I mean… there’s another read on this whole thing, too: “huh, I guess everyone voted for nepotism and insider deals, so why the fuck not, especially in this context?”

Biden’s just giving the electorate a preview of what they voted for.

I mean either way you’re gonna bottleneck on the 1G port

Something something leopards and faces

I mean… if we’re optimizing for covert physical presence… you can hide these fuckers in tons of interesting places.

I’m not surprised, but I am exasperated.

Uh, if you’re wanting to go above 1G, this thing is not going to cut the mustard. Seriously, why would they give it a 2.5G WAN port paired with a 1G LAN port? That’s so dumb.

This would be potential impulse buy territory if it was 2x2.5… but a mix of 1 and 2.5 is frankly a tad baffling

GSV, and thank you very much for noticing

I thought those were technically rodents?

Nothing, they’re just being an ass. Don’t worry about it.

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What happens when there’s a setback that’s major enough to be considered potentially permanent - for instance, the recent election?

Trump’s “economic experts”:

numbers, man… there’s, like, too many of’em

Tbh my money is on Ukraine following through on their threat to do a crash nuclear weapons program. If the rest of the world won’t actually help them meaningfully, they’ll defend their interests as they see fit - as they should.

You’re 100% right. And I have absolutely done this in the past when some dipshit has the bright idea to tie comp adjustments to SLOC metrics. And it’s more than just comments: you just make EVERYTHING a variable, duplicate as much as possible, and avoid terse syntax at all costs. It makes the codebase nigh unmaintainable… but hey, if you’re gonna hit me in the wallet if I don’t do that, I don’t fucking care about the quality of the codebase under those constraints.

This fundamentally misunderstands the domain of software engineering. Most of the time, with an actually difficult problem, the hardest part is devising the solution itself. Which, you know, often involves a lot of thinking and not that much typing. And that also entirely puts aside how neurodivergent people - who are somewhat over repressed in STEM - often arrive at solutions in very different ways that statistical models like these simply don’t account for.

lol $10 says Trump will pardon this fuck

Definitely a very clear echo of the whole Brexit protest vote regret vibe.

Except this is like having Brexit, undoing it, and then doing it all the fuck over again after seeing how fucking dumb it was.

Because the confederacy wasn’t actually ever fully defeated

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