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  1. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    As someone who does this stuff for a living, this basically sounds like a new dashboard to integrate a bunch of existing products and services slightly better. Amazon loves marketing a new dashboard/portal by calling it something new.
  2. Mist

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1692227-REG/gigabyte_m27q_x_27_16_9_freesync.html https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/gigabyte/m27q-x This monitor is excellent for the price, based on the review. This is basically my PG279QM, minus the G-Sync module, but much flatter, easier to...
  3. Mist

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    The breakdown of people at your average corporation: 20% of people who wear 6 hats and know how everything works. Half of these people are so critical that their loss sets departments back for years. 50% of people who can do their one job passably well but are completely ignorant of how...
  4. Mist

    Ghostbusters : Afterlife

    If Young Sheldon fought ghosts with a proton accelerator, that would be a very different, potentially even watchable, show.
  5. Mist

    Ghostbusters : Afterlife

    Finally saw this, but wish I didn't click this thread. You guys spend more time being obsessed with race than progressive Twitter, and that's really saying something. This movie was okay, and would have flat out sucked if the girl didn't nail being Egon's granddaughter.
  6. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    The cables I linked aren't necessarily the nicest, most flexible cables you can get, but they work, and they're cost-effective.
  7. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Did you update the TV firmware?
  8. Mist

    Severance

    My previous job was way too much like this show. I used to joke that none of our clients were real and that they were all just actors hiding in the warehouse somewhere, and that the whole thing was a government-funded experiment in human misery.
  9. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Does it? Both parties have significant impact on stocks in the social media space, much more impact than they have on actual public policy. The whole Twitter buyout has fantastic drama and DWAC isn't far behind.
  10. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/07/09/trump_elon_musk_is_a_bullshit_artist.html
  11. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Also, there is an extremely WEIRD phenomenon with very high speed cables that lack sufficient shielding causing displays to freak out due to the EMI produced by the compression cylinders on office chairs.
  12. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Most things sold as "8k cables" on Amazon are trash. You want "Ultra High Speed HDMI 2.1 Certified" cables. They must say certified, and ideally have a picture of the certificate logo in the listing.
  13. Mist

    For All Mankind

    It's got West Wing levels of talking, that's for sure.
  14. Mist

    For All Mankind

    Yeah, this season is just lame at this point, they need to put in characters we'd actually want to root for.
  15. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I bought one of these: And then I put in a dedicated, isolated ground circuit for my PC shit. Also, I never want to play games in the summer after working in that room all day anyway so it really doesn't matter lol.
  16. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    It ends at 64 because at 65 you become eligible for Medicare. The government still considers 65 the real retirement age despite the phased raising of the Social Security retirement age that occurred over the charted interval. It would be too hard to graph the analysis if the definition of...
  17. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    You actually just made his point. If total 'working age population' is basically flatlining, a situation that has never really occurred in living memory, and more boomers are retiring early due to enormous gains in the value of their home(s) and growth in their 401k over the past 30+ years, the...
  18. Mist

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  19. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    You're asking the wrong question. A recession is a period of negative GDP growth compared to previous quarters, something we are most likely already in, now that the Visible Hand of the Government is not actively stroking the market. A recession can have many causes, and many different...
  20. Mist

    Horizon 2: Forbidden West

    The only thing I didn't like about the game was the final mission, which was too short, too easy, anti-climactic, had none of the key gameplay elements of the rest of the game, introduced a major plot point for the next game as basically a throwaway, and overall just felt rushed and not...
  21. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I was thinking two small, slim-bezel monitors, stacked, off to one side of the main TV-sized monitor. Not sure what the best sizes would be.
  22. Mist

    For All Mankind

    This was recent and relevant: High speed collisions in the interstellar medium are unlikely to be an insurmountable problem. I would assume the last season of the show revolves around building some kind of generation ship, about who ends up on it, and why.
  23. Mist

    For All Mankind

    This show goes distinctly downhill in season 3 imo. No Gordo leaves the show without an everyman character to root for. Ed is a fucking asshole, Danny is annoying, Danielle is kind of a cunt, Ellen is totally one-dimensional as the president, Karen is a literal Karen. This leaves Margo, who...
  24. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    lol "only in relation to other fiat currencies" as opposed to crypto which is just going to the moon, right? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
  25. Mist

    The Orville

  26. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    I don't think this is true. The economy generally lags behind macro policy by ~18-24 months. As long as we don't keep doing dumb shit (big, unlikely if) this should be relatively close to the ground truth. It's not fundamentally or structurally broken, there's just way too much of it, which...
  27. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Well, I think everyone is just realizing that the market is doing the thing that markets are actually supposed to do, price-finding, despite all the fuckery that the US government/fed/world governments have done to distort them. Wages are finding their level, consumer prices are causing demand...
  28. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Womp.
  29. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    Yeah but 5800Xs are cheaper than 5700Xs when you actually go looking for them.
  30. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    Try hunting around for a good 5700X or 5800X combo. 8 cores is kinda important for some things.
  31. Mist

    Dall-E AI image generator

  32. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    That article is about using it as a TV. As a monitor, the 42 inch is definitely superior, due to the pixel density. But the price cuts on that C1 48 are pretty nuts right now.
  33. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Why would you get the older model? Here's the C2 42" reviewed as a monitor: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/lg/42-c2-oled
  34. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    That's the 2021 model, that didn't come in 42 inches.
  35. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    There's a 42 inch version too. There's also a 43 inch Samsung TV that can go to 144hz, and has built-in options to convert to an ultrawide format, and you can even move the black bars on the ultrawide format in case you want the image to run along the top or bottom rather than centered...
  36. Mist

    SWTOR

    That's a bunch of bullshit larp. That part about Excel makes no god damn sense, and neither does the 'transferring out currency' thing. MMO currency is just a value in a database, it's not a unique serialized asset or a blockchain.
  37. Mist

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    It's not a great monitor but the price is right: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16824012015?Item=N82E16824012015 https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/gigabyte/g27q