its like maga banging along to ratm. contemplative awareness does not seem to be a significant consideration with them.

there is a shift happening. things are bleak af for a while then, suddently all at once, something breaks. a us senator getting off his ass and getting proof of life on his constituent gives me, and I think many others, fire to keep on. these fascist fuckers are not inevitable.

fixing this absolute clusterfuck is going to take time and warm bodies on the streets and lawyers in courts in front of judges that uphold the constitution and members of Congress that tell the truth and a million acts of defiance across the country. its been happening and its getting bigger.

the post-truth world will only get worse (until it perhaps gets better). my daily protestations include flipping off the trumpian images and idols around me at every opportunity and attempting to hold onto what I believe is some sort of objective reality. deviation from this, for me at least, is a road to greater global madness with no option of return.

king maker or not, the people I choose to crew with should not molest the fabric of reality.

🎶 I’m your cult of personality 🎶

seize the means of tariffication!

what the hell is this trash post?! user is clearly a sleeper ad bot.

wow! self-reflection is something we all need more of (especially me). agree or disagree, converstaions are always better when everyone considers things for a moment. nice comment. :-)

I am sure you already know, but the objection here is going after kids. literally profiling and then abusing their vulnerabilities for profit. this isnt your standard cereal box advertising, I think this is something much darker and more disgusting.

edit: added word

gotta love the not so subtle use of red shipping containers in many of these thumbnails. perfect!

all this trump bullshit about “Make America Wealthy Again” contrasted with his actions and the very root of his popular support has not yet figured out that they are not the america he is talking about.

still hopeful that, if trumps idiocy does not directly blow us all to hell, an economic downturn may give us another COVID style environmental breather. silver linings and all that.

elbows up, my friend. elbows up!

old info? have things flipped?

we seem to like it dirty.

[…]our refineries were designed to process oil coming from Mexico and Venezuela. “And a lot of that tends to be relatively heavy and relatively high in sulfur,”

based on proven reserves it looks like venezuela is gonna get canada’d harder than usual.

good observation. wonder how texas and louisiana “drill baby drillers” are doin’ right now…

ok. my apologizes.

there really are tons of things to consider with that question. RISC has historically allowed for faster clocking and fewer cycles per instruction, so thats a win. RISC also requires more instructions per useful operation and also blows up the binary size, so… :-(

all things being equal (hahaha) RISC has more headroom and legroom for future improvements that dont complecate the silicon to extreme degrees. the vast majority of CISC designs are now pretty RISC-like at their cores, but the software interface remains CISC and, I think, complicates and limits variety and advancement.

imho, a properly spec’d RISC processor and a carefully designed compiler, cycle for cycle, macro for macro and watt for watt outperforms a CISC design (even with a RISC-like core). major computing holy wars are been waged over this for decades.

all I currently have access to are older studies that show mixed general purpose results on RISC vs CISC (performance, not power efficiency), but if I had to make a choice about what my future ideal processor would be, it would be RISC core and RISC instruction set architecture simply due to less complexity, more efficient use of wafer space and lower power requirements. then we start talking about massively parallel RISC in tiny spaces and, for many (but not all) workloads, thats a big win.

this is so deliciously and disappointingly true. :-/

CPI per CPI… RISC, but thats a trap of a question and you know it ;-)

tons of variables in that question, but there should be more headroom in RISC designs and thats why, internally, most things are RISC-y.

meh (not dismissive - just cute), ecosystem mootness is overrated. at the heart of every CISC beats a RISC. strip away the mask and lets poke the nuclear core.