It would be interesting to hear an actual argument about why ebooks should be priced less than paper books, since most dumbasses just get bogged down in a discussion of costs instead.
I had a hiring manager from Starkey Hearing Technologies in Eden Prairie MN fail to call for a scheduled phone screen. When I tried to get in touch with the HR recruiter who scheduled the phone screen to see if they are going to reschedule, she failed to return any messages.
"I have never heard of someone getting to an interview stage and then getting flaked on by a company or an interviewer."
"I'm actually able to go back and force the city to not charge me property tax for another few decades if they try to raise this, too--which is good, because plenty of my neighbors are too poor to afford sudden water bill and property tax hikes"
If everyone's assessment on existing construction goes up proportionately, then no one's tax bill increases. What does happen is that you stop disincentivizing new construction, meaning you can broaden the tax bases and *reduce* each homeowner's tax bill.
Another fun fact about limitiations on how much property assessments can increase: if there is a real estate market crash and market values decrease you still get the limited assessed value increases if assessed value is still less than market value while new construction, if any, will start assessed at the market value and follow any declines.
The Intel core i9 line has the same architecture and features as the i7 processors.
This has always been true. Intel does not design different cores for i3 vs i5 vs i7 vs i9. If there is any difference in features it is because those features failed testing, whether for speed or functionality, and were fused off. If there is any difference in last level cache size it is a chop.
"it was INTEL that released LYING documentation for the 6-core i9, giving it the SAME TDP as the previous, 4-core i7 used in the 2017 MacBook Pro 15 inch."
It's not lying to put the same TDP in the documentation when the SKUs actually have the same TDP.
But obviously they DON'T.
Only if by "obviuosly" you mean "contrary to observation". After applying the firmware patch the i9 operates at the published specifications.
"it was INTEL that released LYING documentation for the 6-core i9, giving it the SAME TDP as the previous, 4-core i7 used in the 2017 MacBook Pro 15 inch."
It's not lying to put the same TDP in the documentation when the SKUs actually have the same TDP.
"It doesn't seem any more efficient than the hexagonal design patented by bees a few millennia ago."
A hexagonal prism is efficient in a flat plane. A hexagonal frustrum is efficient in a spherical shell. However, when the curvature is different in different directions, e.g. a tube, neither is efficient because a cell's nearest neighbors will be different on the inside surface vs. the outside surface
"It's not about yield. These are all 14nm parts, a very mature node."
A marginal design on a mature process can still have poor yield. Sometimes they can hide it a bit like slowing the frequency for long runs of AVX instructions so they don't have to lower the advertised frequency. Other times it's a bit harder to hide.
"so long as the salaries for real jobs are significantly higher than UBI"
By definition this is true. Those working get their wage plus UBI and those not working get just UBI, so those working always get more money. No roll-off of benefits, no weird discontinuities where if you earn more you wind up with less.
Clearly made up, since the recruiter would never have actually looked at you resume to note that you had a PhD and would just be going down a list of phone numbers that an automated search spit out.
(Yes, I have responded to recruiters saying they clearly did not bother to compare the job to my qualifications and are WASTING MY TIME.)
"The problem with your argument is, AMD does ship an 8 core part with SMT (I thought everybody knew that?). So Intel is doing a deliberate defeature, and you are sufficiently gullible to believe otherwise."
The ability of AMD to get sufficient yield for an SKU tells you nothing about the ability of Intel to get sufficient yield on a different SKU. Intel can clearly make SMT parts as shown by the existence of the i9. Remember, Intel isn't making different cores for these parts.
"This is clearly all about marketing."
My point is not that it isn't about marking but that it isn't DRVEN by marketing. This is marketing trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
The article you cite does not mention the aging Baby Boomer generation even once.
I'm not saying retiring Boomers explains away the whole decline, but to fail to include a large, well-known, and anticipated demographic shift in an analysis on participation rate---even to refute its effect---makes the whole thing suspect.
The one point where I would disagree is the implication that Intel is doing a deliberate defeature for marketing purposes. Everybody is constrained at the high end these days and if you could make more fully featured high-end SKUs you could sell them.
What I suspect is really happening is that there is a timing problem that's affecting their binsplits and they discovered they can recover the timing if they disable HT. So they redefine the SKU so they can defeature HT rather than down-bin the silicon.
"the saved space was used to expand the number of actual cores"
a) There's no way you're gonna recover enough die area from removing HT from even the most multi-core SKU to equal the area of an entire additional core. b) There's no way you're going to floorplan an entire new core to recover that area from HT for just this SKU. All of the non-server i3/5/7/9 SKUs use the same core layout. (Sometimes the server parts will make core edits and they definitely have different mircrocode ROMs, but all the server SKUs will use that core layout.)
" certain ads are more/less effective when shown to groups divided on 'protected' attributes"
Except Facebook never provided a facility that could target ads to African Americans, you could only eliminate them from ad targeting. It was never a general purpose ad targeting facility, and defending general purpose targeting is actually off-topic.
"Honestly given the choice between breaking nearly every webpage on the internet without manual intervention, and having a soundless animation display I'll pick the latter any day of the week."
Honestly given the choice between breaking nearly every webpage on the internet without manual intervention, and having a soundless animation display I'll pick the former any day of the week.
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It would be interesting to hear an actual argument about why ebooks should be priced less than paper books, since most dumbasses just get bogged down in a discussion of costs instead.
I had a hiring manager from Starkey Hearing Technologies in Eden Prairie MN fail to call for a scheduled phone screen. When I tried to get in touch with the HR recruiter who scheduled the phone screen to see if they are going to reschedule, she failed to return any messages.
"I have never heard of someone getting to an interview stage and then getting flaked on by a company or an interviewer."
