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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • The logic seems sound to me.

    If they all look at thin air, and claim there is different kinds of magical beings, and as evidence they say they imagined it, isn’t it reasonable to conclude there actually is none of the magical beings they claim? Since they use the same vastly erroneous process to make similar extraordinary claims.

    As Richard Dawkins say: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.


  • A dispute over how much profit Intel stood to take from each chip sold to the Japanese electronics giant blocked Intel from settling on the price with Sony,

    Yeah that’s what I thought, Intel simply isn’t competitive. For a console SOC the CPU part eats about twice the power of an AMD, and the GPU part cost about twice to make, because it needs twice the die area to compete with AMD on performance. This creates design restrictions, and makes the system more expensive to build.

    I’m surprised Intel was even in the game, they’d obviously have to sell at a deficit to compete. Maybe it was to prevent AMD from getting a sweet deal?
    If Intel were serious about it, and had confidence in their technologies, they’d have taken a bad deal now, and improved their technologies to make it profitable later. But Intel already has problems with profitability, so maybe they won’t take on another loss giving investment.

    When AMD took the console business from Nvidia/Intel, they made a cutthroat offer, that Nvidia refused to compete with, and now AMD is dominant and make good money on consoles.











  • Thanks.
    Funny, for me it shows $12.01 USD.
    Now that’s 12 times the price of the Risc board, so of course it has to be more powerful.
    If you make it another 12 times more expensive, you can have 4 Raspberry Pi or compatible, that are also way more powerful.
    Add another 12 times to that, and you can have a full blown gaming PC.

    Again it’s a coll concept, between an Arduino and a Raspberry PI.
    Unfortunately it’s useless in many cases, because they’ve removed access to the pins.

    Unfortunately it’s become pretty hopeless to order from China where I live. We pay $30 declaration fee, and on top of that 25% tax.
    We still have a couple ESP32 left from before they tightened the rules on imports for personal use.







  • I don’t know where you live to think that, and all the people who upvote you??? For sure these work conditions would not be neither legal nor accepted in Scandinavian countries, and I’m pretty sure they aren’t legal in EU.

    Both the surveillance and bathroom conditions would be reason for blockades of the company.

    AFAIK Tesla is still under boycott by the Swedish unions, and that was supported by unions in Denmark too.
    It’s very expensive for companies to behave like that in Scandinavian countries, and doubtless also other EU countries.


  • These jobs sound very dystopian to me,

    Absolutely, this too from the article:

    “Why didn’t you make any changes to the software program for 15 minutes?” You could basically get fired for spending too long in the bathroom.

    This is absolutely a hell hole of a job, they 100% need a union.
    Also this actively undermines quality in what they do, a requirement to make changes, may make people make changes that aren’t needed, and even possibly changes that can be detrimental to the function.