remote work is pretty prevalent in finance/banking - at my job only the customer facing folks (branch offices, investment/mortgage, etc) need to actually be in the office - that’s only 30% of the workforce. another 15% is hybrid now, the rest are 100% remote.

VPN services are widely used by businesses - does this prohibition affect them?

his best isnt good enough

ah, power constraints. yeah that tracks

what do they do with the whale carcass? like, dispose of it, sure but how?

the “change” is that laptop ram is socketed again?

American bombs that Biden supplied? or…?

would they even be able to?

when this century? soon or in ~70 years?

filing fake complaints is activism?

weird - I havent been spending any more - or less - than usual.

LLM’s will probably improve at an exponential level - similar to how cpu’s did in the 80s/90s. in ~10 generations the LLMs will likely be very useful

what State’s have battery fabs? not KY, obviously - but, others, presumably?

do doctor drugs/antibiotics count?

yeah 8.1 wasnt that bad (supported it, didnt use it), 10 was way better than 8.1 imho. thinking win10 is going to be my last win though.

it was so bad. didnt help that it had higher hardware requirements than win7, and we didnt really have affordable ssd’s then so everything was so slow - or, that’s what my memory says, I havent used a spinner disk in a long time.

really depends on your definition of “fucked up”. try watching a Star Trek movie after you take some hallucinogens - it’s a whole new level of bizarre.

are those people registered to vote?

wrongthink must be stomped on, with impunity.

many bills dont make it to the law stage, but with everything going on (domestically, internationally) this one likely will