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This has been something of a running thing with MA. Their insurance system was something of a blueprint for the ACA.

Like, not just a little slower. The standard laptop HDD spins at 5400rpm, compared to a standard desktop drive at 7200rpm.

The average HDD lifespan is 3–5 years, vs. 10 years for solid state storage. Combination of the moving parts and the magnetic nature of the former (which also introduces a risk if you get anything magnetic near your machine). They can last longer, sure, and laptop HDDs do spin slower.

Also, while 512 GB is pretty small, part of why it feels that way is that Windows has absurd overhead. This machine will be running Steam OS, which is significantly lighter weight.

You can do this, absolutely, but transferring it between drives is going to be about as fast as downloading it directly to the SSD in the first place, depending on your connection. With the HDD, you’re also introducing a moving part (and thus another point of failure).

There’s more streaming from storage to the RAM and CPU/GPU than ever before, so high read speeds are integral for keeping load times low. Not having one can now actively lead to hitching in games that have to quickly stream in assets (especially open world).

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I read “pudenda,” and my brain immediately goes to this animation and song: youtu.be/ENnAa7rqtBM?...

I’ll also note that, for 5’10, I have pretty large hands. His were almost comical (he stopped eating sandwiches at the office because people would comment on it).

The irony being the side of my family with the Ukrainian and Russian ancestry, all of the men are over 6 feet tall.

It’s my dad’s side of Lithuanian and Hungarian Jewry that ended up short and stocky. He was 5’7. I’m 5’10, and his hands were the same size as mine, with thicker fingers.

It really feels like a large proportion of non-Republican elected officials in the US have internalized that the best way to deal with a bully is to ignore them and hope they stop targeting you, specifically.

It’s going to vary by stream of Judaism, to be sure. Reform and Conservative/Masorti are the most likely to feel familiar. And then, on the far end, a Chabad is going to have everyone off davening in their own corners until it’s time for a prayer that needs minyan.

Joyce Carol Goates.

The “g” is silent.

Anti-theists fully out here demonstrating that they have zero interest in understanding power dynamics or history. It’s all about feeling like you’re justified in brow-beating people.

Just like many Evangelicals.

Mind, the Jewish canon is pretty much an explicit rejection of this. It posits an interaction with such evidence where we actually come away with a renewed inward focus. Might be part of why Lovecraft was such a fervent antisemite and racist. People who’d had his core realization and rejected it.

This is kind of the basis of cosmic horror. The realization that we’re so insignificant nothing we do could possibly matter, and that, after encountering evidence of this utter futility, you still have to go back to a society that pretends at us having significance.

Nah, pretty sure it’s the disingenuous fuck pretending the issue is something other than what he actually said who’s a fucking loser.

It’s you. You’re the disingenuous fuck.

I inserted myself to provide clarification. You’ve made it very clear that your only interest is in exercising your degradation kink, so I’m happily obliging.

Shall I step on you, next?

*your

The issue with this is that your first two words are an objective lie.

Aww, your precious little ego won’t let you actually learn anything, much less acknowledge your ignorance.

I can’t even begin to imagine how miserable living like that would be.

“Den of thieves” is a specific reference to Jeremiah, in which that exact phrase refers to using the Temple to try to avoid accountability for bad actions done elsewhere.

It has nothing to do with money changing or selling sacrificial animals at the Temple.

Then you shouldn’t have weighed in on a conversation that first and foremost affects the Jewish community. Stay in your lane.

I don’t even apply this logic to a swastika. It’s also a religious symbol, and I’m not going to be triggered every time I get to dungeon three in the first NES Zelda.

Like, I don’t get uncomfortable around churches and crosses because I fear I’m missing out on Jesus. It’s 100% because there’s millennia of precedent for them targeting my people in particular.

Meanwhile, I have no such negative mental association with the star and crescent.

Often, yes.

Because, if it’s antisemitism, why is him condemning it at all an issue?

“False flag” is the easiest way to avoid having to do any introspection.

It reads to me as at odds with what came before. Like he’s acknowledged that using AI has serious issues, and calls it “bad behavior,” and then is like “well, I guess if they use it carefully, it’s fine.”

“I’m too important to waste my time responding to you or reading up on a topic. LLM, do it for me. Chop chop.”

And it hit me that these people don’t love LLMs because they think they’ll produce stuff on the level of bespoke human creativity. They love them because it gives them a subservient laborer that can’t turn them down.

It’s that fantasy of superiority and control.