Windows 11 is pretty great though, it keeps all the good ideas from 10 and improves on them. I don't get the hate.
23H2 was pretty close to being solid and stable but 24H2 has been a disaster.
Readit Newsheisgone commented on After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be support.microsoft.com/en-... · Posted by u/zdw
heisgone commented on How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity joanwestenberg.com/p/how-... · Posted by u/enbywithunix
>A third began using the word "liberal" as if it was a personality disorder rather than loose coalitions of sometimes contradictory beliefs.
I'm a long time Jon Stewart fan and if I'm being honest, looked at the "other side" as if it was a bunch of retarded people isn't new and predate 2016. No doubt Trump and social media got conservative to embrace condescending and extreme rhetoric and pushed it to another level but let's not pretend they invented anything.
1) Are some intelligent people with the power over hundreds of millions, billions even, that sure that AI will pay off?
2) Is it all a gamble by not-that-intelligent people that have power over those billions?
3) Is it intelligent people knowing this will never work, just pretending for the grift, ripping off 2)?
It's fascinating and I can't wait to see how it's ending, despite knowing there is no happy end possible anymore. Either most people are replaced by AI and society as we know it ends or there is a gigantic crash waiting.
I wonder if the way we have to look at the A.I. race is as a form of cold war. During the cold war, military expenses made no economic sense but we had to do it anyway to come on top. At this point, it's "who can borrow the most without bankrupting itself or can survive until a government bailout".
heisgone commented on Neros has raised $121M to build military drones nytimes.com/2025/11/10/bu... · Posted by u/asix66
"It almost feels as if the US need(s|ed) to be a bit more involved in the Ukraine war in order to keep their finger on the pulse of how conflicts are evolving"
This has nothing to do with keeping up with the intel from the conflict. This is entirely the product of our manufacturing issues. Manufacturing drove our success in WW2. Now we can't even manufacture low cost low(ish) tech drones at 1/10th the volume of potential adversaries.
At some point, we will have to realize that military might is highly dependant of manufacturing capability. If a war was to happen, China could turn their dildo factories into drones factories overnight, like the U.S. turned their car factories into airplane factories during WWII. Same things for boats, tanks, guns, etc.
heisgone commented on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is heise.de/en/news/Archive-... · Posted by u/Projectiboga
> Wikipedia is somewhat ok, but it also misses a TON of stuff, and unfortunately it only has one primary view, whereas many things need some explanation before one can understand it.
Last I checked, they had archive.is blacklisted; the people with power there had (as far as I can tell) come to the conclusion that people using that site to prove that websites had stated X on date Y were the bad guys. Of course, they still have archive.org sources everywhere, so the objection is not actually to archiving page content.
Tons of claims also seem to be sourced ultimately to thinly-disguised promotional material (e.g. claims of the prevalence of a problem backed up by the sites of companies offering products to combat the problem) and opinion pieces that happen to mention an objective (but not verified) claim in passing.
I heard stories of incriminating stuff for higher-ups disappearing from archive.org.
I'm not sure the bet is as big as it seems from the headline. When you buy options, you pay a fixed premium to get the right to buy/sell a very large value of shares, called the notional. But the notional is not what you are losing if it goes wrong, you lose the premium. The premium can be quite a small number compared to the notional.
It's also likely edged in all sort of ways the article doesn't cover.
heisgone commented on Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt twitter.com/paoloardoino/... · Posted by u/wslh
Armchair economist here - one implication of this is that a crypto liquidation will cause global interest rates to spike at a time when they will need to be lower to calm the markets.
Selling massive amounts of debt with no additional demand means the required return must be higher.
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heisgone commented on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission cnn.com/2025/10/20/scienc... · Posted by u/voxleone
Elon's predictions are usually very late, but they do happen.
"I see a path to Twitter exceeding a billion monthly users in 12 to 18 months." — 11/27/2022
Technically true. The path where he doesn't alienate half the population.
heisgone commented on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission cnn.com/2025/10/20/scienc... · Posted by u/voxleone
Self-finance ? Is that what you call US government money?
Last years SpaceX revenue was 15 Billions, of which 1.1 came from NASA. Their revenues is higher than entire NASA budget.
https://deepnewz.com/company-earnings/spacex-2025-revenue-to...