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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • If I were CEO, I’d cut/sell any part of the business that doesn’t directly support CPU and GPU sales, which is basically what Intel is doing.

    That’s pretty much what they did. They sold off most of the “other” stuff, like their modem division, shut down their SSD division, sold part of Mobileye shares in the IPO, and reportedly Intel is looking to sell part of Altera, their FPGA division.


  • RinoxtoStar Wars Memes@lemmy.worldSorry Obi-Wan, i'm too sad to hear you...
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    11 days ago

    So many electronics are thrown out every day, that I’d wager you could find everything you need in just a day. The biggest issue is that they throw things in dumpsters, rather than gently putting them there, which tends to break electronics. But then again there’s so much garbage you could probably find ten of every component and see what works





  • RinoxtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldThe Great Filter
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    22 days ago

    Thing is, the universe is really really really fucking big and old. There might have been a million other super advanced societies throughout the universe space and throughout the universe life, but the chances of us knowing about them would still be negligible.

    There are tens of billions of planets just in the milky way, most of them probably at least 5 billion years old. And there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe, if not trillions. The nearest one is 25,000 light years away. Do the math.

    The chances of life existing elsewhere are pretty much 100%. The chances of us ever knowing about it are pretty much 0%.





  • You can do it in a multitude of ways. The French for instance elect their president by voting twice, the first time they vote for their favorite candidate (and the parliament), the second time they vote for either of the two candidates that got the most votes (a run off)

    There are other ways, like ranked voting, or you could look up parliamentary republics for an alternative form of government.

    Read up on what happens in the rest of the world, at this point, we, as a human species, have tried pretty much everything



  • Germans and French vacations are a lot more spread out than this.

    In Italy instead it’s pretty much mandatory to take vacations in August, as whole industry sectors close down for 2-3 weeks. Factories go on a hiatus beginning from the second week of August to the start of the fourth week, or the end of the month.

    Sometimes it’s surreal when you stay home in August and the whole city is deserted, no one to be seen, no traffic, no noise, just scorching heat. At least in the North, in the south it’s the exact opposite, with everyone going to the sea and the population doubling overnight at the start of August.

    June and July instead are pretty much taken by the Germans, especially around the lakes of the North.