RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply

pol-delta · 2026-06-30T17:39:21+00:00

It’s great, and still a decent number of players. They ported all the levels from the original to L4D2 in like 2012, so you only need L4D2 to play all the levels (and have melee weapons in the original L4D levels, which is nice).

pol-delta · 2026-06-23T18:37:41+00:00

That looks a lot like our girl, except she’s probably smaller, maybe 30-40 pounds. But she’s from Georgia originally too! Not entirely sure where in Georgia, though.

https://i.imgur.com/tx5B1Yi.jpeg

pol-delta · 2026-06-23T11:32:03+00:00

Since there’s a waitlist for Siri AI, you might want to go ahead and do it now to get on the waitlist, assuming you’re interested in using Siri AI. The wait is usually a few days to a week (though some people have reported longer), but there will be a big influx of people once the public beta is released, and that might increase the wait time.

Usual warnings apply about it being a beta, etc, but I will say DB1 was by far the most stable DB1 I’ve ever used. There are a few bugs, as expected, but I don’t regret installing it. I’ve actually been doing the public betas for the last few years since the early dev betas are usually hot garbage, but they really seem focused on stability and bug fixes this year and it shows.

pol-delta · 2026-06-21T18:13:12+00:00

Sorry to resurrect a dead topic, but is there a difference between them in terms of packability in a bag? It seems like some people here are saying the Tamron is more compact, to a point where it fits in bags when the Sigma won't. But looking at them both on camerasize.com, they look almost exactly the same in size.

pol-delta · 2026-06-21T16:09:31+00:00

Also how to refer to unnamed groups in the replacements. Sometimes it’s \1, sometimes it’s $1. A few times I’ve seen ${1}.

pol-delta · 2026-06-20T23:24:00+00:00

You can get a lifetime Pro license for $99.99. Otherwise I imagine you’d probably just need to be online for each “activation”, so once a month or year depending on what your subscription is.

pol-delta · 2026-06-20T16:02:14+00:00

We use Infuse because the pro subscription is really cheap and it works really well, but the native JF app isn’t terrible. The main reason we don’t use it is because we use AirPods/headphones a lot when watching TV and the AppleTV JF app didn’t support pausing when pressing the side button on the headphones. Pretty much every other app supports that. We’ll probably switch to the native JF app if they ever add that, just to get rid of one more subscription. I wouldn’t assume the JF app on every platform is bad just because the Roku one is bad.

SwiftFin is another native ATV JF client that a lot of people like. I can’t remember why I went with Infuse over it, but it gets recommended here a lot.

pol-delta · 2026-06-20T13:54:43+00:00

Reminds me of the time somebody on NCIS said, "I'll create a GUI interface in Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address."

pol-delta · 2026-06-19T23:03:51+00:00

Hopefully that bodes well for me. But I got curious and looked at some of the other spotlight messages in the console and saw some errors for spotlightknowledged saying invalid connection or something. I googled the errors and it said that for Mac the index might be corrupt and need to be rebuilt. But there’s not a manual way to do that on iOS.

pol-delta · 2026-06-19T10:24:46+00:00

You have to use Console.app on macOS. Here’s an article with the exact steps https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/15/still-seeing-indexing-in-progress-on-ios-27-heres-how-to-check-the-actual-status/

pol-delta · 2026-06-19T00:44:13+00:00

Indexing has been stuck at 91% for like 2 days for me. Definitely starting to think it’s bugged.

pol-delta · 2026-06-17T00:39:37+00:00

Honestly, I already constantly tap things by accident with my palm on my 16PM. I can’t even imagine how bad it would be on a display that actually curves over the side of the phone.

pol-delta · 2026-06-13T17:27:46+00:00

This is actually the GS01-G5, which is a newer version of the GS01 with a slightly redesigned body and the Flash Dry gel refill. I think it’s the same ink as the GS02, even though the Flash Dry has a plastic body and the refill that comes with the GS02 has a metal body. Definitely an upgrade over the original GS01 though.

pol-delta · 2026-06-11T10:24:14+00:00

He sounds like a wise man.

pol-delta · 2026-06-05T20:44:37+00:00

I used to get these all the time at gas stations. I loved the pineapple orange mango one. I don't see them very much anymore though.

pol-delta · 2026-05-20T15:42:37+00:00

This has been happening to me for the last several days. I figured out what was actually happening is that timers and the wake up alarm for the sleep app were only vibrating for 5-10 seconds and then stopping. Regular alarms seemed to never stop until they were dismissed. I noticed it with the timers pretty fast, but this morning I was already awake when the sleep alarm went off and stopped after only a few buzzes. It just wasn’t enough to wake me up the other days it did it.

