Saw a generated site, but it just made up plausible image links and also went image heavy so it was a bunch of broken image icons as it linked to nowhere.

keeppassxc for local password manager. More secure and more helpful UI for that very purpose, also can hold your top and let you ctrl-t the current number into to clipboard.

I hope your optimism is vidicated, but…

This specific race was for a deep-blue seat, prior to this race the Republican candidate had at best gotten 18%, and this time the republican got 38%, the most any republican has ever gotten for that state seat. Comparing Trump vote to state senate run seems to be apples and oranges for this district.

EVERY special election has gone against Republicans badly.

Well, except for the fact that not a single seat has been flipped. I suppose I can grant that the Republicans slipped 10-15 points in these races compared to the election where Trump was running, but of the three chances to actually flip a republican seat, none did anything.

On the senate, looking at the seats up, I could see maybe Georgia, NC, and Maine as potentially flippable, very remote chance of Texas… So 2-3 gains for the democrats at most. I don’t think Senate is realistically in play, they need to flip 4 red seats to get even a simple majority, still well short of a filibuster proof majority and impossibly short of a veto-proof/remove president from office majority.

his Insurrection and his Stolen Classified Documents

While not ‘dead’ dead, the supreme court basically gave him a 100% pass on the insurrection, they basically declared that a president cannot be held criminally liable for anything while in office. The classified documents maybe but the supreme court can easily intervene and say the records are forever under the president’s jurisdiction to classify as he pleases.

True, though after Compaq broke the weak exclusivity, Microsoft took over stewardship of all these things like ACPI standards and such. Intel certainly contributed but Microsoft really had the force to make vendors have to honor those standards and norms.

It’s kind of ugly and not exactly confidence inspiring, since everything they are putting out there the potential customers know how to make the same thing.

I saw an AI ad where they made three AI generated ‘testimonials’. So this told me that not only could they fail to find even three actual customers to just say the words they wanted, they couldn’t even dig up three actors or even three random employees to say the words. How pathetic must your offering be if you can’t get even a handful of real humans to at least lie for it?

And you get off my lawn…

All your base are belong to us…

Don’t you think?

Ok, but you are saying ‘Kilroy was here’ was an ‘early’ meme dating back to the 1940s. By the ‘thing described by a term can predate the term’ logically, memes have always been a thing and you won’t be able to cite an ‘early’ meme credibly.

The guy was agreeing that 'sure, that was a meme, but so too were many many things throughout history, basically life is a constant barrage of ‘memes’ in that sense.

Like how nVidia buys equity in a customer and in part promises expensive real product as part of it. So they may have so many billions worth of equity in a customer and might be able to leverage that to fund that production if needed, but if that equity evaporates, then they still are on the hook for the expensive product committment.

So maybe not yet straightforward debt, but a whole lot of expensive balls in the air that could manifest as a committed expense when there’s no actual money to execute…

Just seems like a lot of financial moves that are far from straightforward of a magnitude that could wipe a company out.

Yes, and critically Senate Republicans, 38% of senate republicans would have to go against Trump to move the needle, and if that hasn’t happened by now, it’s hard to imagine a scenario where that would happen.

For context, here’s how the elections have gone down since 2011 for that seat:

Not exactly a huge pro-democrat swing. This is actually the strongest contested result the republicans have had for this seat…

But is it an overperform? Looking back to 2011, the strongest performance by a GOP for this specific seat is 38%, and it was this election, the last GOP candidate had 18% before this…

For whatever reason, local and presidential elections can very much swing differently, and in this example it clearly looks like you can’t read much of anything into the results since it has been different from presidential outcomes already…

This doesn’t seem to be much of a narrative that the post wants it to be…

One, this is a state seat, nothing to do with the federal government.

Second, it’s a seat that has been thoroughly blue looks like. GOP hadn’t even bothered to run a candidate in over a decade, and then they only got 19% of the vote. The GOP candidate showed 38% this time around, which is actually stronger performance than they had before.

Per an article “have historically supported Democrats at the state and local level, but have shifted toward Republicans in federal elections”, this is a continuation. If anything, concerning that this is the strongest GOP result for that seat, even though they still lost…

In terms of special elections, the three that are scheduled are pretty much the only ones we are going to see, and all signs point to 2 going GOP and 1 going democrat, resulting in a 220:215 in favor of republicans. Even if they flipped the two GOP seats then it’s 218:217. More resignations/deaths could shift things more, but no more special elections since it’s so close to the general election now.

Even if, hypothetically, 10 republicans just up and resigned and the vacancies gave the democrats the majority… then what? They do another toothless impeachment? They shake their head disapprovingly at Trump deploying ICE to strategic polling places?

You’d need to see 2/3rds of the senate be willing to go against Trump before anything could realistically stop the worst of the Trump presidency.

Well, originally it was largely because no x86 implementation implemented decent deep idle behavior. Even as there might be some x86 implementations now that could credibly serve handheld market, the ecosystem is built around ARM so no one has a reason to deviate from that recipe.

Strangely enough, we do have Microsoft to thank for it. They didn’t want to do the work to enable all that crap nor did they want to enable all the vendors to do their own thing, so they were adamant about standards and if you wanted Windows support, you had to follow standards.

Meanwhile on embedded every little vendor goes wild. In the server space. ARM has taken on a similar scope, but ARM embedded is a mess and ARM server chip makers keep changing as no one gets a foot hold.

Yeah, as afflicted by compromises as some popular products become in the name of profit, the random brands on Amazon/temu show how even worse it can be. Usually the big brand shows at least a little restraint to avoid burning their brand value to the ground too quickly, but the no names with their knockoffs go full throttle into the ground.

In terms of why some of the “goto” brands aren’t the best, it’s generally because they were the best, got popular on merit, and then business folk come along to suck the life out of it, spending brand goodwill while gouging customers and cutting costs.

Some food product recipe changes to cheap, more shelf stable crap for mass production and easy logistics. Some device gets locked into a paid subscription. All the helpful service people get fired and replaced with chat bots and offshored/outsourced staff. Metal components replaced with cheap plastic that degrades. Shipping times increased so they can make everything an ocean away and give the boat time to travel. Also run big marketing pushes so it’s really hard to find the quality offerings.

There’s just so many ways you can have big margins on big revenue by screwing customers while going they haven’t noticed the decline in quality. Very hard for investor class to leave good product alone.

Retaining that much detail on tentacles takes some drive space

Linear density could also boost throughout. Multiple actuators also exist.