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Captainant

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  1. I think Intel has stepped on a bigger pile than they realize with the 13th and 14th Gen issues. They're burning their HEDT users and denying RMA and warranty requests on items that Intel acknowledged were manufacturer damaged parts

    The above post is one anecdote, but I know a couple people who have had to completely rebuild their intel 13th gen machine and moved to AMD after constant crashes while using stock mobo profiles.

    8 hours ago, immamac said:

    UCIe is one of the coolest fucking things the industry has coming and people really haven't started to grasp how much of a difference maker it's going to be. I have a meteor lake laptop and after the first few months of shitty bios firmware when they got it dialed in it's incredible. I can't imagine how fucking badass lunar lake with up to 32GB of LPDDR5X-8533 ON PACKAGE is going to be. 

    That's bananas. 68.26GB/s bandwidth available to any core at incredibly low latency. 

    I think other API improvements like direct storage access over PCIe are gonna be a bigger deal for workload scaling than the CPU/sysmem interlink. Most enterprise and consumer software are plagued with single threaded bottle necks that more often than not make data transfer take as much time or longer than the compute work itself 

  2. 6 hours ago, Iceman said:

    Reading the site while not logged in on my phone( safari) sucks ass.  I'll scroll down reading a thread and it reloads almost every time, halfway while reading a post, as if I tapped the screen again.  It's aggravating, and I WANT to read the material.

    and the ads make the reading area relatively tiny.

    I'm not bitching at all- just telling you what happens as a lurker.  You gotta REALLY want to read the shit to stick around, and even then it's like, "Fuck it.  It can wait till I get home."  That being said, there IS a solution available; but a noob might not realize that.

    Why not sign in on mobile web on your phone? It would get rid of those ads

  3. 14 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    Wouldn’t that make the U.S. a state sponsor of terrorism so we would have to sanction ourselves

    I mean, it's not like DoD and Raytheon hasn't sent a supersonic, GPS guided wreath or two to funerals before

  4. 45 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Their client computing group is very profitable. 

    Data center is in freefall. 

    AMD has been eating into their client computing sales, Intel no longer is the go to option in the corporate laptop and workstation segment and AMD has them beat at a lower price and power consumption for most consumer uses.

    On the other hand, this goober just yolo'd a 700k inheritance onto INTC this morning so I'm sure it'll all work out lol

  5. 7 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    You don’t believe at decade of stagnant surcharges is long enough?  I’m sure  infrastructure constructions costs haven’t  risen since ‘14.  

    They've already been raising rates to pay for other shit like generators they can't use, and have been finding many other avenues to increase the rates to Houston.

    So call me crazy, but that CEO's quote and your framing isn't entirely honest about a "decade of stagnant surcharges"

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    Edited by Captainant

    I figured it out - I guess my phone screen was on in my pocket or something and it pocket clicked on a profile and subscribed to that user's posts. And the "members" part of the followed content page is at the bottom under all the annual lists so I missed it at a glance

    ID-10T error.

  7. 53 minutes ago, QuarterJew said:

    They made more than a billion in profit last year (according to them), but they need to raise rates to pay off $1.5B over the next 15 years? Fuck their shareholders, they've already been paid. Centerpoint should be taking some money out of their rainy day fund to pay for the fucking rainy day.

    "The company is on negative outlook with the credit rating agencies," Wells said, according to Houston Public Media. "We take very seriously the affordability of our service, and we are proud that the (transmission and distribution) charges that customers experience today are the same as they were in 2014. but we do need as an industry the opportunity to recover just and reasonable expenses so that we can continue to make the significant investments in our infrastructure that help mitigate the risk of these natural disasters as we move forward."

    Wells, however, did admit that CenterPoint had earned more than $1 billion in profit over the previous year.

    The company said it would seek approval from the Public Utility Commission of Texas to issue bonds to recover $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion of its storm-related costs, Chief Financial Officer Christopher Foster told investors and analysts on an earnings call this week. Foster estimated residential customers could see a two-percent increase in their electricity bills for the next 15 years to pay down the debt, which carries interest. 

