* Posts by nintendoeats

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Intel cuts some workers’ pay to fund its future

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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.

Landlord favorite Twitter sued for allegedly not paying rent on Market Square HQ

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Re: It's an asian thing

That is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more people care, the less corpos/governments can get away with.

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I already have one program that does everything. It's called a web browser, and I'm already pretty cagey about that.

Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever

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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 This machine has a 1070 in it, so it's hardly outdated.

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Re: Maybe consumers are getting smart???

The sucky thing is, if they made "Windows 7 with security patches and backend improvements", I would absolutely pay for it.

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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).

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Re: Low specs have stagnated for over a decade

To me, the machine you describe is not low-mid...it's just low.

Up it to 8 GB RAM, exclude celeron, spec at least 256GB SSD, I'd call that low-mid spec.

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Re: Planned obsolescence

As far as portable devices, it's already been invented and it's called a battery :/

After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment

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Re: If it's not x86 it's not Intel

Yes, I was being glib. I did not say that I personally believe those architectures were designed to fail.

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Re: If it's not x86 it's not Intel

Are you suggesting that APX and Itanium were deliberately shit?

Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR

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Re: Spoof

Requisite: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/baggy-pantsing.html

Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs

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Re: 50% not needed...

That's *insert social media platform here*

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Re: 50% not needed...

If you go by tiktok videos, black is white and feeding ducks causes cancer.

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I'm quite sure we know average = "mean" in this context.

Twitter tweaks third-party app rules to ban third-party apps

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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

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Re: That sort of explains things...

Unihertz phones with 3.5mm jacks also do radio.

I swear, I don't work for Unihertz. I just really like my Titan Pocket.

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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

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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.

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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...)

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Re: "CAMM will allow 128GB of memory at DDR5/4800"

What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away.

I was reasonable to ask to WFH in early days of COVID, says fired engineer

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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

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Re: Stretching It A Bit, But.....

Yup. I was just looking at replacing the battery in girlfriendoeats' phone yesterday. Absolute nightmare, requires a heat gun. She has zero desire to replace it, but the battery is no longer viable.

Microsoft to offer unlimited time off for US staff

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I was thinking about this over Christmas. In order to meet the visitation demands of my parents, take the random days off one needs to take care of things in life, and actually have time off for myself, I would need at least 5 weeks off. Looks like my mother is never going to get off my case.

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Challenge for corporations: If this is not about reducing the amount of PTO that people take, then include liability terms in the contract: guarantee that workers will receive a minimum PTO for a given year, and provide 1.5x hourly compensation if that isn't met.

What goes up must come down: Logitech sales tumble amid PC slump

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Re: This is not news

"Things are actually progressing as expected" is news. We are converting a prediction to an observed fact. That's important.

Years late and 36 cores short of AMD, who are Intel’s 4th-gen Xeons even for?

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Re: NSP

Obligatory jargon file entry: http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html

The era of cloud colonialism has begun

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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

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We have a product which is basically a camera and a passively cooled computer in one box.

Previous version: smart camera.

New version, just updated specs: Deep learning edge IoT device.

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Lawyer mom barred from Rockettes show by facial recognition tech

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Re: You see me, I see money

That protects them...what about the next 18 gazillion times?

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Big Brother

What can we do to tell these companies that this kind of thing is unacceptable on the deepest philisophical level? I can't boycott them any harder.

Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch

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Re: No, I don't think so.

They make cables for that you know...

OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty to $4 billion fraud

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Re: Sigh

Yes, you are right, I forgot about the difference between a pyramid scheme and a ponzi scheme.

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Re: "an MLM scheme"

MLMs are a ponzi scheme, with a thin venere of actual product on top to hide the fact that the whole thing is rotting from the bottom up.

When we asked how you crashed the system we wanted an explanation not a demonstration

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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

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Re: Keep spreading the FUD

Maybe you should take a second look at the thread tree friend.

What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations?

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I use Mipspro. Of course it's not useful for compiling modern OSS projects (since it still lives in the late 90s), but it's perfectly good for tooling around. https://archive.org/details/software?query=mipspro

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Re: The "problem" was...

In fairness, Nortel went out of business because of massive corruption and mismanagement.

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Re: Indy over O2

That was a generous gift then.

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Re: Indy over O2

I don't think you were supposed to :p

I like the O2 technically, especially all the real-time video stuff. Unfortunately I've found mine to be less reliable than the Indy, and the plastic case just...dissolves...

TikTok could be banned from America, thanks to proposed bipartisan bill

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Re: Missing the Forest for the Trees

Have you used youtube without the algorithm? Some filtering is appreciated >_>

But yeah, it's a very complicated issue. There are lots of questions of political philosophy and practicality that have to be balanced very carefully.

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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.

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Which is why GDPR is such a problem for American companies...but even if they both do the bad thing, doesn't mean it isn't a bad thing. And while I can absolutely blame the Americans for spying on their own people, I can't blame them for wanting to prevent another country from doing so.

SEC charges crew of social media influencers with $100m fraud

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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

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Re: It's life like!

Yup, all you can see is clothing and a fairly convincing wig. I hope I would have called the police if I saw that.

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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.

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Re: Well done to the officers involved

Yes, that's obviously not appropriate. But of course, we don't know what that actually means.

Musk roundly booed on-stage at Dave Chappelle gig

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Re: " Maybe it's just that he's not as popular as he thinks he is."

In fairness, he probably paid somebody to do it.

I'm concerned that as much as he has done many things that are sue-able, any action against him will be viewed as political. Institutions may choose not to act for that reason.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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