Does he have a lot of stock in student loan companies? Sounds like it.
And/or he wants a greater glut of degree holders to drive down employment cost further.
Readit Newsarglebargle123 commented on Marc Andreessen wants you to stay in school garelick.net/2024/05/28/m... · Posted by u/jonathang6k
arglebargle123 commented on FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) pcmicro.com/getdiz/file_i... · Posted by u/Lammy
.NFO[0] files?
ANSI art was usually separate IIRC, nfos had ASCII art headers but I don't remember ever seeing color in them
arglebargle123 commented on Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography blog.chromium.org/2024/05... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch
Is there a way to put money on this? I'd be willing to put down a fair amount against your prediction.
One of the University of Iowa B schools runs a futures market that'll let you bet on predicted event outcomes
There was a moment with the spinning rust drives where it would have made sense to have storage in a networked device and not locally but now it rarely makes sense unless an incredibly fast interconnect could be used.
Of course this example is still interesting and cool.
For a couple of years I had a Linux NAS box under my desk with like 8 Samsung 850 pros in a big array connected to my desktop over 40GbE. Then NVMe became a common thing and the complexity wasn't worthwhile.
I can recommend Aran Sweater Market. I like their modern (softer feel) wool, but their Donegal wool products are made from yarn from of the last remaining traditional wool producers in Ireland. The "soft" wool thing I previously purchased only lasted about 10 years. The Donegal one is a tank in comparison. Ask me again in a decade:
- https://www.aran.com/search.php?search_query=Donegal&Search=...
- https://donegalyarns.com/our-history/
and Darn Tough. I've been abusing the crap out of their socks (walking outside on mud, burrs, etc) and they're still like new. They offer an unconditional lifetime guarantee that they apparently actually honor:
- https://darntough.com/pages/our-unconditional-lifetime-guara...
I have darn tough hiking socks that are 10y old and look pretty close to new.
arglebargle123 commented on Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1 bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/b... · Posted by u/zdw
Severity: grave
I'm not sure if that's a standard value, but it made me chuckle a little.
It would have been really funny if they reported that one as:
Severity: `
arglebargle123 commented on Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers bbc.com/news/technology-6... · Posted by u/thunderbong
While I applaud the effort would A controller for disabled people work?
Doesn't what works depend on the disability the person has?
That's the point of the controller being a kit thing that can be built a bunch of different ways
arglebargle123 commented on Reel Inequality: Charting the Vanishing Middle Class of Movies reelinequality.com/... · Posted by u/tennisprince
I feel like consumer choice has kinda gone too far with movies, people never cross genres because they never have to go along with something they don’t like.
You should see the book requests posted to communities like r/printsf now. We have genre readers that have evolved into "I only read material containing this exact set of tropes" it's straight up weird.
Meanwhile I'm over here jamming Micron 7450 pros into my work laptop for better sync write performance.
I have very little trust in consumer flash these days after seeing the firmware shortcuts and stealth hardware replacements manufacturers resort to to cut costs.
arglebargle123 commented on Should I replace my 56k modem with a 28.8K Modem? (2001) forums.anandtech.com/thre... · Posted by u/edent
Back in the day, Central Computer carried packaged RedHat and clear vinyl Slackware CD sets. One of the few brick and mortar computer and software store regional chains that still exist in the US, the other being MicroCenter.
I worked at Egghead Software in high school and managed NFR pricing on Netcom. Egghead was one of the first chains to go under because it couldn't compete with the hypermarts like CompUSA and Fry's Electronics, both of which are now also defunct given way to BestBuy and Amazon.
That's a name I haven't heard for a very long time. Central Computer was a fantastic shop.