Monday, March 03
Daily News Stuff 3 March 2025
Taken Angles Edition
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- Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 laptop chips are expected to offer 50% more multi-threaded performance than the current generation Snapdragon X chips. (Tom's Hardware)
Coincidentally, Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 laptop chips are expected to offer 50% more cores than the current generation Snapdragon X chips.
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- We don't really know anything about AMD's next-generation Zen 6 CPU cores, much less what graphics cores they will use. (WCCFTech)
Anyone who knows isn't telling, and anyone who is telling doesn't know.
Wait for the details to show up in a leaked shipping manifest to the consumer electronics regulator in India. Either that or a Linux driver.
- The Steam hardware survey results are frankly garbage. (Tom's Hardware)
Yeah, I don't think the proportion of Steam users primarily speaking Chinese grew by 60% in the space of a month. Or any of the other strange results.
- Intel has announced new 10Gb and 200Gb Ethernet cards. (Serve the Home)
The 10Gb cards are interesting, claiming to use half the power of previous models. And they're downwards compatible with 5Gb, 2.5Gb, 1Gb, and for the masochists or people whose bedrooms are half a mile from the router, 100Mb.
- Mark Cuban has offered to fund 18F, the unofficial name for a group of whiny tech gerbils at the GSA. (Tech Crunch)
Waldo Jaquith, a former 18F technologist, said that the federal government has been a good, reliable employer for generations. "What the jobs lack in salary are made up for in stability. Untold millions have been lifted into the middle class or kept out of poverty by having a single family member in a federal job. Now that’s gone."
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If federal employees wanted to keep collecting rents, then they should have kept rents minimal, and not, for example, screwed over maybe tens of millions by raping the economy, importing tens of millions of slave laborers subsidized by welfare, and raping the economy. Now, probably a lot of that policy was at or above the GS 12 level, and also the ability to understand the policy interactions is maybe a bit rare. (It should not be rare, I feel.)
These are unionized civil service positions.
The weaponized complaints tend to just leave me a bit unmoved. Almost twenty years ago, I 'should' have gotten a position, and blah blah blah.
I did not.
If I had, maybe I would be feeling a bit scared and helpless now. Actually, I do feel scared and helpless, a bit. DOGE is something I feel better for seeing the hype of, but I would like to see results finalized, and I'm not exactly feeling okay about my own employment yet.
The real economy is chaos, and I really do have a lot of deep craving for stability. I also don't want to have to go out and talk with people that I do not know already from long acquaintance, and do any marketing for myself. Well, guess what. I have to do a lot more of that than I am comfortable with. I need to deal with a whole lot more discomfort than I really want to.
Spite does not bring me any actual lasting satisfaction.
When I hear "I just got my MA in Sociology, and leveraged connections to get my dream job writing more regulations for disability employment, and I am fired now and have no idea what to do." I am extremely unmoved. I understand that such a person has been abused and lied to her whole life, but firing is more compassionate than being set afire. Restarting the career search and the skilling up from scratch is terrible, but there are a lot of people who would have done less evil had they went ahead and made that choice.
These are unionized civil service positions.
The weaponized complaints tend to just leave me a bit unmoved. Almost twenty years ago, I 'should' have gotten a position, and blah blah blah.
I did not.
If I had, maybe I would be feeling a bit scared and helpless now. Actually, I do feel scared and helpless, a bit. DOGE is something I feel better for seeing the hype of, but I would like to see results finalized, and I'm not exactly feeling okay about my own employment yet.
The real economy is chaos, and I really do have a lot of deep craving for stability. I also don't want to have to go out and talk with people that I do not know already from long acquaintance, and do any marketing for myself. Well, guess what. I have to do a lot more of that than I am comfortable with. I need to deal with a whole lot more discomfort than I really want to.
Spite does not bring me any actual lasting satisfaction.
When I hear "I just got my MA in Sociology, and leveraged connections to get my dream job writing more regulations for disability employment, and I am fired now and have no idea what to do." I am extremely unmoved. I understand that such a person has been abused and lied to her whole life, but firing is more compassionate than being set afire. Restarting the career search and the skilling up from scratch is terrible, but there are a lot of people who would have done less evil had they went ahead and made that choice.
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