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Wait for the 1st When We Are All out of Afghanistan *cough*
She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not...
If the deadline is extended... it won't be by "a lot longer."
Let's see, what else...
Oh yeah, Pelosi's lame response to the ongoing post office disaster, which could be quickly remedied by killing that stupid pension rule, nothing to do with Amazon, FedEx, etc* (*correction: It was most likely their influence that put the rule in place). And congress can replace the person in charge, post haste.
On the border, business as usual, no cameras or reporters allowed...
EDIT:
Joe Manchin is still flexing his muscle for Party interests
Man! No wonder they only want to talk about republicans hiding under the bed!
Don't care much for this article, or the Guardian
... but what the hell... just replace "liberal" with democrat, the author is a bit confused and tends to associate the two (lotsa links):
There were liars-for-hire in this country long before Roger Stone came along. Our politics has been a bath in bullshit since forever... Censorship and blacklisting were, with important exceptions, the weapons of the puritanical right...
And now we cluck over a lamentable "information disorder". The Republicans didn't suffer the landslide defeat they deserved last November; the right is still as potent as ever; therefore Trumpist untruth is responsible for the malfunctioning public mind. Under no circumstances was it the result of the Democrats' own lackluster performance, their refusal to reach out to the alienated millions with some kind of FDR-style vision of social solidarity...
What all this censorship talk really is, though, is a declaration of defeat - defeat before the Biden administration has really begun. To give up on free speech is to despair of reason itself. (Misinformation, we read in the New York Times, is impervious to critical thinking.) The people simply cannot be persuaded; something more forceful is in order; they must be guided by we, the enlightened; and the first step in such a program is to shut off America’s many burbling fountains of bad takes.
The whining about disinfo is becoming a foghorn of distraction, trying to drown everybody out. The wackos just want your attention, if they have it, they win.
Kovid Kapitalism Kills
Can we be any more sadistic? Certainly goes way beyond mere hoarding
Despite the clear public health benefits that the monopoly waiver proposal offers, a small group of nations is rigorously hindering the start of formal negotiations at the WTO. At the same time, many of the countries blocking or delaying the proposal, including the Australia, Brazil, Canada, the EU, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, the UK and the US, have also secured the majority of available vaccines, much more than needed to vaccinate their entire populations.
"Now is the time to use every single opportunity in every single corner of the world... These companies should make deals with as many countries as possible."... But drug companies have rebuffed entreaties to face the emergency by sharing their proprietary technology more freely with companies in developing nations... The companies are lobbying the Biden administration and other members of the World Trade Organization against any erosion of their monopolies on individual coronavirus vaccines that are worth billions of dollars in annual sales.
Oh well, business is business, looks more like sabotage and murder, which happens to be very good for business
I see we still have a filibuster, democrats complicit with republicans maintain control, normalcy achieved, like it ever left...
And speaking of sadism..
Trump/Biden...
Intel Alder Lake Slide Leaks, and Qualcomm's "Apple M1"
Exclusive: Intel 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” platform detailed
+20% single thread performance, +100% multi-thread performance. Probably competitive with the 5900X in multi-threaded, if not the 5950X. It remains to be seen how well Linux and Windows will handle the combo of x86 big and small cores.
Only certain motherboards will have DDR5 support, others will use DDR4. There will be PCIe 5.0 support.
The larger socket will make existing coolers incompatible, but is probably a good change in the long run (desktop chips getting larger because you have plenty of room). I hope AMD makes AM5 gigantic as well.
What Is Thunderbolt 4? Why This New Interface Will Matter in PCs in 2021
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Qualcomm completes NUVIA acquisition, will release high-performance ultrabook processors in 2022
Apple M1 Competitor from Qualcomm: Specs, Clock Speed Details & More
Apparently, the chipset manufacturer is thinking of abandoning power efficiency cores, focusing on performance ones only. In a previous report, it is stated that these performance cores will be categorized under ‘Gold+’ and ‘Gold’, where Gold+ are expected to be ultra-high-performance cores running at much faster clock speeds. One reason why Qualcomm could ditch power efficiency cores is because the new chipset is said to use an integrated NPU.
Using machine learning, the Snapdragon silicon’s performance cores could clock down when the Windows 10 notebook is not running a taxing application, saving battery life as a result, and vice versa. Currently, the maximum clock speeds tested on the Gold+ cores is 3.00GHz, while the regular Gold cores are operating at 2.43GHz. Qualcomm is also testing out some Gold+ samples at 2.70GHz instead of 3.00GHz, likely to monitor stability and temperatures.
Gold+ sounds like it could be the Cortex-X1. I'm not sure why an NPU/machine learning is needed for the scheduler. Dropping efficiency cores means dropping the most area-efficient cores, so it sounds like it could be another 8-core instead of 12-core. Dead on arrival?
Democrats throw a bone
Well, that's mighty white of 'em
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) announced it will streamline debt relief determinations for borrowers with claims approved to date that their institution engaged in certain misconduct. The Department will be rescinding the formula for calculating partial relief and adopting a streamlined approach for granting full relief under the regulations to borrower defense claims approved to date. The Department anticipates this change will ultimately help approximately 72,000 borrowers receive $1 billion in loan cancellation.
"Department of Education (Department)" Whoosh! Went right over! How could have I missed that?!
Democrats give, and democrats take away
Dozens of young White House staffers have been suspended, asked to resign, or placed in a remote work program due to past marijuana use, frustrating staffers who were pleased by initial indications from the Biden administration that recreational use of cannabis would not be immediately disqualifying for would-be personnel, according to three people familiar with the situation.
