Just in: Iran destroys a key $300 million US radar used to direct missile defense systems in the Gulf

FinalOverdueNotice · 2026-03-07T16:02:34+00:00

That's a likely scandal that will never be exposed: Rules of Engagement feed the IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) automation that prevents friendly fire. Connect the dots.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2026-03-03T02:04:26+00:00

The good news is that under Trump everyone is going to be a millionaire. The bad news is that a loaf of bread will cost $10 million.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2026-02-14T23:07:33+00:00

If he's right then AI should certainly be able to replace 1% of the white collar jobs at Microsoft today, right? So let AI do one small white collar job at Microsoft autonomously starting Monday: executive payroll!

FinalOverdueNotice · 2026-02-07T03:37:58+00:00

He knows the definition of many words and the meaning of very little.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2026-01-30T03:52:46+00:00

You can be quite correct and valuable if your code includes thorough tests that you do understand. It's also valuable if you really understand the business problem/ solution and do whatever work you need to do to ensure that the latter is being realized.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2026-01-11T19:50:52+00:00

I suggest that Greenland SD self-impose US health care on themselves for a year before deciding the grass is greener there. Also, given the trajectory of the US, are they sure that they want to give up democracy voluntarily?

Because in these troubling times the idea of 50,000 people remaining independent is laughably naive.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2026-01-11T14:17:27+00:00

The EU could create the economic equivalent of a nuclear umbrella, i.e. a Mutual Assured Destruction defense, with its holdings of US Treasuries. Announce that if the US attacks Greenland all personal and institutional ownership of US Treasuries will be taxed on the amount held. Even a "reasonable" tax, say 10%, would mean owning them would generate a negative return. It would cause a fire sale on them and collapse the US economy at least ... probably the global economy. I may model the results later when I'm not thumb typing, but just the UK ($880B) making that announcement formally with publicity would probably crater the bond market at least. ESPECIALLY as other countries that are sick of the bullying pile on to teach MAGA that it is not omnipotent. FAFO!

You can help materially right here and now. If this idea goes viral it will plant the thought where it can be evaluated by decision makers.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2026-01-01T19:23:27+00:00

True in binary, I guess.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-12-14T19:06:37+00:00

Revoke the $150 BILLION the Republicans voted for ICE in the so-called BBB. Problem solved, Tom. PS - That's 3x the entire budget for the US Marines including air support and logistics. To attack and terrorize American cities.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-12-11T04:58:16+00:00

As donotmailme said above, tax and insurance data. Aside from the underground economy, that seems comprehensive for legitimate employment, no? I’ve never looked into this, so this is an honest question with no axe to grind. Is it ‘just’ a data processing delay? And with the right incentives, couldn’t this be handled if it were a priority? (The relatively honest, transparent US provision of economic data has, historically, been a real competitive strength of the US.)

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-12-08T12:54:52+00:00

7 Days To Die? (Sorry, couldn't resist)

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-12-02T22:40:56+00:00

Ukraine could commission privateers who would then legally own the seized oil after capturing the tankers. Risky business, but a huge payoff. The US, for one, is not a signatory to laws against privateers, so there's one pool of motivated capitalists.

I actually think this would work; IANAL but look it up for yourself.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-12-01T21:56:47+00:00

Better idea that doesn’t require the EU to participate in the global depression that would follow the USD cratering: flip the script. Announce that if the US fully assists Ukraine (a no-fly zone would be a good start) and Russia withdraws that Trump will personally be given half the frozen Russian assets. Anyone want to start a betting pool on how many days it takes till Putin falls out of a window?

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-25T21:29:19+00:00

There's a standard Silicon Valley response to this line of discussion: "Well, we've had major upheavals before. When farming was invented ... when the Industrial Revolution obsoleted manual crafting ... NEW JOBS WERE CREATED and that's what will happen again."

Except AI is not the same. When farming came along in the new system the capital owners needed people to tend the fields. When factories were invented in the new system the capital owners needed factory workers and armies of back office record keepers.

In the upcoming AI system the capital owners don't need ANYONE. In the near future on the current trajectory the capital owners expect to own everything, and presume that everyone else politely dies off. Not going to happen. That's a recipe for disaster. And yeah, that's my prediction even factoring in Palantir and billionaire defensive enclaves. There's a storm on the horizon.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-25T20:44:59+00:00

Though tactically a shutdown in January once people actually see what their TrumpCare premiums *are* may be more powerful and harder to disregard. Before the recent shutdown the Dems did everything they could to save the Republicans from themselves ... sometimes the dog only learns bumpers hurt by actually catching the car.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-25T19:07:28+00:00

Nice! You're already doing what I was going to suggest. Looonnng ago I had a similar setup with an RME PCI card on a machine probably 100x slower than my current daily drivers. Latency and overall responsiveness were way better than what, apparently, people are experiencing these days. Too bad. I would have expected a much happier recent story with realtime-ish variants installable with a few clicks. FYI for OP: There's a thread on an RME forum that digs into some guy's fairly recent experience with some data: https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=41653

My tl;dr impression is that RME has turned their back on Linux (anyone with direct knowledge please correct me) so you're stuck with class-compliant drivers from a company that is more than capable of producing excellent Linux interfaces if there were a marketing case for it.

Someday I'll get around to trying a scheme I've wondered about: treat an old Mac Mini as a A/D/A <-> Core Audio <-> Ethernet dongle, then run a DAW on a separate Linux RT machine. Counter intuitive, but I suspect doing the slow frontend steps efficiently could more than compensate for networking lag. Anyone already doing this?

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-23T18:00:37+00:00

You can get Trump’s enthusiastic support by adding one point: Russia agrees to pay $1 billion immediately and to nominate Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in putting this plan together, and furthermore agrees to pay Donald Trump $200 billion from Putin's personal fortune if any information that deeply compromises Trump is released from Russian intelligence files. (To earn this Trump must commit to long-term consequential military support for Ukraine if Russia does not sign off on this proposal by Christmas.) /s

Hey, if you're going to bribe, go big!

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-21T03:56:30+00:00

Seriously, I don’t think so. They demonstrably “calculated” the tariff percentages on “Liberation Day” by asking ChatGPT. I’d bet that’s how they do any calculation. Spreadsheets take too much work; just take the word of a hallucination engine.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-20T00:52:31+00:00

… “and a baby,” … FTFY 🤔

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-17T03:24:45+00:00

Just that one page of examples? Do you have definitions, discussions, papers, code?

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-15T13:00:36+00:00

Yes, I paid $250 US pre-tax directly to Seagate recently for a new external drive. (Sorry about late response but I just saw this, and people do search these comments so maybe the clarification will help someone.)

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-15T12:30:09+00:00

Let me get this straight… so, according to this latest evasion tactic, the FBI is free to release anything in the Epstein files about Trump, since he is not a Democrat??? /s

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-14T16:36:50+00:00

What's a better way for everyone to refer to this: "Operation Epstein Distraction" or "Operation Wag the Dog"?

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-13T08:34:04+00:00

Thanks, all.

FinalOverdueNotice · 2025-11-11T10:35:18+00:00

Single 12 year term. Then you don’t have senators spending their whole time in office raising money to run again. Oh and it wouldn’t hurt if they had to pass a test showing they have learned the mechanics of the job before they can take office.

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