GenX here. Before computers… that’s a lie, my father always had computers, long before computers were cool. What we didn’t have was the Internet. Before the Internet, I read books. My father had a couple encyclopedia sets. One was more for kids and had colorful bindings. The other was the Encyclopedia Brittanica. So yeah, books were our Wikipedia. (Wikipedia is based on the encyclopedia concept. It’s right in the name!)
cerebralhawks
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It seems to me that Intel themselves aren’t doing anything wrong here by letting the government take a stake in their business.
They never promised you privacy, they sell complex tiny calculators that add and compare ones and zeros trillions of times per second.
As a Mac user, I feel that it affirms Apple’s choice 5 years ago to design their own silicon. Apple made the right move.
Owners of current Intel chips should be fine. It’s future Intel chips I’d worry about. AMD is probably still fine. PC builders and enthusiasts still have a lot of good choices.
As for the government, I don’t really see how. 10% doesn’t give them enough clout to ask for a back door. The UK didn’t ask chip makers anyway, they went straight to Apple and asked for the encryption keys. Apparently they’ve dropped the request, but that’s not something that needs to be done at the CPU level. It’s also the government — they’re not gonna do it the best way. They’re not gonna do it the way a mad Linux geek would do it if they were a fascist dictator. Governments are still run by Boomers.
It’s more likely exactly what Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders say it is: the government is investing in Intel so their investment through the CHIPS Act pays off. It’s just good business sense. Set aside the president’s nationalism and look at it strictly as a business decision. It actually makes sense, hence why Sanders is behind it as well.
Last dream I had, I was completely and ideally convinced I was gonna rewrite IT by Stephen King.
I’m currently reading that book. King wrote it high on coke and it’s absolutely insane how much detail he packed into it. If you’ve only seen the movies, you’ve barely scratched the surface. Book is literally about fear and I think it’s his third longest? Was the longest for a long time.
My first Star Trek game was on the Amiga, and it used the TOS crew/ship. I couldn't get anywhere in it. Maybe I wasn't old/smart enough for it.
I agree that a Star Trek game shouldn't be all action, that's just the kind of game I want to play.
I really don't care for the Call of Duty games, but one set in a Starfleet combat situation would be awesome.
Starfield could have been a good Star Trek game without the branding, but it mostly sucked.
I don't have a religion, but I get ya. (Doesn't mean I don't know some of what the Bible says, mostly for the sake of argument.)
Maybe I worded that poorly. Yeah, we generally trusted the news, but for the most part the TV was the "idiot box" and was not to be trusted. At some point, the news — I think, largely, FOX News at first, but the others weren't far behind — became "news entertainment" in the same way WWE was "sports entertainment." It was either not real, or at the very least it was heavily biased. Whenever The Newsroom came out — what a lot of people know for a 3 minute YouTube edit about why "America is no longer the greatest country in the world anymore" but was really more of a love letter to the way the news used to be. They told real news in a way that was entertaining, but through a character (portrayed by Jeff Daniels) who was trying to tell the news the old way. Give people the facts and let them make up their own mind. But by that point, I think most news on TV was fake/heavily biased.
I'm religious neutral (I don't like the term atheist), and I'm fine with the Ten Commandments.
Work within the system to bust it open.
The first commandment says "thou shalt have no other gods before me." In a monotheistic religion (one god), that seems nonsensical. What He's really saying is you can't put anything before God. Including money. Or greed.
Another one says "thou shalt not bear false witness," which is to say "don't lie," but they can't stop doing that.
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's..." I forget. Ass is in my family's KJV (meaning donkey of course) and that's funny. But this is another good one. They need to stop coveting our freedom and what little we have left and stop stealing from the poor.
Why should we live by these rules if the people in power won't? In that case the rules aren't even arbitrary.
Can't tell what they are, but they don't appear to be waifus. That would be funnier.
Or if it was all kid characters... e.g. Eleven and Max from Stranger Things, Anya from SPYxFAMILY, Wednesday from... Wednesday... I dunno, I'm sure there are others.
I won't believe any of this "woke Barrel" shit until Cracker Barrel opens a location in California. As I understood it, they were avoiding CA because of its civil liberties.
Outside CA, you can find a CB at every other exit off the highway, it seems like. More so in the South but they seem to operate everywhere else but CA.
Before I'm willing to even entertain the notion that CB has "gone woke," I'm gonna need to see them open a few locations in the Golden State.
I don't much care either way. They make good breakfast food, but so do I. The plumber doesn't call a plumber and pay them to do what he can do himself, so why should I go to Cracker Barrel? Same reason I don't go to burger places. I can, in fact — or at least, in my opinion, make a better burger than they can. So, firstly, I don't use American cheese, I use pepper jack. Better flavor, melts just as good, costs a little bit more, but worth it for my burger. Second, I make my burgers thicker. When I eat out it's to get food I don't know how to make or can't make as well.
Which in turn trails the latest Apple A-series chips. Because Qualcomm had to compete. Apple doesn’t.
Then you have Samsung’s NVMe SSDs. They’re in iPhones and gaming PCs. Android phones use slower UFS. Slower in benchmarks. Equivalent in real world performance. And cheaper.
My main phone is an iPhone 16 Pro Max. Best Apple has to offer right now.
I also have a Galaxy S10 from 2019. It was weaker than the same year iPhone at launch. Now it’s five years behind my iPhone.
The iPhone might boot a second or two faster, but it’s very close.
Guess which one kicks the other’s ass when it comes to typing. I don’t know why Apple can’t figure this out. If I’m gonna be doing much typing, I will turn on the S10 and wait. It’s worth it.
Also literally everything you like about Android. Of course I have Nova Prime on it.
I like Apple stuff, especially Macs, but like Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak said, I like my iPhone, I just wish it did half the stuff my Android phone does. I see advantages with both.
I wouldn’t worry about this Tensor chip. I’m sure it’s fine. But I think we should all stop upgrading every year or two. I think after 4-5 years with these two, I’ll retire the S10 and get a Pixel. Then after another 4-5 years upgrade the iPhone. Because I have use for both platforms. And I think Pixel phones are just fine.
Time dilation.
Imagine you go to prison for a year. That’s one year you’re without your family and friends, and a year they’re without you. 1:1 time.
Now imagine you’re put to sleep and kept in a coma like state, fed by tubes. A computer or similar machine induces a dreamlike state that is indistinguishable from reality in which you will be imprisoned for 100 years. You never sleep. You never eat or drink. You never need to. And you can’t relax, you’re constantly being hunted or otherwise threatened. In the real world your family never left your side because in the real world, you’re only under for an hour.
Something similar happened to a guy on Star Trek (O’Brien on Deep Space Nine). Black Mirror did it a few times. And the fourth season of Sword Art Online (an anime) did it as well. Probably some others. Oh yeah, Interstellar. So you may have seen it.
We didn’t think about the absence of things we’re didn’t have. It’s easy to look back and say “I could have gotten away with so much” but we didn’t think about it.
Your whole life being recorded was a thing for my generation (X)… if you were rich. Rich families had video cameras and they did record all kinds of things. Birthday parties, holidays, vacations, and so on. We saw cameras. We either tried to avoid them, or tried to flip them off — so the cameras avoided us. They didn’t wanna see the poors anyway. And for the most part, they were, and mostly did their filming, in places you couldn’t go if you/your parents worked for a living.