Best news I’ve seen in weeks

Donald Trump won the popular vote in an election with record setting voter turnout. Lack of democracy from the electoral college or voter suppression didn’t do this. People voting for Trump did.

Even a non-IoT electronic device still runs on many different chips.

Tech companies are terrified of becoming commodities, even though a good chunk of them basically are at this point.

Intel would probably be in a better spot if they’d just leaned into that rather than try to regain the market dominance they once had.

The vast, vast majority of chips produced are “old generation” chips used for relatively mundane purposes. The high-tech stuff you see in the news is a minority (though it’s pricey enough that it doesn’t look that way in company earnings reports).

Think power supplies, middle-of-the-road CPUs, ASICs for common I/O like USB and ethernet, timing devices, and wireless communication modules.

He’s 54, I think he looks pretty average for that age. He looks like an old dad, because he is.

He got old.

I hadn’t played in years and started a new world a few weeks ago. I just started setting up a raill system when the update hit and now the whole thing is fucked. Gotta tear up a bunch of diagonal sections and re-do them noe that the new track angles lead to different accessible grid points. I literally cannot connect new rails to the old rails on the diagonal section 🙃

Hey look! Someone who only read the headline!

This is like, technically a weapon. It’s a tool for destroying enemy missiles in the air before they impact their target. It’s about as purely defensive of a weapon as you can get.

The US soldiers are operating the missile defense system, so there’s not room for Israel to “creatively” repurpose them. They aren’t assisting in any missions in Palestine, they’re purely defending against Iranian missiles.

Most of those are just based on the same real-world animal.

How DARE you also put a wolf in your game!

Kakuna wearing a tux?

The FBI recently came into some hard evidence about Russia’s interference actions.

Yeah. It’s got all kinds of problems but at its core it “basically works” in a way that Salesforce hasn’t quite figured out, at least for a developer’s workflow.

Salesforce is (unsurprisingly) tailored towards sales teams, not necessarily dev teams. They’ve been branching out into more of a “full business solution” but the dev stuff isn’t really a strong competitor with the bigger names like Atlassian.

Slack (which, admittedly, was acquired by Salesforce) is probably the closest comparison to this.

As does Google chat. It’s been standard for years now.

Famous chefs who have more people requesting them than they have time in the day, so they go to whoever pays the most.

Like, Gordon Ramsey still does private events, but only if they pay more than he could be making with his TV deals.

$100M of $VT, secure my ultra-comfortable retirement right then and there.

So like, the ad didn’t even say anything about the genocide in Palestine? It just starred a half-Palestinian model?

Wait until you see the Nepalese flag. It’s not even a rectangle!

(It’s also the only flag in the world to be mathematically defined by its country’s constitution)