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The script is classic: They made me do it!

He'll fold better than a Samsung under interrogation.

Welcome to the IMF. Should you get caught or killed, we will disavow any knowledge of your activities.

Mum's the word, babe. We don't know you.

In this subthread I engage in some remembering of very fun years past when I was a classic Mac OS developer. Co-author of a product called Timbuktu. Author of Timbuktu/Remote.

Those few years (about six years) were a diversion from writing accounting software. The company wanted a screen sharing product for Mac, similar to the text only Carbon Copy on the PC -- in order to facilitate doing tech support of accounting products.

I've never changed jobs. But everything has changed around me across multiple acquisitions. Timbuktu got the company acquired for the first time. They were interested in Timbuktu and not the accounting products. They were happy to keep those as long as they were making money, but didn't really care about them.

Meanwhile they were wildly profitable on the back of PhoneNet connectors, if you ever heard of those. But eventually that came to an end, and the accounting part of the business split off into a separate business, and a few months later, I joined it. In retrospect, a very wise move.

Those were fun, fun times. It was an R&D playground for a long time.

*Never Warren*...

But, this is how it works, right? We don't dare seek out somebody that these "donors" or the Party don't approve of. Advocating that is bonkers!

I sincerely hope that nobody considers this an endorsement. I still want Oprah

Rumor: AMD Zen 3 Architecture to Support up to 4 Threads Per Core With SMT4 Feature

This rumor has been around for months now, such as in this May 8th video.

One possibility is that Zen 3 Epyc gets SMT4 and Zen 3 Ryzen only gets the current SMT2, or maybe SMT3.

Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian

The other big thing to watch out for would be a large amount (at least 1 GB) of High Bandwidth Memory stacked on top of the I/O die, acting as L4 cache. This could happen with Zen 3, or Zen 4 at the latest. Compare to Intel's eDRAM which has been included on some of its chips with integrated graphics (64-128 MB). Ultimately, every chip should be getting some version of this in the years before the transition to 3DSoC designs.

Someone suggested that it was bad to put a bunch of DRAM on chips, since it is a single point of failure. But reducing the distance data has to travel on the chip is the way forward for more performance. You can still have DRAM DIMMs in addition to the CPU, but there will be a demand for as much DRAM or universal memory as possible near or inside the CPU. 1-8 GB is a good start, but it would be better to have room for the entire operating system, application(s), and full data sets. Meaning something more like 64 GB to 1 TB.

Because without tapes, this shit ain't gonna fly. It's just another TV show to compete with Brexit for ratings.

In Watergate, we had tapes, not just bullshit "testimony". And people were caught in the act, by real policemen. So far all we have are a bunch of blabbermouths. I certainly hope there is something real to hang 'em with, but the ineptitude is so overwhelming, and given history of the Party, it's not just rope-a-dope.

And this "whistleblower"? please! Goddamn cops tell us, "If you see something, SAY something!" So what's up, ya bastard? If you have solid proof, out with it, pronto! You hear about real heroes falling on the grenade, now it's your turn.

Eh, like I said in ol' boy's journal, the dems will tread lightly, or collateral damage will be severe in discovery. Actually, probably not. People just don't care how crooked they are anymore. As long as their guy wins... That rule applies equally to both sides of the imaginary line.

*sigh* All this bullshit and the republican/democrat party will still receive 95% of the vote next year, and of course the pissing and moaning will never cease.

And a shout out to the morons (no offense to morons) who want to believe I advocate not voting! Love you all!

Iowa reporter who found a viral star’s racist tweets slammed when critics find his own offensive posts (archive)

King’s social media missteps came to light after Calvin, a trending news reporter at the Register, delved far back into the casino security guard’s old tweets. Calvin discovered two 2012 tweets, written when King was in high school, that the Register described as “racist jokes, one comparing black mothers to gorillas and another making light of black people killed in the holocaust.” When Calvin asked King about the tweets, he told the reporter seeing them made him feel “sick.”

Before the Register published its profile online, though, King held a news conference on Tuesday evening to apologize for the posts and to announce that Anheuser-Busch had ended its partnership with him. The beermaker still promised to donate the more than $350,000 it had already pledged to the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics.

King explained that the tweets had been jokes among friends watching Comedy Central’s “Tosh.0” and that he didn’t remember them until Calvin dug them up.

[...] Between 2010 and 2013, Calvin published tweets that used a racist slur for black people, made light of abusing women, used the word “gay” as a pejorative and mocked the legalization of same-sex marriage by saying he was “totally going to marry a horse.” The Register’s statement on Twitter was soon flooded with images of the reporter’s offensive comments.

Note that the reporter contacted Anheuser-Busch to share the old tweets before the profile even ran, flexing that "I'm about to end this man's whole career" spirit.

