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Comment Re:Way to miss the point (Score 1) 78

Uhhh, Catholics are the original Christians. Martin Luther then split off and started the protestants. Catholics are very pro-science, believe in evolution, the big band (discovered by a priest).

Most of the anti science "christians" are born agains, baptists, and other biggoted christian sects, but not Catholics. For some reason they consider Catholics not real Christians.

Comment Re:Ungrateful and arrogant (Score 1) 30

I would be 100% SURPRISED if the whole bunch of advisors didn't advise the Governor to do exactly what he did, because there will be zero fallout. Never apologize - immediately attack. Thanks to culture war society, everybody is getting what they wanted: the Governor got to blow hard about hackers to his people (who will never read, much less believe, the turnabout) and the tech community got its vindication and moment of indignation on slashdot. The end.

Comment HDD vs SSDs (Score 1) 40

Yes - likley this is a cost/TB issue, but I'm wondering what solid data like this is out there for SSDs?

This is from the Backblaze blog
https://www.backblaze.com/blog...

looks like the SSDs are slightly more reliable than the mechanical HDDs. I would think with time the SSDs are more likely to be stable, but realistically, who's keeping a drive more than 7 years on a home computer

I'll imagine that SSDs will continue to make more rapid improvements than HDDs as they are a newer tech. I certainly could do w/o the noisy HDDs.

Comment Re:Degree in English no... (Score 1) 338

We'll need English major to write speeches, go into PR,become lawyers, run companies, become writers , make movies, etc.

I don't want to live in a world where only concrete jobs exist without any art. That sounds like Communist China Under Mao and the Great Revolution.

As far as "proscribes" - sounds like a typo , and maybe they meant prescribes. Autocorrect can be a pain in the neck.

Comment Re:Until you get rid of the Democrats... (Score 5, Informative) 259

A significant amount of the population is actively resisting the vaccine, and we're only at 69% vaccinated. Need about 90+% to achieve herd immunity to effectively quench it.

Currently, the unvaccinated die at a 13:1 ratio to those who've been vaccinated. I'll use data from Texas, so as to placate the Deep-Gubmint, or denier morons.
Vaccinated people get Covid 20x less than vaccinated -e.g. 1:20, or out of 100 people who acquire Covid, only 5 will have been vaccinated, 95 won't have been.

https://dshs.texas.gov/immuniz...

Comment Re:When Exclusivity == Monopoly (Score 1) 38

Are you trolling? Football is essentially a finite resource - there are only so many games per year, and the companies that bid to broadcast the games have really good accountants who know what the revenue and profit will be for those games. The NFL auctions off the broadcast of these games. Amazon bid $1B for the Thursday games - cheaper than the other games because Thursday games are absolute dogshit. "Exclusive rights" is just a stupid way of saying it.

Why the heck would the NFL need let every single broadcaster carry the games? They're not a public service. Oh - and by the way - because of anti-trust concerns, ALL games have to be available over-the-air for the locals to watch. So, just because Amazon (or ESPN, or NFL network), a paid service, gets the rights to show the game to some part of the world, they have to partner with local broadcasters to give the home team a free way to watch the game.

And I say "part of the world" because broadcast rights for foreign markets are usually subject to ANOTHER auction - which means that "exclusive rights" is only "exclusive" to a particular market that is defined in the contract.

The monopoly here is the NFL, poindexter. The broadcasters have a marketplace and competition. The NFL DOES NOT. There were TWO attempts last year to create competing leagues and both of them failed.

Comment Re:Midrange? (Score 1) 76

Are you me? Used RX580, Aorus B550, Ryzen 7 3800.

I got the RX580 off ebay (former miner of course) a few years ago when you could still get one for $250. Kicking myself now for not getting an Aorus for the extra overclocking potential. I've been nursing it along; started getting thermal issues and instead of trying to fiddle with reglueing the heat sink I had a little bit of fun putting a cheap AOI water block on it. Sadly, maxing out the voltage I can still only squeeze 1400MHz out of it. The Ryzen 7 was a recent present for myself to swap out a Ryzen 5. I always sell everything I take out back to ebay in the original packages, so my upgrades are alway pretty marginal.

Comment Re:AMD isn’t ready to be a big chip maker (Score 3, Informative) 32

1) Of the major players only Intel still vertically integrates with fabs, and Intel is rapidly falling behind. Going fabless has been essential for AMD, because it was far too small to support the kind of investment in fabs that is needed to keep up these days. GlobalFoundries is significantly bigger now than it was as an AMD unit and has the capital to compete with TSMC, and TSMC has the power to drive the technology and to build fabs faster than Intel can improve its processes. It's pure idealism that keeps Intel from spinning off its fabs. And hey, that's fine; there are other vertically integrated (much smaller) semiconductor companies and Intel still swings a big stick, the pendulum could swing the other way. It's just that today it doesn't look like that pendulum swings as far as it used to.

2) AMD can't do anything about the shortage of GDDR6 memory, and TSMC isn't the only player that makes it. It's an industry-wide shortage.

Comment Re:Fake article (Score 1) 148

I can't believe it takes halfway down the comments to see somebody get voted up for rightfully calling bullshit on this clickbait.

I knew the Guardian was a rag, but come the fuck on. They should use this article as an IQ test - anybody who takes the headline seriously should be disqualified from voting.

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