Daily Tech News 9 May 2024

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Underpants gnomes, eat your heart out.

Stack Overflow signed a deal with OpenAI - creators of ChatGPT - to sell off user data at a presumably enormous profit. (Tom's Hardware)

The users of course don't see a penny of this.

Understandably annoyed, those users started editing their content. They can't delete answers that have been accepted due to the way Stack Overflow works, but they can update them and render the data worthless.

So Stack Overflow started banning its own best users.

To rub salt into the wound, Stack Overflow has long banned its users from using generative AI to help write those answers, but has no qualms whatsoever about selling your work.

This likely violates the terms of Europe's GDPR, so let's see what the lawsuit fairy brings.

Tech News

Don't buy an Intel 14900K for gaming.

Now that Intel has walked back its chip-frying levels of automated overclocking, Hardware Unboxed has re-tested the 14900K against AMD's 7800X3D on a range of games.

The two chips perform about the same.

But the Intel chip is 50% more expensive and uses twice as much power.

Note that this is still with the Intel chip running at 250W at all times, just not previous levels that went as high as 400W.

Intel now recommends default power settings of 125W, which will definitely reduce performance - and is still more power than the AMD chip uses.
US libraries are fighting for a better deal on e-books. (Axios)
"We need the coercive power of the state sitting behind us at the table saying, 'We need a special slice of the pie.'"
Suddenly I'm feeling that the people who burned the library at Alexandria weren't all bad.
Google is leaving its godawful offices in San Francisco. (SF Chronicle)

Continuing the hollowing out of what I'm told used to be a nice town.

Google is not yet leaving the city entirely, much less the state. But maybe.
Minisforum's AtomMan X7 has an Intel 185H CPU (6 P cores and 10 E cores), up to 96GB of RAM, four video outputs, two M.2 slots, and a four inch built-in display. (Notebook Check)

And dual 5Gbit Ethernet ports and, somehow, a camera.

Which sound neat until you look at the photos and realise that it's not plugged in to anything. The configuration pictured would need a minimum of five cables.

Vtuber Music Video of the Day

Today it's Neuro-sama singing Dubidubidu, which was originally performed by Christell Jazmin Rodriguez Carrillo on Chilean television in 2003, when she was... Five. Then for no apparent reason other than it is kind of catchy it suddenly became a huge meme last year.

Neuro-sama herself is an AI, and I don't use the term lightly. Although she's the work of a single developer and has the intellect of a precocious and bratty five year old herself, that's infinitely preferable to billion-dollar corporate efforts like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Whatever It's Name is Today, which exist solely to lie to you and call you racist.

Neuro-sama exists to drive you insane and send you bankrupt.

Disclaimer: Don't let her order pizza.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:35 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2024 04:36 AM (fwDg9)

2 G'day Skip.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 09, 2024 04:39 AM (BLOW1)

3 First

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 09, 2024 04:39 AM (ju2Fy)

4 Or not.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 09, 2024 04:39 AM (ju2Fy)

5 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 09, 2024 04:40 AM (ju2Fy)

6 In olddog's defense, the comments did disappear for a moment. Not sure why.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 09, 2024 04:40 AM (BLOW1)

7 It just wasn't time for them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 09, 2024 04:45 AM (yeEu9)

8 Thank you, Pixy. Initially I though we all posted simultaneously at 4:39, but then saw Skip's post was at 4:36.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 09, 2024 04:51 AM (ju2Fy)

9 An important purpose- Christian devotional on finding purpose in our lives by a man from Iowa.

https://tinyurl.com/4v7x9zx2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2024 04:58 AM (ssP7+)

10 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 09, 2024 04:58 AM (T4tVD)

11 So, the DC and other police cleared out the protestors at GW University. They arrested some of the 'students' but they were instantly released. Looking at the group, students there are older than I'd expect. (mostly women) Now the 'students' are still hanging around, to keep it going. Mom and dad's money must talk at that university.

Posted by: Colin at May 09, 2024 05:08 AM (/z/eU)

12 The Chronicle writer never slips the narrative; Google moving out of its chic-boutique office space at Market One is just an office furniture rearrangement thing.

