It's meant to be Just Good Enough to keep C-Suites from picking Zoom and Slack.

Yeah, but like is no one proud on that team to actually deliver something useful?

Microsoft in a nutshell.

Yup... the first Ryzen/EPYC chips were literally a saving throw.

AMD's driver/software woes compared to nVidia make more sense when you realize they barely made it here at all.

As someone who grew up on Atari 8-bits, they missed a trick by not calling this the 800.

Because amiga 500 is way superior to Atari ;-)

SNMP: It's an acronym and a homonym.

SNMP does not sound the same as any other word nor is it spelled the same as some different word. I can't figure out what you mean.

Sound out the first three letters. I find it a very fitting description myself.

I guess that makes it a hononym of a different acronym.

Thanks for explaining!

Agreed, it along with claiming victory on that certain thing that started five years ago and didn't end yet, realllly annoyed the left. And now, matters are worse.

(It also made the statements about "radical left" candidates very ironic.)

There's a critical instruction for Objective C handling (I forget exactly what it is) but it's faster than intel's chips even in Rosetta 2's x86 emulation.

I believe it's the `lock xadd` instruction. It's faster when combined with x86 Total Store Ordering mode that the Rosetta emulation runs under.

Looking at objc_retain apparently it's a lock cmpxchg these days

... and because of activist investors, they're throwing that away.

It's insane how Southwest is willing to throw away a unique competitive edge that nobody else has, and their loyal customer base with it. It's also insane that the activist investors pressured them to do something that stupid. In one stroke Southwest went from being an airline worth going out of your way to fly, to just another airline which has to compete on price alone. Absolutely boneheaded move.

I intentionally chose Southwest for my last flight because the old policies -- included bags and free-form seating-- made me feel better about the experience. I didn't need the free checked bags, but I appreciated not being pressured into guessing exactly how many pairs of pants I'm going to need for a trip I booked 3 months in advance.

I know I'm not the industry's ideal customer-- taking solo tourist-class flights booked long in advance, once or twice a year, and not churning frequent flyer points, but that doesn't mean I want to be treated with contempt.

To be honest, that feels like an entire direction the travel sector needs to focus on. I'm paying hundreds of dollars to sit in your lowest-bid Metal Death Tube or stay in your Totally Not A Bedbug Sanctuary, stop treating me like a transient who walked into a Rodeo Drive boutique because I don't have Triple Ytterbium Status.

The number of SWA customers who needed wheelchairs to board (earlier than able-bodied pax) and were healed enough mid-flight to be able to walk off at the destination was astounding. It’ll be sad to lose all those miraculous recoveries.

Maybe it's the exposure to Chinese? I've heard that training models on code first helps, so I could see it.

I've also heard hearsay that R1 is quite clever in Chinese, too.

The sad thing is that, from what I can tell, Intel doesn't have a true planned successor to Alder Lake-N.

It really might be as bad a mistake as not having Intel Isreal's futher development of Pentium 3 would have been. (in other words, no Pentium M, no Core 2 Duo, no Nehalem...)

AMD was in critical trouble just ten years ago - if Zen 1 had failed AMD would have faced bankruptcy. Probably a good reason why they're so behind on the software side.

So AMD going from that to 2-3x intel's market cap is just... not quite as impressive as Apple's turnaround, but certainly in that direction.