  8. 1 minute ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    Is there where I post a ‘come and get it meme’, with some guns I don’t own?  Sorry, not gonna apologize for what I’ve earned.  Started with pink girls shoes being pushed in the dirt as the only colored kid in pretty much every class.  So, kindly fuck off. 

    Also, damn I’d be a cool fucking bastard with pink shoes today…

    It's moreso that EBITDA gets used and abused by the executive class to present a misleading view of their firms finances. It's excessively short term focused and is a systemic contributor to our unsustainable business practices. 

    If you want to enshittify a good business, you're gonna shift from reporting GAAP numbers to EBITDA. Otherwise people will get wise to the shell game

  9. Elmo's FSD gets to tally another kill

    https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-was-full-self-driving-mode-when-it-hit-killed-seattle-motorcylist-police-2024-07-31/

    Quote

    The police said the case remains under investigation, but experts say there are limitations to Tesla's technology dependent on cameras and artificial intelligence. Tesla's rivals such as Alphabet's Waymo also uses expensive sensors like lidars to detect the driving environment.

    "There are so many things that can go wrong" with Tesla's camera-only system, said Guidehouse Insights analyst Sam Abuelsamid. For instance, he said it can inaccurately measure how far away an object is.

    "It is extremely challenging to collect and curate data from all sorts of real-world elements such as motorcycles and bicycles in the broad range of possible weather, lightning, road and traffic conditions," said Raj Rajkumar, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

    This year, Musk shelved Tesla's all-new affordable cars and increased his bets on self-driving vehicles, saying he will be shocked if Tesla cannot achieve full self-driving capability next year.

    Speaking in an interview with the Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley club last weekend, he said a future vehicle will be like a "tiny mobile lounge" where drivers will be able to watch movies, play video games, work and even drink and sleep

     

  10. 30 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    My dad still owns a home (rents it out) in Houston.  If you think "didn't flood during any of those events" isn't central to the marketing both for rental and eventual sale purposes, you ain't very smart.

    My house was built and sold to its first owner right before Harvey and it was high and dry - you bet your ass we're gonna advertise that it's been resilient (so far) against the severe weather whenever it comes time to move and sell this place

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    Edited by Captainant

    2 hours ago, thunderlounge said:


    Are you following the particular board? If you follow an area it will notify on any posts made within, whether you follow the thread directly or not. 

    I thought I might have pocket-clicked on a follow button, but in the "manage followed content" part of my profile it shows "There's nothing here yet" for both topics and forums

  12. ·

    Edited by Captainant

    I keep getting random notifications about new posts on threads as if I'm following a thread, but I don't have any active follows or content that I'm subscribed to. Not a major problem, but the notification spam is annoying 

    Edit: like I just got a notification for a San Dimas thread that just got created?

     

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  13. Not really surprising info about the shooter:

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/fbi-deputy-director-trump-shooter-believed-to-be-author-of-anti-semitic-and-anti-immigration-posts-online/

    While the investigation is not to determine motive, the investigative team continues to review information from legal returns, including online and social media accounts. Something just very recently uncovered that I want to share is a social media account, which is believed to be associated with the shooter in about the 2019-2020 timeframe.

    There were over 700 comments posted from this account. Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect anti-semitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature. While the investigative team is still working to verify this account to determine if it did, in fact, belong to the shooter, we believe it important to share and noted today particularly given the general absence of other information to date from social media and other sources of information that reflect on the shooter’s potential motive and mind set.

  14. 1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

    I've got to admit, I did not see "I'm not persuadable because I'm functionally illiterate" coming. 

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  15. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I’m bugging everybody I follow to move to another platform.  BlueSky is small, but has a lot of good long form discussions, Threads still needs a few things, but has a lot of people and the conversations are not overrun with bots and “pussy in bio”.

    Yeah I'm not gonna go with another zuck owned platform. Dude is a monster towards his users

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