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  1. Apple working with Microsoft could easily make their x86 JIT perform better than real hardware. This has to do with how branch prediction, pipelines and cache work.

    that sounds deeply unlikely, or Inte would aready be doing it.

  2. Re:More like Microsoft Metro I think on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But remember ARM. Who started ARM?

    Acorn. ARM stood for Acorn Risc Machines. Apple got involved when it was spun out.

  3. I've encountered several people that don't want anything to do with linux because they have encountered some opensource zealot.

    Then you've met some pretty dumb people. After they meet a Windows zealot and a Mac zealot they'll have to swear off computers entirely.

  4. Re: PhD programs are built on a lie, and must refo on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh, so you're pretty much denying what you wrote. Intetresting! You're acting like an unpaid idiot.

  5. Re:Windows 10 interface + Linux kernel on Linux 4.16 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Give me the FreeBSD kernel with the Windows 7 interface. Clean and no systemd bullshit.

    Give me the GNU/HURD kernel with the OS/2 interface.

  6. Re:improvements on Linux 4.16 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    A daemon never has a reason to crash.

    I've had pulseaudio crash many times!

  7. California should be proud to contribute so much.

    Generally, they are.

  8. Ans as usual the people making a fuss about her being female are the loud "it should just be about the code mah freeze peach" crowd, e.g. you.

  9. Thats great for the lifestyle of the wealthy workers.

    a.k.a. the workers who bring the most value to the company.

    Why are the shareholders and owners of a company subsidizing workers in a state with that tax rate?

    Because they understand that without good empoyees, their shares won't do very well.

    Move to a better state with lower taxes. Enjoy the profits and savings.

    You'll have huge profits with almost no payroll, for maybe 6 months.

  10. So a company has to stay in a state to support the travel lifestyle of its workers after work?

    You have two choices. On the one hand, you can do what it takes to buy services (hire peope) at the going rate, which incudes lifestyle. On the other hand, you can try not doing so and see if you are able to buy enough.

    So basically, yes. What part of capitalism don't you undestand?

  11. Re: PhD programs are built on a lie, and must refo on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I never said you don't have a work ethic,

    Oh you're right you said:

    The result is that if you go straight through, as you are encouraged to by all your professors, you have no aim, you have no real work ethic, and you have no adulthood.

    no wait, that's exactly what you said.

    You really can't read.

    This seems to be the standard excuse from right wingers. When your ideas are so bad that there is iterally no defense, all you're left with is "you didn't read it". Thing is that looks awfully silly when what you wrote is only about 4 posts back.

  12. Re:Endless indoctrination. on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously.

    Indeed. There is no reason I should understand why you're quoting large chunks of irrelevant, poorly written bog posts.

    Oooh! Aren't you precious!

    More so than you, clearly.

  13. Re: PhD programs are built on a lie, and must refo on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 0

    I think you're reading someone else's comments and responding to mine.

    Nope. See, the thing is if you trash talk some group of people, one of them might be listening. So all your preciousness about "oooh you attacked meeeeee" falls flat since you were the one hurling out insults first.

    Nearly all of the people who go to school first and shuffle off to six figure salaries in industry are successful by the metric of being gainfully employed but not successful by the metric of becoming the next Feynman or Salk. That much should be uncontroversial.

    That sounds like literaly the opposite of what you said in your previous post.

    What you seem to find controversial

    was the utter shite you spewed about having no work ethic etc.

  14. Re: PhD programs are built on a lie, and must refo on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Attack the idea, not the man.

    I attacked both the idea and you personally because you attacked first.

    I'm telling you what I've seen in friends and colleagues who went the traditional route.

    And I'm telling what I've seen in myself, friends and colegues.

    As for history, for every one of yours that achieved greatness by age 27, there are hundreds who shuffled off into obscure mediocrity and would have done better not going to grad school.

    The vast majority of people I know left academia to pursue well paid careers in industry. Your dichotomy between academic success and utter failure is a false one.

    In fact median career average salary with a PhD is higher than without.

    My statement stands

    Nope.

  15. Re:Endless indoctrination. on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    The initial problems you experienced were completely predictable, comrade. The academicians and nomenklatura at your institution lacked the proper socio-political awareness and training. Of course such a state is intolerable if we are to build a sound foundation for the future! The situation is being addressed.

    Da comrade. Since all bolts are made equal, we standardised on M3 nyon bolts through out. Any failure was deemed lack of loyalty.

    True story.

    Anyway I've no idea why you're quoting some random obscure blog at me about "engineering education" as opposed to the actual teaching of engineering. You don't seem to realise I'm taking the piss. None of whatever the hell it is you're complaining about actually made it in.

