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Because you don't properly understand who the customer is here. Similar problem with mass transit -- bus service often sucks, but you think that because you think riders are the customer. They're not. They're almost irrelevant. Mass transit is often heavily subsidized. Government is the...

This article reminded me, GM was supposed to offer me a NACS adapter I thought as early as May. It's well in to August now. Not a shock, GM has had about as good a track record as Boeing in recent years, and breaking promises to Bolt owners just seems to be what their corporate team does to pass...

Disagree with the hive mind here that data center operators should be forced in to a radically different, unrelated, heavily regulated industry with totally different core competencies and a steep learning curve to get right. Firms should be specialized. The further they get away from core...

The cost seems too close to a 2-bay NAS to me, while at the same time it's small capacity and interface mean it's not as simple or robust as just paying for Backblaze personal backup. Backblaze also backs up offsite any USB drive you care to plug in, as long as you plug it in with some...

Does it? If I were sitting on the ISS and had two choices for a ride home, the Boeing deathtrap or SpaceX, personally I'd not even hesitate. SpaceX.

I think the real problem is trying to serve 2 very different markets with very different needs. In the corporate space, 365 is fantastic. I disagree with the Luddites above. Collaborative features enabled in recent years has been a game-changer. And what's wrong with auto-save FFS? There's a...

Just wanted to say that's not my experience at all. I'll have browsers open, FTP client moving data, Excel, Mail, usually at least one other thing, all while I work through 80 megapixel RAW files in Lightroom Classic like it's nothing. Almost never a hint of any memory pressure actually...

Being anti-fascist is all the rage. Well, it's pretty fascist, or at the very least authoritarian, to take a private company, point the police power of the state at them and dictate that they engage in a commercial operation they don't want to. If the government thinks it's so compelling and...

Do they lose face if the story gets relentlessly crushed domestically by their legion of censors? Remember, just because we might find out they launched a manned mission and it blew up spectacularly doesn't mean 80% or more of the local population would ever find out. For example, does the...

Comments here are about what I expected. Here's the political reality. If they investigated and Musk had hired an asylee or refugee, they'd of found a way to go after SpaceX for that instead, by either deciding the opposite of what they're saying currently about the eligibility of asylees and...

I don't get the attraction of having the government prep your taxes for you. Do you guys not understand incentive? What incentive does the government have to help you minimize how much you're about to fork over to them? How hard are they really going to work at figuring out complex issues for...

Good times, just brought back memories of participating over at HardOCP. Like someone else mentioned, I gave up due to a combination of GPU's smashing CPU's contributions in terms of points, and idle cycles not being as cost-free as they seemed to be in previous years. Also I always felt that...

I played around with it last night, the aspect of adding things to an image was a little underwhelming, but then I just used it as sort of an advanced content-aware fill to remove some unwanted objects from various shots and it was, at least sometimes, amazing. In one case I very easily removed...

Some people are optimistic about pricing coming down as new technologies have in the past. A critical difference to the past however was a willingness to allow the economy to produce the inputs it needs to function. If any of you have followed projects like desalination plants in California...

Agreed, was hoping to see the M2 in there, but I get the sense the M1 caused some kind of break in the tech world where now x86 exists all unto itself as if the rest of the world doesn't exist. Anyway, it'd just be interesting to see the full contours of where the technological frontier lies.

I really wish the Windows world had an M1-equivalent chip to put in the Surface Pro. I've got an M1 MBP and once you actually live with that level of efficiency it's hard to imagine going back. But the Windows world has an opening, since I suspect a ton of people would love a hybrid iPad OS/Mac...

They can be different if various electrical components have to be upgraded, but we're talking low-thousands, not the tens of thousands I'm seeing people overpaying in here. BTW, that's something solar companies also overpay for, I got my own electrician involved for a subpanel upgrade and they...

Reading the comments, a lot of you guys are getting brutally taken advantage of by the industry, which at least in my state doesn't surprise me. Shady salespeople and shady sales practices abound. If you're paying significantly above $2/watt installed, or significantly more than what Tesla...

For what it’s worth, thought I’d comment on some roofing issues made… I bought roofs for about 700 homes in 2021, new construction, so I’ve got some experience. First, earlier posters are right, modern shingles might say they have a 30 year or even lifetime warranty, but look close. That’s...

Debatable point at best. What, society can't do two things at once? And what does the specific issues around poverty have to do with Amazon? Like the current economy, I'm going to drive by 20 now-hiring signs on the way home today, almost all probably paying $15/hr or better. Some paying much...