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Comment Re:Credit scores are not what you think they are (Score 1) 40

The components of a credit score aren't some state secret.

No, they're a lie.

FICO publishes a helpful infographic.

The infographic is propaganda, and answers zero questions about how the factors which make up each group are actually calculated.

If you've truly kept your utilization low and paid all bills on time, you should double check there hasn't been some identity theft.

I have been watching Experian. There hasn't been anything unrelated to me appearing on my credit report, but my score has gone down as I have behaved faithfully and paid off my debts on schedule. Anyone who believes what FICO claims about scoring is a fool, and anyone who then goes on to repeat their propaganda for them is also a tool — and not the sharpest one in the shed.

Comment Re:Not really a rival (Score 1) 30

their AI chips aren't as good at running LLMs as Nvidia's CUDA cards.

Quite, but AMD is *miles* closer than Intel was to being a realistic threat on this front.

This is very true, and perhaps continuing to close the gap is their strategy for defeating CUDA, since they sure aren't putting enough effort in to do it with ROCm. I'd love to see it, I just don't expect it to work. Happy to be proven wrong, though.

Comment Re:Credit scores are not what you think they are (Score 1) 40

ok whats your score, are you living as your true self with a score in the 600s

My score was 790 a year ago. I faithfully have made my student loan payments, paid off a dental loan, and increased my available credit, and my score is now about 720. Credit scores are a scam and basing anything but applications for credit on them should be a felony.

Comment Re: Everyone start handing out DVDs and USBs of L (Score 1) 129

It's even easier to run *old* windows games on *old* windows...

That's true, but you also can't run old Windows on new hardware, and getting graphics performance out of Windows running in a VM is only even vaguely possible with vmware. Virtualbox's video drivers for Windows are shit, and QEMU/KVM's are even worse. Hyper-V's aren't great either. So you have to keep an old machine around for old windows if you want to run old windows games on windows.

Comment Re:Not really a rival (Score 1) 30

You obviously don't work in a datacenter or with enterprise hardware - it doesn't matter what benchmarks you're looking at, large companies are still buying tons of Intel chips

AMD has been outselling Intel in the DC for what, a year now or more?

This investment is ensuring people don't run *any* AMD anything in the DC.

I don't think you know what "ensuring" means

Comment Re:We are so screwed (Score 1) 119

This is my latest attempt: Everybody in society must take two college or trade school type classes

Right now "society" is making it hard to even be a student. Did you know it's harder for a student to qualify for SNAP than a shiftless layabout? If they're half-time or more (usually 7.5 units) they have to meet an exemption to get food aid, while we give it to people who simply refuse to work. (That does not describe most SNAP recipients, but of course it is a percentage.)

The rest can be done by AI or bots

Did you get into the bad crack this morning?

Comment Re:Not really a rival (Score 1) 30

Nvidia does not have any sort of market in the datacenter where Intel competes

*used to compete, since Intel hasn't had any parts competitive with AMD for years now.

Nvidia is also bringing out their own ARM-based servers, so far the point is to run their GPGPUs cheaper than with amd64 but when the AI bubble collapses they may well have to pivot in that direction to keep up DC sales.

AMD is the *real* rival to where Nvidia makes the bulk of their money

Maybe, except that their AI chips aren't as good at running LLMs as Nvidia's CUDA cards.

Comment Re:Microsoft could avoid a lot of this.... (Score 1) 129

That's not good: https://develop.trustedcomputinggroup.org/ is only a default web server info page, and a mismatched SSL cert. Not reassuring.

Don't see any utilities there for reading my TPM chip. I don't trust these chips at all, seem like something to put other people's data on and keep hidden from me, even though it's my machine. Do not want.

Comment Re:health (Score 1) 47

It's a combination of excessive consumption (sure we've eaten these foods for thousands of years, but not in the same quantities), heavy processing, and artificial ingredients used as replacements for things either because they're cheaper or because the original ingredient is being blamed for obesity/diabetes.

For example, a recent study shows that artificial sweeteners are more dangerous than sugar:
https://www.oncologyrepublic.c...

Multiple governments have been pushing hard to reduce sugar, which resulted in them being replaced with artificial sweeteners making the problem even worse.

The key drivers here are poorly thought out government initiatives to reduce X, and the commercial for-profit food production model which incentivises excessive consumption. The removal of [fat|salt|sugar] being a prime example, they replaced these with artificial junk and now openly promote "now sugar free, you can drink as much as you want!".

Moderate consumption of traditional ingredients is the obvious solution, but no for-profit company is ever going to encourage people to buy less of its product.

Comment Re:20% as much CO2 (Score 1) 71

There have been studies of remote workers that found they don't actually travel less. As I understand it, people use their commute to chain trips for other purposes. Without the commute, those trips get made individually. In many cases people actually drive more.

Not really, they might make a trip to go shopping instead of picking something up on the way back but that's about it. It's also down to city layout as some people may not have shops nearby where they live. The long commute can also be replaced by a short trip to the shop which will often be a walk.
In many european countries lots of people don't even have cars, and if you don't need to commute every day and have basic essentials within easy walking distance you have very little need for a permanent car and can save the cost. For occasional trips there are rental cars or car clubs.

There is a reason central cities exist. They are very efficient. One of those efficiencies is lost when you rely on single occupancy vehicles instead of mass transit and walking.

Trains do a great job of comfortably moving large numbers of people quickly. The areas around stations develop densely to take advantage of that and that density supports the other efficiencies.

Those efficiencies depend on packing people in. Transporting livestock in such cramped conditions is actually illegal in many places, and yet you would willingly subject yourself to such conditions twice a day? You know what would be significantly more efficient? Storing you in a coffin sized pod in the office outside of working hours, that way you don't require housing or travel and can be paid significantly less.
Slavery is the most efficient system of work, is that where you want to end up?

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