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My prior city ran a survey on whether they should build out fiber to the homes around the city, since they were building their own fiber infrastructure anyway. Despite the city saying it would be cheaper and faster than the existing 0 or 1 options people had, my fellow residents cried communism and the city government scrapped the idea. Infuriating.

I think that’s the joke, especially since the alt text asks about getting melted copper off the carpet.

Intel kinda did for a while there, though they’re recovering. (Completely lost corporate direction led to the share price halving)

I kept reading it as NFT-able firewalls and could not for the life of me figure out what that would entail.

My wife had a labmate in grad school submit a paper on a comedy robot, and a reviewer noted “the authors mention humor several times but never define the concept.”

I really thought this was an elaborate Saddam hiding meme

I feel very confident in my understanding of random 8 bit CPUs and their support chips, but asking me to center a div is like this xkcd.

SSNs are not reissued after death and never have been. I’ve been seeing a lot of people comment this, but I’m not sure where they’re getting it from. (They’re not unique for other reasons, however.)

Yes.

Just scrolling through shorts on a given day, I’m usually recommended at least one short by someone infamously hostile to the LGBTQIA+ community. I get that it could be from people with my interests hate-watching, but I don’t want to be shown any of it. (Nearly all of my YouTube subscriptions are to LGBTQIA+ creators. I’m not subscribed to anyone who has ever even mentioned support for right leaning policies on anything.)

The country of Brazil makes something like 20x Musk’s total net worth, but every year.

In published media it’s getting really frustrating to find articles that seem like honest reviews. The NYT did an article on toaster recommendations and they praised one for having something like a 3 year warranty because “toasters aren’t known for their longevity.”

True, but that’s still on the order of time that you may never reach the price difference in the lifespan of the GPU.

If my math is right, the 50W difference, at my power rate of $0.15/kWh, will take 2666 hours and 40 minutes to make up the $20 difference in price.