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The US should definitely have sanctions applied to it when they break international law.

At the moment there isn't much consideration of "will doing this come back to bite me in the ass at a later date" when a country commits violence or funds a foreign coup.

That's because there's too much consideration of "will doing this come back to bite me in the ass at a later date." When applying sanctions.

If the sanctions were virtually guaranteed to get triggered, the difficult decision would be for the regime doing the wrong thing in the first place.

Honestly, a regime should have to factor in the risk of losing all their money abroad if they start an illegal war or attempt genocide.

The theory of Europe relying on Russian gas as they joined the world economy was that mutual reliance prevents war because the consequences harm both sides.

Losing assets to the victims of the war you start would be a useful precedent to set and keep. The logic is the same.

The problem is that because sanctions hurt both sides we're still reluctant to use them.

We should have activated sanctions over the war in Georgia, or the first invasion of Crimea. Eventually we did as Russia marched on another Nation's capital.

Banks are never going to take an action that harms them. If we want to redirect the seized assets of Russia it will have to be governments which force them.

I'd suggest you look into that a bit closer.

Some investments are pensions, but generally they are buying solely on metrics. It's also worth noting they're focused on the long term. Pension funds line bonds, indexes and long term stocks.

The money moving quickly and affecting value day to day, week to week, even quarter to quarter is the rich trying to extract a quick buck.

Pension funds are increasingly likely to be holding the bag on a company that the short termists have eviscerated these days.

If you really care about pensions you'd be in favour of massive market reforms to slow trading and promote companies long term health.

As someone who has performed data recovery on optane systems. No, just no.

There's larger slow mechanical storage.

Faster flash and xpoint storage

RAM.

Any device can use a level up to cache and appear faster.

But RAM caching is generally better handled by the OS itself.

Flash coaching isn't an awful idea except when it goes wrong your back to "safety remove disk" being absolutely vital. So the OS needs to be aware and cutting power at the wrong time can kill your install.

Every update says "so not turn off your computer" for a reason but the actual redundancy we now have is leagues better than 10 years ago

God forbid one component in an optane chain becomes unreliable.

Ultimately everything needs to run in RAM. Everything needs persistent storage. A non-standard middle step between persistent and volatile memory is best avoided.

Xpoint was an interesting experiment but CXL replaced it. Ultimately the choice for data centres is to support more RAM. The additional RAM replacing the optane cache while the waits to be written is more compatible and predictable.

You can now have terrabytes of RAM and if you rarely boot and have redundant systems. There's need for the middle step.

The cost of memory and SSD per gigabyte as a cache matters. But RAM error correction and other protocols give even more advantages to avoiding optane.

"The customers aren't products" is genuinely a decent mantra.

If a company makes you the product avoid it or at least know the value they're getting.

If you get something free, your data and attention is often the price. If you pay for something you should not be exploited further as a resource.

They value Tesla as a battery manufacturer. I'm not saying that's right but they're hoping other manufacturers will end up using their batteries just like every phone uses Samsung's screens.

I think Tesla has a small lead but is going to be quickly out-developed.

The self driving stuff has always been fluff. The gigafactory not so much.

The UK has humans count pieces of paper with X next to candidates names.

It's pretty cheap and it works really well.

And it's really hard to mess with the thousands of votes needed to swing an election because that's a lot of paper.

I don't connect mine .

But I wanted a washer dryer that had a heat pump drying system.

The one I got on sale also had an auto dosing tray for detergent and softener.

Genuinely very pleased with all the features my "smart appliance" has.

It uses less power, less water, less detergent. And it weighs and uses humidistats to not over dry my clothes.

The dumb ones that just work on set timers are less efficient than one measuring the load to decide how much water to use and when it's dry.

I suppose I used to eyeball detergent but now a 40 wash bottle lasts me 50 washes.

Long warranty on it I hope I'll never have to test. But it's there.

To get that I ended up with a WiFi enabled machine and just never put it on a network and turned its own broadcast off.

