To extend this idea, it's interesting to consider that the "intel 14nm++++++++++++" running gag was funny at the time, but we are now really seeing its effects. One suspects that if heavy machinery hadn't been such a disaster for AMD, Intel might actually be in better shape today since they would have felt the pressure to stop competing on process advantage earlier.
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Intel cuts some workers’ pay to fund its future
Landlord favorite Twitter sued for allegedly not paying rent on Market Square HQ
Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever
Re: Planned obsolescence
Forget thin and light...my friend gave me his ~5 year old gaming laptop which is no lightweight, and I bought a "new" battery for it. Only problem is, obviously all the batteries were done in one run so the new battery is only barely better than the old one. This machine has a 1070 in it, so it's hardly outdated.
Re: I have actually updated recently, but from really old machines
Similar story here. The machine at work has to compile so I'm happy for them to upgrade that thing whenever possible. However, I connect to it with a Sandy Bridge CPU (motherboard from a jukebox unusually). I also have a passively cooled Zima board in the workshop, which is perfectly fine for anything I need to do down there. The only PC I personally keep with decent hardware is my main desktop, and that's only because I use it for games (and sometimes a graphics development side-project).
After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment
Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR
Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs
Twitter tweaks third-party app rules to ban third-party apps
Re: Why should they feel obligated to refund anyone?
Another possibility is that they are in fact not liable to refund people (and maybe even know that fact), but are now in a PR conundrum. If lots of people ask for refunds, they either deny the claim or take the hit to save face. Given that they now need to switch business model, it's not a good time to be pissing people off. Thus, they may be trying to split the difference by minimizing the number of refund requests that are submitted in the first place (thus allowing them to get the PR win of fulfilling those requests).
Time to buy a phone as shops use discounts to clear out inventories
Re: That sort of explains things...
Unihertz doesn't make anything that ticks all those boxes, but they DO make a phone under 140mm in length: https://www.unihertz.com/products/atom-l
And then the Jelly and regular Atom which are silly small: https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-2 and https://www.unihertz.com/products/atom
The sticking point seems to be the dual-sim + microsd, since I think all of their dual-sim designs are hybrid sim-microsd.
JEDEC reportedly set to formalize Dell laptop memory standard
Re: "CAMM will allow 128GB of memory at DDR5/4800"
There are workloads that expand to fill the memory available. Simulation, compilation, servers, whatever you like.
Nothing my mother does on her computer should be one of those workloads. Yet, she can exhaust 8 GB of RAM. It's madness.
I want to upgrade my computer so that it does more or works faster, not just so I can keep up with the software.
Re: "CAMM will allow 128GB of memory at DDR5/4800"
Games generally get a pass for me. While there are certainly exceptions, there are very smart people who work hard to keep them running as fast as possible. Most games also have to target at least one console, so there are always going to be devs working to do as much as possible on a fixed set of hardware.
I'm also pretty sure that most of the memory consumption of games is from uncompressed assets. They have to be uncompressed to be fast, so there you are.
But if you don't play games, it is pretty insane that the current standard is 16 GB. I'm looking at you webdevs with your bloody Electron for a start (ship a whole browser just to run a single glorified web page...)
I was reasonable to ask to WFH in early days of COVID, says fired engineer
I think that last comment is a dangerous precedent. We all know that it takes a lot of activation energy to raise these issues, since there is so much risk of personal loss. While I probably would have quit after seeing that kind of thing (and let HR know why), I also understand why somebody would just grin and bear it. But if he has already paid the cost of being fired, might as well hold the company to account.
Half of environmental claims about products are full of crap, says EU
Microsoft to offer unlimited time off for US staff
What goes up must come down: Logitech sales tumble amid PC slump
Years late and 36 cores short of AMD, who are Intel’s 4th-gen Xeons even for?
The era of cloud colonialism has begun
Re: So... What's your solution?