Good thing those three people were there, or we never would have known :-/
Let's just accept that the American voter is really very conservative. Liberals would never keep reelecting these people.
Status? Same as yesterday, SNAFU
Edited @ 00:57 UTC
Comet Lake Refresh
The latest CPU benchmarks primarily focus on Intel's Comet Lake Refresh lineup which includes the Core i3-10325 & the Core i3-10105. These CPUs replace the Core i3-10320 and the Core i3-10100, offering higher clocks but with lower temperatures and power consumption. So let's talk about the specifications of these 2 parts before going into the IPC comparison.
The Intel Core i3-10325 is the fastest quad-core within the Comet Lake Refresh lineup. It features 4 cores, 8 threads, a base clock of 3.90 GHz, and boost clocks of 4.7 GHz (1-core) and 4.5 GHz (across all cores). The CPU carries 8 MB of L3 cache, a 65W TDP, and Intel UHD graphics 630. The Intel Core i3-10105 features the exact same core configuration but cuts down on the clocks and cache. The CPU clocks in at 3.70 GHz base, 4.4 GHz (1-core) boost, and 4.2 GHz all-core boost while featuring 6 MB of L3 cache. In terms of pricing, the Core i3-10325 will retail at $154 US while the Core i3-10105 will retail at $122 US.
Both CPUs are just 100 MHz faster in terms of base and boost frequencies. As such, the overall performance uplift is very minimal at around 1-2% over the existing Comet Lake Core i3 CPUs. However, the main area of improvement is power consumption and temperatures. Intel seems to have used higher-quality IHS and packaging materials for its Comet Lake refresh lineup which results in up to 5 degrees drop in temperatures over the current Comet Lake parts.
The i3-10105 or i3-10100 could be an antidote to out-of-stock or overpriced Ryzen 3 3300X and Ryzen 3 3100. $154 for the i3-10325 is too high, as you might as well go directly to Rocket Lake's $192 i5-11500, which has 6 cores and integrated graphics with AV1 decode support.
Bipartisan is bullshit, just another name for complicit
Democrats either go it alone, or they go nowhere. A few more months will clarify* their real intent. I'm not expecting any surprises, pork futures are steady.
Whatever... spit on this:
I want both. I'm very interested in what happened in Kentucky. And I am also very interested in who gave the order to the cops/guard to stand down. Other than that, there were a lot of people there, gonna arrest them all?
UPDATE:
*Here's Joe Manchin, performing a bit of that clarification.
UPDATE (just for you, AC!):
What happened in Kentucky?
SpaceX (Unsuccessfully) Bid on Cubesat Mission With Starship
SpaceX bid on launch of NASA cubesat mission
NASA released March 11 the source selection statement from the competition to launch the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission, a group of six cubesats to be launched into three orbital planes in 2022 to study tropical weather systems. NASA awarded a contract for the launch to Astra Feb. 26, valued at $7.95 million.
[...] In its assessment of the bidders, NASA noted a weakness in SpaceX’s proposal because the company “did not clearly demonstrate progress toward the resolution of the environmental assessment which results in risk associated with obtaining an FAA launch license, increasing the likelihood of delays that would affect contract performance.”
The source selection statement also identified a significant weakness regarding the “risk to launch approach” for the mission, noting the company had not updated an integrated master schedule in its initial proposal. “As a result, there is significant risk in the proposed launch approach based on the required launch date and the current status of the proposed launch vehicle that increases the likelihood of unsuccessful contract performance.”
Neither criticism would appear to apply to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy vehicles currently in service. Both vehicles have launch licenses from the Federal Aviation Administration, which updated an environmental assessment for launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Kennedy Space Center in July 2020. SpaceX has won a series of contracts for launches of larger NASA missions using those vehicles.
An intriguing possibility is that SpaceX instead offered its Starship vehicle under development. That vehicle has an FAA launch license today only for its current series of suborbital test flights. The FAA is also performing an environmental assessment of SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas, site for orbital launches of that vehicle. The agency recently published a “scoping summary report” outlining public comments it received in the scoping process of the assessment, but did not issue a schedule for the release of a draft version of the environmental assessment.
Starship would appear to be massively oversized for TROPICS. When launched with a booster called Super Heavy, Starship will be able to place more than 100 metric tons into low Earth orbit. SpaceX has previously suggested, though, that the Starship upper stage alone may be able to reach orbit, but without a significant payload. That could be sufficient for TROPICS, whose combined mass is about 56 kilograms.
Also at Wccftech.
Wow, they cancelled the Cabbage Patch Kids
Expedited Kimchi
large steel pot
wooden spoon
mason jars (e.g. wide mouth quart jars)
2 green cabbages (3 lbs each)
salt
1 cup red pepper flakes
canned pineapple juice or crushed
1-2 onions
soy sauce
ginger
garlic
Cut cabbage pieces to desired shape. Soak overnight in water with some salt, with lid on. Drain.
Food process the sauce ingredients. Pour sauce on top of cabbage. Mix up while adding some hot water to rinse the spoon and force the sauce down.
Rinse mason jars with hot water. Pack cabbage into the jars. Compress with the spoon, add more, compress to force liquid to rise above cabbage. Pour in some sauce water if necessary. Keep some headspace at the top so the jars don't explode or leak. I made about 5 quarts. You can use the remaining dregs as a soup base.
Ferment at least a couple days at room temperature, then keep in the fridge for months.
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How To Make Homemade Sauerkraut in a Mason Jar
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Potato.
It's time to end the war
All those barriers. You're making the place look pretty ugly
