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Valmaron Intel delays 10nm Cannon Lake processors, again, until late 2019

It's more one kind of apple to another.

They're both process nodes, with certain minor-ish differences here and there. TSMC calls theirs 7 nm, Intel calls theirs 10 nm.

Their performance characteristics might be around the same. In practice... who knows. We do know that Intel's current 10 nm CPUs are pretty much broken ~ best they could currently do was useless laptop-grade 2.5 GHz dual-core with no functional iGPU. Not sure about the HT, though.

Valmaron Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression

The many, unpredictable, and very real, negative side effects of anti-depressants can completely outweigh any of the dubious positives, especially when it's impossible to tell which of dozen or so available marketed drugs will or will not have a greater slew of said effects. It's a nasty game of Russian Roulette which can potentially make the depression far worse than if the sufferer decided to err on the side of caution, and not take them at all.

The negatives have affected many people, and who knows just how many and even how bad the side effects are for people.

Being driven over the edge, to suicide, is horrifying effect of some of the drugs. Others have gone on killing sprees because the drugs drove them insane, while taking them or from the withdrawal effects.

Valmaron Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression

For many people, they believe that it is the final solution, because that is how it is advertized by the drug companies and psychiatrists, and how it is marketed to many doctors. That is how most end up people treating the drug.

The drugs themselves don't actually offer very much. It is the belief that they're working, the placebo effect, that makes them seem to offer relief. Eventually, many negative side effects will rear their ugly heads... and the cycle goes on. They then switch to a different drug or withdraw completely, suffering the negatives along the way, only worsening their mental health.

It's better to not start using the drugs at all, but instead engage with regular face-to-face social connections and a healthy lifestyle of healthy nutrition, more exercise, meditation, socializing, etc. This way, one does not have to deal with any of the potential negatives of the drugs.

Valmaron Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression

Not on their own, obviously.

They must be combined with a decent helping of psychotherapy.

Combined with psychotherapy, I'd say they're superior to drugs, because they don't mess with the body in hard-to-measure ways. A healthy lifestyle lets the body adjust itself naturally.

Valmaron Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression

> if they see evidence of improvement after 8 weeks, that's quite different from having no evidence of improvement at all.

There may show that there are short-term improvements, but it says nothing about the medium to long-term effects on depression.

It's therefore worthless for being able to perceive any of the longer-term negative side effectives of the drugs.

It almost seems like a study that the drug companies would find as favourable advertizing for their drugs. It makes me suspicious that it may have been funded by drug company money.

Valmaron Home insulation in China blamed for rise in emissions of ozone-depleting gas

Makes a lot of sense to me.

Valmaron Physics Needs Philosophy. Philosophy Needs Physics

Well, an obvious example is the NDE phenomena, majority of the time accompanied by an OBE ~ person's heart stops, they have an OBE NDE, and directly experience themselves explicitly outside of their lifeless body.

This is an experience that many people have had, and yet, because of its nature, it cannot be tested with the same tools used in the physical sciences.

And yet, because it cannot be poked, prodded or easily tested as with matter and physics, the reductionist materialists claim it cannot exist, denying the experiences of thousands of people, most arrogantly at that.

And yet, many NDE experiencers have produced veridical proof that they were indeed consciousness, detached from their body.

Valmaron Physics Needs Philosophy. Philosophy Needs Physics

If physics removes itself even further from philosophy... it will slowly become a cesspool of rigid dogma, becoming blind to reality. Physics, as it is, is already lost in a jungle of abstractions, becoming more and more divorced from the real world.

Mathematical models are simply not equal to real world, even if we use models in an attempt to approximate, so that we can do useful things. Mathematics can never truly model reality. The best it can do is a caricature, and not the real thing.

Without solid philosophy to guide the scientists who drive the scientific institutions, the sciences fall stagnant, because it is philosophy that is the very bedrock and lifeblood of the scientific endeavour, in all fields. Without philosophy, that endless hunt and search for meaning and understanding, we lose our way.

Valmaron How Posture Makes Us Human

I agree. :)

Valmaron Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (2015)

> glucose store will empty relatively quickly, and once that’s used up the body will start breaking down the amino acids in muscle tissue and converting it to glucose.

Not quite true.

The body can convert fat into glucose, just like protein, through the process of gluconeogenesis. If I'm not wrong, the body will usually only start breaking down muscle if there's no fat it can make use of.

So, someone on a lower-carb, decent protein, high healthy-fat diet will probably have far greater energy than on the usual high-carb, high bad-fat diet. Likely won't have hunger pangs at all, and won't burn out as quickly as the junk food carb-fat-loader.

A diet for hunter-gatherers, and Eskimos. And people who want consistent, constant energy through the week. :)

Valmaron The hell that is filename encoding (2016)

Ummm... problem is, Windows is used by a ton of people.

Break their workflow, and said peoples will hate you.

So... UTF-16 in Windows Hell, and UTF-8 everywhere else that is actually sane.

Valmaron TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips

How so?

The numbers don't seem to have much relation at all with all of the real process node numbers.

Valmaron TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips

Even Intel's numbers are just marketing, however.

Everyone is fudging the numbers...

SemiWiki has a good overview of Intel 10nm vs GF 7nm:

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/7191-iedm-2017-intel-...

Valmaron TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips

Intel's nm numbers are also pure marketing, I believe.

Valmaron Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes

LSD or any psychedelic, can make the user more sensitive the energies that we normally cannot sense. Non-humans seem more sensitive to these energies than we are, whether because their stronger senses allow them to notice what we cannot, or whether they have better intuition than we do, because they're not taught to subconsciously disregard it as fantasy, delusion or coincidence, etc.

