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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Or that there's a huge amount of legit demand for mature node chips and it makes sense to own the supply for it.

The 5000 microcontrollers you inyeract with each day, by and large, do not need 5nm processes.

We saw a few years ago how relatively cheap, commodity-grade, low-complexity chips suddenly become vital when you can't get them and they have unfinished cars piling up at the assembly plant.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Them nerds will put a Raspberry Pi in anything these days.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

On a less deranged take, there's definitely potential to mend the Sino-Soviet split. Their interests and capabilities dovetail quite a bit, but I suspect unification is wildly impractical for any number of cultural and historic reasons. OTOH, if they presented a Warsaw Pact-style alliance, perhaps using the cudgel of mutually assured economic destruction instead of nuclear destruction, that's a hell of an act for the West to try to follow.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I never realized the tattoos were photoshopped.

I assumed they used a random stock photo that had a convenient pose to add the shirt onto, that happened to have a tattoo.

Of course, I also figured using a photo with too much ink would 1) distract from the merchandise and 2) make the stock photo model too recognizable. (Oh, they clearly used Getty #8675309, "Fat White Guy With Mediocre Barbed Wire Tattoo"), but plenty of the pics are identifiable enough to use for a police report.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Needs a sheet of rub-on tattoos with vaguely "I didn't serve in the military but really want to imply I did" to "outright white supremacist" themes.

My favourite is that "Three Percenter" design that effectively coopts the design of one of America's least-successful coins. I sort of want to talk one of their ears off about numismatics and watch their brain smoulder.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I suspect Intel has a broader product range than AMD to justify the headcount, but I'm not sure where the extra resources should go.

Their networking chipsets were gold-standard in the 100M and Gigabit era, but their 2.5G stuff is spotty to the point Realtek is considered legit.

They've pulled back from flash, SSDs and Optane.

There must be some other rich product lines that they do and AMD doesn't

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

It can also throw things against the wall with no concern for fitness-to=purpose. See "None pizza, left beef".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

So thry're saying they have plenty of licenses for the use case, but somehow people are still pirating?

Maybe their license management paradigm is just garbage. This could be the vendor, but also poor IT policy if the users can't requisition what they need.

As usual, service problem.

So much licensing fuckery-- dealing with floating or reissuing licenses, users needing to move to different machines-- could be solved via affordable site licensing. But that might leave dollars on the table if users don't overbuy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

The appeal of state media is that the bias is obvious.

We know who's paying the bills at the CBC or Xinhua, but it's gonna be a lot more subtle for the local broadcaster who mysteriously drops their investigative series right after the target buys a premium ad package.

It also means you can triangulate. If the BBC and TASS both report the same details on a story, those are probably legit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'd suspect Rifas before dust when I hear "exploded on first power up"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Been trying to develop Emperor's Haki for Nissans.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Wow. You get to remove code? I'd assume you just default it to 0 so the API contract doesn't change and break 20-year-old code.

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