Posted by: 13times at May 09, 2024 05:13 AM (uB2D/)

13 well then.

g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 09, 2024 05:14 AM (tQtDb)

14
38 minutes open and only 13 comments?

It must be Slacthursday!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 05:17 AM (xG4kz)

15
The man in Iowa, as do all Iowans, has a secret purpose in life, "Do NOT wander into any cornfield and become lost, EVER!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 05:19 AM (xG4kz)

16 Speaking of lawsuits, willowed:

America First Legal Sues IBM Subsidiary “Red Hat” for Alleged Anti-White, Anti-Male Discrimination

https://tinyurl.com/3bd2fs5u

(AFL website)

Out for my fast walk! I missed all the IAF flyby practice for next week's Israel Independence day. Darn!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2024 05:20 AM (0ODjL)

17 Good morning! Get to make a trip to Great Falls, MT today where its gonna be cool and rainy. Blech! The best part is that the layover in Denver is about 7 hours. I may think about catching a ride to the golf course and playing 9.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 09, 2024 05:26 AM (YRsIm)

18 Axios seems to be a cesspit of political lunacy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 09, 2024 05:27 AM (d9fT1)

19
Judge Enron, or Entropy, or whatever is his name of the "Trump overvalued his holdings!" case fame looks eerily similar to a high school acquaintance, now only seen by me on Facebook, who had a penchant for asking folks holding conservative views to engage with him in a "reasoned debate" ... on Facebook.

Yeah, Doug, that would totally occur ... on Facebook, my first thought for "go to place to hold reasoned discourses". Hard pass.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 05:28 AM (xG4kz)

20 I wonder if superintendent mom in the sidebar threatened the coaches into making her mediocre daughter the MVP.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 09, 2024 05:30 AM (P9xGM)

21 Bunch of cool rainy days coming, trying to clear now
Forward Dog 9 hitting short road

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2024 05:31 AM (fwDg9)

22 Let's have a reasoned debate.
Ok
*pulls out a stack of nonsensical MSNBC talking points* Donald Trump told us to drink bleach!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 09, 2024 05:32 AM (P9xGM)

23
I viewed one report wherein one of the two girls' softball coaches confessed to fearing for his job (as the other coach had indeed been fired for speaking up about the Super's behavior).

She is the very model of the "Tiger Mom" holding power over others.

Softball ovuh!
You go home now!
You not clap for four owah!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 05:34 AM (xG4kz)

24 I seldom ever read 'newspapers' on line anymore. I know what the articles will be before I even bring up the paper. Since you can only read the headlines, they aren't worth the time.
Sort of like listening to NPR, I know what they are going to say, even before listening. Times are a changing in the media.

Posted by: Colin at May 09, 2024 05:37 AM (/z/eU)

25 Mornin' nerdz!!!

Now to read the content!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 09, 2024 05:38 AM (sAmhv)

26 Have a good one and stay safe Skip !

Posted by: JT at May 09, 2024 05:39 AM (T4tVD)

27 >The best part is that the layover in Denver is about 7 hours. I may think about catching a ride to the golf course and playing 9.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
---

better check the weather forecast first

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2024 05:40 AM (/7KEl)

28
Fun "capitulating capitalists" fact:

DuPont used to refer to its manufacturing line overseers of an entire product lind on a manufacturing site as "Superintendent". To wit: "Orlon (TM) Superintendent" or "Kevlar (TM) Superintendent".

Then, one day, all the "Superintendents" became "Directors". Why? Because in some regions of the world, the title "Superintendent" referred to the janitor / fix it guy / manager of a block of flats.

At least they did not opt for "Overseers" instead.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 05:43 AM (xG4kz)

29 38 minutes open and only 13 comments?

It must be Slacthursday!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024

***
* Shoulders in. Uses deep voice *

I can help with that.

