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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Apple probably didn’t move the needle, at least in any market Intel was actually in.

    Intel’s deep woes began around 2016, when TSMC got ahead of them fab-wise and Intel stuck with in-house. Not a little ahead, years ahead and mostly a branding exercise to assert equivalence (“Intel 7” was just 10nm rebranded, and on the current 3nm front, TSMCs 3nm is over 50% more dense than Intel’s claimed “Intel 3”.).

    At roughly the same time AMD did Zen, coming out of a long bad microarchitectural design.

    Intel basically invested on trying to branch out in unproven directions rather than focusing on actually salvaging their core business. Intel partners were given huge budgets to try Intel’s wacky ideas no one asked for and burdened Intel CPUs with trying to have a built in FPGA or HPC fabric or phase change memory sticks. They thought if they could make a rack of cpu sockets, memory, and I/O that could be freely reassociated they would have a gold mine, despite no one really wanting that (software does fine with traditional setup).

    Then to just utterly drive things home, NVIDIA comes and every IT budget is busy throwing every last dollar they have at GPUs with as little as possible spared for enabling components, like CPUs.


  • Also they did that netburst stuff that was a bad idea, and let AMD beat them to the punch on integrated memory controller… So many scenarios where Intel flubbed the “big change”.

    However they have frequently been good on the little stuff. For a long time they had a fab advantage (and have messed that up for a decade now). There are decent at dotting the "I"s and crossing the ts, including broader software and firmware enablement.

    Nowadays the only software people care about is CUDA and AMD actually has cash to take care of a lot of little things. Intel kept trying to make side efforts happen, like having a rack of memory and processors freely associated in ways no one ever asked for, phase change memory which while cool, was an awkward in-between NAND and SDRAM, various FPGA efforts which they never really figured out the actual point, putting an infiniband variant in the processor package in an awkward way that just made things worse, and a ton of weird accelerator architectures they abandoned within a couple years each time…


  • As those policies are enforced client side, an industrious person could probably see how it works and do whatever. I can’t seem to trigger any age verification to see, but if it works in a web browser, you can pretty much rewrite everything about it and make it upload whatever you like.

    Sy far the only ones I’ve seen are scenarios where I have to upload photo to match my appearance when I show up in person to something, so it’s not useful in that context, but I’m suspecting this scenario is similar.

    The counter argument could be that if a person has that ability, they are probably close enough to being an adult and/or have earned their technically illegal access to porn, and the site operator made a good earnest attempt that stands up to casual lying.




  • Most people I know haven’t even bothered to buy a new TV since Dolby Vision was created. A fair number still have 1080 sets.

    While some like you may certainly demand it and it would be a good idea, I think it’s a fair description to help people understand the goal is an android TV like experience, and a lot of people are oblivious to a lot of the details of picture quality.

    Just a bit over the top for such an overly dismissive statement, versus saying something like “does it support Dolby vision? I won’t be interested until it does”


  • Had the wrong ideas, but also a lack of competence to follow through as well. Also the global scenario wasn’t quite as grim.

    The best outcome would have been no Trump terms at all, and failing that just a single term. But if we had to have two Trump terms I think we would have been better off having them consecutive instead of breaking it up. Because of his loss and then eventual win:

    • His sore loser syndrome kicked in hard and made him more actively want to undermine democracy itself.
    • His tangle with the justice system also had him undermining the justice system.
    • It gave the Project2025 assholes a whole 4 years to scheme how to leverage a Trump win, and now we have a pure PJ2025 administration.
    • It distanced moderate republican leadership who assumed Trump was done, leaving Trump only with the worst of the MAGA sticking by him at the top.

    His first term was moderated because he somewhat abided traditional input and his administration was a mix. He did a lot of the same wrong things generally but failed enough to significantly mitigate the harm. His anti-immigrant rhetoric was real, but also he didn’t care enough to actually follow through as hard as his administration has this time around.

    Though I do agree, I wasn’t exactly excited about 2018.