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InverseParallax

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  • TIL about the differences between flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict

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  • It wasn't ejected, if left under its own power while under nominal command of the mcrn. The ship was not declared a loss until they... Lossed it.

    The fact the mcrn commander died would mean it remained mcrn, but he made authorized the crew, so when he died it became theirs, up to his authority as a commanding officer of the mcrn.

    However, he was not a flag officer, so while he could give them the watch, he could not give them permanent command (not his to give), and when a Martian officer showed up, he was authorized to relieve them and take the ship back. Gunny could have asked, but that was fuzzy since that's technically enlisted and not normally authorized to relieve an officer (not that holden was).

    If they resisted (which they did in the ring, even though it was in legal dispute at the time), that was an act of piracy.

    So they're space pirates.

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  • We can reprocess, it's just cheaper to jam in it a hole and solve the problem once and for all:

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    Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – "we'll remain fierce competitors"

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  • x87.

    Because that would be unambiguous what it means.

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  • Not really, but you mark is clearly everywhere and bond it in fire resistant epoxy.

    People will learn when they drill into their wall and hit epoxy that means something.

  • Uhh... Captain?

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  • Sisko failed to graduate from the Prometheus School of Running Away From Things.

    I hope he can live with it.

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  • People = good

    People = good

    Why is that so hard to remember?

  • Sysadmins slam Apple’s SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts

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  • Certbot is basically automatic, think mines on a cronjob now.

    Who actually does this shit manually?

  • AMD, Intel, and a slew of tech companies are teaming up to fend off ARM chips

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  • No, it doesn't make sense to do it.

    I worked on platform enablement for armv8, bringing all the ecosystem to 64 bit arm. Was an everest, so much code was expecting x86, lots of secret asm and other assumptions like memory model.

    But once it was done, we did it again for riscv in no time, all the work was done, it was basically setting defines, maybe adding tsc/rdcycle (now rdtime).

    Architectures don't really matter anymore, but also the overhead of architectures are pretty minor, riscv will probably win because it's basically free and single thread performance isn't as critical on client devices, lot of work goes to the GPU too, and servers do other heavy lifting. Qualcomm scared everybody too, and China is going their own way which means even more riscv.

    Basically, nothing matters except cost now, we'll figure out how to run things on a potato, we've gotten good at it.

  • AMD, Intel, and a slew of tech companies are teaming up to fend off ARM chips

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  • Apple took all the old tricks Intel was always way too cheap to use, and turned them to 11.

    Nothing magic, nothing special, just balls and the willingness to spend silicon.

  • AMD, Intel, and a slew of tech companies are teaming up to fend off ARM chips

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  • It actually can, the thing we learned is that the unpleasant bits of x86 scale well, so we spent 30% of the die doing uop decode, but that's now just 1-2% because we blow so much on more registers and cache.

    Also we can play games like soft-deprecating instructions and features so they exist, but are stupid slow in microcode.

    We used to think only risc could run fast at low power, but our current cisc decoded to risc works fine, Intel just got stupid lazy.

    Apple just took all the tradeoffs Intel was too cheap to spend silicon on and turned them to 11, we could have had them before but all the arm guys were basically buying ip and didn't invest in physically optimized designs, but now that tsmc is the main game in town (fallback to gf was nice for price), there's a lot more room to rely on their cell libraries.

    Intel got so insanely arrogant, just like Boeing and all the other catastrophic American failures right now, we just need to correct for that and we can be decent again.

  • ‘AI-Mazing Tech-Venture’: National Archives Pushes Google Gemini AI on Employees

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  • This is how history becomes a fluid AI hallucination.

  • A new Tamarian phrase is created.

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  • Paramount backlot, when the cravings came...

  • In China, there has been an increasing number of indiscriminate attacks on people recently, which is heartbreaking. Why do these individuals target innocent people?

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  • China has an incredible spin on late-stage capitalism, it's like they skipped all the decent stages and went straight for the dystopia bits.

  • What technology purchase felt like a major upgrade in your life?

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  • Keep on answering those emails!

  • TIL that 1,300 children are still separated from their parents from the Trump era family separation policy

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  • This wasn't a state/local issue, and IIRC the state said they wouldn't help hand the kid back.

    This was a case where the federal government was enforcing federal law, and the state stepped aside, who do you think the feds send when they have to enforce federal law, andy griffith?

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    Are there any series or movies about life in a submarine?

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  • Down periscope was apparently eerily accurate according to a friend.

  • Christians flock to Washington to pray for America to turn to God — by electing Trump

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  • Nah, just impossibly ignorant and proud of it.

  • Christians flock to Washington to pray for America to turn to God — by electing Trump

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  • Southern Christians were the most socialist, they had huey long, and the south was dead poor and without electricity till the new deal and tva.

    But lbj made them choose between their religion and their racism, and that was no choice.

    That's unfair, the southern baptist convention was formed because the triennial convention wasn't explicitly pro-slaveey enough, so they kept their religion, just without all that icky "caring for your fellow man" garbage.

  • Christians flock to Washington to pray for America to turn to God — by electing Trump

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  • The internet opened a door, all those deplorables are now sure they're the rebel alliance in their fight against the mighty empire of wokeness and tolerance.

    This is oniy getting started, and the next trump won't be nearly so stupid.