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automatic6131··on AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 CPUs: Up to 96 Zen 4 Cores for Workstations
That's Zen 4c, which I don't think is ready yet? I'm pretty sure 192c/384t* at ~4Ghz EPYC is on the way, although that might be a Zen 5c product (so... 2025, 26?)

*wow, core counts so big I found it slightly difficult to multiply by 2 in my head.

automatic6131··on What Caroline Ellison's Testimony in SBF Trial Says on Loneliness and Workplace
>I have college friends (not many, just 3 who I call close), and a family.

Plus people you share your hobbies with (if you have a social one). This is the way. I like who I work with, but I don't want to socialize with any of them, unless I'm being paid.

automatic6131··on AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 CPUs: Up to 96 Zen 4 Cores for Workstations
96 cores? Have they packed 12 (8-Core) CCDs into this? That's insane.
automatic6131··on Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users
> Stinks of manipulation.

Yeah, we're all paid by BIG FIAT to descredit crypto on a technical news comment site.

automatic6131··on Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users
You're literally suggesting turning hotel stays into speculative financial assets. This is, fundamentally, a really dumb idea. Whilst hotels do price sometimes unfairly, your suggestion where a selection of speculative traders engage in (at best) zero sum - and it doesn't even benefit the hotel providing the service. Just faceless traders.
automatic6131··on Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched
>I will tell anyone and everyone who will listen, don't have kids. It is not worth it. There is no law that requires people to have children. Let the idiots who don't understand this do all the child bearing and child rearing

You know you need those kids so you can retire, right? Idk, maybe you want to tap out code forever, but you're going to need farmers and cooks and doctors and plumbers and people to make your iPhone. I guess, everyone else can raise those people though right? Fuck them, they can pay and you can enjoy their children's labour, right?

automatic6131··on Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017)
Well, they're not exactly the focus of the book, I think the Affront have just three or four meaty scenes, but they maim, torture and sexually assault whomever they can, and regard it all as a bit of jolly good fun for all involved.
automatic6131··on The U.S. Government Has $5B in Bitcoin
Wow, it's 2023 and 1 (one) small country officially recognises it (and no one actually[1] uses it there, except for small tourist attractions), no companies accept it, and criminals don't even use it anymore.

[1] Number Go Up by Zeke Faux tries actually using BTC in El Salvdor. Many don't know how, some people tell him to leave, some try but it's strictly inferior to existing payment methods.

automatic6131··on The U.S. Government Has $5B in Bitcoin
Remember the wheeze that governments were going to use Bitcoin as the world's reserve currency? That was a good laugh.
automatic6131··on Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017)
I didn't say it wasn't great :)
automatic6131··on Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017)
>Not sure if Banks intended them to be

Given how the culture ambassador is rewarded by being given an Affront body so he can indulge in Affront culture on even terms, and that the Affront are basically psychopathic Bertram Wooster-types, Banks knew that there was some people couldn't help but love the Affront. Something in humans loves it. Like looking at a file of red wool coated infantry (btw, did you get that the Affront is coded for the British empire?) and thinking "yup, really cool".

automatic6131··on Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017)
>In the end, I didn’t love Use of Weapons,

Absolutely no surprises there. I've read the entire culture series several times. I've read every entry in it at least twice, some more than that. Except Use of Weapons. I only need to read about the "chair" once.

automatic6131··on Google’s dominance under siege: Antitrust trial threatens sweeping changes
Every new startup sends their capital to Google to buy ads for their business. You make a new product, want to sell, where do you go? Marketing. Facebook and Google are the two silverback gorillas in online advertising. So, still ads.
automatic6131··on 47 Anime for 47 Prefectures in Japan
>Summer Wars

Has any other director managed to get away with making the same film three times?

>A group of kids save the world via playing battle games in an ultra detailed 3D virtual world.

Now, is that Digimon (2000), Summer Wars (2008) or Belle (2021)?

automatic6131··on A BART seat-slashing gang that was part of an upholstery racket (2019)
>Can homeless Japanese set up a tent on a sidewalk in the heart of Tokyo?

Yes. I encountered a homeless person in the CBD of Tokyo, sleeping in the bushes of a (very small) divider between a main road. Almost totally hidden, by those bushes. With enough items to look like they'd been there a while.

automatic6131··on Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
>I wonder if we shouldn't just regularly redesign our foundations to be more robust and transparent to keep the whole system manageable.

