Posts by prismatics

Re: Can we all out 5G as BS yet?

Exactly. So you have shown to yourself that there is indeed a difference.

Re: Sorry, China.

In some ways we already have certain effects resulting from the “recommendations” and “feeds” limiting the reach of what people say. Of course one would argue that “interest” based valuation is not really censorship, but how are we able to say that if the “algorithms” are not documented? YouTube would be a prime example where things like automatic shadow banning are a thing too.

We have something comparable, we just don’t call or recognise it as censorship.

Grass is green

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Re: Not just the M1

I can attest, I had some other Big Sur-prises beyond that as well and installed 10.14 because MATLAB didn't work perfectly since 10.15....

Never going to do any update beyond security updates on Apple again.

Re: I wish them all the luck

Why do you need a compulsory store in the first place.

Re: Overkill and over powered?

As to independent measurements from the overclocking scene (known for going excessive lengths to achieve their goals for world records etc.) a single Zen 2 core in its default configuration for Windows operation can go as low as 200 MHz, 0.2 V core voltage and a resulting power draw of about 120 milliwatts per CPU (not entire package, just a single CPU). Since Threadripper Pro has 64 of these, a simple linear extrapolation results in an idle power consumption of about 8 W, which is right in line (about double as much as) what my Threadripper 3970x 32-core setup at home consumes when doing nothing and not moving the mouse cursor in booted-up state.

Cool'n'Quiet it is.

Re: Democracy?

I would like to add that it is about engineering it in such a way so that there is consent.

In a dictatorship you would get fucked without being asked, but in a democracy the general population is influenced in such a way that they give consent to being fucked with. Edward Bernais has perfectly explained this with his invention of the term “Public Relations” and the generation of Consent to support wars and other decisions which would otherwise be against our own interest.

Looks like the Hong Kong government need some studying on how to design democratic crooked systems so that they can evade protests and generate consent.

Re: And nothing about desktops

The problem is there is nobody else doing computers being even close to iMac and its display, maybe except for the new Surface Thing but thats a lot more expensive and comes with windows 10, obviously.

Re: Typical EU

You can remove safari like any other app since iOS 10.