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Comment Re:Oh (Score -1, Offtopic) 127

Trump and his cronies incited an insurrection against the US Capital with MAGA kooks setting up a gallows outside while chanting, "Hang Mike Pence!" They brought in armed militia members, some of whom were seen holding rings of zip ties. Some were heard calling for Nanci Pelosi and saying they planned, "to put a bullet in her brain". All this to prevent a legal certification of the official electoral college vote.

That's not just opinion, it was broadcast live. Along with Parler and Facebook videos collected from the inside. They didn't disappear. Those records were saved via a data breach. And they ain't going away. Hundreds have already been charged in the attack. Some, already convicted.

If you were in any way involved, your time will come in due course. As former SDNY Prosecutor Glenn Kirchner says, "Justice will be served." Will a big fat F for Felony conviction.

Comment Re:Let the trolls leave. (Score -1, Troll) 251

Surely even a supposed self-unaware purveyor of unfact such as yourself knows this came about over a list of racist and absuive names marketing made of their own customer base. That the founders only chose to limit 'political speech' when it interfered with their own political messaging in the company and in public. That the policy creates a confusing morass of what speech is and isn't allowed, and can really only be settled ad-hoc based on what the founders want talked about in the moment. In other words, an utterly crazy-making demand that issues be discussed unless they are not to be discussed, in which case STFU.

https://www.platformer.news/p/...

Comment Re:Let the trolls leave. (Score 3, Insightful) 251

Let the company fester without qualified employees. Let the CEO piss away all institutional knowledge within in order to pursue his "anti-woke" agenda. Let the company go broke and declare bankruptcy. The "anti-politics" policy here isn't about suppressing political speech, it's about suppressing discontent over terrible management. May you one day never live in the "anti-woke" dystopia you promote. For it is tyranny.

Comment Re:Forced (Score 2) 79

Linux works great for Davinci Resolve 17.1, Blender, and a host of other creative tools. Inkscape is remarkably good, for instance. And while I'm not going to defend GIMP as some great FOSS alternative to Ps, you can mostly match Ps if you mix it with Krita. GIMP has good selection tools and fantastic snapping guidelines support. But it's layers panel is a mess and it doesn't support nondestructive adjustment layers. Krita lacks tools but has real nondestructive adjustment layers and nondestructive layerstyles. So, by moving assets back and forth it's possible to match Ps. Except for mesh deformation via the puppet tool. That has to go off either to OpenToonz or Blender to match that feature.

It's an incredible PITA and I don't doubt Ps and Infinity Photo folks would snort at the hassle of it. But if you want off Windows, it's possible to get image editing work done that way. Still no path for cmyk print output though. After over twenty years.

Comment Re:32 GB of RAM? (Score 1) 235

Good question. I'm arguing with that by cutting the clock divisor it wouldn't need branch prediction logic. But you got me. I only know the marketing images of the chip die and other press materials. I haven't seen internal technical specs of the processor. I don't believe such material is even public. All we know is that it implements at least a standard ARM instruction set. But if I'm wrong, I'd love a correction.

I'd add, with a fast enough interconnect, they could cut back on on-chip cache too. If memory serves, the AMD interconnect runs at the speed of the memory bus. Typically 1gz or so. That's with DDR RAM bound to a bus across the motherboard, with long traces. Put RAM in the CPU package with cm or less trace lengths and I bet it could go at least 1/2 CPU clock. Maybe better.

This is where I'm guessing the main performance boost comes from.

If I was AMD, I might consider a Threadripper package with embedded RAM chips and a memory bus. Could be used for cache. Or as fast ram with flags and instructions to choose fast or slow ram for a thread. And if I was Intel, I'd something stupid like try to burn it all on one chip using a foundry two generations behind the competition.

But again, I got no insight into what any of these guys are really doing on the inside.

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