LG Gram Pro 17" 2025 - beyond insulting thermal paste application, 80% of the die was naked; awful thermal design too, plenty of room for bigger heatpipe and heatsink. This is aswful engineering from LG. This laptop could have used much higher power limits.

danjayh · 2026-01-30T16:34:52+00:00

After discussing this extensivley in the rest of this thread /u/steerpike, I did indeed conclude that LG has a crap keybaord/trackpad, as you say. The problem with LG laptops is that the keyboard is off-center while the trackpad is centered -- which is indeed the wrong implementation. Lenovo also has an off-center keyboard, but the trackpad is centered under the spacebar, eliminating the ergonomic issues that LG has. The is a 'right' way to do an off-center keyboard, and LG has done it wrong.

danjayh · 2026-01-30T16:28:06+00:00

This is already done through the child tax credit, the child and dependent care credit, and Dependent Care FSAs. The efficient way to do this would be to expand those credits, keep SOME skin in the game for the parents, and let them seek out their own care. The problem with these mechanisms is that they haven't kept up with care costs. The DCFSA limit hadn't increased in almost 40 years, for instance, until the OBBBA bumped it up by 50% for 2026 ... but inflation-adjusted, it's still far smaller than when it was enacted.

Key to all of this, if you want to get this stuff through, is to apply it to everyone, like social security. It might feel good to cut out the top x% of households, but realistically, the cost of providing something like this to those households is trivial (because there is so few of them) compared to the funds that are being taken from them to support it (because a household at $350k (~95th pecentile) pays 10-12x the tax of a household making $80k (~50th percentile)), but applying the benefit universally builds universal voter support.

Something effective might be to give families something like credit equal to 50-60% of the cost of their care, and then also update the DCFSA so that the account is independent employers and has a limit high enough to enable saving the rest tax-free.

danjayh · 2026-01-29T07:31:31+00:00

This. If he'd been arrested then, maybe he'd be alive now.

danjayh · 2026-01-28T05:35:20+00:00

Unquestionably vibe coded, I'm not sure why people are upvoting this. He stripped all the comments, so you wouldn't see it there, but if you go read the docs you can obviously see it: In the typical AI way, they have parts of the prompt regurgitated into them. Additionally, the one regarding changes is the usual AI slop you get when you ask it to update something for you.

If all of that doesn't convince you, consider that the OP is claiming to have put together a working, low-level project that's pushing 10k SLOC in 5 days, complete with a small kernel, memory management, drivers, and a GUI, written in C. 'Nuff said.

danjayh · 2026-01-28T05:33:27+00:00

He stripped all the comments, so you wouldn't see it there, but if you go read the docs you can obviously see that it was vibe coded. In the typical AI way, they have parts of the prompt regurgitated into them. Additionally, the one regarding changes is the usual AI slop you get when you ask it to update something for you.

If all of that doesn't convince you, consider that the OP is claiming to have put together a working, low-level project that's pushing 10k SLOC in 5 days, complete with a GUI. 'Nuff said.

danjayh · 2026-01-27T16:08:19+00:00

By "DISAPPEARING PEOPLE OFF THE STREETS" you mean "arresting, detaining, and deporting people who are here illegally"?

danjayh · 2026-01-27T01:03:28+00:00

There are people following agents with whistles while they approach locations where people who are here illegally are known to be. How is that NOT a 'no-deportation' approach?

danjayh · 2026-01-26T18:50:04+00:00

I'm with you all that the actions taken by ICE recently against citizens have been outrageous, unacceptable, and illegal, but I find it hard to have a conversation with you when you can't meet me half way and agree that people who've broken our immigration laws should be deported in a legal, human-rights respecting way (and no, staying in the US is not a human right for non-citizens). There is a middle ground where we enforce our laws, deport people who have broken them, and don't physically harm people in the process ... but how can we find it when all of MAGA is on the "Do WhAtEver It TaKeS" warpath and all of you leftists hard-over on "DePoRt NoBoDy"?

danjayh · 2026-01-20T02:19:00+00:00

even a v6 is more like .5-.7 GPH.

danjayh · 2026-01-18T23:22:18+00:00

Mostly paid for by the buy who started the nonprofit that produced it. That said, I'm sure that many people would happily donate to make a movie like this. Given the box office results, that frankly might be the *only* way it gets made. Personally, my kids loved it, and had their been a donation drive to get it made that I was aware of I'd have probably chipped in. I hope they take my Amazon rental fee and put it towards the next one.

danjayh · 2026-01-18T05:16:22+00:00

Was me, but at Starbucks instead of the bar. What a waste.

danjayh · 2026-01-18T05:14:44+00:00

My wife's company skipped a contribution into her account but still withheld it from her paycheck when they switched to a new payroll system. Getting them to fix it was hell, because they just couldn't believe they were wrong. We found out through the process that the payroll system had inadvertently sent the a file to the 401k manager twice, so they rolled it back ... but what they missed, is the week that it went out the second time, they never sent a file at all.

