Yup. The Ampere Altra Max can run unmodified Windows 11 Pro out of the box. So presumably the unmodified Ubuntu UEFI/SBBR builds will run on it, too. Unfortunately, that support tends to mostly be limited to ARM server hardware.

That's probably because you've only dealt with consumer-grade ARM hardware built using silicon from CPU manufacturers that either don't support UEFI/SBBR or don't support it properly (e.g. Raspberry Pi and every clone thereof).

At this point trust in the company should be 0%. I for one will never fly a Boeing aircraft again as long as bean counters are in charge. Remove the entire C suite and replace it with these whistle blowing engineers. That would be a good start to gaining trust back.

You are reading a lot into my comment that wasn't there.

What do you think I'm reading into it? I'm saying specifically I do not think you would have made a comparable comment to any other ethnic minority. If a different ethnic minority had told you their thoughts on the divide between ethnicity and religion in their world, would you have dragged in comments about how some very distantly related people are doing something different?

it didn't work as well as dealing with the root causes of it. So let's deal with the root causes.

The "root causes" aren't what the Israeli government is doing. Anti-semitism is not new. And besides this just amounts to "well suck it up".

Your point about being an observant Jew vs and ethnic one is just a question of semantics.

You were specifically talking about protections about discrimination based on religion vs ethnicity. The semantics of what constituted religion or not are fundamental to that discussion, IMO.

If the intent is to boycott the Jewish religion

I don't know what you mean specifically by that. Do you mean not doing Jewy things or refusing to interact with practicing Jews?

say because it practices genital mutilation,

Not all Jews circumcise. There's such a thing as the liberal sect. And Jews without kids. And would you be happy for someone to "boycott" Jews for that but not Americans (estimated 80% circumcised)?

actual Zionists

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. For real, you pretty much ignored every point I made about it without comment. And you won't define what you think an "actyual Zionist" even is. It's turning into Schrodinger's Zionist being somehow widespread, but also with a set of views that's impossible to pin down but probably extreme.

"Actual Zionists" say all sorts of things. There's a wide spectrum of them, especially if you include all definitions of what a Zionist might be.

If you're going to protest circumcision, don't protest Jews. Protest circumcision. It is not universal inside and certainly not nonexistent outside. Don't use it as an excuse to inaccurately target a religious or maybe ethnic group.

Um also, why didn't you mention Muslims? Circumcision is common there too and there's a heckuva lot more musliums than Jews.

So yeah, I'm going to say that is someone is boycotting just Jews because of circumcision then they are an antisemite using an excuse to target Jews.

I wouldn't say it soared. I would say that it recovered a bit, because the market had previously overcorrected. It is still below its highest March 2024 close, and barely half of its peak price.

As I understand it, most ARM devices don't have anything like BIOS/EFI/UEFI/Open Firmware to provide information about what hardware is present, so you configure the OS with a custom device tree file that provides that info instead. Some server hardware actually does have UEFI (SBBR), so presumably could support a truly generic boot image, I think, but someone more familiar with it may correct me on that point.

Sure they do. Ampere Altra Max has 128 cores of ARM goodness. The benchmarks show it mostly running about half the speed of recent AMD and Intel offerings, and actually beating the Xeon in some tests, but using significantly less power to do it (resulting in better performance per watt).

And with more and more server workloads depending on outboard GPUs and TPUs for most of the interesting workload, raw server CPU performance is likely to take a back seat to power consumption anyway at some point.

Well you've certainly proven you're number one at dragging culture wars into every unrelated thread and not being able to shut up about gender for five minutes.

If you're so bothered about gender identity and thinking about it this much you might find Twitter to be more to your taste than slashdot.

I think you have very much misunderstood his point. He's not saying that Jews are unique in being able to hide their ethnicity, nor unique in benefiting when we do so. What he's saying that the attitude to that from outside is often different for Jews. If a mixed race person can pass as white and chooses to do so, it's generally acknowledged (especially by the progressive left, which is the point of view the book is written from) that this is a bad thing because they should not have to hide their race in order to be treated decently.

With Jews the attitude has been much more "well what's the problem you can pass as white so you're fine".

Regarding Zionism, two things. First...

Imagine I was taking to someone from a Shia Muslim background. Let's say they mentioned racism and how religion and culture were somewhat intertwined. And I've responded "well black people also have racism. And what about 9/11 that was pretty bad. Did you know about the slavery in Saudi Arabia, also the Taleban are trying to wipe out an other religions in Afghanistan".

None of those things is wrong. Acknowledging them isn't inherently racist. But you'd sure as heck give me the side eye for that response. And that's not all that far from your response.

Think about it. I'm telling your your response was a bit weird and you are essentially pointing out it wasn't factually incorrect. You are arguing a different point.

As for Zionism, I think you are muddled about it. Many consider the state of Israel to be a colossal act of Zionism. Are you arguing that Jews were in more danger from 1948 onwards than before? That seems a stretch to me, frankly. If you want to argue that the settlers are armed thugs who all ought to be in prison, are making life worse for everyone, ought to be in prison and it's deranged they've been supported by the army for decades, you won't find disagreement here, but again, why did you bring it up?

As for religion. Like I said religion ethnicity and culture are not cleanly separable. It's a bad road to go down where done religions get special laws and freedoms not afforded to others and I am against that. But not protecting religion leads to absurdities. Consider the alternative.

Let's say I could be refused service for being an observant Jew, but not an ethnic one. Well how would anyone know? Would it be ok to refuse me service if they say me leaving a shul? But the thing is I am an atheist might well be seen leaving one after, say, a bar mitzvah. Yes that's a religious service, but to not go would be to renounce a large part of my culture and stick a huge middle finger up to my family.