I occasionally set a time on it. But genuinely throw in the clothes, push 2 buttons, and walk away.

Any appliance that can now be a heat pump instead of an element, or actually measures things instead of using timers is a genuine improvement. Even if it's fairly rudimentary still.

Not everything is worse if it's more complicated.

OOVAVOO

*shiny coaster

Some manufacturers use standard audio connectors to carry just plain power.

They're robust and can carry relatively high current and voltage.

It works, I can see why they get used. After all RCAs are on everything for everything.

I have an e-bike that uses an XLR as a charging port for the battery.

There's an IR led on a cable with a 3.5mm jack somewhere that's an extender for my home cinema system remote.

(That might be what this is, so see if your phone camera can see the IR light from a TV remote and then test it with that thing)

This possible LED plugged into something either home made/bespoke, very old, or Chinese.

Small chance it's from some medical or scientific equipment that hasn't moved with the times.

If it's an LED put a DC voltage down that plug. If it's a light sensor, measure for a DC voltage.

Audio AC signals didn't have an effect so it's probably a DC component.

My bet, point your phone camera at it and put a DC voltage down there in the right direction and you'll see IR light come out.

It might be the receiver. In which case you need to monitor voltage. Then point a TV remote at it.

You gave the Democrats 48 seats, the Republicans 49 and independents 3.

That's enough power to filibuster, not enact change.

Get back to the rest of us when we see anything close to a supermajority for the democrats and you can call that "total power".

You've given the Democrats some power and it's done you some good. The inflation act is not bad for a 1 seat majority.

Try upping it a bit and you'll do more than just keep the lights on and avoid government shutdowns.

Or don't turn up at the polls and hand an on the record fascist the white house.

Watching from outside the first Trump term was a bizarre result. But he lost the popular vote and won on a personality cult in some key demographics, while idiots decided Hilary Clinton wasn't good enough to turnout for.

If Trump actually wins while his personality and politics are laid bare, after a disastrous 4 years in office domestically and in foreign policy. I honestly don't know what I'll think of the USA.

I'd certainly support any cessation from the states that actually fuel your economy and want to keep democracy.

App developers are unlikely to take themselves off the Apple store it would remove themselves from a huge portion of the market they developed an iOS app for.

But they will find third party stores taking a smaller cut than Apple does. They will pass on some of that saving to the customer or find a way to encourage you not to use the Apple store if they get to keep a higher cut. Like earlier updates and feature releases.

That's the point. Apple currently has a controlling monopoly on a market. Competition will lower prices for the consumer.

Anti-trust laws exist to do exactly this.

All it will take is a trustworthy company to launch a 3rd party app store. Then maybe you won't mind.

Some companies like Cisco might just launch a store instead of putting their apps through Apple as they would like higher security than the App store provides.

Apple will also be forced into a competition to be the most secure app store too.

The likelihood is they'll just play with the margins and do what's necessary to keep a near monopoly but the possibility of competition is useful in itself. At the moment there isn't even that.

"Windows for Submarines"

It's XP for Vanguard subs. I really hope none of them provide any telemetry for these stats though.

I'd be happiest with the simple one in the old colours.

Orange and blue look way better to me than light orange and purple.

It really was though. UAC didn't actually work until windows 7.

Windows 11 has been pretty rock solid for me.

Vista was not and working in IT for a long time I saw enough examples of vista to never recommend it.

XP was better at everything until windows 7 came along.

It doesn't matter how light an OS is if it isn't stable.

Windows 11 is in its beta phase. Like windows 10 was until 2018.

I wouldn't call vista successful. Windows 7 replaced XP, Vista did not.

Like I said, it was a beta.

No. It was a crash test dummy for windows 7.

It was a beta that wasn't stable.

He supported a book banning law. He's in the wrong.

Now he's not gone back on that, he's complaining the law he supported is applying to his books.

He wants to be above the law while others are not.