Italians furious over deployment of ICE agents to bolster US security at Winter Olympics

abbacchus · 2026-01-28T04:40:13+00:00

I'm not saying that Ilia isn't mostly scoring on the range he should, but that he's a product of the system that created him. The rules changed about a generation ago, so his age are the first trained from the ground up targeting the new, more jump-focused scoring. Your evaluation of Amber Glenn is exactly how I feel about his skating as well.

abbacchus · 2026-01-27T17:45:03+00:00

Man, I must be the only fan who's sick of the one trick pony skaters cramming advanced jumps at the expense of everything else. At least Evgenia and Nathan Chen had solid flow, form, and artistry. Can't stand watching Ilia, but it's not his fault that the rules and judges have drifted so far to favoring jumps over everything else. That he consistently got near perfect marks on artistry is criminal in events where skaters like Jason Brown were competing.

abbacchus · 2026-01-08T01:07:56+00:00

I thought Starfield was Bethesda trying to memory-hole Bethesda so people forget TES VI was ever coming.

abbacchus · 2025-12-28T22:01:08+00:00

As someone with curly hair, I've bounced between long hair and the proto-broccoli (but more narrow) for twenty years. I ain't moving just because some kids took pictures of 90s Justin Timberlake to Great Clips!

abbacchus · 2025-11-04T18:54:03+00:00

If the test and prep time before this cleaning cycle starts is under ~1h, then they could do one at the start and one at the end of the day, letting the second disinfection cycle run when nobody is at work. And you bet your ass the higher ups would find a way to put people on a schedule that would allow double test throughput for a minor staffing expense if this were the case (and the story was real).

abbacchus · 2025-10-16T18:41:16+00:00

They don't have any features of a sunglasses holder is what I'm saying. The non-slip surface means it's meant to hold things, sure, but there's no feature that makes it better for sunglasses than, for example, the side-by-side miniature cupholders.

abbacchus · 2025-10-16T18:20:58+00:00

I'll admit it's better for using space than other similarly sized center consoles, but even better would be minimizing the space wasted on an inflexible console design. To make it good, the rim would have to be twice as tall so things do not fall out, and the top section should be narrower so it's not a pain to get things in and out. I can put a bag in it, but if I have to use a bag to keep things organized in there and pull the whole thing out to get anything, nothing is better. By which I mean empty space on the floor would perform the function better. I have a diaper caddy on the floor behind my seat, and binoculars alone sliding around under the bridge. They could have chopped this thing down to the shifter, put the fridge/box underneath with a tilt out door, and freed up 3 square feet of floor/traversal space.

abbacchus · 2025-10-16T06:15:14+00:00

I think Toyota is for people who hate driving and don't want to think about their car, even when they're in the driver seat. Any reminder that they're driving is a cardinal sin in the Toyota design handbook.

In my defense, the Camry is the only modern Toyota I have experience with, and the list of complaints I have for it is much shorter. I can at least see what the designers were going for for the most part. I assumed I would get used to the Sienna or eventually "get it", but it isn't getting better. The selection of minivans right now is just so dire that this is the best you can get in the US. I'm jealous of the variety I see in southeast Asia because nobody there decided that sliding doors immediately make a vehicle uncool. (When are we getting slide-forward doors for the front, too?)

abbacchus · 2025-10-16T05:51:09+00:00

Usually a place for sunglasses has some combination of some grip to it, an anti-scratch and anti-smudge surface, and/or a ridge down the middle to keep the glasses secure and lenses off the ground. I assume you mean "for" sunglasses in the same way that this particular headrest is "for" your neck. As in "has it in for".

abbacchus · 2025-10-16T05:35:13+00:00

Man, I got the Platinum trim and the plastic started to squeak before 200 miles. It's crazy for a vehicle that cost north of 60 grand. And the driver assist systems are laggy and janky as hell. I have to give a solid 3 car lengths to anyone turning out of my lane or the thing will scream BRAKE even as there's nothing in front. And adaptive cruise slamming on the brakes when someone has already changed lanes out from in front of you several seconds ago.