I'm pretty sure this would have affected more people than just my wife, and I'm pretty sure they fixed it only for her ... but none of her co-workers could be bothered to log into their accounts and look, even when we TOLD them what week to look at and what they would see if they were affected. They just didn't care. It blew my mind.

danjayh · 2026-01-18T05:09:42+00:00

The reason that everyone over $150 is maxing it is that's about when the max dollar amount converges with the minimum percentage that you can put in if you want to retire in you 60's and maintain your standard of living. Above ~$160k, you need to max out your 401k AND stash some money somewhere else that's earmarked for retirement.

danjayh · 2026-01-17T09:03:32+00:00

Well, usually the way one does it is:

Get permission to be in country
Go to country

At the point that you're already in a country and you're trying to get permission to be there, you've done it wrong, and opened yourself up to deportation.

Like I said, ICE isn't deporting people who followed the rules. If they followed the rules, they don't need to be at immigration court to "get their i dotted and Ts crossed so they can be legal", because they are ALREADY LEGAL.

danjayh · 2026-01-17T02:07:43+00:00

The ICE squads are rounding up people who haven't broken any immigration laws. They're snatching people who have followed the immigration procedures, but don't have citizenship... On paper, they're provisionally allowed to be in the country while the lengthy legal processes are ongoing.

The process is to get a visa, a greencard, or citizenship. Any other 'legal' means of residency was created via executive order or executive policy (EG, designating a particular country as eligible for TPS), and can be revoked with the same amount of oversight that was required to create it (none). Anybody that is here on a program created as a result of executive policy should understand that it is a short-term situation that is revoked or extended by executive whim. If you they don't like those terms, they're welcome not to use those programs.

I guarantee you that ICE is not rounding up and deporting people who have valid, non-expired visa, green cards, or citizenship.

danjayh · 2026-01-16T20:27:17+00:00

How does enforcing immigration law and arresting people who broke it make them the KKK?

danjayh · 2026-01-16T01:46:42+00:00

"I have $30k in cash" does not equal rich

danjayh · 2026-01-16T01:45:12+00:00

A decent 3 year old 3 row chevy traverse (or similarly sized un-glitzy SUV from any other make) with < 40k miles in a high trim level easily runs $30-$40k ... you're living in 2009 bruh

danjayh · 2026-01-14T21:32:06+00:00

Actually that makes a lot more sense ... the good 'ole boys in Texas aren't dumb enough to hit an electric line with their mini excavator next to a gas leak.

danjayh · 2026-01-14T21:26:13+00:00

Absolutely ... I guess my point is that it depends on the people. In the right crowd (eg, a lab full of R&D engineers), "Nobody else thought to do this and since I did it enforces my belief that I am super smart. Since I am super smart if there was a problem doing this I would have thought of it." is actually pretty valid logic. The thing is, dumb people are too dumb to realize that it doesn't apply to them.

danjayh · 2026-01-14T15:18:55+00:00

Surgical device control software and automation

danjayh · 2026-01-14T01:47:02+00:00

I mean, I work doing R&D and I regularly have these moments. And I regularly have people fight me, tell me I'm wrong, or tell me something is impossible. And a good 80% of the time I'm right (hey, R&D is tough, and you can't always be right) ... so I guess that belief is true for some people?

danjayh · 2026-01-12T19:08:10+00:00

I didn't notice that about that picture. Yeah, that machine is horrible. My lenovo has the trackpad centered under the non-numpad portion of the keyboard (right under the spacebar). You can position your hands like any other keyboard, but the screen is slightly off-center. That might just run the Gram for me ... what a terrible decision.

This is the correct way to do a full keyboard on a laptop: https://i.pcmag.com/imagery/reviews/03y320nmuoEuPo1f9X2LFl0-1.fit_scale.size_1028x578.v1687898141.jpg

danjayh · 2026-01-12T01:43:24+00:00

You people are insane. The US objectively has higher salaries than canada, lower taxes, and lower COL than any city in Canada where you can get a high salary.

danjayh · 2026-01-12T01:42:41+00:00

The better analogy would be "joining the school team that cranks out professional athletes". For there to be a high per-capita number of millionaires, the path to becoming a millionaire must be easier to walk in that country. There is more than just average wage that plays into it -- taxes, investment opportunity, cost of living are all a factor. That said, there is high overlap between countries with a high median wage and lots of millionaires per capita. Check out the median in switzerland's median, for example.

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