Because after WWII the UK declared the programmable electronic computer a state secret, effectively preventing people who had worked on it from developing and commercializing the concept (Tommy Flowers famously failed to recieve capital funding because people didn't believe such a thing was possible, even though he had literally designed and built one to beat the Nazis).
Then they gave the idea to the Americans, who were only too happy to do so. Thus, the European computing industry started 20 years behind the American one as far as investment and has spent the last half century struggling to catch up.
It's time to retire 'edge' from our IT vocabulary
Lawyer mom barred from Rockettes show by facial recognition tech
Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch
OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty to $4 billion fraud
When we asked how you crashed the system we wanted an explanation not a demonstration
Re: layout
Two points
1. If that was the worst thing a media company ever did, I wouldn't need to drink.
2. Most news articles are written with the "inverted pyramid" style, meaning that the newest info is at the top, with the article becoming more about context and detail as you go. So, halfway through the article, the reader may be ready to move on to something else because they've got the gist of the current article. Obviously this doesn't apply to all article styles, but if they have one layout for all articles well...you can fill it in for yourself.
To the Banmobile! Huawei inks deal to create global high-end automotive brand
What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations?
TikTok could be banned from America, thanks to proposed bipartisan bill
Re: Missing the Forest for the Trees
Not that I disagree with any of this, but I do feel that a foreign government specifically directing the presentation of conspiracy theories (even if it's just by promoting the right user-generated-content) is a lot more concerning that conspiracy theories cropping up naturally on a platform.
Totally agree about privacy protections. They are a human right, let's make them civil.
SEC charges crew of social media influencers with $100m fraud
Good
Sometimes I catch a glimpse of people promoting specific types of trading on youtube, and it's the sketchiest thing. They are targetting people who trust them, and who do not have the tools to understand the risks and potential for manipulation. That's not a criticism of the victims; I also do not have most of those tools because I ALSO learned most of what I know about the finance industry from youtube.
London cops break into gallery to rescue lifelike art installation
Re: Ahaaaaaa!
I don't think the dadaism is new.
(Cue an art historian telling me about some much older movement of deliberately "offensive" art.)
If somebody can be annoyed by a work of art, particularly one that does not express an ideology, then I think that kind of makes the person worthy of annoying. Trying to coat the world in leather and all that.
Musk roundly booed on-stage at Dave Chappelle gig
Re: One of the rare times he escaped his own reality bubble recently
Sorry, I had time to stew on it. I realized I was distracted and missed the whole point of what he was saying. The vaccine achieves two things for your personal safety:
1. It reduces the PROBABILITY of contracting the disease.
2. It reduces the IMPACT of contracting the disease.
So if you are vaccinated, you are not just less likely to become infected, but if you become infected you are less likely to die. So the statement "if you have the vaccine you don't need to worry about getting infected" is strongly true, as even if you do get infected the odds of you suffering more than mild symptoms are low.
So it is neither a lie, nor is it misleading.
Re: One of the rare times he escaped his own reality bubble recently
I think you wrote too many words. Let me try.
Hate and fear are powerful forces for both uniting and engaging people. Politicians, the media, and commenters know this and have a tendency to promote icons of hate to achieve unity of a group under their own banner. Thus, if an individual is being cast as a hate-sink, consider whether the dislike of that person (or what they represent) is being promoted out of genuine concern, or out of a hidden desire to convince you to subconsciously identify with a group that the speaker has influence over.
Re: One of the rare times he escaped his own reality bubble recently
Sure, but that's a far cry from "the lies of Faucci". He had to repeat the same message thousands of times, and in that instance he used wording which was technically true (he said you can feel safe that you won't get infected, not that you absolutely won't) but wasn't quite as clean as his standard wording. I think whether you read anything into that has a lot more to do with where you are starting from than from anything he said.
If he had said "If you get vaccinated, I personally guarantee that you will not get infected", that would have been both weird and dishonest. But that's not what he said. The seatbelt example is right on point. "If you wear a seatbelt, you can feel save that you will not die in a collision". Doesn't mean it won't happen, but does mean that you should be much less worried about it.