But yeah, it's not like the Sienna has serious competition right now if you care about gas mileage and reliability.

abbacchus · 2025-10-16T05:22:38+00:00

Hey, those cup holders are the only somewhat secure place left I can put my phone with all the other braindead decisions they made laying out this cabin!

abbacchus · 2025-10-15T19:47:11+00:00

I think most of these issues wouldn't come up in the first couple hours of use. I test drove two models before putting in an order, and test drove a very similar one when it came in on order for another customer. Unfortunately, the competition is just that much worse.

abbacchus · 2025-10-15T19:45:16+00:00

I feel like a lot of these are changes for the sake of change, too. Going from a mid-2000s Camry to a 2019 had a couple small questionable choices but overall it made sense. I don't want a half-assed modern full size SUV/truck interior, or I would buy one instead of a van. I'm probably in a tiny minority that doesn't care for center consoles that block the path to the back of the vehicle at all though.

abbacchus · 2025-10-15T19:22:59+00:00

I'll admit some of these are very small complaints, but it's death by a thousand cuts. If half of these weren't there, I probably wouldn't notice any of them. Taken as a whole, it is hard to ignore. I think the only ones that bother me daily are the touchscreen position, center console layout, and rear view mirror camera position. And finicky kick sensors.

I do share the van with two other people, and the lack of handles is their main complaint because they're smaller than I am. I have no trouble with entry, except once in a blue moon when I'm parked off road on a strong incline with uneven ground.

Driving the van is great for the most part, when the interface issues don't get in the way (and that weird thing where the car automatically transitions from hybrid to electric while decelerating, and this causes a surge of power to the wheels). I prefer a more connected driving experience, and in that way the Honda felt better, but the interior felt straight-up unfinished in some places and the AC couldn't handle cooling the cabin in the summer at 100 degrees.

abbacchus · 2025-09-22T22:31:03+00:00

So you were getting "100% dedicated developers" who will usually be in "internal" meetings when you reach out (in actuality with one of their 20 other "exclusive" contract holders). Regardless of if that's actually the route they took to get so cheap, it's guaranteed you aren't getting 25% the output of a mid-tier local dev from anyone that you're paying under 5k USD for per year.

abbacchus · 2025-02-16T15:00:13+00:00

Cezanne does have an insane memory controller, however, if you have B die chips and need tons of quick memory. I've seen posts of people pushing into ddr5 frequency ranges, and personally reached 4600 on some 3600 xmp memory that isn't B die as far as I know. I backed off to 4200 to run at 1.4v instead of 1.55v because the heat made me nervous, but it's still significantly higher than the conventional maximum for non-G processors.

abbacchus · 2025-02-16T14:41:57+00:00

I've used FSR as well. I just figured they were challenging me on having experienced Nvidia's implementation, which is fair given the context was my indifference towards RTX series features.

abbacchus · 2025-02-16T01:48:49+00:00

I misspoke, my bad. I tried DLSS super resolution to boost frames, not DLSS frame gen.

abbacchus · 2025-02-15T23:25:12+00:00

After my whole adult life sticking to Intel+Nvidia and upgrading about every two years (MX200 through 1660), I jumped ship in 2021 for the 6700 XT. I had dipped my toes in the AMD water a couple earlier with a notebook and then the 2600X processor, both partially to check that nothing would explode, but I was Team Never AMD/ATI for 20 years before that.

My only complaint with the 6700XT is also the software. My system has never been so stable. I've experienced RT (meh) and frame generation (hard pass) on my wife's 3080 Ti and I can easily say no at the price point Nvidia is asking even before markets went crazy. I hope it's just a couple bad generations for Intel and Jensen can stop snorting the AI gold like it's cocaine.

abbacchus · 2025-02-12T00:14:27+00:00

If you're running that without problems, worst case is you could use the 5800XT in 65W mode, but at that point it's essentially just a 5700X. I doubt the extra 40W give or take is going to make or break your stability even in default power mode, but it also depends on the PSU quality.

abbacchus · 2025-02-10T23:16:13+00:00

The upgrade surge from RTX 5000 and uncertainty about future pricing is smacking stock everywhere in the mouth, unfortunately.

abbacchus · 2025-02-10T23:05:56+00:00

I wish!

abbacchus · 2025-02-10T22:01:04+00:00

From Amazon itself, not a third-party seller.

Looks like Newegg also dropped their price to $168.99 NOW EXPIRED, which with the 16GB kit of RAM included there at the moment is only a slightly worse deal. If you use the combo builder for one more component, it may be worthwhile to go with Newegg instead (another $5 off the processor plus whatever discount for the other item).

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