Magnetic tapes are still one of the best ways to store large quantities of data over a very long period of time, and they typically don't really need very fast I/O considering their use case as long term archival that the stored data may or may never be read again.
RAM and local device storage are very much different story, considering the performance implications; it's pointless to have a lightning fast processors if RAM and storage bus speeds can't keep up. That said, flash memory doesn't last forever, and there is a strong case to be made about having swappable components that don't brick the entire machine when they fail. Replaceable parts ensures a device can live longer, leading to less ewaste and less money needlessly spent.
Looks a heck of a lot better than it did a couple years ago. It's still not great, but any improvement helps.
Bingo.
Defraud the public: slap on the wrist
Defraud the wealthy: straight to jail
I knew a kid growing up that was about as cis boy as they come but his mom kept trying to raise him a girl until around kindergarten (kids dad was out of the picture). And when he started leaning into boy stuff as young boys do, especially when they start making friends, she tried raising him as gay. Last I heard he got emancipated (this was probably 10 years ago). That poor kid likely needed years of therapy.
The reason the "at least I still have my job" is a thing here is because the US has virtually zero social safety nets, especially healthcare. If you lose your job and your savings is not where it needs to be, you can find yourself on the streets pretty damn fast.
I believe it. Even here in California small mountain towns tend to lean heavily conservative
Um I disagree. The biggest barrier is having the capital to do the thing. I think a number of states have a reduced/free option if your income is below the poverty line (calculated as having low or negative income in the startup phase, not necessarily based on assets), or being lucky enough to have a spouse with healthcare. That said, it's entirely doable to go without healthcare, albeit risky. I started a contracting company 3 years ago with almost no money and the tools I had from my apprentice/jman years, and still don't have health insurance, though I'm hoping to get some later this year.
Sure but that's only a piece of the puzzle. Housing, food, and general living costs are so insane now that any decent savings would be obliterated much more quickly. UBI would be a better solution here, but that's almost a pipedream at this point.
I've been using it in a windows VM. Unfortunately for my work, I need the formatting of Excel and Word to be legit that I can't for the life of me seem to replicate in Only or Libre. That and PDF rendering always gets a little wonky somehow.
How do you think technology matures? It took years for automobiles to become reliable like they are today. It'll take years for EVs to become mature, but the only way to do that is to work on them now and improve as we go along. The absolute wrong thing to do is throw out the entire concept because they aren't perfect now.
Meta isn't going to ban these groups because it drives engagement on their platform. Law enforcement knows that these people are organizing because a number of them are part of the groups. The justice department inst doing anything likely on the premise of freedom of speech.
Low information people get their "news" from Facebook. Meta's algorithms have repeatedly been caugh promoting this sort of content because it drives engagement. This ain't looking good.
Bear in mind that this still has to go through the Senate and Biden to be set in legal stone.
Beginning in 2024, Europe will require ETIAS travel authorization for visitors — including summer jet-setters from the US.
