Chinese real estate prices are falling not despite of government efforts, but because of government efforts. They had a bubble where housing was getting too expensive for the people, so they went to deflate that bubble.

Which is exactly what should be done closer to home, too, but it's never going to happen here.

This is a great time to remind ourselves that a LLM is just a fancy autocomplete engine.

Now I'm a linux desktop guy for 25+ years now, Gentoo even, and I'm all for getting rid of the smell of piss in the subway.

That being said, the actual imaging part of the systems is not where the effort is. But gathering user requirements, testing out the hardware, fiddling with it to make work what does not want to work, and finding and funding replacements where needed... Then creating the imaging infrastructure and training the users... And most importantly, rolling all of that back once it turns out your users need some specific software to do their work, even if it's just some more serious Office use... Yeah.

And dual boot isn't really a temporary measure. Either you can go all in already, or you'll only be adding the complexity of dual boot without ever getting rid of Windows. You'll have better chances untying the Gordian knot.

So out of all of the options available to him... he picked the Starfield defence. Interesting choice.

Pretty much the same, yes

Boffin is basically a British word for scientists and the likes, that has taken a different meaning across the pond. But the Register is a British paper. Slashdot editors of course cannot be arsed to care.

This is slashdot... Once you hit a certain age, sex in your mothers basement kind of dries out, if it ever was flowing to begin with. At that point you'll find a way to make it make sense to you.

None of these issues are zfs specific though. All of them are bad ideas on any storage solution that you want to be reliable. Raid or not. Since zfs wants to be reliable, they are warning you about it.

Still, whatever zfs insists, you can do what you want. But if what you want is to use SMR drives for a raid, zfs or not, where data gets updated, you are doing it wrong. These drives are not meant for that. They are actually incompatible with that, and the information about that is not secret and should be common knowledge for quite some years now. Just don't.

There's certainly hostile intent somewhere to be found, you cannot expect to be in a war without the enemy shooting back.

TFA and the likes however, are nothing but porgroms, and they are a way to make more, not less enemies.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously...h

Was it newly created shares though? Haven't seen a quote on that yet. With all of the buybacks everyone has been doing for years now, Intel could easily sell the 10% out of their own existing stock.

Competence, sure, that they have missing indeed. They're a gen behind in tech and are now manufacturing at TSMC. 13 and 14 series high end was basically recall material. Theoretically they are trying to now skip a gen and come out on top again, but I have my doubts.

Their foundry business dreams have also failed multiple times over the years, denying them invaluable experience and volume. This is mainly because they clutch, I mean keep their cards too close to their chest and everyone has found them impossible to work with.

If this goes the direction it's going, they will end up fabless like everyone else.

"Ride sharing" is a taxi service that does not provide worker benefits, nor legal customer protection. It's a scheme to avoid any law and responsibility that applies to a taxi sevice.

Fintech, in the same vein, is a scheme to avoid any law and responsibility that applies to banking and finance.

Robinhood's promise to actually hold my stock is exactly the same as my bank's promise to hold my stock, or my money, or anything. Fractional reserve, baby, and with current reculations, the fraction is defined as basically nothing. I don't see how a bank run or any other similar problems are any different on Robinhood than they are on a traditional banking/finance institution.

All of the fine inventions of derivates, subprimes, CDOs and so on were invented by good ol' traditional finance sector. They don't get to lecture anyone on risk. We are still living in the 2008 world they created. Enough nuclear sludge to create a nation of Toxic Avengers. Lawless country, and nobody bats an eye. Now the new guys are avoiding responsibility via techo-mambojambo, instead of lobby-mambojamobo, and suddenly there's the end of the world.

On the one hand, the tokens not providing rights or safeguards is an obvious feature, just like it is for fintech in general. Exactly the same way how it is a feature of "ride sharing" and pretty much all of techbro business really.

On the other hand, exchanges complain that someone is eating their lunch... Cry me a river.

Taiwan is strategically useful to the USA because it's part of the belt of island that allows the US to blockade China. If America were to have domestic chip making comparable, then Taiwan could be allowed to be destroyed in war.

I don't know you nor your computers, so I cannot comment much on your week-long troubles. Shit happens though, and sometimes it's you that has to eat it.

As to what can win10 offer you other than running programs that win7 cannot... I dunno about you, but for most, running programs is the purpose of an operating system. In that sense, win10 can only offer you.. everything that you would want from an operating system. Which of course you know already, because otherwise you would not have went through that week of suffering.

Of course sometimes there's some legacy that gets problematic. If the compatibility modes don't run something - which is indeed often the case - these days it's trivial to run old software in a VM.