Really I had two issues with the interview.

First about half of it is spent talking about AI garbage that’s irrelevant to pretty much everything. Their argument is essentially “the current off the shelf AI setups are built with ARM chips as their general purpose compute tying together the specialized accelerators doing the actual work” which might be true but doesn’t explain why that should continue to be the case. Sort of a correlation does not equal causation type thing.

Secondly, for like 99% of the companies out there doing cloud deployments this is all utterly irrelevant. Most businesses aren’t hyper focused on shaving clock cycles to the point where they’re obsessing about microarchitecture decisions impacting performance. The reality is for 99% of services I/O is going to be your bottleneck and no amount of twiddling with the CPU architecture is going to improve that in a meaningful fashion, and for the overwhelming majority of customers it doesn’t matter in the slightest. Sure your Amazons and Googles and maybe the fintech sector might care, but for your Walmarts and Bass Pro Shops it’s utterly irrelevant except maybe to shave some cost off a slightly cheaper AWS deployment.

As for the consumer market this is even more irrelevant. If you’re not in the market for an EPYC server currently none of this matters to you, which is a shame because the success of Apple with their ARM CPUs provides an opportunity to have a potentially interesting discussion about the relative technical merits of X86 vs. ARM and maybe even RISC-V. Technical merits this interview doesn’t really touch on either, it’s almost entirely a market focused piece with very little in terms of concrete “ARM beats x86 in this way” outside of a vague hand wavy “it has a more consistent micro architecture”.

Seems like a lot of the early LTT crew were chaffing a bit under the LTT contract for a variety of reasons and opted to leave and start their own channels. I hope most of them succeed because honestly I always liked the other hosts on LTT far more than Linus who usually came off as more comic relief than actual tech news. As the old technical crew left I’ve found myself watching Linus Drop Tips very rarely.

Should start a crowd funding campaign to make an even bigger version out of something hard to damage like steel. Make it a regularly scheduled display throughout his entire term.

The 64 bit version of XP was pretty good.

Considering everything we know about Trump, yeah this guy would 100% be his spiritual advisor, they’re cut from the same cloth. He would have fit right in alongside Trump in Epstein’s club.

Hey silver lining, Trump seems to be doing a really good job of pissing off the military leadership and the common soldiers as well. The only ones that are actually supporting him are nut jobs, the grifters who think they can use him, and executives who think they can squeeze more profit out by crawling up his ass.

As for farmers that’s kind of a mixed bag. The problem isn’t so much that they’ll support him as it is that there might not be many of them left. Trumps policies are bankrupting farmers at a record rate and their farms are being snapped up by foreign holding companies. Most of them are going to end up working farms they no longer own.

The two key turning points are going to be the midterms and when it comes time for the next election. Depending on how those events go, and if Trump hasn’t died at some point in the next couple years (either from natural causes or because someone learns how to aim), things will likely go one of two wildly different directions.

If we actually have elections, and if the gerrymandering isn’t so horrendous that it’s impossible to overcome we’ll hopefully see a Democrat elected and we’ll start the incredibly slow crawl back to normalcy, hopefully with some significant reforms to make sure this shit doesn’t happen again. The process is going to take decades to unwind all the damage Trump has managed in just a few years, but in theory we’ll get there eventually.

On the other hand, we could go the opposite direction. Republicans retain the majority in the midterms, and then when the next primary comes around either we just don’t have an election or Trump “wins” a 3rd term despite that being unconstitutional. At that point we’re likely looking at either a civil war, or the US being defeated in a 3rd world war like Germany was in order to undo all this crap. Neither option is good and if things get to that point the world is fucked, the US doubly so.

That’s why I specifically said non-Republicans.

Edit: here, I’ll walk you through the math. The article says 70% of Republicans approved of him and 33% of everyone approved of him. Republicans make up ~30% of the population. 70% of 30% is 21%. That leaves 12% unaccounted for (33-21). So 12% out of everyone both approves of him and doesn’t identify as a Republican, while 21% out of everyone both approves of him and identifies as Republican. The remaining 67% of everyone doesn’t approve of him whether or not they identify as a Republican.

