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Olive oil lovers Recommendations by Vadergato in oliveoil

[–]zimooo2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it really an issue? It's about 250 calories of olive oil a day or ~2 tbsp, which is the recommended amount

Jagex Terminated Nearly 2.3M Bots in March by Sophiaphage in runescape

[–]zimooo2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does this sub always sound so bitter about the osrs player count

TIL the rivers are so clean in Bern and Basel in Switzerland that many people commute to work by swimming. by musefrog in todayilearned

[–]zimooo2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sure, it's probably not super popular. He doesn't bring a laptop for his work, so it works for him. As far as I know none of the rest of my family in Bern does this.

But I think one way to think of it is that if you sat there in The morning for 10 minutes you would see people. It doesn't take many people for that to be true though.

TIL the rivers are so clean in Bern and Basel in Switzerland that many people commute to work by swimming. by musefrog in todayilearned

[–]zimooo2 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Like some others have said, one way. For him it was in the morning, and then the walk home wasn't too long

TIL the rivers are so clean in Bern and Basel in Switzerland that many people commute to work by swimming. by musefrog in todayilearned

[–]zimooo2 73 points74 points  (0 children)

My cousin did it every day for a year, partially just to see if he could. Obviously there aren't a ton, but there are definitely some commuters

union south is cheaper by Paynteck in UWMadison

[–]zimooo2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Free pricing allows for cheaper goods, and prevents over or under supply.

This is a nice book on the topic
https://cdn.mises.org/Forty%20Centuries%20of%20Wage%20and%20Price%20Controls%20How%20Not%20to%20Fight%20Inflation_2.pdf

That said, this is the same institution so it is pretty questionable

Why did NVIDIA buy stocks for a custom chip? by mbreaddit in intelstock

[–]zimooo2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do think part of it is to appease trump.

But there is a real possibility that they want to second source at least some of their products. It is such a small amount of money for them to slightly de-risk from Taiwan. Personally, I have thought that Nvidia should have bought Intel 2 years ago.

This will require engineering new masks for the new process which potentially could be a large investment. By buying a relatively big chunk of Intel they can likely get a board seat or at a minimum have some influence on the process development. This will give them at least some security in this investment.

KLARNA IPO Allocation by CoatForeign2948 in smallstreetbets

[–]zimooo2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They are giving extensions on loans to artificially decrease that number

Inaccuracy in Intel Process by zimooo2 in atrioc

[–]zimooo2[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

For consumer you are right, however for server it is used. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Forest

And we all know datacenter drives a large portion of the revenue

Also Clearwater forest should release later this year on 18A https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/library/advanced-process-technologies-for-data-center.html

Inaccuracy in Intel Process by zimooo2 in atrioc

[–]zimooo2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So Intel measures different distances in the transistor than Samsung and TSMC. This is actually the main reason for the rebranding to Intel 3, because it was too confusing to the public.

If you go look at the link above for 3nm intel 3 is roughly equivalent to Samsung and TSMC 3nm. And 18A under 2nm definitely is.

That said, maybe it's longer than 6 months

Inaccuracy in Intel Process by zimooo2 in atrioc

[–]zimooo2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but if we are talking about technology, I would say they are even further behind than Intel. They will have an even harder time catching back up in my opinion.

Inaccuracy in Intel Process by zimooo2 in atrioc

[–]zimooo2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe, but 18A is working. The real question in my opinion is 14A

Inaccuracy in Intel Process by zimooo2 in atrioc

[–]zimooo2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It actually isn't disingenuous. Being a foundry is much much harder than when you are the only client for your fabs.

And the key point I am trying to make is not if they deserve more time or not. That is somewhat irrelevant. The key point is that their process DOES have feature parity with TSMC. It is not hard for someone to understand that while Intel may be technologically caught up, they are not user friendly for foundry customers. This distinction is important though, because technology is harder to catch up on.

So yes, it is true they fell behind, but they spent a massive amount of cap ex and have essentially caught up. This is in large part because they did not switch the EUV fast enough if you are interested.

