NVIDIA spent many many years doing a very very poor job of providing drivers for Linux.

Many people have not forgiven them for that.

I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

Remember: in most cases the c-suite consider you merely as resources(human) a source of labour.

To them employees are things.

Customers are just a revenue source, they are also just things.

CEO’s are just chasing their next quarterly performance bonus.

Take an article from a reputable publisher, an article for a subject that you are expert in.

Read it and make note of facts they got right and got wrong.

Now apply that same ratio to articles where you have little or no expertise.

These guys are just speed running th at to its inevitable end.

… but only one word at a time. So you end up with:

• Bread
• Cheese
• Cow eggs
• Chicken milk

… Or calling your aunt and having her yell things at you that she thinks might be on your Mum’s shopping list.

Straight from the Boeing book.

In the last few years, IMHO, single core performance has been irrelevant (for me personally and professionally).

Almost everything can be parallelized, it’s just a bit harder to implement.

I’ve found disk I/O to be the biggest bottleneck recently, PCIe 5.0 NVMe has done more for speed than an extra few MHz have in years.

I personally try to support the underdog, so AMD when it comes to x86.

Intel also refuses to provide Vulkan drivers for older CPU’s iGPU’s to drive consumers towards buying new systems, which I considered a dick move, and upgraded that laptop with an AMD based replacement.

We bought three 13900’s for workstations at work, got burnt with two of them, bought 7950X3D’s instead for the next three.

So, if you’re set on Intel (which is your prerogative) ask someone else ;-)

I’ll go give you a hint: you made some crap CPU’s and rather than binning them as lower spec’d units you sold them as is and then claimed they were performance units.

This meant that the spec overhead that previously MB manufacturers relied on to stretch the performance wasn’t there anymore.

TL;DR: greed

It was the right time to ensure the right stock price at the right time.

An enormous company like Boeing always has myriad legal things going on. There’s always a little litigious jitter in their stock price.

Everything Swampy knew, the big cheeses did too and more. Statements entering the courts’ records makes them more difficult to casually dismiss. Evidence of top echelon mismanagement becomes a problem, a stock price problem.

Other breaches do.

If two breaches have an overlap, e.g. they both contain email address, then they can be joined into a more complete set.

Other breaches do.

If two breaches have an overlap, e.g. they both contain email address, then they can be joined into a more complete set.

The problem is that this data can be combined with other data. An email address by itself isn’t particularly important but when it’s matched up with names, physical addresses, DoB, SSN, other PII and the network of other services with matching data it becomes very serious.

It’s never just this breach, it’s every other breach as well. Every breach makes every preceeding breach more effective and more valuable.

Oh yeah, the results are worse, but at least I can filter with search grammar and not also have to mentally filter out the ads too.

I’m not sure if we’ve ended up back at the ol’ altavista/askjeeves keyword-stuffed hell yet, but it’s close.

I switched to DDG merely to get rid of Google’s irrelevant paid results up top.

If I’m searching for brand model manual I don’t need every competitor’s marketing detritus.

Likewise contact details etc… it’s maddening.

Blood Music by Greg Bear.

Yes.

Leather is a byproduct of the beef industry.

At no point will any fewer cattle be ‘processed’ for meat because of this decision.

What does change is the utility ratio of the beasts. Well use less of each beast making the tragedy of their death more meaningless.

Leather is far more environmentally friendly than plastics, with a small caveat for the tanning process’ chemicals, and emissions from the beasts themselves (though that’s attributable to beef production.)

Leather doesn’t degrade into micro plastics.

So unless Apple is also reducing its beef consumption* by the equivalent amount it’s pointless.

* yes, it’ll be non-zero.