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baiwl··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
What will we do with that fab in two years when nobody needs that excess RAM?
baiwl··on 'If you aren't lying, you aren't flying.' Pilots hide mental health struggles
My prescription is very low and I can drive fine without glasses but I can’t recognise people at a long distance.
baiwl··on 'If you aren't lying, you aren't flying.' Pilots hide mental health struggles
This reminds me of when a friend became a cop. One day I saw him or I thought I saw him from far away but I couldn’t tell him that I wasn’t sure it was him because I couldn’t recognise him because of my myopia and, since I sometimes drive without my glasses on - what if one day he caught me?
baiwl··on China will eventually open its borders to mass immigration
You just have to see how they’ve handled Xinjiang to know how they feel about this matter.
baiwl··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
Despite all the bs you’ll read here, Europeans also want bigger cars. For me the proof is that poor people car brands like Dacia no longer sell sedans.

I think the reason you don’t see many big cars is that we are generally so poor that we can’t afford what we would like to buy. At least where I live… Also our streets are old and narrow which makes it impractical.

baiwl··on Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years
No, it's just that Samsung phones suck.
baiwl··on Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions
Almost nothing that (naive) men think women will find attractive is actually attractive to women.
baiwl··on Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
Yeah, I’m not going back to wired headphones, like, ever.
baiwl··on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
To shut Windows down, press Win+R to see the Run dialog and then type shutdown /s /t 0
baiwl··on Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026
The "I know, crazy idea." from the parent comment is even more abrasive.
baiwl··on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
Welcome to Europe. As an example, in Spain, there are 500K more people living off the government than working in the private sector: https://theobjective.com/economia/macroeconomia/2024-09-16/a...
baiwl··on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe
I also have many messaging apps, but they are all different personas of myself, intended for different audiences. I have zero interest in mixing them.
baiwl··on Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars
Right? It wasn’t me. So was it Gizmodo, the website where this was posted?
baiwl··on Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
Just to be clear this is done automatically by macOS or iOS browsers when configured properly.
baiwl··on Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries
>To put this into perspective, the total combined population of these countries exceed 2.5 billion, or just about 30% of Earth’s population which is wild.

Doesn't look like anybody can make 35% of their revenue from those countries though, does it.

baiwl··on Migrating Dillo from GitHub
Having to enable javascript to see a website is not an accessibility problem according to WCAG.
baiwl··on What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones?
This reminds me of when pvs-studio would post every single analysis they would make of popular C++ projects. It was a fun novelty back in the day. Just like these scans, which now are boring and overplayed.
baiwl··on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
I didn’t say anything about tech workers.
baiwl··on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
Immigration is about short-changing the natives to make the billionaires wealthier, yes, we know.

People are also now learning this fact, which is why you’re getting unpalatable politicians elected.

baiwl··on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
I don’t understand this thing you do in the US of forcing you to do completely unrelated courses. You want to study computers and they put you through liberal arts or gender studies bullshit that is basically worthless. Why?
baiwl··on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
You have better employment options only if there are not enough people with degrees. If you give everybody the option of obtaining a degree then nobody is better off. In fact those at the bottom of the barrel end up in an even worse position.
baiwl··on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
…but there is cost to the student or their family. The difference being that paying for it or not is not an option. You can’t just say “I won’t go to uni, so I won’t pay for it”