Don't make me link Joel Spolsky's never do a rewrite.

automatic6131··on Experts warn Letby inquiry of misreading stats to explain 'suspicious' deaths
And she took home documents from several of those patients, which she'd have no ordinary reason to have fished out of the trash.
automatic6131··on Scientists discover the highest energy gamma-rays ever from a pulsar
That must have inspired Stephen Baxter's Flux, which is about artificial humans, living just inside the skin of a neutron star.
automatic6131··on WeWork Skips $95M in Interest Payments
> They provided something no one else did

Yes, they provided more office space for you on Softbank's dime. Funnily enough, this isn't sustainable.

Of course the model, broadly speaking, makes sense. There are loads of boring, CRE rental providers. e.g. Regus. Which never had valuations in the billions, nor billions of VC inflow to subsidise the offering. WeWork is piss poor execution on a thin margin business.

automatic6131··on One man’s quest to end cheating in virtual cycling
Pure cope. Mad cuz bad.
automatic6131··on The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
>The mentally ill, the junkies? You need services that give them a way out

For sure. But if you have limited resources, and sane, sober people will get a job and support themselves, feed themselves & keep their room clean and undestroyed, vs someone with "complex needs" who will do none of those things, when you have limited resources to work with, what will you choose? Help one ill person who will (potentially) harm others, (likely) harm the resources you give them, or five people who don't need the extra help?

It's heartless, but resources (for these services) ARE limited. Would you, could you, make a different one?

automatic6131··on EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access
I own a Ryzen gaming laptop with an aluminum/magnesium chassis (although, yes, plastic top). Yes, it has a discrete GPU, but it also has an FHD IPS panel. I deliberately chose against the 4k option I think existed, because a 4k 15" panel is like fitting wheels to a tomato
automatic6131··on ‘Mini-bombs’ blowing up the elbows of baseball’s top pitchers
>I don't see why athletes over say 30 can't do some mild oral steroids

Because you've never met an athlete, I guess. None of them would stop at "mild".

automatic6131··on The age of the grift shift
It's been called "late stage capitalism" for over 150 years now.
automatic6131··on The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary
Being on the other side of crypto's externalities (even if just for a hundred bucks or so) entitles me to this "guttural" reaction.
automatic6131··on The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary
"Proof of Space-time"

Oooh, what a fancy, high-falutin word for... writing bingo tickets to your SSD. Could more accurately be called "proof of bingo card", and then it doesn't infringe on actually interesting concepts, like relativistic physics.

I remember when the new of Chia caused SSD prices to spike around the time I was buying, in the speculative fever for free money. At least it crashed, causing the Chia miners to become irrelevant in the market. Too late for me, sadly, I was stuck paying 400% of current market prices.

Fuck Chia, fuck crypto nonsense.

automatic6131··on Experimental archaeologist tested out Stone-Age living on the Thames
The Thames as in the Thames where London, England is?

That's a very different river now to what it was in the stone age. I know it's practically a canal along many parts of it, especially upstream around Henley.

automatic6131··on Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
>Capitalism is objectively a failure too (in certain countries, e.g. the US)

For one, no country on earth has ever been Capitalist. The word itself is a Marxist word describing a system that worships capital, it's actually meant to be derogatory and sarcastic. Every western country today is a liberal democracy and follows Liberalism, where any one in particular lies on a spectrum from Capitalist to Communist is variable but only within a fairly small range.

Finally, only a wilful idiot could call the current US a "failure". Is it flawed, far from perfect, miserable for a large part of its population? Yes. But does it also deliver them from starvation, war and natural disaster? Yeah, mostly. Better than nearly all other systems. It could do better, maybe a lot better, but it's so far from "failure" it's quite laughable.

But besides from that, European-style social democracies (note, also liberalist) can only exist because the US exists to guarantee that you can be that way safely. And because advanced, rich nations are more profitable for the US to trade with.

automatic6131··on Third of Japan's 18-year-olds women may never have children: study
It's strange that other people will pay the burden of raising children that support your retirement.

You might think that your earning and savings supports your retirement, but no. It will be the next generation of workers that actualize it. Money is just unit of account, it by itself does not give you a retirement. Only working age, working people.

We've found ourselves in a very strange moral hazard. You spend your money to raise kids that will work to earn my savings in my retirement. Hopefully the state can afford your retirement too, but that's unlikely, because no one had children. Because this society sterilizes itself.

automatic6131··on The Age of the Clever Fool
Janan Ganesh has long been -one of- no, my favorite journalists. However, covering US politics isn't his strong suit.
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