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).

He better get every one of our missiles, destroyed on that first hit. You think he can do that? If we determine he tried something stupid, we'll launch a heartwarming response. And we don't need satellites - we're pretty good with inertial guidance and mapping.

We might be stupid and fat, but we are really really good at killing others, and if Vlad decides to start WW3, We'll almost certainly finish it.

I don't think that your basic Russian citizens are garbage. If they have a failing, its that they can be fatalistic. Which leads to some gawdawful leaders.

I've liked the regular Russians I have met. And I've felt badly for them as well.

Hopefully KGB agent Putin understands that his "last ditch weapon will be followed by the end of the Russian Federation.

At least the USA has maintained their big explody things. They don't work very will if they aren't regularly maintained. Plutonium isn't a real stable element.

As well, presumably the oligarchy understand that our first war in LEO or even geosynchronous will be our last for a long time Might put a kink in Elon's million people on Mars by 2050 plans.

Too bad Boeing didn't design the pistol that Barnett Epsteined himself with. He'd still be alive.

Too soon?

I suppose that if your goal in life is to work for wages that the only reason they pay that much is because they are forced to, then Work for that minimum, and strut around like you rule the world.

Point is, yeah, you are still at the very bottom, and no where lower to go. Want a cookie?

I fully recognize that you need to pay good wages to get good employees. My peeps and I are paid really well. And we work the hours we need to work, and perform at the top of our fields. Work hard and play hard.

And here's the thing, Since Europe likes to move both the best and worst workers to the mediocre middle, well there ya go. It might be related to the fact that the EU is a lot better at regulating than innovating.

As I've told the 4 day a week people, you go ahead and work that 32 hour week. I'll work as many hours as I want, you'll have to make it illegal and arrest me if that's your thing.

And you are competing with me. Good luck.

Yes, some people get annoyed with that. It's a tradeoff. I get annoyed with mediocrity, and laziness if it is present.

That balances out, don't ya think?

Now go have a Big Mac.

As a company that morphed from an Airplane manufacturer to a company run by MBAs and Bean counters, and prime focus was only on servicing the stakeholders, and the planes and Engineers were a nuisance that got in the way of the next quarter's profit, retaliation sounds exceptionally plausible, after all, the planes and engineers are merely the nuisance that gets in the way of the real purpose of the company now. That sounds sarcastic, but is true. How dare those lowlife engineers anyhow?

Me too - Your wife is pretty awesome and a lot of fun.

I think the people who understand this research should go to the links referencing the paper, not the ding-dong reportage from The Independent.

The two papers by 15 authors were published in Nature and Cell, and they have a reproducibility checklist for people. I do not have the names of the peer reviewers.

This looks like it was done by the book, so I give it some legitimacy.

Now as for the breathless reportage by the Independent, I pretty much think that is just what it is. Breathless. I'd call it the first time we have recorded it, not the third time it has ever happened. Science "journalism" really needs some people who aren't just communications majors who were assigned a science subject.

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.

It it breaks your computer, it is very secure.

60 days, so around 3 months. 2 personal days. 2 days a month sick time that accumulated. It isn't bragging, you only see it that way because it defies your narrative.

Other places have less, few have more. But no, it isn't a select group. In point of fact, I seldom took all of the vacation days. Other than the time I broke my ankle playing Ice Hockey and miscellaneous dental work, I didn't use much sick leave either. Don't fret though, I got paid for those days upon retirement. Not bragging, just a point of fact.

It isn't a data point, and it isn't a whole country I'm referring to.It's just something that doesn't conform to your narrative. And you are quite triggered by it. Your propaganda does not allow for accepting that. I only offer it as a counterpoint to your narrative. We don't have guvmint mandated vacation or sick leave. But you make an interesting point that we'll revisit soon.

If you think that I care about some rando posting about their superiority, sorry, I do not. I do however get some small measure of satisfaction of having the vaunted supremacists of Europe get triggered. The amount of popcorn munching this whole topic provides us, where it is pointed out quite truthfully that Europeans are less hard-working, less ambitious, more regulated and more risk-averse than the US.

I simply love pissing you folks off. And it is so easy.

Extra "data point" for you - I retired at 55.

Ah, I see. Other's can judge your countries as well. Here are some links of how you treat your neighbors. Read them then come back with your attitude of Europe's kind and caring attitude. Seems that racism is alive and well in your area - https://www.bbc.com/news/world... https://www.euronews.com/2023/... https://www.un.org/en/chronicl... How are you and the Romani doing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://news.un.org/en/story/2...

And the crown jewel of European care about people What happened to Europe's Jewish population? https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Why are they so little represented in Europe now? Did Europeans do something that bothered them a little bit? What happened?

There are many more. No "single data points" at all

Luck had very little to do with it. Careful planning and bringing value added to my work did. My son is doing quite well too, if it is any of your business. He's rising in management in his company, buying a house soon.

You have your own very inconvenient truths to deal with. You paint a rosy picture of European superiority, with free people and a caring government supporting them, and living their best lives, yet have your own problems with poverty, racism, and an exceptionally sordid history. Read the cites, they aren't propaganda.

The difference is that we Americans face our shortcomings, we know we have problems - as do all countries, while you ignore your own, and your malicious projection would just seem to be you hiding from your truth.

I probably would not have done as well as I have if I was in a European system. But that's more a you problem than any problem at all for me. I've risen above mediocrity, while the EU embraces it.