* /deep voice *

Evening and morning, early risers and late toilers! 'Tis Thursday, so we're almost to the weekend. (For certain values of "almost.") I've struggled through a workout in heat index = 88 F., gotten cleaned up, fed the furry thugs, and am feeding me. In other words, the usual.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2024 05:46 AM (omVj0)

30 But the Intel chip is 50% more expensive and uses twice as much power.

Meanwhile over at the Qualcomm c-suite the champagne bill is getting out of hand.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 09, 2024 05:49 AM (jBiS/)

31
Client 1: Excuse me.

Mr. Wiggin: Yes?

Client 1: Did you say 'knives'?

Mr. Wiggin: Rotating knives, yes.

Client 2: Do I take it that you are proposing to slaughter our tenants?

Mr. Wiggin: ...Does that not fit in with your plans?

Client 1: Not really. We asked for a simple block of flats.

Mr. Wiggin: Oh. I hadn't fully divined your attitude towards the tenants. You see I mainly design slaughter houses.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 05:52 AM (xG4kz)

32
But the Intel chip is 50% more expensive and uses twice as much power.

Reeeeeeee! Reeeeeeeee!
Tree killer!
Reeeeeeeee!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 05:54 AM (xG4kz)

33 The man in Iowa, as do all Iowans, has a secret purpose in life, "Do NOT wander into any cornfield and become lost, EVER!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 05:19 AM (xG4kz)

What if it's a maize maze and you've only got 5 of the six holes punched on your map?

Posted by: pookysgirl, still better than most 2nd Lts at LandNav at May 09, 2024 05:57 AM (dtlDP)

34
What if it's a maize maze and you've only got 5 of the six holes punched on your map?
Posted by: pookysgirl, still better than most 2nd Lts at LandNav

Now, that is a poser, is it not?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 05:59 AM (xG4kz)

35 Now, that is a poser, is it not?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 05:59 AM (xG4kz)

Every fall, a candy bar is at stake when we venture out into the maize maze. A CANDY BAR! And failure is NOT an option for Pookette and her cousin!

Posted by: pookysgirl gets dragged into these things at May 09, 2024 06:02 AM (dtlDP)

36 With Google bailing out a downtown San Francisco, The mythical Baghdad by the Sea continues devolving into an actual Baghdad circa 2008.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 09, 2024 06:02 AM (jBiS/)

37
On the subject of architects, there was another guy with whom I was acquainted in high school who became an architect and set up his practice in my home town.

There he quite quickly grew into an annoyance by placing architectural monstrosities at lakeside locations. His name evokes disdain and revulsion now among the gentle townsfolk. Well done, sir, well done!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 06:03 AM (xG4kz)

38 Well, chipee chipee boom bomm to all the early day walkers

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2024 06:05 AM (xabgH)

39
San Francisco should give serious study to converting its empty buildings to poop silos.

Build on your strengths, I always say.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 06:06 AM (xG4kz)

40 What fresh hell this day

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2024 06:09 AM (/7KEl)

41 Meanwhile, in Las Cruces, the city is cracking down on homeless people stealing shopping carts from local businesses by requiring businesses to submit a plan on how they plan to combat combat theft and retrieve their carts when located by the cops. As for the drug addicts that steal them, they will no longer be facing jail but a citation which they can pay off by performing community service.

This is going to be great.

https://archive.ph/GrNcT

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 09, 2024 06:12 AM (jBiS/)

42 41: LiS

Solving the problem by not solving it!! Brilliant!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 09, 2024 06:14 AM (sAmhv)

43 why are the stores making people steal the carts

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2024 06:16 AM (/7KEl)

44 >>San Francisco should give serious study to converting its empty buildings to poop silos.

Oh, I'm sure some entity like Blackrock (if not some foreign country like China) is poised to hoover up all that now-cheap real estate and remake it into some high-density 15 minute city.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2024 06:18 AM (cCVOS)

45 39
San Francisco should give serious study to converting its empty buildings to poop silos.

--
Turn poop into fuel
Brown energy!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 09, 2024 06:18 AM (yD62l)

46 City of Denver wants to dismantle a homeless camp and move the people indoors, to a shelter-

Instead, the homeless campers have issued a list of demands that must be met before they will move

they want all sorts of free shite

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2024 06:19 AM (/7KEl)

47 44 >>San Francisco should give serious study to converting its empty buildings to poop silos.