Hmm that suggests the remaining ~10% must be from non-Republicans which is really depressing. I suppose he might have fans in the anti-vaxx movement still and a certain percentage of those are non-Republicans so maybe that explains it.

Edit: Just did some napkin math and it comes out to ~12% of non-Republicans approving of him.

That works out to what, something like 20% of all Americans?

And unfortunately this will change absolutely nothing. Trump and his administration will just ignore it like everything else and nobody is willing to take the steps that would be necessary to actually enforce anything like throwing anyone who ignores these orders in jail up to and including Trump himself.

as you know, with tariffs, everyone’s coming into our country.

Say what? Pretty sure there’s record numbers of people leaving the country right now, and tourism is down across the board so people aren’t even coming in temporarily never mind permanently. If we needed any more proof Trump was delusional this is certainly it.

You’re absolutely right, there’s no way Canada wants anything to do with the absolute cluster fuck Trump has turned the US into.

They may not have a choice of their grand jury cases recently are anything to go by. They can try to get a biased jury, but if the majority of people are against them they won’t be able to.

It seems like both of them are dancing around talking about the actual issue. Reading between the lines, the Steering Committee is claiming moderators aren’t moderating based on the code of conduct but based on personal beefs they have. The Moderation Team is claiming that the Steering Committee is being political and trying to enforce moderation rules that didn’t exist and targeting specific community members. Weirdly they’re both kind of claiming the same thing but blaming each other, namely that moderation is happening that isn’t following the standards.

I’d like to know what exactly set this all off. They obviously have some specific events they’re thinking of, but are refusing to say what those are. Who got banned or yelled at that started this whole thing and why?

It’s because TV speakers are crap and audio mixing is worse. You can’t hear shit. I’ve got good headphones and I’ll watch something on my computer and it’s perfectly understandable. Then I’ll watch the same exact thing on my TV and it’s a garbled mess with the dialog drowned out by ambient noise, explosions, and the music score. No amount of playing with the audio mix seems to fix it. So yeah, subtitles it is.

They have not even begun to dark pattern. Be prepared for free mobile game levels of bullshit in $80 “premium” releases. “Micro” transactions on literally everything. Ads crammed into every available inch of screen realestate including unskippable ads that have to be watched in order to use certain game features. Egregious time gates that you have to pay to skip. Multi-layered battle passes and season passes. Limited time bundles and skins. Lootboxes. Rigged match making that makes sure to pair under geared free players with a player who recently purchased a bunch of OP equipment (in order to allow them to easily stomp a bunch of people with their shiny new gear). Pre-release exclusive items that are locked behind a confusing array of premium editions that only the most expensive $200+ bundle will include everything. Massive chunks of what should be basic functionality sliced off and put into day 1 “DLC”. Intrusive kernel level anti-cheat that somehow doesn’t actually stop cheaters but does conveniently conflict with their competitors games. And the cherry on top, everything is a live service game where anything that under performs their arbitrary sales metrics gets axed in under a year, and even the successful games get shut down after a couple years so they can launch essentially the same game again as a sequel.

And all of this will of course be vibe coded and use AI art assets so it will crash constantly and when it actually does run it will stutter and lag on anything less than Nvidias latest $4000 GPU even with DLSS on and cranked to the maximum.

Lol, not even Fox can find a way to spin this as a valid case. Wonder if we’re about to see more of Trump’s pet lawyers get disbarred.

Fully expecting chip makers to just manufacture a bunch of cheap garbage here that eventually ends up in a landfill in order to avoid the tariffs on their expensive chips. With a 100% tariff and prices per-chip in the $300+ range if they can make a chip for less than $300 even if they immediately chuck it in the garbage they’re saving money. Imagine a whole tray of cheap 500nm chips that are full of defects because they were made with wafers that failed QA. They manufacture them, document that they exist, dump them in a bin in a warehouse, then just throw the bin away in a year as unsold inventory and write it off as a business loss.

No, Andrew McCabe testified that he decided to leak the investigation and then told Comey about it after he had already leaked it. Comey testified that he didn’t authorize the leak or know about it before it happened but that McCabe told him about it after the fact. Their testimonies corroborate each other.

The vast majority of those commenting about him are citizens not foreigners so this is just a bunch of hot air that won’t change anything.