fmac
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fmac
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12d ago
Any schadenfreude from watching our userbase try to forget two years of anti-Biden rants
I absolutely cannot wait for this. You can already see it happening above!
It's not happening, but if it is, it isn't so bad...
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15d ago
While I am totally on board that H1Bs are an excellent wage suppression tool. My business autism compels me to point out that it's simultaneously possible for an essential skill/thing/McGuffin to be required but also have a higher marginal cost than the marginal revenue it provides. Your business doesn't work if this is true, but it's not impossible.
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15d ago
I've done it many times myself!
I always wanted to do a kerbal space program story run but got bored long before they added research and funding and missions
Maybe I'll fire it up this winter
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15d ago
Portal-ing metals is a world setting now thankfully, I get the idea behind the tension of having to get the mine home (or build more established bases to smelt on site) but it's just all so tedious
I'm already doing so many chores to keep us alive, let alone all that travel with such a terrible carry weight
Copper+tin is the worst too because you lose metal at a 3:1 ratio on the way to bronze
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15d ago
I think iron actually isn't effected by that setting lol, due to how is generated
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15d ago
Yeah realizing there was a setting to be able to bring metal through portals was huge
Also realizing I could turn loot up to 1.5x (I'll probably go up to 2x, I'm so sick of mining) has been a huge win too
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15d ago
Been playing Valheim (colonialism simulator)
Super fun base builder, decently challenging combat, tons of biomes ahead of us.
Very much recommend.
People are salty about what seems to be very slow development, but I just started playing (I've learned you always want to be a patient gamer with flavor of the month early access games) and it isn't an issue for me
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16d ago
For what it's worth, I threw this into some LLMs
Both ChatGPT and Gemini also think it's environmental. Both seem to think you should be running it at home on battery only, because if that fixes it your problem is the laptop AC adaptor or your electrical circuits.
Are you using your laptop cord at the shop, or theirs?
You could also disable the speakers in device manager, which will eliminate the speaker cause.
Try booting into BIOS and see if it happens there. If it's just happening in windows it might be from power settings.
"4. Fan resonance check.
Does the pitch change when you: lightly press near the left palm rest/vents, lift a corner, or place it on a folded towel? If yes, that's resonance at a specific RPM. Ask the shop to replace the fan module; cleaning won't fix a bearing or blade imbalance."
Try different wall outlets, and if possible, different chargers.
I'm so curious!
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16d ago
Best way to rule out speaker interference would be to take it to a cafe or something and do something on it (taxes? Minecraft? Watch a movie?)
If it happens in a different environment you'll rule out a weird EM field in your house (lol)
Sounds like you've ruled out fan noise. I guess you could try messing with the fan curves (you can in bios, but it's better to do it with an app that allows you to do it real time) when it makes the sound and see if the sound changes (when it's happening) with different fan speeds.
I am not an electrical engineer, but I cannot think of anything that could generate sound in a computer that isn't a fan or its speaker. I don't think solid state electronics can make noise?
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16d ago
Are you placing it on a different surface/angle when it's at home vs at the shop?
Buzzing a few mins after boot sounds like the fans (or a fan) kicking up as the laptop heats up, and then starts smacking into something in the case.
If your daughter has an angled laptop stand or something that may be causing the case to deform slightly in such a way that nudges something into the fan area and then pings off the fan as it spins.
Does the buzzing sound only happen with Minecraft? I had a laptop back in the day with a CPU fan and a GPU fan. So maybe the shop running the laptop at idle to see if the noise showed up never triggered the GPU fan.
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23d ago
I know everyone goes Ireland cheats, but Irish GDP per capita
Every time someone uses Irish (or microstate) economic (specifically GDP, especially GDP/capita) I die inside. I implore everyone, please stop abusing statistics.
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25d ago
Best comment in this thread. Thanks for injecting some sober clear headedness amongst the angst
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26d ago
What do you mean 'high skill immigrant workers'?
At first read I think they clearly meant "'fabulously talented UV lithography genius' or 'hypersonic plasma fluid dynamics expert'."
Reading it again, I think they probably mean both the above and "'decent javascript jockey', 'decent accountant', 'decent miscellaneous office worker'"
If mass immigration were so great, we'd see the rich countries with the highest immigration rates having huge productivity growth, right?
I'd say the history of North American population and productivity growth shows fairly clearly intelligent immigration is fairly effective at this.
I will also say, as a Canadian, what we've been doing in the last 5-10 years has been anything but intelligent immigration. We've essentially flipped from having a logical points based system to wholesale importing of low quality human capital (to put it delicately).
I agree with your prescriptions for how to run a good immigration system. What's sad is the west already figured this out, I don't know why we decided to fuck it all up. Actually I do, line must go up, labour must be cucked.
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28d ago
The actions you must take to physically remove someone who's already in the country when they explicitly do not want to leave the country are violent however.
You may argue this violence is justified (I agree, somewhat), but if the ruling people are extremely averse to violence of government agents being televised, there we are.
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30d ago
I expect, for example, if you put a bunch of Iowans in Gaza and Nebraskans in West Bank, both would swiftly approach or exceed Israel in GDP/Capita.
Why? What makes you think they'll exceed Israel?
Do you think the ultra Orthodox are dragging the gang down?
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1mo ago
ChatGPT 5 is still using them all the time in my experience, I haven't bothered to tell it to stop as I rarely use it's writing to communicate
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1mo ago
The penjamin is insane
The lack of friction when you own one for going sober>high is insane
It is profoundly easy to smuggle them in anywhere and then get high anywhere
The potency, is insane
Ironically, one of my favorite things about them is if you're very delicate, you can take tiny hits and "surf" a mild high, which is really pleasant. But eventually you'll fuck up, take too big of a hit, and go non-verbal lol.
I'm so happy these didn't exist when I was in high school
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1mo ago
I laughed very hard at this, but to go turbo CPA autism most tax authorities have provisions for immediate write-offs of small (hah)/cheap assets like this that aren't worth the effort to depreciate
But at age 79, every bounce back will be just a little bit worse than the one before
Welcome to the Gerontocracy baby
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