If full time Walmart employees need government assistance programs to afford food and pay their rent, is it not Walmart who is leaning on government assistance?

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Cake day: September 29th, 2023

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  • Do you have a source for AMD chips being especially energy efficient? I don’t consider them to be even close. M3 is 190 cinebench points per watt whereas Ryzen 7 7840U is 100. My ppw data doesn’t contain snapdragon x yet, but it’s generally considered to be a multithreading king on the market and it runs as signifcantly lower tdp than AMD. SoCs are inherently more energy efficient. My memory of why is the instruction sets on x86 allow for more complicated process but ARM is hard restricted to using less complicated processes as building blocks if complexity is required.

    Like I mentioned though, there are tasks that x86 cannot be beat on but it’s because they use ASICs on-chip for hardware accelerated encoding/decoding and nothing is more efficient at a task than a (purpose-built, task specific*) ASIC /FPGA.


  • Dell is already releasing Qualcomm SoC Latitudes. There are bound to be compatibility issues, but performance wise it’s kinda undeniable that this is where the market is going. It is far more energy efficient than an Intel or AMD x86 CPU and holds up just fine. The main downsides you’ll see could likely be resolved with ASICs, which is how Intel keeps 4k video from being choppy on low end APUs for example. Compared to M4, Qualcomm’s offering is slightly better at multithreaded performance and slightly worse at single thread. The real downside to them is really the reliance on raw throughput for tasks that both brands of CPUs have purpose built daughter chips for.





  • For sure, I think drivers often make calculations like they’re being nice, but the risk to a walker is way higher than a driver and so they shouldn’t be surprised when the walker doesn’t take the wave. I slow down and meander as a pedestrian when there’s a busy 4 way and then jog across, if people stop early “just in case” I feel put at risk for niceties.






  • The amount of obsessive culture around mechanical keyboards has created a boon of great side by side comparison youtube channels. Hipyo Tech is one of the most obsessive that I’ve seen.

    I personally found myself going crazy with information and decided to go to Best Buy and just try some floor models. I never would have chosen Steelseries Apex pro and Logi g915 clicky as my favorites online, but they stood out dramatically in the side by side. Once you narrow down your switch type, it’s easy to find compatible hotswappable platforms. I like Keychrons personally, but there’s many options, especially for TKL

    Something to keep in mind and something I learned from Hipyo Tech is that you can dramatically change the noise characteristics with minor modifications to the body of the keyboard and so you shouldn’t necessarily chase perfection at the purchasing stage.