Playing with fire. It could be potentially construed as an attempt to steal personal info.

Worthy if its own hacker news post. Would love to see it.

Yup I agree GP.

today is the first time I heard of sears and the comment about the sears towers and ibm literally gave me goosebumps.

The alternative is enshittification of the entire product lineup to include ads, exorbitant subscription prices, reduced functionality along a painful price gradient, morphing into a dopamine social product, or a goal to rent real-life assets for to an increasingly impoverished population. Pee in your piss bottle while delivering that Amazon package until we can figure out how to automate your job away too. The shareholders demand it!

... and then there's a falling out in your friends circle, and someone is reported.

100%. I've discovered the floor: Small cars that probably aren't safe, trashed interior, and drivers who smell of literally every vice while talking on the phone AND playing whatever music all together. "Premium" is simply not that experience.

Running w/ my opnsense router. All-in-one.

There's a future, not in the short-term, where 99% of folks don't need to or want to own a car. You hail a ride, and a vehicle shows up, perhaps with 3 of people in the vehicle in their own bubble internally designed into the car. You get in, it drops offs others in the vehicle, and then finally drops you off. The vehicle exhausts its entire electric charge, recharges, and then gets back on the road. The number of vehicles on the road is down 50%.

Like I said, a self driving car isn't ever going to be efficient as a bus. The bus can literally do the same thing as a car, but better.

I'm constrained by libraries with guaranteed version compatibility. Unless you're operating in NIH universe, I bet you are as well.

Why even publish a comparison? Raptor Lake processors aren't a functioning product to benchmark against.

Because the benchmarks will still exist on the sites after the microcode is released and a lot of the sites won't bother to go back and update them with the accurate performance level.

Because if publishers don't publish then they don't make money.

Could there a be a future where consumption is met with equal parts restoration and environmental investment by the companies themselves? I'd like a progressive system where whole foods nutrition, clean water, shelter, and medical care is subsidized below cost, but then everything else requires us to pony up when purchasing.

That's the only system that will work. Environmental impacts need to be in the product price and the company on the hook for disposal.

But because that would increase costs the lobbyists forbid it. Plus you would probably need a tarrif system on top to prevent cheap dirty foreign goods from replacing all your domestic manufacture.