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Comment Re:Will x86 ever be royalty free? (Score 1) 39

they could license it from Intel or AMD, depending on whether they want 32-bit or 64-bit CPUs

32 bit is over outside of embedded. (Even there I'm seeing mostly 64 bit cores now in the higher end.) Neither of these companies is making any 32 bit PC CPUs any more, intel announced they would stop two years ago. The x86 compatibility in modern processors is a minuscule part of the whole thing now.

Comment Re:Intel? (Score 1) 39

They all had their benefits.

Cyrix was always far slower than their benchmarks suggested in the real world, and almost everyone else's chips as well. The only company more worthless was IDT. This is weird to me because Cyrix had a lot of fancy features, but they just never paid off. At least a K6 was fast if you built software for it.

Comment Re: Cost of scale (Score 2) 56

Oz has always been a piece of shit snake oil peddler, so he's definitely being intentionally misleading.

The government officials giving bad health advice are doing it either mistakenly or intentionally. The AI is just making shit up because it looks similar to shit which exists. The two processes are fundamentally different.

Comment Re: Reading for dummies. (Score 1) 96

Amen to this. My parents were both pretty worthless in most ways but my mother did help instill me with the urge to read early, and that's served me well all my life. I was initially interested in learning to read because of street signs. I could read the paper by the time I was three...

Comment Re: Handmade (Score 1) 161

The bakery products are put together from crap. I had to stop eating the croissants because the enzymes started to wreck my stomach every time. Just one notch above Safeway, which is just one notch above WinCo.

My favorite thing in the bakery is the ciabatta rolls which like Safeway's are shipped as frozen dough

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