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Re:Istanbul's Blue Tile Paradise on Thursday July 13, 2023 @12:35PM (#36711974)
>That is...a good example of lying by omission. You directly...presented...this case...point by point.

Thank you!

What the article's author wrote is fine. The Hagia Sophia was a mosque for about five hundred years. It is a mosque today. The last time it was a church is the 15th century. It is perfectly fine to mention a famous mosque in an article about mosques without getting into its (literally) ancient history.

pirate787, on the other hand, deliberately hid its long history as a mosque in service of proving a point.

Re:Istanbul's Blue Tile Paradise on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:18AM (#36708657)
Do you think this is an accurate summary of your opinion on this matter?

>What exactly is "false" or "fake news" about the parent comment? All three sentences...to me. The...museum...was also widely criticized.

Lying by omission is still lying. Context matters.

> I think we need a term for 'taking public information and deriving nondisclosed information from it'. It isn't really spying, but it's more than just access.

Sure, but I don't think that was done here. People were organizing protests by Twit. All the relevant information was made public because the protesters wanted people to show up.

I can imagine similar scenarios that would be a problem, but this seems about as benign as I can imagine.

Stop lying. No one in the US pays a 50% tax rate. The top marginal tax rate is 37%.

And the problem is tax cuts. Decreasing revenue without decreasing spending leads to a larger deficit. I can help you with the math if you need it. The ballooning (pre-Covid) deficit during the Trump administration can be traced directly to tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

>we don't really consider it "protesting" at all when we organize activities.

Everyone else does.

The police are allowed to "surveil" protected speech, unless you want to ban them from reading the newspaper.

I really don't see the issue. This is information people knowingly release to the public, so the cops are not spying on anyone. A protest is a potential security threat, which is why the cops always show up. I see no evidence this information was abused to try to prevent people from expressing their opinions. What am I supposed to be upset about?

Also, as you very well know, the large majority of the Federal budget goes to social services like healthcare and social security. The entire DoJ budget is a drop in the ocean. Slashing federal budgets will do nothing to eliminate this sort of program but will result in Granny living on the street.

Re:ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter on Sunday May 14, 2023 @09:23PM (#35942951)
The decoders are largely irrelevant. All modern x86 machines use a uop cache. The large majority of instructions hit in this cache and do not need to hit the decoders at all. As a result, the decoders can spend much of their time shut down. You already have four-ish decoders that are idle most of the time; why do you want eight-ish decoders that are idle nearly all the time?

No one would design an ISA like x86 these days. It definitely does use more power and more die area than strictly needed. It definitely does reduce performance in some applications. It definitely did take heroic engineering efforts to make x86 work well. But, all told, it just doesn't matter very much.

This isn't really true. Chiplets can be used to "break apart" what would traditionally be one chip, but also to more tightly integrate things that would previously have been discrete components on the motherboard and to use the right process for given a functionality.

Consider AMD's approach. They use multiple CPU dies in a single package to build very high core count systems that would previously have required multiple sockets. Bringing these into one package can make communication more energy-efficient and faster. They also use different processes for different dies. The "IO die" is fabricated on a slightly old process as it is not performance-critical while the best process is reserved for building cores.

It might be possible to use an OG Thinkpad keyboard. Assuming it physically fits in the machine, the electronics are quite straightforward. People have already adapted old Thinkpad keyboards to work over USB. I am pretty sure they'll be too thick, but I will take some measurements anyway.

It is even conceivable someone is still manufacturing these keyboards. I see several companies listing Thinkpad keyboards on AliBaba, but I don't know AliBaba well enough to tell if they are manufacturing new keyboards or just selling old ones.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Genuine-New-Laptop-Ke...

Re:Total Crap, the First Magazine Written by AI on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @11:25AM (#35875778)
People said this about Bitcoin. They said it about Google Glass. They said it about VR headsets. They never seemed to notice the same logic applied to Microsoft Bob.