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Intel didn't do much to improve their CPUs while AMD was out of the competition with the Bulldozer disaster.

"Fortunately", agent Poettering is on the case, implementing remote attestation for Linux so we can all be secure. Barf.

Even phones have screen settings these days (much less detailed than monitors). On my Motorola phone w/ OLED screen, I turned off "vibrant colors" or something like that. Maybe the people you saw didn't bother or liked it. Maybe there is something that can't be turned off, who knows. I only have semi-regular experience with an older (and non OLED) Samsung tablet which seems fine.

This -4th power also makes stealth very difficult. Reducing the RCS by a factor of 1000 reduces detection range by a factor of 5.75.

At least you could get some interesting ads. Do you want to participate in a longevity study?

Most screens come with "showroom settings" out of the box. You need to configure them to something more neutral once and then it's fine.

"I work in software. I have seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate..."

Fine with Linux though :)

LG's behavior isn't fine, but their monitors don't install crapware on Linux.

It's common to call the instruction set just "architecture", or ISA (instruction set architecture) to be more precise. The implementation is commonly called "microarchitecture".

I didn't play much at the time because of the lack of games on Linux, but I've played some Far Cry 3 (from 2012) recently where I did turn down SSAO in the settings.

Is this website called AI Faithful News?

SSAO is cheap, doesn't work that well and looks terrible if overdone, as many games did 10-15 years ago. The simple workaround is to dial down the SSAO so that it's maybe weaker than ambient occlusion in reality, but also not noticeably wrong or overdone. Fortunately, the settings often allow that. Problem mostly solved!

It's a common pattern that newly possible (usually due to hardware) effects are overdone for the wow / up-to-date look effect.

So what is the hidden agenda then, and by which actions did the government raise prices to 14 cents during the Ukraine war and 10 cents now? Why did they run a crash program to build LNG terminals, which lowered prices?

By all indications, "5-6 cents high" was politically desired, "10-14 cents high" isn't.

No, the goal of German policy isn't to kill its energy-intensive industry. Like in all countries, the conservative party, biggest member of the governing coalition, has strong ties to the local industry, and the social democrats have no interest in the loss of jobs. "The aim of high prices" is conspirationalist nonsense.

The aim of Nordstream (however misguided that turned out) was low prices.

Minor point: companies get the VAT back or don't pay it in the first place.

The surprising (and possibly untrue) thing is the high price of canned vulnerabilities. WordPress is known as the remote root shell with a blogging feature.

Germany isn't doing great, but these current recessions are low grade. Nothing like mid 90s and mid 2000s, unemployment data: https://www.wsi.de/de/erwerbsarbeit-14617-arbeitslosenquoten...

In Germany: 0.06 € / kWh was policy, 0.14 € / kWh was mainly Ukraine war. It's currently at about 0.10 € (policy + Ukraine war + Iran war). Taxes are fairly low: 0.0055 € / kWh and the usual 19% VAT.

In any case, hardware progress has slowed to a crawl. Maybe a new console every 10 years makes sense now.

Since Euro and Dollar values are reasonably close, you can call both of them credits, maybe

Wait, what? I didn't read everything because the writing kind of sucks: It buries the point in details and I didn't feel like going through with a fine comb to find the point.

AFAIU: Three artists hired three construction workers to dig random holes at a still un-fenced future Google datacenter construction site. The workers dug while the artists stood nearby doing artist things. Security came, then everyone left. There was much rejoicing.

Same with Cryptonomicon. Guy doesn't know when to stop rambling. Oh, and it had a weak ending, too.

You could pay that much I guess, which would get you a Pentium in 1993.

As "Principal Program Manager, Copilot Acceleration Team" even. That's sad.

It sounds like person in charge of "Hey do you want Copilot? How about now? How about now? And now?! Here's another popup! Do you want it now? Why not?! Have you tried Copilot?" Etc...

(I know about title inflation, he's probably not in charge of all that much, but still)

Well yeah. Challengers of a (quasi-) monopoly need to be better, but they behave like they are the monopoly who can piss on its users and Steam doesn't. The situation is completely ridiculous.

You're not the first person with... an opinion on economic "science".

Paul Krugman: https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

"This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics."

OK, I see that an Indy went for about the same price as a SPARCstation 5 in 1993. I knew about the low-cost Indy, but not that it was that low cost (for a UNIX workstation, about $5000).

Is there any indication that migration to some other ERP system causes trouble less often? There is a bunch of conventional wisdom about such migrations that some companies disregard and pay the price. I think #1 is don't customize willy-nilly, you will have to maintain those changes forever.

I mixed up German and English pronunciation of "ei". The German one sounds like English "i", so it would be Crighton.

They were offered one mass-market opportunity on a silver platter, which they took: When Nintendo asked them to design the N64 GPU. It didn't seem to be very profitable for them.

SGI machines mostly cost a lot of money for the 3D graphics hardware. They didn't make much sense for other purposes.