but you will see blur!
I agree that more than 1080p isn’t really necessary, but something that has blur reduction and can do at least 72Hz is a good investment, IMO. 72Hz is what it takes for me to not see flicker without taxing my GPU too hard, and blur reduction means you can even read text when it’s moving across the screen instead of turning into a smear. Got a decent BenQ several years ago, and I haven’t regretted it once.
So far as I’m aware, security is primarily to keep bad things from getting into the airport, not out.
Yep. It’s called the standard deduction. If you make less than that, you pay zero income tax.
I might be interested if they hadn’t ditched the open platform aspect of their phones. Now they’re hardly any different from any of the other brands.
Except the major AI players are drastically increasing their prices…
Isn’t that essentially what TPM is?
The United States federal government has said loud and clear that not only are foreign visitors not wanted, they are risking their freedom by setting foot on American soil. I don’t see how anyone would be interested in visiting under those conditions who doesn’t have family or the like in the States.
“I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,”
That’s not what we’re seeing from the White House, lady.
The problem is one part corporate consolidation, and two+ parts that corporations are allowed to harm the public for their own gain without repercussions (or repercussions that don’t sufficiently punish the corporations). A corporation is often just an entity that looks for commons to tragedy - whether it is big or small.