wewbull
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- Comment on The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust. 2 days ago:
I doubt that was a literal shower thought .
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 2 days ago:
My thoughts are “Why do they need one?”. It’s not like UEFI stops you doing anything.
UBIOS’s unique features over UEFI include increased support for chiplets and other heterogeneous computing use-cases, such as multi-CPU motherboards with mismatching CPUs, something UEFI struggles with or does not support. It will also better support non-x86 CPU architectures such as ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch, the first major Chinese operating system.
[citation needed]
I would say this is about increasing the level of control of the platform, not about technological issues.
- Comment on William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes 2 days ago:
- Comment on Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’ 4 days ago:
FFS!
How hard is it ? Nobody needs more reasons not to be a doctor. They are valuable to society. That justifies good pay. Nothing wrong with that. Lawyers are more debatable, but certainly they perform a civil function and often serve a community.
Go after the companies that are robbing you blind.
- Comment on Ed Miliband says it is ‘possible’ that UK government should leave X 1 week ago:
Government ministers are bound by collective responsibility and so if Milliband states something definitively it is taken as government policy. All other members of government would be expected to say the same thing.
So the weasel words here are because it’s not agreed government policy that they should leave X. I expect they haven’t discussed it. If he’s more definitive it would potentially expose a split in opinion within the government (Oh the horror!).
Understand the code words. His opinion is that they should leave. This is his way of making it a topic for discussion in the government.
- Comment on I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species. 1 week ago:
I think you’re seeing the tragic result of a shark having shark repellent bat-spray used on it.
- Comment on Xbox requires age verification now 1 week ago:
Won’t somebody think of the children? (/s)
The death of online gaming? - Comment on 1 week ago:
Or he’s old enough to be able to been schooled in handwriting?
- Comment on Dutch government intervenes at Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia 1 week ago:
Also China require local representatives in subsidiaries management in China, possibly even Chinese leadership. The Dutch are only playing from the same rulebook.
- Comment on those of you with good skills to defuse a tense situation at the workplace, what advice can you give me? 2 weeks ago:
Conflict often arises because somebody is pissed off and nobody is listening. The first thing to do is listen and understand where they are coming from.
Tense situation is a karen yelling at one of my colleagues because her father’s operation was postponed because I kid you not 4 doctors called in sick today. Rumor has it they’re striking for better pay.
So, this “Karen” has a sick relative that she wants be helped, and nobody is helping. Sounds like she’s got a fair reason to be agitated. Now you may not be able to do anything personally about it, but ignoring her makes the situation worse. Listening and then explaining why you’re unable to help, maybe pointing her in the direction of somebody who has responsibility.
The first thing is to listen, then show a little fucking empathy.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 2 weeks ago:
A paper mill will produce a lot of papers.
- Comment on Caltech team sets record with 6,100 qubit array 2 weeks ago:
At that size it should be capable of solving significant problems, but there absolutely no mention of what it could be applied to.
Whilst building it is interesting and an achievement, it’s greatly diminished if nobody does anything with it.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 2 weeks ago:
You know the company printing out all those labels was going “Didn’t pay for the spell check service…”
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 2 weeks ago:
Probably was.
- Comment on Move Fast and Break Nothing | Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT. 3 weeks ago:
Safer than ChatGPT you say? Wow…
That isn’t a high bar.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It changes.
In the UK the sequence Cameron -> May -> Johnson -> Truss -> Sunak definitely had differences. They were variations on a theme sure, but there were differences.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Impeachment just opens somebody up to trial without the protections of the office. It does not remove them from office.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Probably depends on what you mean by populist.
- Enacts the popular-will of the people: sure, maybe
- Stuffed full of people who will lie to the people just to be popular: sure, maybe.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Try reading them in bed laying on your back. When you fall asleep and drop them on your face, the heavy ones will make you cry.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries? 3 weeks ago:
I’m with you. I think the markets are going to be demanding results very soon now. When they do…Nvidia, Meta, Google, X, Microsoft stock prices are all going to go into free-fall.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries? 3 weeks ago:
Datacentres powered by coal are bad. Cruise ships are worse.
Coal Vs Marine fuel. You’ve picked the kings of pollution.
Coal is worse for CO2. The free carbon it releases binds with oxygen in the atmosphere to produce more CO2 mass than the coal itself. It’s crazy how much CO2 it generates.
Heavy fuel oil / bunker oil / marine fuel is cheap ass shit that contains masses of pollutants. So whilst it won’t generate as much CO2, it will create a load of other stuff including Sulphur Dioxide. That creates acid rain.
Here’s an idea. Let’s do neither of them.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 3 weeks ago:
Which is what Textsecure was. The precursor to Signal. Signal did it too, but removed it because it confused stupid people.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 3 weeks ago:
Signal has never done that. Whilst the app might not be available in some regions they’ve been proud to talk about how people can use it to avoid government barriers.
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 3 weeks ago:
FFS the problem is the price disparity between standard prices and “loyalty card” prices. It’s anti-competitive.
How is that not obvious to politicians?
- Comment on A sausage is meat in an intestinal casing so when you have anal sex with someone you turn them into a you sausage. 4 weeks ago:
We’re all shit sausages.
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 4 weeks ago:
Earth, Wind and Fire is where it’s at.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UK 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but we don’t actually want that.
We live in a surveillance state and don’t want it to go further.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 4 weeks ago:
No they can’t because we use them for different things. One ID means one system that tracks everything. Also, you don’t have to have a passport. You don’t have to have a driving license. Everybody needs an NI number to work, but it’s not an ID (No photo, DOB, etc).
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 4 weeks ago:
You’re nearly 40 and have to show ID to buy alcohol?
- Comment on proof of wormholes 4 weeks ago:
It’s on the box.