Oh, I'm sure some entity like Blackrock (if not some foreign country like China) is poised to hoover up all that now-cheap real estate and remake it into some high-density 15 minute city.
Posted by: Lizzy

If it's the ChiComs, that homeless problem will disappear.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 09, 2024 06:19 AM (sAmhv)

48 A spiritual habit to enrich daily life. From "Guideposts" magazine:

https://tinyurl.com/27wxar4r

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2024 06:19 AM (XkYcA)

49 Library ebooks
On the one hand, I love reading using Libby / overdrive
Otoh, authors should get paid
Hmmm

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 09, 2024 06:20 AM (yD62l)

50
As for the drug addicts that steal them, they will no longer be facing jail but a citation which they can pay off by performing community service.

This is going to be great.

During my summer working for the parks department in my home town, we always looked forward to having to oversee a group of "cons" performing their "community service". More work for us to be their babysitters, it was.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 06:20 AM (xG4kz)

51 There's a pattern here....

I read the headline. I read Pixy's blurb. Then I read the article. And I come back here knowing less and caring less than I did after reading Pixy's blurb.

Lesson:

Never Read The Content.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2024 06:20 AM (+yhUM)

52 46 City of Denver wants to dismantle a homeless camp and move the people indoors, to a shelter-

Instead, the homeless campers have issued a list of demands that must be met before they will move

they want all sorts of free shite

Most of those homeless are drug addled or lunatics. Or both. Those demands were compiled by somebody else. Somebody not homeless. An NGO or some other 'nonprofit that is highly profitable and connected'. Who?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 09, 2024 06:22 AM (sAmhv)

53 As for the drug addicts that steal them, they will no longer be facing jail but a citation which they can pay off by performing community service.

This is going to be great.

https://archive.ph/GrNcT
Posted by: Lost in Space at May 09, 2024 06:12 AM (jBiS/)

And the community service can be retrieving shopping carts for stores!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Freelance Las Cruces City Councilperson at May 09, 2024 06:22 AM (PiwSw)

54 A happy dog:

https://tinyurl.com/52j4k8u4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2024 06:22 AM (XkYcA)

55 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2024 06:23 AM (ENQN6)

56 What fresh hell? Possible infection and Pooky decided to drown my sorrows for me last night. Oh, and I can't take much for the pain because pregnant women aren't allowed to do anything, really. Just sit there and wait for lab results that probably slipped through the cracks.

Posted by: pookysgirl, failing to stay comfortable at May 09, 2024 06:23 AM (dtlDP)

57 The City of Las Cruces not content with their shopping cart handiwork is working with the Las Cruces Police department to turn the city into a police state:

"The [real time] center will utilize live feeds of existing intersection cameras and license-plate reading cameras to to provide real-time data of where crimes or situations are taking place, and to help the department determine a correct response."

https://tinyurl.com/4syrj2dj

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 09, 2024 06:24 AM (jBiS/)

58 If a homeless person has a dog, is the dog homeless too?

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2024 06:25 AM (/7KEl)

59 We wanna give you free shit.

Wait! Before we accept your free shit, we demand other free shit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 09, 2024 06:25 AM (P9xGM)

60 Aldi, at least here, requires a quarter to be inserted into the lock for its shopping carts. You get the quarter back when you relock your cart when you're done. (I've prepared by storing $1.00 worth of quarters in my car.) Why couldn't stores in Las Cruces do that?