Now you have.
The key part was "of the area". Some property assessments changed relative to others, so some of the tax bills changed relative to others.
"We are a solved specie."
Speak for yourself. I, for one, am a federal reserve note.
"I'm actually able to go back and force the city to not charge me property tax for another few decades if they try to raise this, too--which is good, because plenty of my neighbors are too poor to afford sudden water bill and property tax hikes"
If everyone's assessment on existing construction goes up proportionately, then no one's tax bill increases. What does happen is that you stop disincentivizing new construction, meaning you can broaden the tax bases and *reduce* each homeowner's tax bill.
Another fun fact about limitiations on how much property assessments can increase: if there is a real estate market crash and market values decrease you still get the limited assessed value increases if assessed value is still less than market value while new construction, if any, will start assessed at the market value and follow any declines.
The Intel core i9 line has the same architecture and features as the i7 processors.
This has always been true. Intel does not design different cores for i3 vs i5 vs i7 vs i9. If there is any difference in features it is because those features failed testing, whether for speed or functionality, and were fused off. If there is any difference in last level cache size it is a chop.
The thing about areas of low population density is that MOST PEOPLE ARE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
The real, acknowledged problems with rural broadband have nothing to do with connectivity in metropolitan areas with over 1 million people.
"it was INTEL that released LYING documentation for the 6-core i9, giving it the SAME TDP as the previous, 4-core i7 used in the 2017 MacBook Pro 15 inch."
It's not lying to put the same TDP in the documentation when the SKUs actually have the same TDP.
But obviously they DON'T.
Only if by "obviuosly" you mean "contrary to observation". After applying the firmware patch the i9 operates at the published specifications.
"it was INTEL that released LYING documentation for the 6-core i9, giving it the SAME TDP as the previous, 4-core i7 used in the 2017 MacBook Pro 15 inch."
It's not lying to put the same TDP in the documentation when the SKUs actually have the same TDP.
"Analysts less wrong than usual"
"There are no credible reports of that"
I just pointed out one. They have NEVER FIXED AVX.
"It doesn't seem any more efficient than the hexagonal design patented by bees a few millennia ago."
A hexagonal prism is efficient in a flat plane. A hexagonal frustrum is efficient in a spherical shell. However, when the curvature is different in different directions, e.g. a tube, neither is efficient because a cell's nearest neighbors will be different on the inside surface vs. the outside surface
"It's not about yield. These are all 14nm parts, a very mature node."
A marginal design on a mature process can still have poor yield. Sometimes they can hide it a bit like slowing the frequency for long runs of AVX instructions so they don't have to lower the advertised frequency. Other times it's a bit harder to hide.
"stopped exactly ZERO terrorist attacks."
They caught Ted Kennedy. Surely that counts for something.
"so long as the salaries for real jobs are significantly higher than UBI"
By definition this is true. Those working get their wage plus UBI and those not working get just UBI, so those working always get more money. No roll-off of benefits, no weird discontinuities where if you earn more you wind up with less.
Clearly made up, since the recruiter would never have actually looked at you resume to note that you had a PhD and would just be going down a list of phone numbers that an automated search spit out.
(Yes, I have responded to recruiters saying they clearly did not bother to compare the job to my qualifications and are WASTING MY TIME.)
"The problem with your argument is, AMD does ship an 8 core part with SMT (I thought everybody knew that?). So Intel is doing a deliberate defeature, and you are sufficiently gullible to believe otherwise."
The ability of AMD to get sufficient yield for an SKU tells you nothing about the ability of Intel to get sufficient yield on a different SKU. Intel can clearly make SMT parts as shown by the existence of the i9. Remember, Intel isn't making different cores for these parts.
"This is clearly all about marketing."
My point is not that it isn't about marking but that it isn't DRVEN by marketing. This is marketing trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
-1, invoked generality of patent title or abstract instead of the specificity of patent claims.
The article you cite does not mention the aging Baby Boomer generation even once.
I'm not saying retiring Boomers explains away the whole decline, but to fail to include a large, well-known, and anticipated demographic shift in an analysis on participation rate---even to refute its effect---makes the whole thing suspect.
The one point where I would disagree is the implication that Intel is doing a deliberate defeature for marketing purposes. Everybody is constrained at the high end these days and if you could make more fully featured high-end SKUs you could sell them.
What I suspect is really happening is that there is a timing problem that's affecting their binsplits and they discovered they can recover the timing if they disable HT. So they redefine the SKU so they can defeature HT rather than down-bin the silicon.
"the saved space was used to expand the number of actual cores"
a) There's no way you're gonna recover enough die area from removing HT from even the most multi-core SKU to equal the area of an entire additional core.
b) There's no way you're going to floorplan an entire new core to recover that area from HT for just this SKU. All of the non-server i3/5/7/9 SKUs use the same core layout. (Sometimes the server parts will make core edits and they definitely have different mircrocode ROMs, but all the server SKUs will use that core layout.)
Damn, now I'm a Portlandia character. I don't even live in Portland any more!
I've never understood using a UI for data that I expect to stay the same for viewing data that I expect to change.
Then again, I don't even use the bookmarks UI for bookmarks.
" certain ads are more/less effective when shown to groups divided on 'protected' attributes"
Except Facebook never provided a facility that could target ads to African Americans, you could only eliminate them from ad targeting. It was never a general purpose ad targeting facility, and defending general purpose targeting is actually off-topic.
"Honestly given the choice between breaking nearly every webpage on the internet without manual intervention, and having a soundless animation display I'll pick the latter any day of the week."
Honestly given the choice between breaking nearly every webpage on the internet without manual intervention, and having a soundless animation display I'll pick the former any day of the week.