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Are you sure you want something like that?

There was a Heritage Foundation document for 2016 as well. There has been one for every president since Regan.

I don’t really think you can make a reasonable comparison like that between an 8-bit CPU and a 16 or 32-bit CPU.

Python is interpreted where Java is compiled. They aren’t going to be able to be used in the same cases all the time.

You don’t know the half of it…

Those of us whose ancestors were on The Trail of Tears have known this for a long time.

Well, it’s a little counterintuitive but it’s really hard to shoot stuff at the Sun as opposed to the opposite direction. That’s why the Parker Solar Probe holds the human made speed record. When you leave Earth you are already going at Earth orbital speeds around the Sun give or take Earth escape velocity. The closer to the Sun you get the faster you go and the more speed you have to bleed off with fuel to not get slingshotted out into the Kuiper Belt.

Decades old assumptions biased toward print rather than web based design.

You just need to change the image to “wrap through” or “wrap behind”. In Word it’s usually under the “Wrap Text” option when right-clicking on the image.

My grandpa was a truck driver. He told me he hated bobtailing (driving with no trailer) because he didn’t get paid for it.

The other commenter is on the right track but the chip controls both USB and PS/2 as well as others;

In the 90s and 2000s, for x86 machines, slower I/O was handled by a chip called the Southbridge which worked in conjunction with a chip called the Northbridge that handled faster I/O like IDE and PCI. Later these were integrated into a single chip and, as of recent processor generations, into the processor itself.

AFAIK ghosting and key rollover are issues when using PS/2 but it can offer some milliseconds off latency when used in high cpu games.

No, I don’t think not being able to make change or not stopping touching a screen no matter how many times you are told that it isn’t a touch screen is cultural momentum. I genuinely think that we the older generations have failed Gen Z at a common sense and problem solving level and I very much hope that we don’t keep failing Gen Alpha. I was in school still when no child left behind went into effect and the difference was stark. It was said then that it was designed to create a generation of Republican voters and based on the most recent election it looks like it might have worked.

I think you are making a bunch of assumptions. I don’t have a problem with China subsidizing its own cars the same way we do. I have a problem with the idea that the current authoritarian governments in the west are either going to let our car industries die or adopt the labor practices to try to compete.

Working at a university I have seen some astounding shit; people just barely 10 years younger than me who can’t read analog clocks or make change let alone use a mouse or move a file to a flash drive.

Sometimes I feel like I am the only person on Lemmy worried about the car market in China being subsidized into a global monopoly by the Chinese government and labor practices.

I have a clock that has 0 at the bottom, 6 in the 9 position, 12 at the top, and 18 in the 3 position.

Joe has wares if you have coin?

There was a joke about “rethinking the Microsoft model” in a 2005 episode of The Office. The move to subscription based software has been in the works for 25 years or more.

1. Something in the Saxhorn family I would guess. Possibly a marching euphonium?
2. It was the same day as those thwack tubes, you missed a really fun day.
3. They do look plumbed as urinals to me, it’s just really hard to see the drain pipe going off to the right of each bell behind the bells.

You have to remember that when Clippy was introduced with Office 97 in Nov. 1996 a lot of people were coming to a PC from a DOS era or older machine, typewriter, or nothing at all. Anthropomorphic assistants were all the rage to teach people how to use a GUI for the first time. Admittedly Microsoft took things too far. But for a lot of people who didn’t know the wizards were there the assistants were genuinely helpful.