Mattress Firm

Burgers are fine-dining now. Still trying to find cheap food that’s nutritious and doesn’t contain too much fiber for medical reasons. Eventually that will be fine dining prices too.

Do you have a source for AMD chips being especially energy efficient? I don’t consider them to be even close. M3 is 190 cinebench points per watt whereas Ryzen 7 7840U is 100. My ppw data doesn’t contain snapdragon x yet, but it’s generally considered to be a multithreading king on the market and it runs as signifcantly lower tdp than AMD. SoCs are inherently more energy efficient. My memory of why is the instruction sets on x86 allow for more complicated process but ARM is hard restricted to using less complicated processes as building blocks if complexity is required.

Like I mentioned though, there are tasks that x86 cannot be beat on but it’s because they use ASICs on-chip for hardware accelerated encoding/decoding and nothing is more efficient at a task than a (purpose-built, task specific*) ASIC /FPGA.

Dell is already releasing Qualcomm SoC Latitudes. There are bound to be compatibility issues, but performance wise it’s kinda undeniable that this is where the market is going. It is far more energy efficient than an Intel or AMD x86 CPU and holds up just fine. The main downsides you’ll see could likely be resolved with ASICs, which is how Intel keeps 4k video from being choppy on low end APUs for example. Compared to M4, Qualcomm’s offering is slightly better at multithreaded performance and slightly worse at single thread. The real downside to them is really the reliance on raw throughput for tasks that both brands of CPUs have purpose built daughter chips for.

Poor guy, is he being carried by a firefighter?

Looks like maybe cut an artery on the window to me. Scary stuff all around.

I find it hard to believe someone can recognize patterns well enough to do well on an IQ test could also be so stupid as to not realize everyone hates him and just wants his money.

This statement automatically reads as more correct than anything ever uttered on a right-wing podcast.

If anyone needs a demonstration that police are only here to protect capital, here you go.

There are memory trainings that happen automatically every time the machine is booted. The more intense ones happen after a full shut down, but ddr4 was far less noticeable than the intense ddr5 trainings which often even need an additional power cycle to get right. These are not your typical automatic timings applied in the bios, they’re trial and error timings set by the firmware of the motherboard I believe.

Computers actually got slower to boot after DDR5. It was true that ultrafast boot would boot in something like 5 seconds from post, now auto memory timings are harder to get right and so require more iterations to achieve stability.

I’ve started totalling up the milligrams and buying lower dose versions if it’s over 800mg

The last round of tariffs were paid almost uniformly and directly to large farming conglomerates to keep them silent on the matter. The amount actually left over after paying farmers wasn’t much, certainly not enough to cover the damage it did in other industries. There’s no doubt in my mind that it will be turned into a market manipulation scheme wherein they will invest in the subsidized markets after buying stocks in the relevant corporations once the market settles to its new low state.

It’s a super easy trope to default to. It’s basically removing the chaos from mental scenarios to make it more palatable and voiding the evolutionary utility in having those thoughts in the first place. Seems like it’s more or less a coping mechanism for things likely to be out of our control.

Put this “guy” on a list ya’ll, he’s about to blow.

It’s wild how many people use 80s action movie as their basis for their understanding of the world.

It looks like two guys trying to prevent Michael Reeves’ latest experiment from going live.

It’s pretty much speculation based on a probability that includes the chance to hit a narrow ring of places along earth’s surface, but we don’t know how dense it is, although we’re relatively sure it’s solid, and whether other debris will change its path before it remerges in 2028. It has no risk factor to us until 2032, just in case people are wondering why reputatable science journalists aren’t completely poopooing the narratives of other outlets. We’ll know what it eats for breakfast by 2029.

Engagement mugs have gotta be the worst.

There would certainly be less skepticism about evolution if everyone could see fetuses during development.

I ain’t made no fish baby, I knew you cheated on me.