Valmaron Fuchsia is not Linux

Well, if you're comparing Linux and Windows' kernel specifically, they seem about the same, if everything we know about Windows' kernel is true.

Valmaron Fuchsia is not Linux

Qt isn't quite the same as vanilla C++, however.

Valmaron Mythology About Security

A pity that the Mir devs didn't really have any experience or deep knowledge of the Linux graphics stack...

It took the X11 devs, many of whom were also involved in Mesa and Linux graphics development, literally years just to get all of the necessary plumbing in place in order to replace what X11 was previously doing.

These developments help not only X11 or Wayland, but make the development of a newer, superior protocol to X11 and Wayland much easier, because the hard yards have been done for them.

It also makes it easier for those who might want to transition from Wayland to a hypothetical superior protocol.

Valmaron Mythology About Security

I wonder if there will be a successor to Wayland and X11 that learns from the mistakes of both?

Can't always make wise improvements if you don't first make awful mistakes that weren't properly considered in practice.

Valmaron Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This?

Are those even hacks, though? They seem more like just how it is.

Are these limits necessary? Maybe these limits are just part of the nature of how matter functions, rather than being mere hacks.

We understand so damn little of this physical universe that we are in no position to say much, if anything, about it's true nature and origins.

Valmaron IPv6 Excuses

For me, the turn off was that any ipv6 connection on Linux was ALWAYS slow as hell to resolve, often leading to timeouts. Tore my hair out for ages, only to discover after much frustration and searching online that the solution was as simple as disabling the kernel's ipv6 module.

With ipv4, never had a problem.

Valmaron Elephant 'smoking' footage baffles experts

> "entirely against nature"

I guess I find his statement ridiculous, because it seems quite natural for some to enjoy smoking, and others to not. It is therefore definitely not "entirely against nature". It's merely that what happens in reality didn't correlate with his beliefs.

Smoking tobacco was a routine cultural thing in the Americas before the Europeans came along.

Valmaron Elephant 'smoking' footage baffles experts

Jaguars in the Amazon rainforest are known to consume leaves of the Caapi vine to get high, because it seems to improves their ability to hunt effectively.

The Caapi vine is also the main ingredient in the psychedelic Ayahuasca brew drunk by the Amazonian shamans.

Valmaron HardOCP – Nvidia GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice

https://twitter.com/HardOCP/status/975730763512668160

> Well, to be fully transparent, I am not sure we are currently in a position to do any follow-up as NVIDIA has gone dark on GPP along with nearly every contact we have in the industry on this topic. Certainly we struck a nerve. Like the OEMs, I guess cutting off $ hits home.

Also, AMD Reddit thread with info on extra developments on this concerningly anti-competitive and anti-consumer set of events:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/85n378/nvidia_gpps_fir...

Also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/85n378/nvidia_gpps_fir...

> The twitter for gigabyte changed to Auros

> https://twitter.com/GigabyteUK/status/955776386068811776

> So does this mean they wont even advertise AMD products now? what a shit show.

Valmaron Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition

I was deliberately vague, because this is an individual thing. I was never dismissing nutrition science...

I swear some people just downvote without even trying to understand what I'm trying to convey... then again, maybe I could have explained a little better.

Valmaron Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition

> Animal proteins are inflammatory, as they contain sulfur based amino acids. So meat is going to inflame.

> Finally out intestine is too long, and not acidic enough to meat, it may rot in our intestine causing inflammation.

These claims don't even seem remotely scientific, lol.

Valmaron Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition

> It's not possible to eat a Paleo diet today, as the plants and animals that existed in paleolithic times no longer exist today. Natural and artificial selection has changed our food supply so drastically that the foods available today are almost completely unrecognizable compared to their Paleolithic ancestors.

A modern day Paleo diet is merely about eating as closely to natural foods as possible, eating those foods optimal for our individual health, and cutting out all processed junk foods.

Simple. It is certainly based in reality, much more so than the dogma of Veganism.

Valmaron Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition

> A true paleo diet is mostly plant based anyway. Paleo man just didn't have access to three giant portions of meat a day. Only modern industrial agriculture has made that possible.

Not true ~ there is no "true" paleo diet ~ it varies vastly from culture to culture. Look at the Eskimos ~ their traditional diet was mostly animal, high in nutrients, protein, fat, and sugar in the form of glycogen, and very little in the way of plants. Then in other tribal cultures, they may subsist mostly on plant foods.

There's no One, True Diet. Veganism is actually rather unhealthy, because it excludes foods which contain highly bioavailable forms of nutrients not found in plant foods ~ Omega 3s, iron, etc.

An animal-based diet isn't unhealthy ~ it can be the most nutritious of all. Organ meats are extremely nutritious.

An animal-based diet isn't the problem ~ modern human societies run by greedy corporations and governments are, because they have created and supported the problems of animal abuse, because it is profitable.

> The modern "paleo" diet loaded with animal fat and protein is a modern invention that serves mostly to help people rationalize their taste preferences.

Bullshit. Paleo isn't all about fat and protein. That's keto. Paleo can be full of healthy carbs.

Valmaron Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition

What about a diet with completely unprocessed meats and plants? Basically, a diet entirely devoid of processed foods?

I bet that would be equally anti-inflammatory, and be good for heart health.

Valmaron Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition

> Established wisdom

> eat mostly (or entirely) plants

So, Veganism is "established wisdom". More like unproven dogma...

A paleo diet is far more supportive of overall health. What that looks like for the individual is really down to them discovering what their body prefers, in terms of nutrients, carbs, fats and protein.

A paleo diet can be mostly veges, mostly meat, and anywhere in between.