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>>I can't find the quote you're talking

Not that exact quote, but the spirit of it at 44:22.

https://youtu.be/uTxRF5ag27A?t=2662

Quote: "A zero-overhead principle. It basically says that if you have an abstraction, it should not cost anything compared to writing the equivalent code at a lower level."

All the wokeification posturing didn't make those companies manufacture maintainable computers for poor countries.

Yeah. My sister had a laptop that required a heat gun to remove its fragile keyboard, which was glued in place.

I have lots of family and friends who bring me their broken "thin laptops." Their thinness makes them super fragile, and they break all the time. They're also getting harder to repair as assembly becomes more convoluted each year. Even basic maintenance, like cleaning the fans, requires increasingly super difficult disassembly.

The latest models require repeatedly disassembling the sandwich from both sides. You have to remove the keyboard to access a screw, open the bottom, remove another screw to lift the top, then go back and forth between both sides just to reach a fan that frequently gets clogged with dust and needs frequent, regular cleaning.

Even worse, the unavoidable cleaning voids the warranty.

Voters decided to punish themselves

Medieval German didn't have fixed rules for writing. The same word was written in different ways on the same page, so many words inherited from the Middle Ages cannot be taken literally under modern writing rules.

You can't buy a single LPCAMM2 RAM module on Amazon. eBay has some.

Prebuilt branded PCs have always had inferior quality, compatibility, and expandability problems, all with overpricing.

The race to make laptops thinner is pointless. I wish I could buy a thicker laptop that is more robust, repairable, expandable, and has better cooling, with the extra space filled with batteries.

You need a reployer to start a company. These are difficult to obtain, and finding someone who knows how to use them is even harder.

Why do you do this when you have Pari GP?

The civilization found at the Inca structures was most probably descended from barbarians who conquered the civilization that built them. It's like someone arriving in Europe, finding the Franks ruling over it, and assuming they built the Roman Empire.

I always thought multiplication was one of the most basic things a CPU should handle. Weren't computers invented to perform calculations? Even a pocket calculator could multiply. I assumed CPUs handled arithmetic and not much else. I didn't even learn about bit shifts until much later, and none of the programming languages I was taught ever introduced them.

The very idea of "racing the beam" is madness distilled. How do you draw without a framebuffer and keep track of everything's position using just 128 bytes of RAM? This comment alone uses more RAM than that.

The 6502 is so primitive that it runs on an Atari equipped with 128 bytes of RAM.

Yes, 128 bytes. Used for code, data, video, and everything else.

(But it can address 64 KB)

It is so primitive that it is unable to multiply integers. If you want to multiply, you have to write your own algorithm.

I can no longer read Reddit since they started enforcing logins through old.reddit links. I will not open an account.

I once read a theory proposing that primates got their minds from birds due to sharing trees with avians, and that viruses may have transferred genetic material horizontally from birds to primates.

It showed a chart of brain weight relative to body weight, and birds had a much higher ratio than any other animal group. Primates were on the same curve, which wasn't shared with any other mammalian group. Primates were literally on the avian curve.

But I don't remember where I saw that. I searched for it on Google and found nothing.

Profit is the driving force behind civilization, motivating innovation and progress and allowing us to live longer and better lives instead of remaining stuck in the Stone Age.

When you search for a product on Amazon and sort by price, it makes some products magically "disappear", and gives you more expensive products first, or plays dumb and inserts unrelated products. It's all done to discourage searching for better prices.

Much better solution:

Install JDownloader 2. Just copy a link, and JDownloader will pick it up if it's running (otherwise, open it manually).

It not only downloads the file and lets you resume the download, but can also download multiple pieces in parallel.

I had a Sound Blaster card with a sound enhancement feature that made CD audio sound a lot better, but I can't remember what it was called or what it actually did.

I've tried to figure it out to see if there are any modern equivalents, but I haven't been able to identify the feature. All I remember is that it was a single checkbox in the Windows driver settings, sometime in the '90s or early 2000s.

I've even downloaded the manuals for old Sound Blaster cards to look for it, but I can't remember which model I had. Creative Labs released so many variations of seemingly similar cards that narrowing it down feels almost impossible.

The fastest algorithms I can make for many problems use bit hacking. It works in x86, but it's technically undefined behavior.

This is what it takes to make actually good coffee.

My grandmother made the best coffee I’ve ever tasted. Every time she made me a cup, she transferred an entire library from the studio to the living room.

Whenever I saw her coming in from the garden, pushing the wheelbarrow, I’d get excited: “The coffee is coming!”

That's actually socialism. Socialism is what it does, not what it claims to do.

but the fireworks behind you... Should we do something?

I just read a childish rant

The point of prices is to find the value of things, so resources can be better allocated. It is not about fairness.

By the way, share value is only a guess about future production in the next 10 to 20 years. It is not wealth that exists today, and it cannot be consumed.

So you cannot take that wealth from the rich and "distribute" it. What you are really doing is taxing the poorest people.

If Microsoft is guessed to make more profits in 5 years, its share value grows, but no physical wealth has been created today. So if you take that "wealth" and use it to buy cars, you are taking those cars from the poorest person who would have bought them otherwise, because resources are scarce.

Those extra cars you are trying to get do not exist just because Microsoft's share valuation grew overnight.

USA universities have lately corrupted the meaning of the word "liberalism", turning it into its opposite. So-called "liberal education" doesn't exist anymore.

The Industrial Revolution was caused by capitalism. As other countries liberalized their economies, the British Empire faded. Even worse, the UK became more socialist over time.

Victorian elites lived in a capitalist country in a world full of statists. It's economics. The Dutch were there before.