Or if you prefer a non Jewish example, what about a attending a church wedding? That's a religious ceremony too.

If you allow free discrimination based on religious worship or gets utterly absurd and yet people have discriminated so protections are needed.

As always it's a fine line and they're are always edge cases and what you hear about will be 90% arseholes, because basically laws are for arseholes more or less. But just because something is hard and impossible to get right didn't mean that bit doing it is more wrong

Sure, but I'm not currently talking to those people. I know what broadly speaking people are bigoted and I know that people will latch onto events to flaunt their bigotry.

You're the one who jumped from me taking about my ethnicity to *but Zionists*. Would you have done the equivalent for any other group?

Anyway read the book. It'll be better reading than "10 years to save the west".

They *are* making them. The dealers are not *selling* them. And if the dealers aren't selling them, they're not going to make larger quantities of them. And as I said, the dealers have every reason to *not* want to sell them. They don't make nearly as much money off of EVs on an ongoing basis, because they require far less service (fewer major malfunctions, no oil changes, fewer brake jobs, etc.).

Also, unionized car companies are under heavy pressure from the unions to drag their heels on EVs because there are fewer parts to put together, and the cars require less human labor to build, which means fewer workers. (Pedantically, they don't require significantly less human labor, but a big chunk of the labor shifts to the battery manufacturers.)

No conspiracy is needed. The car manufacturers have unions pushing them on one side to not make EVs and their dealer network pushing them on the other side to not make EVs. What possible incentive, other than being compelled to do so by law, could possibly get them to build more EVs that cost more (and by extension, will sell fewer units even in an ideal world) under those circumstances?

Hmm I have a house, a garden (not a yard), a bicycle, no car and regularly use public transport.

Not really sure what the problem is.

Depends on the vehicle. Some cars stop doing that after a period of time, and some use a power threshold. There might even be some cars that don't do it at all, but I'm not sure.

For Tesla, as I understand it, the HV battery is used to periodically recharge the 12V battery as long as the HV battery is above 20% SoC. So for most EVs, the answer is yes, just because Teslas are... well, most EVs. :-D

To understand why, you need only look at what Tesla does with the 12V battery. When sentry mode is active, both the self-driving computer and the MCU are active (with the screen off), drawing as much as O(300) watts continuously. The 12V battery in a Tesla is a 33AH battery (around half the size of a typical ICE car's battery), which means that at 300 watts, it would completely deplete the battery in about 79 minutes.

There are, of course, various intermediate levels of consumption between deep sleep and sentry mode that have various levels of power consumption, resulting in the battery charging anywhere from frequently to rarely.

And of course, sentry mode is automatically disabled below 20% state of charge so that it won't kill your 12V battery. :-)

I'm not particularly angry, but I am pointing out in strong language what you are doing. If you want to understand, read David Baddiel's book on the subject.

Now bear in mind you've taken a very few steps to get from me saying in response to a comment about protecting religions "well ethnicity and religion in Jews is not well separated and racists don't care" to taking about Israel, Zionism (which you still aren't clear over) and the genocide. That's massively extreme, frankly.

Why? Why do you think this is relevant? I have no control over Israel. Any random American had more control than I do because they at least have as chance against voting for a representative who would cut aid. I'm not a citizen. I have no voting rights. I'm British.

This is very little different than all the usual suspects bringing up crime statistics, and cherry picking the worst examples of a very broad category in order to taunt the whole when people are criticising the police over violence against black people. You wouldn't do that, so why drag it in to this discussion?

Like I said get the book and read it. It is not long, it'll take your a few hours.

You would #notallmen if a woman talks about sexism. You wouldn't bring up slave labour in Saudi Arabia if a Muslim talked about Islamophobia. If a black person was talking about experiences of racism you wouldnt "well akshually" and start pointing out others who have worse racism. If a Chinese person did, would you segue nearly into the Uyghur genocide which is also ongoing. All I ask is that your extend the same courtesy to the Jews.

Motor vehicle pollution is still a massive cause of illness and death.

Better than massively totally fucking awful can still be pretty terrible.

As for the worrying about poor people, they have lower car ownership and tend to live in cheaper places which often means closer to pollution. And besides, the average car price is about $48k and there are EVs for under 30.

I think ICE cars should be taxed heavily and the extra tax should be used to offset vehicle pollution related healthcare costs and the knock-on economic costs of having sick workers. Anything less is freeloading!

If you haven't read David Baddil's book "Jews don't count" you should. He puts it better than I can, so if you want to actually understand the perspective of Jews it's worth a read.

I'm sure there has been an increase in abuse, both of Jews and of Muslims, and Arabs

Don't muddy the waters. You'd recognise that tactic if someone said "white lives matter too", but it's basically the same tactic. We're not in the game of oppression Olympics here, so what are you trying to tell me? anti-Semitism isn't so bad because there are other isms too? I should stop complaining and advocate for someone else instead?

And stop falling into broad tropes with "Zionists". Are you taking about just the existence of the state of Israel, the Jews who support it, the Christians and even Muslims in some case who have supported it, or the more extreme versions like the settlers?

And also wtf is it with yelling me how I ought to relate to my ethnicity, cultural heritage and associated religion? Would you do that to any ethnicity other than Jews?

As for the flag good grief. The union flag is a mishmash or 3 different Christian symbols! 64 out of 195 countries have religious symbols in their flags. Why is it only a problem when Jews do it?

You really need to read that book I recommended.