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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The British plug has a lot of features that are supposed to make it very, very safe. It'd be interesting to see if there's a study out there that tries to make apples-to-apples comparisons of electrical accidents in different countries. Do those features actually work out in practice?

The US plug is bad, but does that actually translate into more accidents? Hard to say. If you can do the study above, then you can start making the argument for switching to something else.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

There are decent at dotting the "I"s and crossing the ts, including broader software and firmware enablement.

Yes, and that really puts the Raptor Lake failures in perspective. It undermined this whole argument that Intel stuff is rock solid even if it's not the best in other ways. Xeon stuff was affected, too, and given how lucrative the server market is, that may have been the biggest mistake Intel has made.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

They're going to open a couple of Popeyes franchises.

I joke, but this isn't totally off the table for Trump.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I read further down after posting that. Whooo boy.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Intel's core product became big primarily due to decisions they had nothing to do with.

Roll back the clock to IBM developing their first PC. They usually developed hardware in house, but they were late to the game and needed something fast. They choose to use off the shelf hardware, with the BIOS being the one thing that's proprietary.

For the CPU, they could have gone with Motorola or MOS or Texas Instruments. They choose Intel. Why? Because Intel fulfilled a memory contract on another project, so sure, use their 8088.

Compaq then reverse engineers the BIOS and the whole thing pases legal muster. Now anybody can make a compatible, but they have to use the same CPU that IBM did.

Microsoft does its thing with DOS and Windows. Everyone is writing software against that. Now everyone starts getting locked in.

After that, all Intel has to do is keep x86 going well enough that nobody wants to make the effort to switch. Yes, AMD and Cyrix are out there, but at this point, they're both the cheap alternative that isn't as good.

They fucked up the 64-bit transition. AMD did the version we all use now.

Intel's entire success is based on making good on a memory contract to IBM decades ago. That's it. It hinges primarily on decisions they did not make themselves. Weren't even in the room at the time.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Patrick Gelsinger was an engineer.

Nvidia is run by a former engineer. I don't know if that's an argument for or against the idea.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're completely misunderstanding. The CBS source is confirming the non-edited version exists.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Roger Moore

FUCK YOU I WON'T TAKE IT BACK

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago

Tootie fruity / fast booty

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We're on the second generation that grew up with easy access to Internet porn. How about we admit this is how things work, and it doesn't turn kids into serial killers or whatever?

Teach them about it. What they see in porn is not how people have sex for real (and be specific!). Consent should be followed. Don't post revenge porn, and avoid watching it. Here's how to look for porn that emphasizes consent on set. The performers are real people with real lives beyond sex, and they deserve a basic level of respect as human beings. And so on.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My rule for home automation is that it has to work in a low-tech way. I get Zigbee switches for certain things, but they work as just a light switch if everything is down. This is not true of Phillips Hue bulbs.

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