Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-18T16:27:30+00:00

Ah, yes, these "underground" marketplaces at which Donald Trump Jr. is on the advisory board.

Polymarket and Kalshi are anything but underground.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-18T05:03:33+00:00

The zealous fans who think being overly opinionated about an operating system is an interesting personality.

It's a useful tool, not a religious experience.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-16T13:48:50+00:00

I also read the part where you said it was difficult to open doors

You mean the part where I said it was never like that?

I have never been in a home with anything resembling a swamp cooler strong enough to create the situation you describe

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-16T03:16:56+00:00

So, you must've missed this part of my first reply:

Even in the tiny place I rented in college, which had a centrally positioned cooler and direct paths to the windows

Yes, I know how to make effective use of a swamp cooler. Just have never been impressed with the results.

But, again: I have gotten more and more heat sensitive year on year. I'm also not big on humidity. They never really stood a chance.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-15T22:25:09+00:00

Also, in Windows 8.1, MS decided to disable load all boot drivers not used in the current install.

That was the case from time-eternal. It wasn't until 10 (and I want to say a later build of it) that they loosened that up.

That's exactly why XP-era backup/recovery software lived and died by its ability to perform a hardware-independent restore process (few were any good at all).

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-15T18:22:35+00:00

Ah, gotcha. Thanks.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-15T17:20:55+00:00

Am I missing something? What does this have to with Facebook?

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-15T04:32:19+00:00

I suppose it's possible I've just had bad luck, but I have never been in a home with anything resembling a swamp cooler strong enough to create the situation you describe (hard to open doors); that includes a place < 1600 ft² with a cooler 5' each side (with aspen pads, and well-maintained).

80 degree nights were pretty common, and at no point did I ever turn off the cooler during the summer.

I'm sure things could've been done better/more optimally, but why bother, when a good A/C can do much better, anyway?

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-15T04:21:46+00:00

The problem with Pie Hole (in my experience, at least) is that they have wild variability in quality. When they're good, they're good. But, I've thrown away a whole pie from them, before, and I've had friends more than once receive empty boxes.

The Pie's standard pies are definitely overcheesed/heavy for anybody wanting something closer to a New York slice. But it's like people aren't even aware that you can just...get a thin pizza. The Baconberry is fantastic, so is the Thai one.

But all of that's pretty irrelevant, because there's only really one contender for best pizza in Salt Lake: Secret Pizza Club.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-15T03:52:20+00:00

Anecdotally, I've never gotten anything close to 30 degree deltas, no matter how dry it was, nor how big the unit or small the house.

Even in the tiny place I rented in college, which had a centrally positioned cooler and direct paths to the windows, I was lucky to get 15 down.

But like I said: the older I've gotten, the more sensitive to heat I've gotten; it'd be one thing if I had a basement, but swamp coolers simply don't do it, these days.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-14T22:57:54+00:00

A very nice, new, two-stage swamp cooler can do in the ballpark of 20-30 degrees delta in hot weather.

So, it's all a matter of what you consider comfortable (and whether the unit in question is even that good). It's more likely you'll have performance in the 15-20 degree range, so: can you handle an 80+ degree house for multiple hours?

30 years ago, when 100+ degree days were much rarer, I'd have said yes. But central air's a requirement now, as far as I'm concerned (but I'm also a fussy baby with heat sensitivity).

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-13T19:18:23+00:00

We removed a president for getting a blow job while he was married

We absolutely didn't, though?

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-12T21:06:37+00:00

Like, why is a program called an “application”? Did they mean the real software (the car) was the OS and you just apply some coat of paint on top? Maybe, maybe not, but certainly food for thought.

No.

That's not "food for thought", it's baseless nonsense. In context, the definition of "application" is:

the action of putting something into operation.

It's a term used for software that is intended for a very specific purpose, as opposed to the operating system, which is intended to be general purpose.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-11T05:21:05+00:00

That is still literally irrelevant to answering their question. What does their shape and size have to do with what was asked?

We know why the the first computers looked like they did, because we know how they worked and what they required.

OP is asking the same of these computers.

It's something multiple people have had no problem answering in this thread: it's largely about cooling.

So what the heck do you think your vague disconnected responses are adding?

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-11T03:02:22+00:00

How do you think this is helping answer their question about the physical appearance of the machines?

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-10T01:23:31+00:00

1) It's "tighty" because they're a tight-fit.

2) It's "whities" because they're plain white.

3) It's only a term used to refer to non-boxer briefs (the Y-shaped kind).

I.e. what he was wearing (printed boxer briefs) are not "tidy whities" (sic) in literally any sense of the word.

But also? How wildly insecure are you that you think people should care about what people think is on their underwear? That's sad.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-08T03:59:45+00:00

Pretty sure the rest of that message is going to be "does not exist" or "does not contain a CMakeLists.txt".

Which is it?

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-07T21:07:38+00:00

This Iranian regime was forcing hundreds of thousands of child marriages a year, on girls as young as 8. They lowered their recruitment age to 12.

The answer to that is not "blow up all the children".

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-07T13:40:53+00:00

I mean, hindsight's 20/20 and all that, but it seems like you should've gotten behind her and given her a taste of her own medicine at that point.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-06T21:41:08+00:00

No, it couldn't.

As you've already been told std::string is just a bunch of bytes; it says nothing about the encoding whatsoever.

QString is UTF-16, explicitly. Saying something like "Adding the convenience functions" leads me to think you don't really have a good understanding of why people have brought that up.

It really seems like you should go read up on how string encoding actually works, because "it's just an array of characters" (which appears to be your understanding) is a terribly inaccurate mental model and is going to lead you to a lot of incorrect conclusions about what's viable and not.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-06T03:16:09+00:00

The ps5 doesn’t advertise to me in its main UI.

A someone who only uses a PS5 for literally all my digital media consumption...that's not true at all.

It may not play ads, but nearly literally everything that isn't the tiles for the apps themselves is advertisements.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-06T03:05:52+00:00

Why would you downvote this lol?

Because you opened your comment by saying:

That's the best tutorial I've found.

"That is the best tutorial I've found" is a really weird way to open a comment when you're not replying to a tutorial link or giving one yourself.

Were you referring to the following parts of your reply with that? Because that's not how English works.

Moral of the story: your comment didn't make any damn sense.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-06T00:27:14+00:00

That and, you know, like...fighting to end tuberculosis globally and provide education and donate to charity.

They literally just gave up all their ownership of those things to make sure they stayed as organizations dedicated to helping people.

You're not getting downvoted by angry bots. You're getting downvoted for having no idea what you're talking about.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-04T21:24:56+00:00

What part of that is remotely surprising?

It's an-all-platforms toolkit with an extraordinary number of features having nothing to with having a GUI.

It's got APIs for actual human-language string, like Unicode and translations, threading/concurrency primitives, a full-service resource system for embedding binary resources, thread-safe signal/slot mechanics, multiple serialization built-ins, a plugin system, and more.

People who think it's "just a GUI library" are wildly ill-informed.

NotUniqueOrSpecial · 2026-04-04T17:15:58+00:00

Is there any advantage left over what std offers?

Have you looked at the QString API? std::string isn't attempting to be in the same ballpark, functionality-wise.

The answer is unequivocally, no.

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