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  • It's Women's Fault

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  • Are neurodivergent folks treated equally, with equal consideration? "Existing while not being able to respond to BS demands" is a crime that exists in the US. There's a bodycount to back that up, covering the whole spectrum of spectrum disorders.

    That out of the way: Why give the enemy a slogan and exclude your allies? What possible gain would that bring about?

    All Lives Matter’ is a slogan to avoid acknowledging that black lives also matter.

    Because it was claimed by fascists. That's the only reason it has that meaning. Because it was given up, not claimed by woke folks. Words, slogans, don't have meaning in themselves the meaning only exists in context. "All lives matter" is a fascist slogan because it got chanted by fascists, not because it's fascist in itself. If fascists shout "chocolate pudding is tasty", what does that mean? I have no idea but it surely doesn't bode well for black folks.

    You don't have to fucking explain to me that "All lives matter" got appropriated by fascists. I fucking know. I'm complaining about how BLM let it be appropriated, how the wider platform let victory be snatched away from under their fingertips by semiotic illiteracy that made MLK spin in his grave. Man was way ahead of

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  • It's Women's Fault

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  • Andrea Dworkin.

    "Equivalence' of does not mean "same-same", here, female aggression patterns are quite different than male ones. Bold "accept me as dominant, I'm telling you don't show up or else" vs. plausible-deniability "oh someone must have forgotten to invite you", "We didn't think you want to come". Apologies to any gals out there reliving high-school trauma right now.

    To breach a broader topic: The very fact that a sentence like "all masculinity is toxic" can even be defended. When it's defended, then generally as "Well we define "masculine" not as what men do but as whatever is toxic in society" -- and then conveniently sweeping under the rug that that is not how "masculinity" is understood in any other context. As said: Plausible deniability. Motte and bailey: You can say a misandrist thing, have it understood as misandrist by your fellow misandrists, then, when called out, say "no you don't actually understand do you even feminism read theory you're a misogynist for misconstruing me".

    The worst thing one can do? Explain it openly. That does not just attack the concrete thing itself, but the very tactic of plausible deniability. It's, admittedly, the nuclear option but sometimes plain necessary.

    Cue "No this isn't happening".

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  • "Leads to" is way too strong. Hierarchy, capitalism, provider expectations all those play a huge role that on their own would be sufficient to cause the issue, if those were gone then the misandrists could just be ignored. What misandrists do have a rather large part in though is hindering that the problem gets addressed by people who otherwise do oppose hierarchy, capitalism, and normative gender expectations.

  • It's Women's Fault

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  • In an ideal world, BLM would have switched to chanting "All lives matter" without skipping a beat: Deny the assclowns their slogan, simultaneously say "yep we're people, too, part of 'all', get used to it", simultaneously, ally with other groups the US police walks all over, like neurodivergent folks.

  • Arr, Captain, 'tis time for me to leave the crew

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  • The Nobel prize went to AlphaFold, in case anybody is curious. Protein structure prediction, ML (not LLMs in particular much less a chatbot) is useful for that kind of stuff just as it's useful in things like physical simulations: Accuracy isn't as good as the full physical model, but it runs so much faster that you can go through tons more data and actually get somewhere with your research. Better to have a million 99% reliable answers than two 100% reliable ones.

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  • According to gamedevs, 1-player pong (that is, vs computer) involves AI. It's a description of role within the game world, not implementation, or indeed degree of intelligence, or amount of power. Could be a rabbit doing little more than running away scared, a general strategising, or a right-out god toying with the world, a story-telling AI. Key aspect though is reacting to and influence on the game itself or at least some sense of internal goals, agency, that set it apart from mere physics, it can't just follow a blind script. The computer paddle in pong fits the bill: It reacts dynamically to the ball position, it wants to score points against the player, thus, AI. The ball is also simulated, possibly even using more complex maths than the paddle, but it doesn't have that role of independent agent.

  • EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail, says von der Leyen

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  • EU offers Trump removal of all industrial tariffs

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    Last time around the Yanks wanted the EU to accept chlorinated chickens I don't think anything has changed in that regard. They're just playing the headlines.