    I think you're spending far too much time cluching your pearls and complaining about how peope areusing their freeze peach all wrong.

  16. Re:PhD programs are built on a lie, and must refor on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The lie is that a 22 year old kid fresh out of school can become an effective scientist by staying in school some more. This is false.

    It's demonstraby true, since the majority of effective scientists have actually done this.

    and more importantly, you have no idea what avenues of research are actually interesting to the world at large

    Neither does the world at large. Your supervisor wil be some guide but ultimately open research is a scattershot approach. Much will come to nothing. Some wil make a huge difference, but it can take decades.

    The result is that if you go straight through, as you are encouraged to by all your professors, you have no aim, you have no real work ethic, and you have no adulthood. And you don't find out until you're in your mid twenties, adrift in your research, have no savings, and have had limited opportunities to gain the confidence of having exercised basic adult skills that you might have made a mistake.

    Speak for yourself. Not all of us were as useless as you.

  17. Re:Endless indoctrination. on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Colleges have become cult indoc centers.

    You go messing around in people's heads, feeding them rampant political bullshit instead of the actual knowledge they paid for, and it has consequences.

    I can attest to this, having taught at university. I would start with a rousing chorus of "the people's flag", before launching into my lecture entitled "Distributed systems and the worker will rise". I think the best exam question I ever set was "Part A) Using Maxwell's equations, derive the equation for the skin depth in an infinite cylindrical conductor. Pat B) show how this proves that the worker must control the means of production". Also because of Marxism, I gave all the students exactly the same grade.

    That ast act sort or caused some truoube with the academic staff, but they realised the error of their ways when I quoted Trotsky at them. Now every student graduates with the same mark.

    True story.

  18. Re:Only six times? on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 0

    Many recent grads are facing the end of 'the party', the realization that 'the party' has left them dumber then when they started college and denial of the both these facts.

    You might want to get your shouder examined because you appear to have a huge chip on it.

    If you have a * studies degree and your not depressed, see a shrink.

    On the other hand, they probably left knowing the difference beteween "you're" and "your".

  19. Re:Is the UK really going to go through with this? on European Commission Says It Will Cancel All 300,000 UK-Owned .EU Domains (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Bad news... I'm not a UK resident. It's as if you don't even know who/what you are arguing against.

    Not being from the UK doesn not preculude you from being stupid, nor does it preclude you from making staggeringly poor arguments. Anyway, I'll bet you still think that $350 million a week is going to the NHS because it was written on the side of a bus.

    In general, elections are organized by governments, some of which include referendums, some of which are legally binding, others not.

    This one wasn't legally binding on the government. Further, there can be no legaly binding referendums which span a general eection because whta we have for a constitution does not allow for that.

    Nonethe less your prevarication won't fix your argument. The referendum was rnu by the UK government which means it instructs the UK government not the EU. The government instructs the EU, which if you remember (hard for you, I know) is precisely what happened.

    In the case of this one, the wording and statements from those who put forth the referendum was clear.

    Beyone "leave", nmothing is clear. No one even has a good idea of that "leave" means. If we go for a Norway model, we will no onger be a member of the EU, but the only practical difference wil be that we lose voting rights. Still leaving though.

  20. Wow you're proposing something! That's incredible, no one ever has any ideas.

    So poor people should be grateful to you when they lose broadband because you took positively minutes out of your busy schedule and wrote a slashdot post. If you spend as much as fifteen minutes a day here I'm sure we'll have all the world's problems fixed within a decade.

  21. sure yes, like I already said but you had your had to far up your arse to realise.

    Now answer this simple question: is that going to happen?

  22. That's because it's a stupid debate you have. Why? Because that isn't happening. All that's happening is the subsidy is going away. No one's debating that replacing it with something better is good. Is utterly pointless to debate what giving unicorns to everyone in place of the subsidy would do, too.

  23. So we should be happy because this subsidy is being removed and you proposed an alternative. How very generous. How many people are going to actually be able to make use.of your alternative?

    Why am I arguing? If you're complaining about SJW, then you have beyond all reasonable sounded doubt demonstrated that you're a total plonker.

  24. Yes sticking it to the political classes by handing power to the likes of Reese Mogg and Boris Johnson.

    Utterly baffling.

  25. Re:Overly Sensitive Much? on Instagram Reenables GIF Sharing After GIPHY Promises No More Racism (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The Universe IS trying to kill you everyday, plan accordingly.

    No it isn't. It's simply utterly indifferent.