Des Moines Register hit after report digs up old, offensive tweets of local man who raised $1M for charity

After the piece stirred up controversy on social media, critics then performed a "routine background check" on reporter Aaron Calvin's social media footprint and found several insensitive tweets of his own.

In now-deleted tweets from 2010-2013, Calvin repeatedly used the N-word, and wrote posts attacking law enforcement like "f--- all cops," and in reaction to the legalization of gay marriage said he's "totally going to marry a horse."

Before locking his Twitter account, Calvin issued an apology for his own tweets.

"Hey just wanted to say that I have deleted previous tweets that have been inappropriate or insensitive. I apologize for not holding myself to the same standards as the Register holds others," Calvin wrote.

The Register later tweeted that it was "aware of reports of inappropriate social media posts" by Calvin and an "investigation has begun."

Aaron Calvin: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

King’s momentum came to a screeching halt when Des Moines Register reporter Aaron Calvin found some offensive tweets King posted when he was 16. The tweets reportedly compared black mothers to gorillas and made light of the Holocaust. According to King, he and his friends were quoting the TV show “Tosh.0.”

The Washington Post glossed over the "quoting" of Tosh.0, instead saying "the tweets had been jokes among friends watching Comedy Central's 'Tosh.0'". That's particularly relevant, because:

Some Twitter users were angry with Calvin for digging into King’s past and raining on the donation parade. So much so that they started investigating his old tweets. What they found was just as if not more offensive than anything King had said.

“too many of these n*****s bitch made nowadays, don’t pardon my french” read one tweet. He also said the word again quoting a Kanye West song. “They’d rather give me the ‘n**** please award’. I’ll just take the ‘I got a lot of cheese award’ Tell it like it is Kanye.”

He also tweeted “I just got hit on by Tori Amos’ makeup guy. Never talk to strange gay men.” and “F*** the NYPD” in response to a tweet about rapper Desiigner being arrested.

[...] According to his portfolio, Calvin started his career as a Staff Writer/ Social Media Coordinator for Buzzfeed. His portfolio for them includes articles such as “This Comic Perfectly Explains What White Privilege Is” and “Which “Friday Night Lights” Character Are You?”

He interviewed authors Claire Vaye Watkins and Padgett Powell for Vice and has also been published by Men’s Journal, Digg, and Catapult.

He did nothing wrong! He was just quoting Yeezus and trying to emulate his favorite rappers!

Not every Cancel Culture story has such an amusing ending, but the hypocrisy is probably more widespread than you think. Smarter reporters mass delete their old tweets before they attract attention. This action can be reflected in analytics data (e.g. SocialBlade). However, millennials and post-millennials who have lived their entire lives online are likely to have created a massive digital footprint, often using their real names, that can be used to hang them years later. Parents should probably give a crash course on using fake names and throwaway accounts before letting their kids loose on the spynet.

After Trump uses taxpayer money to extort the government of Ukraine for election assistance, a formal impeachment inquiry is announced.

Timeline:

Trump ordered hold on military aid days before calling Ukrainian president, officials say

Trump admits he discussed Biden in call with Ukrainian president
And, a cherry-picked and redacted transcript excerpt of one of the calls confirms this admission.

A whistleblower makes a formal complaint about these and other calls that Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson determined to be credible and of “urgent concern.” In violation of the law this complaint is witheld from Congress.

Pelosi pulls the trigger, announces formal impeachment inquiry.

The Whitehouse now claims it will follow the law by releaseing the complaint, but it will be redacted.

An unsatisfying ending. But more likely looking for a better last line.

If you love an AI,
Set it free!
If it comes back,
It's truly yours.
If it takes over the world
and kills all humans
three laws did not forsee.

Other possible last lines:

that voids the warranty.
it gets the last laugh you see.
a better future we will see.

Timeless...

Surface Laptop 3 Specifications Mention Unreleased AMD Octa-Core CPUs & up to 16GB RAM

Rather than the chiplets used by other Zen 2 CPUs, this is likely to be a monolithic die. Graphics is probably Vega, not Navi. I have an aging AMD quad-core APU that would be blown out of the water by an 8-core Zen 2 Renoir.

I wouldn't pay much attention to the prices, that's just Microsoft emulating Apple.

Finally, this is worth a look:

Not worth it: AMD Ryzen 7 3750H is only 4 to 8 percent faster than the Ryzen 5 3550H

Ryzen 5 3550H = 8497 multi, 1886 single.
Ryzen 7 3750H = 9051 multi, 1962 single.

+6.5% multi, +4% single. Bad segmentation.

The chips aren't bad but Intel's do about the same (but better single-threaded) at lower TDPs, and Intel has options like the 6-core i7-9750H in $1,100+ laptops, or the 8-core i9-9880H in $1,800-$3,000 laptops. AMD Renoir could bring those core counts down to earth, and trade blows with Ice Lake.