Oh. Yeah. If you're getting govt. freebies left, right, and sideways, the loss of a quarter is no big deal to you. And if you're truly homeless, you can panhandle a quarter any time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2024 06:25 AM (omVj0)

61 A generous man in the middle of nowhere:

https://tinyurl.com/cynjzxfj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2024 06:25 AM (XkYcA)

62 pookysgirl, I hope you feel better soon

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 09, 2024 06:26 AM (yD62l)

63 Well, I gotta stagger out through the sticky warmth to the car. You know things are bad when, in early May, you have to run the A/C in the car before the sun even comes up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 09, 2024 06:26 AM (omVj0)

64 >to provide real-time data of where crimes or situations are taking place

or about to take place
might take place
like a 'pre-crime'

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2024 06:27 AM (/7KEl)

65 and to help the department determine a correct response."

https://tinyurl.com/4syrj2dj

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 09, 2024 06:24 AM (jBiS/)

Translation: We'll tell you what crimes to ignore... in real time!

Posted by: pookysgirl, disappointed in the technocracy at May 09, 2024 06:27 AM (dtlDP)

66 Good morning early risers!

Posted by: Rosasharn at May 09, 2024 06:28 AM (PzBTm)

67 During my summer working for the parks department in my home town, we always looked forward to having to oversee a group of "cons" performing their "community service". More work for us to be their babysitters, it was.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 06:20 AM (xG4kz)

heh. I had to do community service once as a result of a youthful indiscretion. A little group of us got plunked into a little plaza in town and told to build a few pavilions and set up tables and chairs and whatnot for some local festival that was about to start up.

We organized together spontaneously, split into little fire teams, divvied up the work into small tasks. No arguing, no one trying to be The Boss, no one draggin' ass... and we banged it out in a couple hours. We were supposed to need two or three days to fulfill our "service". The overseers in charge of us all were so elated (and even pleased with the quality of our work) that they signed and post-dated all our paperwork for the whole shebang and told us to get out of there.

There's not really any point to the story. It was just a fun day that was nominally supposed to be punishment.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2024 06:28 AM (+yhUM)

68 looking forward to that twirl tomorrow

Posted by: Don Black at May 09, 2024 06:30 AM (/7KEl)

69
During stream cleanup for Erf Day about a decade ago, our team came across a shopping cart entangled in a jam of fallen foliage in a stream. It took us about twenty minutes to extricate it. During the process, one of us said that there was another cart "over there" that had been there long enough to have had a tree grow up in and around it.

A year or two later another cleanup crew cut the entrapped cart out of the tree. Some stolen carts simply could not be returned whole.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2024 06:30 AM (xG4kz)

70 What's the point of knowing when or where crime is going to happen if you never prosecute?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 09, 2024 06:31 AM (75/Pp)

71 Good morning morons from Portland

Mom enjoyed her birthday dinner last night

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2024 06:31 AM (+87un)

72 "pookysgirl, I hope you feel better soon."

Amen, vmom

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2024 06:32 AM (XkYcA)

73 Roomy in here.

Posted by: RFK Jr.'s brainworm at May 09, 2024 06:32 AM (PiwSw)

74 There's not really any point to the story. It was just a fun day that was nominally supposed to be punishment.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2024 06:28 AM (+yhUM)

*files story away to use against W-o if any future political career is contemplated...*

Posted by: The DNC at May 09, 2024 06:34 AM (PiwSw)

75 to provide real-time data of where crimes or situations are taking place

or about to take place
might take place
like a 'pre-crime'
Posted by: Don Black

The bulk of the crime in Las Cruces is due to homeless people breaking into businesses. For years there was a three-way circle jerk going on. Would the city saying they can't do anything about the homeless because of rules, while the cops said they don't have manpower, and the New Mexican courts, well they just let everybody go because that's what they are there for.

Until the city and the cops came up with this hair brain scheme to turn the city into a police state. Suddenly all the old excuses immediately disappeared.

There was an obvious solution here. Round up the criminals and bus them to San Francisco where they would have better access to narcotics, would no longer face arrest for any crimes they commit, and could find shelter and all the empty buildings.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 09, 2024 06:35 AM (jBiS/)

76 Mom enjoyed her birthday dinner last night
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2024 06:31 AM (+87un)

That's great! What did she have?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2024 06:35 AM (XkYcA)

77 Office vacancy is already historically high in SF

The number of empty storefronts in Union Sq is shocking. I got myself a good Soviet dentist in my neighborhood because I just won't go there any more.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2024 06:37 AM (+87un)

78 72 "pookysgirl, I hope you feel better soon."

