I'd love for her to go John Wick on those responsible.

Just a reminder that April 9th is coming soon!

> completely dropped the ball on AI and compute accelerators

AMD produces AI chips, and they seem to be doing quite well.[0] If they didn't, AMD wouldn't be worth anywhere near what it is.

[0] https://openai.com/index/openai-amd-strategic-partnership/

> AMD should first dominate the gaming graphics card market and then focus on AI chips as a side axis.

The profits on AI chips are much better than gaming cards. The shareholders wouldn't stand for gaming instead of AI.

I work in the refurb division of an e-waste recycling company. While I prefer XFCE in general, KDE works much better on touchscreens. I have a handful of old first gen Microsoft Surface Hubs sitting around. I wonder if this Bigscreen mode supports touch, if so it might be awesome on a 55" (or 84") touchscreen.

If the drive isn't encrypted, is it possible that controllers use some kind of encoding to balance out the number of bits, so that there's not a long run of 0s or 1s?

Yes, this is necessary for high density NAND flash and is referred to as "whitening" or "scrambling". Not needed at all for SLC or older MLC.

There are commas missing in the HN title. Otherwise I'm thinking that Office crashed, and someone got released early from prison.

I was thinking "Save the freedom", but your idea works too.

MP3 is a pretty bad codec compared to newer ones, no surprise that you noticed a quality drop. It should only be used for reasons of maximum compatibility.

I was using Ogg Vorbis 20 years ago, and that was a massive step up from MP3. Now, I have FLAC, and convert to 96k Opus for mobile and browser playback. Combined with listening in the car or through subpar headphones, I don't sweat about leaving a lot of quality behind, and the space savings are worth it.

> Why has no memory-hard password-hashing function been standardized?

argon2?

Argon2 has been standardized by the IETF, but has not been endorsed by NIST/FIPS. So USGov developers have to run a password through PBKDF2 before they can use Argon2.