Captainant
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15 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:
Wouldski!!!
Those poor kids. Their parents yanked them back to a shit hole country where they don’t speak the language, don’t own a tracksuit, and will get beat up by America hating classmates when they mention that they miss America.
I think the kids were raised thinking they were Argentinian, not American, considering that putin greeted them in Spanish.
But yeah wow I can't imagine how those kids have got to be feeling right now. It's like something out of a movie
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25 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Harris' background poses quite the conundrum for the GQP. On the one hand, she's black, so full demonization. On the other, Indian/Asian and what they would probably call a model minority despite the brownness.
I had wondered how they were going to handle this and if it could possibly work in their favor. Should have known the answer was badly.
Seeing the GOP completely short circuiting on the idea of someone with more than one ethnic background or identity was an incredible mass self-report
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5 minutes ago, QuarterJew said:
Because I come on here mentioning the hostage exchange when there is no discussion on the topic in other obvious and clearly set apart topics on this forum and then get attacked for it for no apparent reason other then being new?
Not sure if serious....
22 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:Americans released. In turkey.
21 hours ago, KYHorn said:26 prisoners (including 2 Russian minors) were released between 6 countries, with 10 returning to Russia, 4 returning to the US.
The Russian FSB prisoner in Germany was released, as was Vladimir Kara-Murza
Full list of prisoners on both sides, and pictures/descriptions:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/world/who-are-detainees-russia-us-prisoner-swap-intl/index.html
21 hours ago, RPM said:In return, Russia will receive eight of its nationals, including three that were being held in U.S. prisons: Vadim Konoshchenok, Vladislav Klyushin and Roman Seleznyov.
Two Russians held in Slovenia, one in Poland and another in Norway are also headed home. All have known or suspected ties to Russian intelligence, according to U.S. officials.
Key among the prisoners returned to Russia, according to American officials familiar with the talks, was Vadim Krasikov, a convicted murderer who was sentenced to life in prison by a German court in 2021 for killing a Georgian asylee who had fought against Russians in Chechnya. German judges said the killing had been ordered by Russian federal authorities and called it "state terrorism."
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11 minutes ago, QuarterJew said:
So I'm supposed to just rollover and take it in the ass?
This is the most impactful thread ever on Surly, and is about a real war and conflict that's raging, that has ties to sensitive US domestic political issues, and has somehow remained a high quality thread thanks to all the self-policing.
You should probably not come into the thread being a goofball like that as a new user with a low post count, especially when that's the calling card of our new user creation page frequent flier trolls
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Lulz I guess they decided to cut into their billion dollar profit margin some instead of jacking up prices again after all the backlash. What a novel idea, companies using their existing operating margin to cover unexpected expenses instead of pushing onto their monopolized market!
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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
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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
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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
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Edited by Captainant
Their recent issues with 13th and 14th gen chips causing permanent damage to themselves ain't gonna help much either. Their datacenter sales have been getting eaten alive by ARM, it's gonna take more than a leadership change to correct their ship
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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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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.
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53 minutes ago, QuarterJew said:
Not sure if this the right place to post this? https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/centerpoint-energy-rate-hike-19612892.php
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.
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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
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Elmo's FSD gets to tally another kill
QuoteThe 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
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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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Holy shit balls is Intel (INTC) Fucked?
in Business and Markets
I disagree, ARM is so customizable that if customized to the right spec frequently beats x86 in raw throughput and processing capacity - not to mention the lower power consumption. That sort of thing probably is going to live more in the datacenter than in end-user devices, but every hyperscaler is releasing in-house designed ARM processors that are often a performance uplift (if your code is ARM compatible).
And in terms of client computing I think it's just a matter of time until Qualcomm and Apple build something that's good enough but cheaper than x86 that'll eat away at their base of sales. No doubt that HEDT will still be x86, but that's not really what ARM is meant for anyways