  • New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech

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  • That's three devices. There's two connections between them, and they go "RAM<->CPU<->SSD". The first <-> is the DRAM Phy, the second <-> is 1-4 PCIe lanes. Neither of them are a bus. There is no third connection.

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  • Very likely schizotypal, definitely severe social anxiety, a fuckton of phobias, upbringing and class context which was racist AF but still he managed to have good "salt of the earth" black characters in his stories. That is, he imagined black people, with agency and everything, whom he was not terrified of, that's not being a piece of shit that's conscience and hope shining through more existential terror than you can imagine. Hard enough to find rapport with people when you're schizotypal in the first place (you inevitably, in search for actual connection, start talking to their subconsciousness which often ends in a barrage of projection), doubly and triply so when you're caught up in upper-class ritual.

    So, kindly, fuck off with your normie judgements building the exact barriers that cause the persistence of problems you're judging others for not solving.

  • New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech

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  • It was you who was talking about "bus paths" and "traversing CPU>RAM>SSD". There's neither buses connected up to any of those things nor does the data ever flow like that, it always flows via the CPU.

  • New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech

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  • So... what's wrong about my characterisation of computer hardware? Do you have any issue with the claim that RAM doesn't talk directly to the SSD, but via the CPU? If yes, please show me the traces on the motherboard which enable that. About the importance of latency to CPU-type computations?

    Or do you want to tell me how it's absolutely unsuspicious to bang out a press release in tech and talk about "speed", not distinguishing between bandwidth and latency? Where's the fucking numbers. There's no judging the tech without numbers and them not being forward with those numbers means they're talking to investors, not techies.

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  • PCIe 5.0 x16 can match DDR5's bandwidth, that's not the issue, the question is latency. The only reason OSs cache disk contents in memory is because SSD latency is something like at least 30x slower, the data ends up in the CPU either way RAM can't talk directly to the SSD, modern mainboards are very centralised and it's all point-to-point connection, the only bus you'll find will be talking i2c. Temperature sensors and stuff.

    And I think it's rather suspicious that none of those articles are talking about latency. Without that being at least in the ballpark of DDR5 all this is is an alternative to NAND which is of course also a nice thing but not a game changer.

  • China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery

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  • Any complex data stuff they could need should be done on some database server, the rest of what they're doing can be done by anything that can deal with minesweeper.

  • China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery

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  • Honestly, I have no idea.

  • China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery

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  • A full PC, no, but a set top box definitely yes. And a set top box is plenty of computing power for a thin client, think workstations for accountants.

  • The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind

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  • You need >700C to decarburise iron you don't need much for that but coal and a fan, i.e. a bloomery. Pretty much defines the beginning of the iron age. Getting very low-carbon iron is quite easy, you just need enough fuel and air, the trick is then adding the right amount of carbon back. Also, getting rid of impurities, slag inclusions, etc, long story short: Lots of hammering and folding different carbon grades together, though some work can be saved by building very large bloomeries and processing very large batches producing quite slag-free low-carbon iron which then can be case-hardened.

    The way out of that is crucible steel, melting your ingredients in an air-tight crucible, but that requires advanced furnace technology that somehow noone came up with before industrialisation, with the exception of India. The banding btw is due to alloy not production method (though you need to follow specific steps to bring out the banding).

  • The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind

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  • As so often, the answer is found in scripture:

    One day Mal-2 asked the messenger spirit Saint Gulik to approach the Goddess and request Her presence for some desperate advice. Shortly afterwards the radio came on by itself, and an ethereal female Voice said YES?

    "O! Eris! Blessed Mother of Man! Queen of Chaos! Daughter of Discord! Concubine of Confusion! O! Exquisite Lady, I beseech You to lift a heavy burden from my heart!"

    WHAT BOTHERS YOU, MAL? YOU DON'T SOUND WELL.

    "I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe."

    WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?

    "But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it."

    OH. WELL, THEN STOP.

    At which moment She turned herself into an aspirin commercial and left The Polyfather stranded alone with his species.

    Answer. I said answer. Not solution. Too much aspirin and your blood thins out and you need to move to Transylvania.

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  • Yeah that's a much too enlightened take for these parts it'll never fly.