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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I don’t specifically know Intel’s thinking, but the usual conclusion from CPU designers is that decimal instructions are so rarely used that it’s not worth allocating silicon budget to them.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
You are disengaged from consensus reality if you don’t understand why thinking the 2020 election was in any way fraudulent is an extreme view.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Regular posting of antisemitic memes on Twitter is pretty extreme
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
He was never a tech titan. He’s always been a racist emerald mine heir who lied his way into everything. You really need to read this book to get your head adjusted properly on Musk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicr
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Tesla is certainly a solid memestock. It’s hard to say whether they have a solid business. If they dumped Musk, the stock would crash and they would have to install competent governance instead of continuously gaming the system. But that wo
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
They can’t make decisions on that basis, because they’re only good for the next two years; Republicans are very likely to lose the House in 2026. Assuming anything resembling the current structure of the world holds together at all.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
No, it is not. Whatever their other failings, Apple doesn’t think that way. The cynical reason: consider that you can’t plan engineering features of this scale without written documentation, which will always surface in court. The prima fac
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
People not working? WTF? It's the direct result of deregulation/self-regulation of the food chain. When the inspectors work for the food processing company, they don't have an incentive to find problems. You'd think comp
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
This is getting way off topic, but Biden is a centrist. The idea that he’s a lefty socialist is a political cudgel the right wing has swung at every Democratic prez candidate since 1988; it’s getting more traction in recent years as the med
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
It's never the latter until the current crop of high school students graduate. Most students couldn't have used it until 2022; it didn't exist.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
ISTR those of us using HP or Apple printers were generally in pretty good shape at the time. Can’t vouch for other brands.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Yes. Focus is about saying “no.” None of the Copland management or marketing people ever said “no”. So instead of just porting the Mac toolbox to C and a microkernel and shipping that as a first step, it had to have a new filesystem API (so
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I don’t remember the exact number, but BeOS was too incomplete at the time to spend what they were asking, and maybe to purchase at all. There was no way to print documents, which still mattered a lot for a desktop OS in 1996. It needed a l
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I think “slightly improved” and “fresh paint” undersells the work Apple did. Replacing the NeXTstep Display PostScript server wasn’t a small thing!
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Apple published a book about it: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/524838
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Nope, women are getting less conservative and this applies to them too. > Conservatives generally have more negative attitudes to drug use That is categorically false. I think it would be interesting to look at whether the rate of physic
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
The MacBook choices today seem relatively clear? - Pro if you need maximum CPU/GPU power. - Air if you want something lightweight and don't need the "Pro" level CPU/GPU power If you're only doing email/web
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Keep in mind the 9500 (and 9600) and 8500 were at or near the top of the line and relatively easy to figure out. If that and the 7000 had been the only things Apple shipped, fine. The problem was the 4000/5000/6000 range, and Perf
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
that said, there's not really a lot here, so I'm not sure what anyone would take issue with
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
You shouldn't. This is what hardware people always say, and then when the result is an unmaintainable mess, they want software people to bail them out.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Also, there are going to be endless, endless lawsuits on everything, because everything they do is going to violate either the Constitution or existing US law. I'm not sure how much that will slow them down.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Unclear. They're not going to be consistent or competent, and the intent of everything they do will be to either part out the government to their friends, weaponize the US government against perceived enemies. And they might reward peo
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
*imply
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I think I can count the number of routers assembled in the US today on zero fingers. Some TP-Links are not great -- get a first gen C7, IIRC.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Arguably impoverishing the students, too. The impulse to pander to keep both the kids and parents interested is too strong, I guess.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
my favorite was letterman's non-sequitur: "How 'bout some defective Pentium salsa to go with those defective Pentium chips?"
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I think you may be thinking of a different game? There’s nothing that really plays like Control. You can even nerf the shooting difficulty entirely if you want — I don’t personally like the combat particularly, but it isn’t the primary thi
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
There isn't a hurdle here. These problems are fundamental to the technology. If you told me 20 years ago that you could, by connecting a nuclear power plant to a virtually infinite number of GPUs, produce a machine capable of predictin
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Have you really not talked to anybody in real life about this? This is a case where the online reaction matches IRL. I've never seen such universal adulation across the spectrum. Everybody in the USA's been fucked, knows someone w
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
there's a reason the Claims Adjuster is a folk hero

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