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  1. I have a suggestion based on typical end user usages of Windows 10. Stop wasting about 10 million IO's on defender, superfetch, and updates precisley 0.1 seconds after I log in. Studies have shown that 107.4% of the time, a user turning on the computer and logging in means they want to immediately use it to do something! Maaaaaaaaaybe wait until the computer is idle to waste all that disk access time. How about that for an AI improvement.

  2. that's one way to put it on DRAM Industry Likely To Face Oversupply in 2019 (digitimes.com) · · Score: 0

    "overhaul their current profit-oriented business strategy" - didn't one of them just get an $8 billion fine for price fixing flash products? So yeah, that's one way to put it. With the ridiculous graphics card shortages, DDR4 prices, and SSD price spikes, they should find everyone at that company responsible, execute them publicly, and then restructure the company. As for this ridiculously fake, manufactured BS news story that I'm sure was released by them to cover up the fact that they under produced DRAM on purpose, don't believe one word of it. They purposely didn't build enough factories and that's not a problem that gets better in 6 months.

  3. A pattern is emerging on Apple's T2 Chip May Be Causing Issues In iMac Pro, 2018 MacBook Pros (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Back in 2006 all the iMacs I saw with that tiny little vent overheated constantly in any ambient temp above 75F. Then there was the iphones and their death hold, touch death, sapphire lens purple flare, bending, battery issues, artificial performance degradation, purposeful bricking due to 3rd party hardware. Then there's the macbook that can't run at the speed they claim under any circumstances other than inside a freezer because they made it too thin. Now their rushed-out unnecessary feature chip is failing. It's almost like Apple never has made good products and never will. Why can't anyone else see this pattern?

  4. beyond ridiculous on Apple Confirms MacBook Pro Thermal Throttling, Issues Software Fix (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So a software update will make it not a "form over function" overly-thin disaster with an insufficient heat pipe and fan? That'd literally be magic. What I assume this does is just let it run insanely hot without down-clocking it. Wow, what a great fix. I wonder why they implemented the throttling in the first place? Also, Apple's quite implied they never ran a stress test of any kind on it? Not even a simple prime number calculation for 10 minutes? REALLY? Maybe they took one look at the heatsink and just didn't bother.

  5. I remember back in high school the textbooks said "Jupiter has exactly this many moons. The end. Period. We're right. We know everything. Astronomers are never wrong." or something like that. Ironic considering all of astronomy is one giant history of being constantly wrong and representing it as right. Can't wait for them to disprove dark matter as a math error.

  6. fastest keyboard failure too on The New MacBook Pro Features 'Fastest SSD Ever' In a Laptop (macrumors.com) · · Score: 0

    I bet it also has the fastest keyboard failure ever seen on a laptop and that includes the recent Acers with the "trampoline" keyboard.

  7. Here's a question... on Apple Announces $300 Million China Clean Energy Fund (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't their products made in Brazil's Foxconn factory, not China?

  8. Everyone wants to know... on Nitrogen Is In Liquid Metal Form Inside Earth's Core (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Can I use it to cool my Ryzen CPU though?

  9. Let me explain this on Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Here, let me explain ICOs to non-crypto specialists. It's Kickstarter but with less accountability.

  10. I have an idea on Is iOS 11.4 Draining Your iPhone's Battery? You're Not Alone (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is the 100th time Apple has released a patch that screwed up certain models. They're incompetent. I see a pattern here. They're going to keep doing it! BUY A DIFFERENT BRAND, YOU IDIOTS!

  11. They should fine then $1 for every GB they wasted on people's phones with this garbage. Google photos is using 150MB on my phone and I've never opened the app. I've never even used that service in a browser. I don't use it at all. WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY BE STORING?!

  12. An even better story on YouTuber Says He Was Accused of Infringing His Own Song (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Kevin McLeod stated publicly on Twitter that Adsense pulled its ads from a section of his website (or perhaps all of it) because it contained "copyrighted content."
    He's the one who made around half of Youtube's initial audio library for use by Youtubers on Youtube's own website.

  13. She celebrated TotalBiscuit's death, she's a hateful, evil, sexist, racist feminist lunatic, and according to management this was the last straw after a string of far left nutjob bullshit. That's the REAL story. This is not even about reddit. This is about another SJW getting what she deserved.

  14. Even crazier on The BBC Is Heading To Court To Hunt Down a Doctor Who Leaker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey guys, WHAT IF they also put this much time and effort into finding an actor to play Doctor Who who takes the role seriously and with respect and doesn't leave after a year or two to "do something else" or "find something better" aka massively disrespecting their role as the lead in one of the biggest and most important and successful TV shows England has ever made?

  15. So anyone else... on Already at Movie Theaters Near You: Ticket Subscriptions (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone else paying $1.75 at redbox to rent like 6 movies for the price of one theater ticket? I don't care about seeing movies right away. The movies don't melt or degrade over time lol. I just wait a year or less and see it for almost free. And apparently everyone else just buys a computer with no DVD drive and pays monthly fees for this? This is not the most cost-effective method and who the hell enjoys a "theater experience" these days? At home I don't need to tell everyone around me to shut up.

  16. I have an idea on Yelp Can't Be Ordered To Remove Posts, Court Rules (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm so sure they won't result in people finding friends and family of the court justices and leaving thousands of fake, defamatory reviews on Yelp about their business. The internet would NEVER do that.

  17. This is not PC or polite but it's real. Someone has to build and sell and service the robots and automated systems. So programmers, engineers, and other high degree fields will excel. People without degrees would encroach on crappy labor jobs done by illegals in the US because it's not against the law to employ them and they speak the language. Then illegals have no reason to come here and go back to Mexico, where hopefully they focus on fixing their economy and crime problems so they don't feel the need to leave. That's what will actually happen in all likelihood.

  18. Re:Going further down soon on Bitcoin Drops Below $6,000, An 8-Month Low (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Aaaaaaand it's back to $6400.

  19. Don't care on 128TB SD Cards Are Coming (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Wonderful. Now make a 1 TB SSD affordable and cut the price fixing crap.

  20. Can't wait for the lawsuit on Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem (seekingalpha.com) · · Score: 2

    So there's a massive shortage, cards are (or very recently were) sold out everywhere, prices are up like 30% minimum, and some vendor was sitting on 300,000 cards? Holding them for ransom at a higher than MSRP price and then sending them back to Nvidia when gamers don't play along, huh? THAT'S CALLED PRICE FIXING. Have fun in jail.

  21. Every subscription checkout page should come with a link to Discord since that's where everyone's leaving to anyway if they do this.

  22. I bet it's because the fibers weren't free range vegan fibers so some outrage culture activists threw a fit.

  23. So the title and summary make absolutely no sense. I read the article and they're saying that virus scanners that don't share malware samples with other companies do in fact not share malware samples with other companies? Reeeeeeeally? You don't say.

  24. Want to know the real reason? on South Africans in Cape Town and Johannesburg Pay Much More For Internet Usage Than New Yorkers (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is going to sound impolite but it's because their government has absolutely no experience governing and has no idea what they're doing. They can't stop crime, inflation, grow food, or do basically anything. It's a complete free for all over there.

  25. but they have on The CIA 'Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny' It Has Documents on Satoshi Nakamoto (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Except that they do and they already did confirm it. They analyzed all his writing and compared it to all public posts on online forums etc and found out who he is. This information was already made public.