And there are the two more layers to that hierarchy, too — on-chip and on-die cache for CPUs -- which are each faster still, though I keep forgetting which one fits where in the equation.

It’s a noble sentiment, but history does not support it. Every time storage manufacturers have managed to increase data retrieval rates, developers have responded with — you guessed it — increasing the amount of data needed to be loaded. It’s why our games look so much better than they did 20 years ago — the amount of…

Shitty people rise to the top because they have no qualms about stepping on everyone else beneath them. In other news, water is wet and fire burns.

That there’s even a discussion about an officer who has three fatalities to his name is beyond the pale. I mean, an officer who has killed or shot people on two or more separate occasions — when the vast majority of officers go their entire careers without ever firing their weapon — should be under the strictest…

But remember, America totally doesn’t have a racism problem. [/sarcasm]

...unlearn the behavior they were *TRAINED* to have, no less. So even if they weren’t assholes already, they were trained to be assholes as part of their job.

That’s probably a whole lot closer to the truth than any Republican would willingly admit — that their definition of ‘loving’ America is to be willing servants and slaves to the wealthy masters and never, ever question their rule.

No. In the year since it first emerged, multiple variants have emerged that are more contagious and more dangerous. Either we mask up and vaccinate until it gets eliminated or it’ll never go away. It’ll be a year-round flu season that kills hundreds of thousands every year, instead of tens of thousands like the flu.

That was never more than a fantasy. Every time Republicans took office, deficit spending ballooned. Every. Single. Time. A party of family values? Nope. They hacked away at anything that helped support families. Hard work and bootstraps? Nope. They were giddy at abusing workers and depressing wages to keep people down.

Her contract predates the new streaming era dynamics. The majority of an actor’s share of the profits were from ticket sales, with tiny residuals from anything else. This simultaneous streaming release undercuts ticket sales, shifting the bulk of the initial release profits from the side where actors have the majority…

I’m sure lawsuits are forthcoming. Because they won’t back down willingly or stop destroying the planet without a fight.

Not so much a warning shot as a reminder that these mega corporations don’t get to play fast and loose with their contract terms. It’s also a wake-up call for actors unions — streaming is no longer a chump-change portion of the market. The terms and contracts used by unions need to change to reflect this new reality.

Not necessarily. I mean, realistically, yes, but that’s by no means required. All it takes is *FEDERALLY* mandated unions. That solves all this shit. Businesses and corporations would not be able to bypass the unions to get their employees. Not that either political party in the US would *EVER* allow such a thing to…

Killing in the name of...

They could already do that. They don’t because it’s not just about ‘butts in the chair’ metrics. Nearly every kind of business in this day and age requires a monumental amount of infrastructure to operate. The places left that they could take their operations for ‘cheaper labor’ now have little or none of that.

Corporate law exists solely as a shield to protect corporate owners from accountability or responsibility for the actions of the companies they own and operate. That is quite literally the whole reason these laws exist.

It doesn’t matter. If Disney’s contract with Johansson was for an exclusive theatrical release, they *CANNOT* change those terms without *HER* permission — in writing — to do so without a breach of contract. That’s how contract law works.

The adoption rate would beg to differ too. Steel, aluminum, and titanium are still the go-to materials. Carbon fiber hasn’t supplanted any of them.

And keep in mind, all this is happening at a time when humanity is facing an imminent existential threat. We are effectively in a slap fight with one another while the house is burning down around us. Which isn’t to shift blame — racists and Republicans (not all racists are Republicans even if all Republicans are…

The carbon-fiber revolution has never really materialized for a variety of reasons — the most substantial of which is production reliability at any real scale (both in terms of volume but also physical size). It’s fickle and prone to errors from the slightest variation, in countless ways, that renders the whole…