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guardiangod··on Intel let the chips fall where they might
Compensation for blackmailing OEMs is now called a bail out.

You think Intel would settle all those lawsuits if Intel did nothing wrong?

guardiangod··on Intel let the chips fall where they might
When did AMD got bailed out?
guardiangod··on Riding transit takes almost twice as long as driving (2017)
That's because you live in UWS (that's where I live too).

I used to live in Jamaica and trying to get anywhere that's not Manhattan is a chore. For example going to Flushing would take twice as long because you have to get close to Manhatten before you can switch from F line to 7.

Bus in this case works fine most of the time though. But you still need to walk to a bus station.

guardiangod··on GoodbyeDPI: Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility
As long as we are pulling ranks,

I worked in a DPI/firewall company and my work ran on the ASIC accelerator, so nah, my 'guess' is probably better.

FPGA is not worth the trouble. You get neither the (line) speed of ASIC, nor the flexibility of running everything in the CPU. Most serious DPI hardware vendors have stopped using it.

But you are right that it's no fun trying to workaround ASIC bugs.

guardiangod··on GoodbyeDPI: Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility
Your suspicion is wrong. Sorry.
guardiangod··on Admit It, Squirrels Are Just Tree Rats
It's my favorite sitcom of the 90s. The jokes are witty and have punches to them, and the show doesn't try to pretend its social observations are philosophically deep.
guardiangod··on Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected layoffs
>That is gross incompetence.

Back in another life I was once an intern at a well known, but past-its-prime tech company.

The company announced a (1st time ever) layoff in the morning and I got see the guards carry the boxes from cubicles. The VP of our department (responsible for much of the core technology of our products) sent out an email at around 11AM telling everyone we need to focus and that there won't be any more cut to our department, since we are central to our products.

Come 2PM and all of us received an email saying that the VP has resigned from his position effectively immediately.

Imagine what this does to the employee moral.

guardiangod··on What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF winnings?
>Even with that boost, the service still only delivered downstream rates of 90.55 Mbps, leaving it well short of the 144.2 Mbps median posted by the industry as a whole.

>All of this data begs the question: What happens if Starlink can’t meet the 100/20 Mbps speed obligations attached to its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) projects?

Am I the only one who raise my eyebrows? What's the median for wireless internet delivery? What does that has to do with RDOF's completion requirement (by 2028)? How is StarLink doing at this point comparing to the other RDOF winners in terms of deployment?

From the actual Ookla article-

>while Starlink download speeds were slower than fixed broadband for all providers combined in the U.S. (144.22 Mbps) and Canada (106.86 Mbps).

Oh 144.22 Mbps is the industry median of _wired_ broadband. Well no shi* wireless is slower. Starlink can always deploy more satellites to service the demand. Is this a hit piece on Starlink?

guardiangod··on Gitlab Now the Main Development Platform for Wine
The name is literally "GitHub", not "GitAlone" .
guardiangod··on Corporations Aren’t Greedy Enough
The money quote-

"In short, what economic theory presumes to be “rational” for a single firm may not be “rational” from the perspective of a diversified institutional portfolio manager. If anyone is too “greedy”, in other words, it is not corporations but shareholders. "

guardiangod··on MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips
(Will read the paper later)

How lawyer-y do you think Bandai Namco will be?

guardiangod··on A forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting
Fine. People would make the altruistic decision for the good of the greater public by not stealing from the general public (the university library).
guardiangod··on A forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting
>I don't understand I don't understand paying a premium for a rare or old item that is easily replicated.

I once worked at the library of a university. Part of my job was to check the catalogue against the actual bookshelves to make sure the books are physically present.

So I got to social science section. In particular the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.

Now this is an national university with >170 years of history. The spreadsheet in my hand showed that there should be 9 copies of the 1908 edition on the shelf.

I found none.

Every copy has been stolen. The irony of this is just too much. Communism supporters stealing from the general public to satisfy their personal desire of collection.

Aside. A regret I have was not checking out 'The Hitler Youth' at the same time. Although I suspect the university might have removed them from the shelves.

guardiangod··on Carmakers feel chip crisis easing
>It's my understanding new cars are not significantly safer than cars from 10 years ago.

