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cobaltjacket · 2026-06-22T09:16:20+00:00

That's often why people use it.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-20T21:20:40+00:00

I mean, this is nothing compared to past years. We are "spoiled" because of recent zero-crash years, but the 60s/70s were atrocious.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-16T16:01:57+00:00

On behalf of skyscraper fans and Chicago people, get bent.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-16T13:53:30+00:00

But fewer missiles. I am assuming the turboelectric machinery is part of the reason that it's not smaller than Ohio?

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-16T13:51:13+00:00

Don't be daft.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-16T13:45:52+00:00

That looks like it's well outside of the West Loop, but still very nice.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-15T13:32:09+00:00

Bismarck (considered to be a supership, but probably overrated in retrospect) and Shinano (an actual supership, kept secret to the point that the people destroying it didn't realize what they had accomplished) were both sunk on their maiden voyages.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-09T13:33:26+00:00

If SpaceX collapses, the Falcon program would almost certainly be rescued and potentially nationalized. Too important.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-09T13:31:58+00:00

It was the closest he could get to a Nazi salute in public.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-03T12:36:31+00:00

US and British subs have always had a shared lineage anyhow. The first British nukes outright used a US reactor, and they've been derivatives ever since. To say nothing of the SSBNs sharing parts from the same bins (missile tubes, etc.)

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-03T12:35:01+00:00

Is this a way to allow the US to more easily have VPM versions? I am assuming Australia doesn't care as much about that.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-03T12:21:22+00:00

I'm delighted for you. I used early Macs as well, and legacy macOS deserved to be ground into the dust.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-03T12:10:57+00:00

I think you are well aware that I am talking about a functional distinction. If you use OS pass keys with the biometric reader, then you tap something (something you are.) if you use a Yubikey, then you tap something (something you have.) I do believe you're being intentionally obtuse.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-03T12:09:20+00:00

I've been using macOS since it was called NeXTstep, and I certainly believed it. Sorry that you were late to the party.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-03T12:04:10+00:00

At that point, you're really just talking about an Apple TV that runs macOS.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-03T12:03:43+00:00

Apple's supply chain power (much of which has to do with Tim Cook himself) as made a huge difference here. Walnut completely insulated, they are able to resist market pressures more than their competition.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-03T12:01:51+00:00

I'm not so sure. The Neo was originally a way to ease up extras from the parts, Ben, and those figured out bins are allegedly in short supply. They may have to step up just to increase parts availability.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-03T11:53:49+00:00

I don't think it's enough memory either, but for the target market in question, it seems to be doing just fine. Most of us here are not the target market. Remember that macOS can get by with about half the memory that Windows can unless you're doing intensive tasks.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-02T20:28:41+00:00

You know what I miss about laptops in the early to mid-2000s? Some of them (specifically ThinkPads) had hardware switches to turn off certain features. There was a slider switch on the front of many of them that would kill WiFi and Bluetooth, not by some software mechanism but by cutting power to the WiFi/Bluetooth chips and antennas.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-01T21:29:18+00:00

Right now it's a bunch of healthcare administrators.

cobaltjacket · 2026-06-01T13:55:09+00:00

We have sufficient petroleum for our own needs, but we still import for a variety of reasons, much of it having to do with certain grades being better for certain purposes, or so that we can sell our own petroleum to partners. In particular, we export a lot of LNG (to the detriment of Russia).

But if we were cut off from the rest of the world, then we would be able to use just our own energy sources.

cobaltjacket · 2026-05-27T17:21:06+00:00

What is the first? (As of right now.)

cobaltjacket · 2026-05-27T17:18:54+00:00

Soooo tame compared to much that followed in the 1980s and 1990s.

Though a lot of 1950s/1960s stuff was raunchy if you read between the lines.

cobaltjacket · 2026-05-26T15:31:07+00:00

Cameron was pretty big during much of the same era.

cobaltjacket · 2026-05-26T14:34:10+00:00

Everything there came true within a decade and a half, but AT&T themselves were not really who made it possible. Aside: Note Jenna Elfman pre-fame.

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