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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Well. I think x86 is dead and Intel just doesn't know it yet. Might take a decade for them to realise. Intel as a business? Maybe as a design house they will struggle to catch up. As a foundry? If they do not catch up with the amount o
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
AMD does ARM stuff and has had plenty of time to get it right. Intel has had, what, three, four bites of the RISC cherry? They've owned big chunks of the ecosystem Apple now exists in. Evidently one of their pitches involves RISC-V and
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> They won't act on it for your regular employees because it costs them money to do so and developers _routinely_ jump ship, though they want you to know that they technically have the power to because you signed that contract. This
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I agree. I mean, more than four years earlier than Jan 6th 2021, David Frum wrote that when Republican voters understand they can no longer win by democratic means (that is, once they become a clear minority), they wouldn't reject the
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Right. Trump didn't think the 6th insurgents would succeed. He had clearly been advised that the reaction to it might allow him to institute marshal law, and there was a draft executive order floating around that would have seen him
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> When January 6 happened, it was a shock. A shock in the sense of a systemic shock, sure. In the sense of a surprise to observers, no. Not really. Certainly should not have been a shock at all to anyone paying any sort of attention fro
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
What it sounds like is a company that screwed up, offended someone who was easily upset, made that person panic, confronted him, made it worse, and then used company policies that are only necessary in the USA to stop him returning in case
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Salt? I've fully grasped that he is rich. Though he is not, actually, $43bn liquid rich, at all; he's going to need to sell chunks of his other businesses to do this. That potentially means handing over significant influence over
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
"Elon Musk's raging narcissism launches all-out $43B assault on his credibility and fortune" Without any understanding that the his right-wing narcissistic suppliers who rage in public about being prevented from raging in pub
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> "You ran 15km before breakfast? You bloody mentalist" "You carried on drinking even after I left? Mentalist" Well some of this I include under high-risk social behaviour I suppose. But it's a good observation.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Side note: the word "mentalist" is widely-used London (maybe South-East London) slang for nutter/weirdo/unhinged person; the kind of person who is unpredictably or disproportionately angry, violent or prone to high-ris
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Not always. One part of Derren Brown's act involves getting people to say things that aren't true at all -- playing with suggestibility in groups and cohesiveness. Like, he'll do a quickfire guessing thing, going through audi
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> Bob Woodward has gotten PLENTY of high level politicians to talk to him candidly even though he's publishing what they are saying often in an unflattering light. Woodward is absolutely one of the few exceptions, if not the only
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
All of western movie history would have us believe that there's the official limit on paper, and then there's the real limit in practice that Grigori, the underfed, overtired engineer-who-probably-shouldn't-be-smoking-around-
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
This is simultaneously funny and also somehow deep-down true. No idea if it happened in this case because this is the first I've read about it, but it has always struck me that the websites of campaigners get progressively worse as the
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Controls your stuff. Take only what you need from it. (do-do-do-do do-de-do-do, dooo-dooo) Sorry, silly music/lyrics joke. But it seems to be a scripting-focussed alternative to Puppet and Ansible, at least from what I can see. So, rem
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> Some HN thought leaders declared Bitcoin a tulip bubble when the price was 1000x smaller than it is now. I don't know that I understand the point you're making. The fundamentals of Bitcoin haven't changed, and it is wors
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> The community. 100% this. A basket of deplorables.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I really hope David is absolutely certain of everything he says. I have learned not to be surprised about anything to do with web3, but if there's the slightest error in here they will rip him apart in the British courts. (Though that
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
It intrigues me that as time goes on, Jim Carrey will become better known for arty seriousness than for the box-office smash gurning that got him to the screen from late night talk show comic slots. Like the opposite of Leslie Nielsen: a ma
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Mm, but Ebert is now decades into the past, isn't he. I think critics are generally aligning better with audience understanding. It's ironic that Ebert misunderstood a film like Fast Times , considering he co-wrote a film with bl
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> Is that a good criteria for whether a film is good or not. I don't rewatch films as a rule but I do sometimes rewatch films with people who have not seen that film. There are films like Dancer In The Dark , Grave Of The Fireflie
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> For instance, Taken gets 59% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a hugely important and impactful film. It basically spawned/revived a whole subgenre of action film. A fair number of critics looked down on that film because it
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Thank you for this. Part of the problem with the cynical view of charities that you're responding to is that if it goes unchallenged, it actually becomes practically impossible to help charities improve their charitable efficiency. If
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> Though it adds another small question: aren’t/weren’t most public schools severely Anglican? Yes -- implicitly. (sidebar: I am not sure that, when public schools really first sprang up, it was even possible to educate people of Je
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
There is no "jack shit" about the Raspberry Pi Foundation's charitable status. It's really not in question. They've even relatively recently split the business in two (Foundation and Trading Company) to further prot
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Run by -- and for -- the public not by/for the church. The state did not run schools when these were established. It's much older than that as a term.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Yes -- but also all "Public" schools were not "Church" schools. Basically there is a time when education was almost exclusively monastic; those who were not taught privately were taught by religious institutions. The pub
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I tend to mischievously misapply the word "Challenging" to movies I think shouldn't have been made because they expose the bigotry of their audience. Like all the Taken movies, or A Boy And His Dog , or anything Steven Sea
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> Keep in mind that most of the foreign films that you can find with subtitles tend to be among the best films the country has ever produced, or the ones that fit their cultural climate the best. This is really not true from what I can s

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