How did you come to that? The new cars are new and there's no real world statistics for them yet, if you only go by real world data.

guardiangod··on I Rented an Electric Car for 4 Days and Spent More Time Charging Than Sleeping
So the conclusion I got from this article is "If You want to do road trips in an EV, get a Tesla."
guardiangod··on Moderna’s HIV Vaccine Prepped for Trials in Africa
Nature is good at what it does because it has time on its side. We humanity don't need ever everlasting immunity- we just need something that work for 20 years, then we will have something newer and better.
guardiangod··on MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'collapsed under my feet'
What does "Neoliberal" and "privatization" has to do with a government not maintaining its bridge properly? Are the inspections or repairs outsourced?
guardiangod··on The new and upgraded Framework Laptop
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-elitebook-840-g8-notebo...

Just got a new one from work. It's literally in front of me right now.

Granted the laptop's build quality is questionable (the right hinge's case bulges higher than the left) and the trackpoint has a tendency to get stuck to one direction.

guardiangod··on Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy
They screwed up their receivers circuit board from 2009 to 2015 ish. All their receivers would fail after 5 years and Onkyo did a massive recall campaign to replace the main circuit board (with all the amps attached.) That must have costed them.
guardiangod··on Scapy: Low level packet hacking toolkit for Python
I wrote a pcap re-orderer (with scapy) just for this bug.
guardiangod··on An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
Omicron appeared in last Oct. It's only been 6 months.

I also suspect that the gov doesn't want to make a new version as it would imply the original versions are ineffective (illogical I know.) Who knows how much they stockpiled the original shots ($$$).

guardiangod··on An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
Earlier on municipal and provincial officials have lost their job over (perceived or not) incompetent handling of COVID. No one wants to be the next in line, so when the Beijing central gov tells them to do x, the provincial gov will to 2x and the municipal gov will do 8x just to make sure.

And they will tell higher up "everything is going to according to plan."

guardiangod··on An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
Because all 4 China made vaccines' pharmaceutical companies are backed by higher ups in the CCP. Every Chinese vaccine injected is money to these officials(or their relatives') wallets
guardiangod··on LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly
I remember when LibreOffice was called Star Office and would run like molasses on a Celeron 300A OC to 450mhz machine. The office suite would take up most of the ram and eventually crash due to system resource exhaustion.

Now we can run the whole thing in a browser like it's Minesweeper. Wow.

guardiangod··on Blade Runner 2099 Sequel Series Coming from Ridley Scott
I was watching Dune 2021 on Microsoft Teams streaming (virtual company Christmas party from Youtube Movies), and the auto-diction translated Arrakis to Iraqis.

Suddenly the whole story make sense to me.

guardiangod··on Blade Runner 2099 Sequel Series Coming from Ridley Scott
I love 2049 and it took me 3 tries to finish the original without falling asleep. I still think the original is a mediocre film made cultish by its genre definition cyberpunk worldviews.

Different strokes for different folks.

guardiangod··on Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE
The silver edition is a power black hole. Mine would need to change battery every week.
guardiangod··on $10K to whoever can show a Fortune 500 product is less reliable than Tesla's FSD
Dumb stunt-

has a critical safety malfunction on average every 8 minutes;

has been on the market for at least 6 months;

has never been recalled.

Have they tried Ford's self driving system on the Mach-E, and see how it auto-disengages when a highway curved more than what the system can handle? Would that count as a critical safety malfunction?

I'd never use FSD in its current state, but FSD had plenty of recalls by way of version rollbacks.

guardiangod··on ‘All My Apes Gone’: NFT Theft Victims Beg for Centralized Saviors
>NFT Theft Victims Beg for Centralized Saviors

No. The victim begs other individuals to not conduct business with the scammers. Other individuals are free to adhere or not adhere to the request. There's not 'Centralized Saviors' involve, beyond some participants in the market.

guardiangod··on 4 Years After the FCC Repealed Net Neutrality, the Internet Is Better Than Ever
Just because the internet is better (by whatever metric) than before, doesn't mean the current policy is detrimental to the growth. ie. Internet might have been even 'better' if Net Neutrality wasn't repealed.

Certainly, with the fragmentation of streaming services, I'd hardly say the internet is better than 4 years ago.

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