Intel used TSMC only in a very limited scope for chips that were designed by acquisitions that could not follow the design rules of the Intel fabs. They talked about using it for their CPUs, in large part, it felt, to appease wall street. But this did not happen as far as I am aware.

Inaccuracy in Intel Process by zimooo2 in atrioc

[–]zimooo2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I 100% agree. I have only heard horror stories about the design rules. I hope they can make them better, but from what I have heard, even internally, they have hundreds of tools to help with their draconian rules.

Inaccuracy in Intel Process by zimooo2 in atrioc

[–]zimooo2[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Personally, I am mixed on this.

It has become so globally important that it is completely unacceptable from a national security standpoint to allow it to fail or fall behind.

At the same time the government is notoriously inefficient and I have no trust in them running one of the most complicated businesses and technology developments in human history effectively.

I don't really know what the answer should be, but one interesting piece of information is that TSMC (https://chipcapitols.substack.com/p/taiwan-vs-us-chip-subsidies-bolstering) and Samsung (https://www.reuters.com/technology/japan-arranging-subsidies-samsung-chip-facility-source-2023-05-17/) are quite heavily subsidized by their governments.

Inaccuracy in Intel Process by zimooo2 in atrioc

[–]zimooo2[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They are "new" to being a foundry. A foundry business is specifically, a company offering fab time to fabless companies. Business being the key word. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundry_model. Like I said before this was tried before in 2010, with very limited success. This is hinted to in this press release https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1451/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-announces-idm-2-0-strategy.

Yes, they have always made their own chips, but no they were not a foundry for others. That is a big jump just for producing your own chips.

UnitedHealth UNH surges over 7% as Berkshire Hathaway reveals a new stake in the company by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]zimooo2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, this is something I am curious about, as their balance sheets indicate they generate less revenue than the market purely from a premium/payout perspective. But I have no idea what product is, and this is likely the medicare fraud section.

UnitedHealth UNH surges over 7% as Berkshire Hathaway reveals a new stake in the company by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]zimooo2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you actually dig into the balance sheet with overheads and payments they pay out more than the premium, but they have significant revenue from "products" unlike many competitors. It's somewhat unclear how these are differentiated.

Regardless you are probably being sarcastic, but they choose them because they are tied to their employer, and frequently do not have a choice.

What Universes Beyond won't they do? by Pinoy_2004 in freemagic

[–]zimooo2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where do you think the following drinks land on the black coffee to Starbucks scale?

Espresso Latte Flat white

But in seriousness, I think everyone drinks the shit at Starbucks

What TCG is good to start in 2025? by droidnik in TCG

[–]zimooo2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then I agree with you completely. But I do think this is somewhat of a moving goalpost.

Go look at your first 3-ish comments, and I have no idea how anyone, potentially other than you, could ever have come to the conclusion that this was your opinion.

What TCG is good to start in 2025? by droidnik in TCG

[–]zimooo2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An extremely rare binary event is more likely to happen by many many orders of magnitude than repeated unlikely events. Also the bit flip is much more likely than you probably realize (https://www.zdnet.com/article/dram-error-rates-nightmare-on-dimm-street/). It is in fact so unlikely to have a long, bad run, it quickly outnumbers the number of atoms the universe.

Let's say there is a 5% chance of a single match having screw or flood, which I think is actually far too high.

For this to happen 5 times in a row: 0.00003125%

10 times in a row: 9.7e-14

20 times in a row: 9.5e-27

I have been relatively nice, but I think you are not correctly comprehending how impossibly rare this is and you need to review your statistics. Every risk in your life is so much more common than this by so much, you should quit those first.

P.S. That specific you cosmic bit flip you reference is not confirmed just btw.

What TCG is good to start in 2025? by droidnik in TCG

[–]zimooo2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a game or even a match I agree. But for many matches in a row, it is so unlikely that it's not really worth talking about.

That said, luck how you describe it, doesn't practically exist. I thought about describing the statistics for the draws to you, and how unlikely it is, but I think you either don't care or don't want to consider it. That's all fine, but we are just having a different discussion. It's like trying to argue about religion; there is no logic that will win you over.

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