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How does that distinction matter here?

>> A weeks ago, my friends and I were talking about the inner workings of Zen 5. We were talking about how the CPUID instruction works, and how AMD MSRs are technically editable if you ask the processor nicely.

> As do we all.

I think they interpreted “as do we all” as pointing out humorously that this is an unusual friend group. So, speculation that it might have formed online makes sense, because online spaces can sometimes facilitate that sort of thing.

It’s easier to have very specialized friends of they are geographically far away.

I don't see what distance has to do with it. I had a number of specialized friends in close proximity at university.

Presumably because they all traveled there for a temporary part of their lives. And after university, they presumably scattered to the places where they built their careers and families.

"at university"

Clearly proximity is involved

It’s a different situation if you are researching something and chatting about that vs talking about something while in a bar for example

They are two different situations but why is the distinction meaningful here? I rarely even remember the venue of most conversations, just that it happened.

Because for a lot of us it’s hard to imagine finding a half dozen or so people who can talk in person like that outside of a conference or workplace. Discord facilitates that because it assembles people based on interests and such. You’re just going to more easily have that kind of conversation than you would “out in the real world.”

My guess is they are functionally saying “this probably happened on discord if anybody is wondering how this is even possible and not made up for effect” but I might be interpreting too much

Well it’s not so far fetched if the friends are people you studied with and have common interests with, but don’t currently work together with.

I have good friends that love to discuss highly technical topics over a beer or whiskey.

My friends and I share interests but they can’t all talk about the relative pros/cons of full frame vs. cropped sensors in digital cinema with me. That’s kind of the framing here if that makes sense. We share a lot of interest and can talk in depth about certain topics, but there are plenty of topics that I am interested in or just know a lot more about that none of them can really discuss with me, so I have to find those communities elsewhere

> I have good friends

Ahhh, I see, I see...

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