It doesn’t look very happy being leashed to what I hope is a table leg but worry is a horse’s (or some other animal’s) leg. Even its pose looks like one of those “let me fucking go! I’m about to clamp down on anything fleshy I can reach!”

TSMC is the only proven fab at this point. Samsung is lagging and current emerging tech isn’t meeting expectations. Intel might be back in the game with their next gen but it’s still to be proven and they aren’t scaled up to production levels yet.

And the differences between the different fabs means that designing a chip to be made at more than one would be almost like designing entirely different chips for each fab. Not only are the gates themselves different dimensions (and require a different layout) but they also have different performance and power profiles, so even if two chips are logically the same and they could trade area efficiency for more consistent higher level layout (like think two buildings with the same footprint but different room layouts), they’d need different setups for things like buffers and repeaters. And even if they do design the same logical chip for both fabs, they’d end up being different products in the end.

And with TSMC leading not just performance but also yields, the lower end chips might not even be cheaper to produce.

Also, each fab requires NDAs and such and it could even be a case where signing one NDA disqualifies you from signing another, so they might require entirely different teams to do the NDA-requiring work rather than being able to have some overlap for similar work.

Not that I disagree with your sentiment overall, it’s just a gamble. Like what if one company goes with Samsung for one SKU and their competition goes with TSMC for the competing SKU and they end up with a whole bunch of inventory that no one wants because the performance gap is bigger than the price gap making waiting for stock the no brainer choice?

But if Intel or Samsung do catch up to TSMC in at least some of the metrics, that could change.

Domions*

Which suggests to me that MS stores plaintext passwords. Because a hash function doesn’t care about the length of what it’s hashing, the output will always be the same length, so they could verify a 300 character password with the same storage space as a 3 character password.

Or burning.

The problem with imperialists is that they might say they are happy with whatever the current concession is on the table today but will still want to expand their power beyond whatever limits it currently has tomorrow.

It helps you become more innately aware of your speed. Gear (which you know either by remembering which one you last shifted to or by touching your shifter) and rpm (which you know by ear and responsiveness) are enough (once you become familiar enough with the vehicle) to have a good idea of how fast you’re going without even glancing at the speedometer.

Also engine braking gives more control over speed and I’m used to doing it, so can add the action to emergency situations without having to think about it so much.

Though the comparison is different when the paddle shifters are involved. I still prefer stick shift over that semi-auto style, but see that as more of a personal preference than technically superior. If anything, semi-auto is probably the superior one.

Though I’d also add the caveat of the technical differences between all three not being significant overall in practical terms. The biggest difference is probably just that driving MT takes additional skill that not everyone has or is comfortable learning/using. Which is nice as an anti theft feature but can be annoying if you want to trade off driving but the other drivers can’t drive your vehicle.

Glass would also be better for heating it to melt crystals.

Lol back when games were simpler, they were harder because one of the few ways they could make a game harder was to reduce the amount of leeway you had from needing to do pixel perfect moves.

Plus a lot of older games didn’t even have save points, so you either beat it in one sitting, left it on and hoped the power didn’t go out or no one else wanted to use the system.

Oh and arcade games were often tuned to let you have fun for a bit then suddenly get way harder so you’d lose and need to put quarters in if you didn’t want to start over from the beginning and ports to consoles often kept these mechanics. I remember noticing the pattern in mortal Kombat, where I wasn’t very good at the game (in hindsight) but could consistently win one match only to lose the next one, continue and repeat until I ran out of continues.

Imo all safety studies should be duplicated, with one run by someone that wants the study to give a safe and effective conclusion and another run by someone who wants the study to give a dangerous or ineffective conclusion. Both studies monitored by neutral parties that are rewarded based on how long the studies stand up for. And no NDAs (or at least no NDAs that don’t expire once the product hits the market) so that all three can be vocal about any issues they had with how the others wanted things run.

And criminal charges for any kind of corruption.

It’s both sad and hilarious that it’s hard to tell if this is legit or just some fun trolling.

If a shortcut creates ambiguity, then the only way to avoid that ambiguity is to avoid the shortcut.

You can try to define it a certain way, but it won’t work if it depends on people seeing your definition because most people won’t see it. And even if they did see it, they’d need to agree with it.

Personally, I’m not a big fan of interpreting single letters as the name of the letter instead of the sound, unless it’s an initial. I don’t feel strongly enough to complain about it if I see someone use “u” instead of “you”, but your post made me realize I don’t even think of “why” when I see y, I just think “yes”, though context probably affects that.

I had planned on getting a 4k monitor as part of my upgrade path. But then when it came time to get it, I stopped and looked closely at my 1440p monitor and realized that I never thought games didn’t have enough pixels to look good.

I ended up just getting an ultra wide 1440p instead and don’t regret it.

Oh yeah, you just reminded me of how unusable teams was for scrolling back up in a chat to look at older messages on a slower machine. Skype was at least capable of that because it had the history stored locally. But teams unloads the message as soon as it was out of view and needs to fetch it from the server and must have done it very inefficiently because I started giving up on checking chat history until I got my newer machine.

Or:

Hey, check out the new calendar! We have ! Want a tour?

No, you’re describing features that have been in it for a while now, it’s not that new anymore

A few days later: Hey, check out the new calendar! We have ! Want a tour?

Still no, and I don’t mean later, I just mean no

The first time I saw excel open in a web browser, I was impressed that they managed to get it running in a web browser but also appalled that they wanted to get it running in a web browser for actually using it in a web browser instead of just for the novelty, like running doom on anything with a cpu and display.

First thing I do whenever a document opens on the browser version is click the buttons to open it in the native app if I intend to edit it.

They made it shitty to try to justify making it a subscription.

Black eyes, and I’m getting a sense of dread… Darth Vader?

I used to have the FF7 battle music as my ring tone. Because phone calls were random encounters. Certain ones got the boss battle music instead.

Hearing that randomly in public from someone else’s phone would have made me excited to see a kindred spirit. Closest I ever did see was someone using the victory music, but that would have been more appropriate as a hang up tone.

I should do that again. It’s funny because I think it was moving to a new phone and not wanting to figure out how to set custom ring tones that made me put it off until I forgot it, even though the phone that had it was a flip phone that I had to use a special connector to even hook it up to my PC and had to find a program to encode the song in the arcane format used by dumb phones and the phone that replaced it probably just needed me to drop the songs into the right folder or find out how to browse the file system when setting ring tone.

Edit: Just checked, out of curiosity.

On my graphene os phone, they have a list of ring tones it comes with and at the bottom of the list is a plus that opens up the file system browser.

On my Samsung phone, it’s just a list. There’s a plus at the top but that opens up some Samsung music app or something that I’ve never used. It looks like I can add songs to that by putting them in a samsung music folder, though I did have to look twice to see that and wouldn’t be surprised if it only shows approved files that came from them, knowing what Samsung is like with software.

Separate rant but the other day I looked in the bixby settings and noticed there was a button to remove it entirely, so I did so, thinking I might finally get full control of that button. Nope, even less control now, it just launches a “install Bixby” screen instead of letting me set some other action for some of the presses (as long as one of them still opens the voice assistant I don’t want and never asked for).

Not that having cell phones all the time doesn’t potentially create psychological problems itself, even before social media is considered.

Though IMO the way to deal with controlling and abusive parents is to encourage kids to talk about their home life because parents like that will cause issues even without extra ammo of seeing what they kid says when they aren’t around.

I don’t think there are any good guys at the top of any international power pyramids.