Yes “secret”.

High gas prices are a pittance if we can bring Jesus back! (I wish this were a joke).

Yup. In basically all terms, rail is more efficient than airplanes.

The only thing that makes Amtrak less efficient in the US is the fact that it’s unused. And the reason it’s unused is because it’s an afterthought in government spending.

1. Amtrak isn’t funded by the US government. They have to extract all their funding from operations.

2. Amtrak’s service is bad mainly because the line operators have found ways to make it impossible to effectively operate. That means late and long delayed trains with unpredictable arrival/departure times.

3. Amtrak is slow, mainly because it has almost no dedicated lines. It has to share them with line operators.

4. Very few people use amtrak.

The end result is a high price. Few people using amtrak means it has to hike ticket prices up.

The only way for Amtrak to get better is extensive investment by the feds and regulation of rail lines in general. Without that, as you’ve correctly observed it will always be disadvantaged compared to other modes of transport.

But hey, the war in Iran might make it cheaper than driving so that’s something.

My suggestion for anyone voting in the US. Vote early in person if possible. If you are going to vote by mail, do it ASAP.

That’s the best way to get your ballot counted, which is the most important thing right now.

Oh, and check your registration, like today. And tomorrow. And like once a week.

The worst time to vote is election day. Avoid that at all costs.

I looked at the lawsuit details. Steam basically did what everyone else does. Apple, google, EA, everyone.

They charge 30% of the sale. They require that the steam price be the same as an external price.

It’s the most nothing of nothings.

To compare, what MS did when they got smacked with their monopoly lawsuit is bundle IE with the OS and they both made it hard to switch the default and they’d constantly try to switch you back to IE.

Gross.

This is the same sort of ruling that would argue you can’t ban false advertising. How long before some homeopath sues the FTC and FDA for stopping them from claiming health benefits? Won’t be long now till we get new fabulous snake oil cancer cures because the first amendment protects quacks from lying (so long as they “sincerely believe” the lie).

It’s satire. But damning that it’s pretty indistinguishable from real reps.

Red green color blindness is the most common form of color blindness.

To someone with that form of color blindness these shirts would be different shades of the same color (think, dark red vs light red).

I have one coworker with red green color blindness that said that peanut butter and zucchinis were roughly the same color to him (Oh, it’s also more common in men than women).

Palm oil is much better than any alternative

Palm oil does what palm oil does. And it’s useful in food manufacturing because you can create the same products without using butter or transfats. That’s pretty much the only reason it gets so heavily used.

But the actual alternative to palm oils is to stop consuming or manufacturing products using palm oil. That means some products should just be pulled from the market. Oreos, for example.

My point being that knowledge of where something comes from doesn’t tell you if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.

I could have rephrased “what it’s used for” to be “laxative”. A true statement which doesn’t expose the fact that ricin is a pretty powerful poison.

People are biased to think “chemical name bad, common name good” and that’s the problem I’m exposing. You can pull out a lot of toxic stuff from things that sound harmless.

The problem is a lot of nasty things come from less scary sounding things. For example:

Ingredient: Ricin, Where it comes from: Castor beans, What it’s used for: Poison.

Well you see the kids are peeing in liter-boxes, so obviously we need to bomb Iran.

Silly commenter.

L1 cache shouldn’t be large. Increasing the size of the L1 cache increases the latency. Maybe if you shrink the size of the cloths you wear you can squeeze more into the chair, but the ideal L1 cache has to minimize it’s distance from processing. Oversizing adds latency.

Your L2 cache is where you generally try and shove a much bigger cache into it, but it’s still got a size constraint for the latency you are after. Further, typically L1 and L2 only serve 1 CPU. To multi-process stuff you’ll typically need an even larger L3 cache which is shared among cores.

So the cloths on your chair should be minimal for fast access (L1). You can put more cloths on your bed and dressers or in laundry baskets that can be promoted to the chair if you start needing them more often (L2). You can throw a bunch of cloths into a pile in the corner which sit there for a few years and serve many occasions (L3).

The worst thing is going back to main memory (your closet) to search for specialty cloths you are ultimately going to need to send back to the closet. And heavy help you if you have to swap (do laundry).

And of course the answer is always

“I woke up naked and alone in the forest, I don’t know how I got there or anyone around me. So the first thing I did is fashion some bootstraps out of some sapplings and I pulled on them so hard that an investor (don’t look up how they are related to me) appeared out of thin air to grant me with $10M dollars and office space. From there I worked 25 hours a day every day all by myself to create my business. A practice I’m still engaged in right now, as you can plainly see while interviewing me. This is the first suit I’ve ever worn that I purchased for this interview along with my rolex”

Given CXMT doesn’t just up their prices after gaining market share too.

They might eventually, but certainly not immediately. In the process they are going to force the other big players to lower their prices to compete.

Also China can just ban the export, or tariff it.

I don’t think China has ever banned an export. It’s pretty rare to tariff an export, basically only happens when it’s a limited good that the government wants to ensure a local supply of. I think the only country I’ve heard of doing that is Greenland due to some british wankery.

Maybe. I mean at least a major part of it is that AI pays a lot more money than the consumer does, and even if the consumer market pulls back, they are banking on the raised prices to stay around even if they can increase capacity.

I think what scares them is that CXMT is rapidly catching up to the state of the art. If they dick around for too long, they run the real risk that China and CXMT will do what China does and sweep the market with really cheap memory they can’t compete with.

These companies still care about non-ai servers, and that’s a big part of the market that could be obliterate pretty quickly.

I think Trump and his cronies literally thought this would be a Venezuela. They thought “Oh, we just kill the supreme leader and Iran becomes our lapdog”.

It also probably helped that the Elisons likely promised trump a new mansion.

So, the amygdala doesn’t just impact fear response, it also does anger, anxiety, and stress. An overactive amygdala negatively impacts your ability to think clearly.

This is, unfortunately, just typical of the gaming industry in general.

Effectively for all these game studios, everyone is on contract for the duration of the project. Once that finishes, they fire everyone and let them compete for the next contract. Because the game industry is highly competitive and having “EA” on your resume is impressive, they can get away with this behavior as they can always find more bodies to work. It allows EA to continually pay shit and have a bad working environment because people yern to do something creative.