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721.
by smolder 3y ago
Perhaps it was. Poe's law is tough.
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by smolder 3y ago
Regulatory capture is a term for a failure mode of representative government wherein a regulated entity amasses and uses political influence to get special treatment and other favors from the government. Your comment isn't even coheren
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by smolder 3y ago
Joking around tends to earn downvotes, and that's okay --preferable, even. Your approach is quite common, I think. I very often look at comments first, too, depending on the topic & source. The only time skipping the article is any
724.
by smolder 3y ago
It's still pretty strange to not have the css inlined.
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by smolder 3y ago
Reading the article is pure folly! They'll steal your IP address, inject silly JavaScript into your hypertext markup interpreter, render their text in unpleasing typefaces and suboptimal contrast, hold you ransom with cookie popups or
726.
by smolder 3y ago
I have seen good, dispassionate defenses of blockchain tech pop up in the comments here, but this argument has played out many times and it probably wears on people. Anyway, Namecoin seemed like a pretty nice use case, even if it didn'
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by smolder 3y ago
Yes, all that is true, and AMD has their PSP. ME and PSP represent the "locked-down" part of the x86 platform, running binary blobs that only the CPU makers have the capability to modify (in the absense of exploits.) Not unlike th
728.
by smolder 3y ago
You could spend 15 years cutting every corner imaginable as a self-professed genius 1-man engineering team until everything becomes unsustainable, feature work is impossible due to frequent fires, the business is faltering, and you can&#x
729.
by smolder 3y ago
Thanks for clarifying.
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by smolder 3y ago
There are several motivations for locking down x86. One of the biggest ones was DRM, the protected audio video path. The management engine on Intel also hosts TPM functionality, does some stuff with temperature sensing and fan control, and
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by smolder 3y ago
I can understand why you would take me for an apathetic non-participant given my cynical comment, but I do agree that there are well-meaning people trying to be more than cogs and I do try to discern the difference.
732.
by smolder 3y ago
Yeah, I understand the premise, but I would need to see a cost breakdown before I accept the claim that they needed significantly more money than they already got. Industry groups have a tendency to plead for handouts endlessly.
733.
by smolder 3y ago
> both ideologies have failed miserably. I think it's a mistake to view the two parties as representing two distinct ideologies, and further to believe either parties rhetoric about what constitutes their ideology. Most of the game
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by smolder 3y ago
> I don't even understand what you're arguing for. I don't really think they were arguing for anything, but there's a clue what they'd argue for right there in the bit you quoted "lowering costs for patients
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by smolder 3y ago
At any point, will any company say that they have sufficient funding, subsidies, etc.? ("You've given us enough, thank you!") Plainly, I don't believe they need or deserve that money merely because they have lobbyists&#x
736.
by smolder 3y ago
Your ISP controls the flow of traffic to many different networks. Speedtest is always on a fast connection to give you the big number. Meanwhile they may aggressively throttle traffic to 80% of the other networks. Fast.com is a better speed
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by smolder 3y ago
> the devs are on new flagship workstation-class devices, and the users on little edge devices This will continue to be true, I think. The vast majority of people buying threadripper machines at threadripper prices are those with serious
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by smolder 3y ago
You choose to hire off-duty police and don't have the same experience as the person who didn't choose to hire off-duty police... I'm positive that corruption like GP described is able to coexist with scenarios like yours wher
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by smolder 3y ago
Funny aside, we seem to have followed a similar upgrade path. Going back 1 further, mine was: Intel 2500k -> Intel 9700k -> AMD 7700x, with intent to get an AMD 8800X3D or something later, as it becomes available.
740.
by smolder 3y ago
The asymmetrical architecture in the 7950x3D unfortunately results in similar (but less extreme) issues to e-cores. Only one CCD has a big cache, while the other clocks higher. So, it can happen that processes which love the extra cache end
741.
by smolder 3y ago
Personally I'd much rather use a 7700x to not have to deal with asymmetrical cores. They perform close enough otherwise, I think with the 12900k having a minor edge in some tasks, including acting as a space heater. Also, 7700x buyers
742.
by smolder 3y ago
Besides this being ridiculous, I can't make sense of what "balance the prejudice" means. I'm not seeing evidence of prejudice against trees here, nor do I know what that would mean. Someone prejudged that the tree was up
743.
by smolder 3y ago
In my area it's more like 1Gbps down and 30Mbps up, which is very frustrating. That's only the tip of my iceberg of complaints about Comcast here. (A competition-free market, of course.)
744.
by smolder 3y ago
Asymmetrical connections got more asymmetrical over time, limiting the utility of upload and shaping use of the internet (in most of the US) into more of a content portal or cable tv-like experience than it might otherwise be. I don't
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by smolder 3y ago
My guess is that they prefer people to be doing download heavy tasks and not upload.
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by smolder 3y ago
There's plenty of writing on the topic of privacy being essential to a functioning democracy.
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by smolder 3y ago
Graduation rates don't actually reflect on the quality of education, I don't think, unless you're controlling for a lot of other variables. I don't typically see people controlling for them, e.g. a politician might brag
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by smolder 3y ago
I don't think Mr. Jobs actually knew carpentry and may have meant a different kind of material when he said plywood.
749.
by smolder 3y ago
Plywood is actually pretty nice. I'm confused. Are people talking about particle board?
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by smolder 3y ago
I suspect that people are somehow predisposed to interpreting the result of failed memory formation by a brain-in-dire-straights as having looked upon themselves. It could be a quirk of how memory/congition works, or it could be cultur

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