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I'm American and I don't know what it means either. I assume burning a barn is bad? I expect not a lot of overlap between the audience of the article and people
by bagels 5y ago
I'm American and I don't know what it means either. I assume burning a barn is bad? I expect not a lot of overlap between the audience of the article and people knowledgeable about agriculture idioms.
- oblio 5y agoApparently it's good (at least in the sense they're using here). Which is extremely counterintuitive.
- kube-system 5y agoIt's a sports colloquialism. It means 'exciting'. Someone may say "the game was a real barn burner", meaning that it was exciting and competitive. Ars is saying that Alder Lake is an excitingly competitive CPU.