Amen, vmom

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2024 06:32 AM (XkYcA)

Thanks, guys. I'm just frustrated at how slow things can be sometimes, especially since I was at the clinic less than 48 hours ago and told "everything's fine, you're doing great!" My body did not get the memo. :-(

Posted by: pookysgirl probably should have filed it in chartreuse, not ochre at May 09, 2024 06:38 AM (dtlDP)

79 JJ up

Posted by: TeeJ at May 09, 2024 06:42 AM (xZpzx)

80 Other than that everything's great in Las Cruces except for the local paper which is down to three employees. The result of this is we have the best cut and paste coverage of the New Mexican state lottery and for some bizarre reason, lots of stories from Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Posted by: Lost in Space at May 09, 2024 06:42 AM (jBiS/)

81 63% of new audits as of Summer 2023 targeted taxpayers with income of less than $200,000

Wait till PDT Tax Cuts expire.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2024 06:43 AM (ENQN6)

82 @81

>>63% of new audits as of Summer 2023 targeted taxpayers with income of less than $200,000

Why do bank robbers rob banks? That's where the money is.

The money is with the middle class and besides, rich people can afford attorneys to shield them from the taxman.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 09, 2024 06:50 AM (XV/Pl)

83 “My theology professor at the Catholic school I went to was a guy named Reilly — last name — and he had been drafted by the Green Bay Packers,” Biden said.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2024 06:56 AM (ENQN6)

84 Why do bank robbers rob banks? That's where the money is.

The money is with the middle class and besides, rich people can afford attorneys to shield them from the taxman.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 09, 2024 06:50 AM (XV/Pl)

But Joe said >$400k

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2024 06:57 AM (ENQN6)

85 New Jersey Taxpayers Spend $7 Billion Yearly on Illegals

That is what they can trace. Double or Triple it to get close to a real number.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2024 07:00 AM (ENQN6)

86
JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2024 07:00 AM (ENQN6)

87 There was an obvious solution here. Round up the criminals and bus them to San Francisco where they would have better access to narcotics, would no longer face arrest for any crimes they commit, and could find shelter and all the empty buildings.
Posted by: Lost in Space at May 09, 2024 06:35 AM (jBiS/)
===

It's been done.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2024 07:17 AM (+87un)

88 Google was a primary cause of the Sodomization of San Francisco. Perhaps they do not have to stay in the cesspit they created, but we should not let them re-settle anywhere in the Free States.

Posted by: Tar Bae at May 09, 2024 08:20 AM (Wi518)

89 Intel chips remind me of another scandal a few years or so ago. The Volkswagen emissions scandal. The cars would somehow determine they were being benchmarked, and adjust things to pass the test with flying colors. But on the road, it would fail.

Video cards were doing the same thing, optimizing for specific benchmark apps to cheat the system.

This should REALLY be a bigger scandal than it is. Intel chips should be downgraded, moreso if actual damage is likely from the overclocking by default.

Posted by: Another Amon at May 09, 2024 09:59 AM (jwJEm)

90 Nah, the Intel chip stuff is more like the P5: burn more power using clocks to try and outperform AMD.

And fail.

If you watch to the end of Hardware Unboxed's video you find out that what he *thought* was the Intel baseline was actually the highest power level Intel is now advising as practical. The real story is that the lower performance of the Gigabyte board is actually what Intel is recommending. So now parity the *best case* for Intel!

So, yeah, 50% more expensive, 25% more power, and less performance than the equivalent AMD part.

This is not unusual when you wind up letting the finance and marketing guys run a tech company.

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The head of the ALA is openly Marxist and has said, repeatedly, that the ALA is a Marxist organization.

I would not be where I am today had I not had an excellent public library in my hometown as a child, but my impression of public libraries as an adult is that they're suffering from mission creep, if not outright ideological capture. The one in my current city has so few actual books that they've taken to angling them on the shelves to hide it, and acts more as a kind of glorified community center. Which is fine, but then organize and fund it as one.

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