zik

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The Gaza strip ceases to exist when it's taken by force and "settlers" move in so it becomes part of Israel. Millions of Palestinians die in refugee camps.

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There was a massive, heavily funded FUD campaign by the "no" proponents. Sadly, it was very effective.

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Can we talk about Rock Paper Shotgun's horrible dark pattern with cookies? It took me a couple of minutes to work out how to reject all cookies, and even then I'm not sure I did it correctly.

I thought there were laws about the number of clicks required to reject cookies?

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Vasquez is always the best

Wow. That's horrible. The US health system sounds like a dystopian nightmare.

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Not just uninformed - deliberately misinformed.

That so ridiculous it's funny as hell.

I don't think 41 states realise that kids wouldn't touch Facebook if you forced them. Instagram on the other hand...

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The mining lobby seems to be behind it too - they stand to lose a lot if Aboriginal rights are given more credence.

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Nebula isn't full of right wing nutters as far as I know

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That's absolutely not true. The M3 Max just about brings Apple performance up to similar levels as Intel and AMD. The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D for example is a laptop processor which trades blows with the M3 on benchmarks - single core the M3's slightly faster and multi core the Ryzen's slightly faster - and in performance per watt the Ryzen's marginally better. So really it's just catching up with older laptop processors from other manufacturers.

And if you venure outside the laptop space to compare ultimate speed it's nowhere near the fastest, particularly in multi-threaded. Its multi-threaded performance is around 13% of the AMD EPYC 9754 Bergamo for example.

Simple answer: Israeli "settlers" will move in. Gaza will become part of Israel. Millions of Palestinians will be displaced and most will die in refugee camps.

They're deliberately drafting troops from rural areas as much as possible to minimise the number of angry parents in the major cities who might actually mount a visible complaint.

Post-1980s tech companies maybe. But not most companies, no.

The worst thing about this is that the English teacher is wrong too - common usage dictates that this is a perfectly acceptable form of request.

It's actually 25. But it's amazing to think that people in Florida can get 30 years just for possessing some weed. I think it might be the US that has the problem here.

Compared to Apple?

With the right attitude, any robot's a sexbot.

...and my robot vacuum's looking mighty fine right now.

Hilariously non self aware.

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They're not economically feasible anywhere right now. Unfortunately nuclear power is very expensive compared to all the alternatives. Unless there's some radical breakthrough I can't see much nuclear being built in the future. No company would pay such a huge up-front cost to produce uneconomic electricity.

So the strict answer is - no, they're not feasible everywhere. And also not feasible pretty much anywhere.

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But they don't want anyone to get out.

Tell me the base clock, not the "up to... when powered by a fusion reactor" value.

Remember the Samsung battery issues being all over the news a few years ago and everyone saying, "Apple never has these problems"? Meanwhile Apple was literally breaking people's phones to reduce fires and paying people off to keep quiet about their battery fires. Nice. 🔥

USB is the new defacto standard DC outlet. It's only suitable for fairly low power (240W) though. That's enough to charge your laptop but not enough to run a gaming PC.

It's not like they have a choice about their government. There's no voting and hasn't been for decades.

Because they often don't get updated when security updates become available

On the other hand when you pay for a service you're the customer, not the product. That can be an advantage.

It's from a famous paper. Linked by gnutrinto elsewhere in this thread,

The base load argument doesn't hold water any more - not when there are places which are progressing towards being totally free of base load. Eg. South Australia is already nearly all renewable power with in-fill from batteries and transient gas power when needed. They're still currently getting some base load from other states but it's small and gradually being phased out.

I think he feels sorry for himself but remember: he absolutely knew he was illegally misusing customer funds. And he openly talked about it in meetings with other businesses as if it was normal and fine.

So I don't feel sorry for him. He's an idiot who was given enough rope and he's certainly hung himself.

Basically few to non-existent cases where M2 is faster than either Intel or AMD's best. On power consumption however it's a total win for Apple. But performance... No. Not in any way.

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The weight of the media was against them from day 1. It doesn't really matter what your messaging is if it doesn't get reported. What did get reported was whatever Murdoch's news media wanted to be reported, and if they reported the "yes" side only in terms of weak points then that's what people think the "yes" side had to say.

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there's basically nothing out there for laptops that comes close to the M2 Pro

The Intel Core i9-13980HX laptop CPU is between 20% and 100% faster than the M2 Max on nearly every benchmark.

The mining lobby funded some of the yes campaign and then proceeded to put out those vague and questionable messages. They really played both sides very effectively.

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I guess it depends which media you use. My mother watches channel 7 mostly and she seemed puzzled as to why anyone would vote yes. "Apparently even the Aboriginals don't want it." And this was a few weeks ago. I think the mainstream media's been pushing "no" pretty hard throughout.

So skeptical. And then a few hours later the US gives its blessing for exactly that: https://lemmy.ml/post/6687184 .

And the Israeli defense chief says "troops will soon see Gaza 'from inside'"