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MRPockets commented on Eggs US – Price – Chart   tradingeconomics.com/comm... · Posted by u/throwaway5752
picture · 7 months ago
I think your sentiment encapsulates the hypocrisy of modern people where the systems have developed over thousands of years to further and further insulate us from all the less pretty aspects of life, to a point where we largely forget the fact that we shit and kill things for food and greed. Our meat comes pre-portioned on a polystyrene tray and wrapped under cellophane. Just abstract blocks of yummy protein. We also built garbage collection and sewer systems that lets most of us forget about the waste we produce. Out of sight, out of mind.

Humanely dispatching chicken is probably among the most mundane, natural, necessary, and arguably righteous aspects of what humans do to survive. While this part of the modern system is certainly not a "bad thing", I still think about my friend's opinion that everyone who eats meat should kill and process a living creature at least once in their life. If they can't handle it, then they shouldn't eat meat

MRPockets · 7 months ago
I don't think hypocrisy is really the best word. The GP's objection may be uninformed or out of line with reality, but it is (likely) the result of the very distance between food source and consumption that you are talking about; ignorance not hypocrisy.

I have had the opportunity to hunt twice in my life; both times I harvested a deer. I would happily do so again. But while I disagree with the sentiment of the GP, I do agree that there is something profound about killing an animal (for food or otherwise) such that talking about it nonchalantly can be startling.

I'm probably just nitpicking here.

MRPockets commented on LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting   blog.documentfoundation.o... · Posted by u/mariuz
openrisk · 7 months ago
> Then the upswing, when even the most fashionable users realised that desktop office suites would never die and would coexist with the cloud.

Libreoffice in combination with local ML/AI owns the future. Whats missing is to orchestrate an API for the vast and growing open source data science ecosystem to be more readily available to non-technical end-users.

When that happens it will be another "Sputnik moment" :-)

MRPockets · 7 months ago
FYI, The Document Foundation has [a recent blog post](https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/01/16/localwri...) highlighting a generative AI extension intended for LibreOffice.
MRPockets commented on Intel slashes prices of Xeon 6 CPUs by up to $5,340   tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/ksec
epolanski · 7 months ago
You're correct, my understanding is that AMD has now the Epyc Turin released, Genoa is a 2022 product.
MRPockets · 7 months ago
Ah, I see. Intel's price reduction leaves the Xeon 6 prices lower than the AMD Genoa (2022) prices, but higher than the AMD Turin (2024) prices. Strange that the article doesn't mention Turin at all.
MRPockets commented on Intel slashes prices of Xeon 6 CPUs by up to $5,340   tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/ksec
MRPockets · 7 months ago
The article's subtitle ("They are still more expensive than AMD's competing EPYC, though.") seems to directly contradict the article. Perhaps I missed something in it, but a few times the article discusses how "Intel's Xeon 6 CPUs are now cheaper than AMD's latest EPYC 'Genoa' processors both in absolute numbers and in terms of per-core pricing" and "Intel's Xeon 6900P-series processors are now cheaper than AMD's EPYC 9600-series CPUs in per-core pricing."

Is the subtitle simply wrong? The only way I can make sense of it is to suppose it refers to the price if you actually attempt to acquire a Xeon as opposed to the MSRP (if that is even the right term in this space).

u/MRPockets

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