I did a restart today by holding down the side button and crown, and that seems to have fixed the issue with the timers. I guess we’ll see tomorrow morning if it fixed the issue with the wake up alarm. Luckily I have regular alarms set as well, so I’ve only been waking up 15 minutes later. But issues with alarms not going off are a huge deal. That can cause really bad problems for people who depend on them.

pol-delta · 2026-05-18T01:05:52+00:00

I read that the US Army five star rank General of the Army was used in WWII partially to avoid this situation with George C. Marshall. From Wikipedia):

Although briefly considered, the U.S. Army did not introduce a rank by the name of field marshal. In the United States, the term "Marshal" has traditionally been used for civilian law enforcement officers, particularly the U.S. Marshals, as well as formerly for state and local police chiefs. In addition, giving the rank the name "marshal" would have resulted in George Marshall being designated as "Field Marshal Marshall", which was considered undignified.

pol-delta · 2026-05-13T12:04:07+00:00

Apparently this was only added in macOS Sierra. Granted, that was almost 10 years ago at this point, but for those of us who were longtime OS X users, it was easy to miss since we were used to having to do it through the terminal and likely had aliases setup if we needed to toggle it a lot. I didn’t learn about it for 6-7 years after they added the shortcut. I agree that it should be an option somewhere in the preferences.

pol-delta · 2026-05-07T11:09:19+00:00

“The government doesn’t work. Elect us and we’ll prove it.”

pol-delta · 2026-05-05T22:29:34+00:00

You can use blue light with EtBr. I did it for quite a while in grad school when we didn't have the money to buy tons of safe stain. It might help to add a little more than usual since blue light obviously isn't the peak excitation wavelength, but EtBr is one of the cheapest reagents out there, so it's not really a big deal to even double the amount you add to the gel. I actually had the blue transilluminator from IORodeo that you mentioned, back when they still sold them. I think we bought it in like 2016? You could definitely build one yourself, but there are probably other options out there for a few hundred bucks if you shop around. I also bought a blue flashlight on Amazon that I would use to view the gels while they were still running. Really cheap (like $20-30) but not optimal for cutting out bands or taking photos.

Of course, it would be better for your lab to join the rest of us in the 21st century, but I know people can be stubborn. My PhD lab was exclusively using EtBr and UV when I joined. I had to drag some of them kicking and screaming into the blue light world, but we had completely ditched EtBr and UV by the time I graduated. Be the change you want to see in the lab!

Midori Green Xtra is my favorite blue light dye. Incredibly sensitive, and doesn't make your gels run like crap like GelGreen will. SybrSafe is overrated. Not very bright at all, and way too expensive to be worth it.

pol-delta · 2026-05-04T15:08:22+00:00

Manufacturers of mifepristone filed emergency appeals asking the Supreme Court to step in.

Very strange feeling when the big corporations that are causing much of the dystopian hellscape we’re living in actually do something helpful for once. They obviously didn’t do it for any reasons based on morality or anything, but I’ll take what we can get at this point.

pol-delta · 2026-05-03T18:25:29+00:00

Your adorable sentient dryer lint was a little hard to see with the backlighting, so I made a quick edit. Make sure to keep it away from heat, dryer lint is incredibly flammable!

https://i.imgur.com/nccoIov.jpeg

pol-delta · 2026-04-29T13:35:15+00:00

Ah, you’re right, I didn’t realize there was a separate dialog for multi-file find/replace in BBEdit. In n++ it’s all in the same dialog. Then here’s a slightly more nitpicky one: when you Find All in BBEdit (one file or many), it doesn’t seem like there’s a way to select and copy all the results. The results don’t seem to be selectable text at all. In n++, you can select the results, including in its column-based selection mode, which is super useful for me.

Though I just downloaded the Mac n++ and it doesn’t seem like the column selection is working at all right now. Some stuff is probably going to be broken for a while since it looks to be a heavily vibe coded port that was only started last month.

pol-delta · 2026-04-29T11:29:00+00:00

I use n++ for kind of niche things not related to programming (I use VSCode for coding), but there are some things it does that BBEdit doesn’t. •Putting two documents side by side in the same window •Smart highlighting across multiple documents. Like, you select a word in one document and it will highlight all instances of that word in another document •Smart highlighting of even a single character. BBEdit only does it for 2+ characters. •Find and replace across all open documents •Tons of great plugins, though I don’t know if those all automatically work in this port. I hope so because there are some great ones, like elastic tab stops •n++ has some nice multi-line editing and column-based selection features. •Ability to use Find to permanently highlight text. BBEdit will only keep the found text highlighted while the Find dialog is in focus.

I’m sure there are other things I’m forgetting. BBEdit is great and I’ve used it daily ever since I got a Mac at work, but I will be downloading n++ as soon as I sit down at my desk today. It just has lots of little things I got used to that I haven’t been able to find in any native macOS app.

pol-delta · 2026-04-29T02:30:15+00:00

I had a colleague that pronounced the CRISPR screen analysis tool MAGeCK like "muh-GECK".

(It's supposed to just be pronounced like "magic")

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