Damn this is very disappointing :/

I suspect malls will be more economically viable in developing countries than in the first world. Payroll at $15 an hour is a high bar to meet for outlet stores which already struggle with high rent.

I ordered great value sliced bread last month and they upgraded me to Natures Own brand bread which costs twice as much for free.

Yeah a few times in the start I would always get egg upgrades from 12 to 18 or even one time 36. It happened for a few other things and I do think if you did it frequently enough you could learn how to game it but nowadays it’s riskier.

Me too!

I've been doing this with the Walmart+ delivery service for $100 a year. I even applied for their 5% cash back credit card. It saves me a good amount of time and money, and I am overall very happy with it.

If Walmart ever starts mixing 3rd party reseller crap with their "in-store" inventories, they will ruin a fantastic product and lose me as a customer.

This is the most insightful comment I've read in weeks and I've never thought of things this way before. This changes the way I look at people.

Men and women are just as emotional: The main difference is that men are shamed for being sad/crying, so our emotions end up manifesting as anger instead. Men get angry because they aren't allowed to cry.

And it is even more important today! Imagine unsalted database passwords ;)

This is why we need so much extra salt in our diets.

I think there is a big variance in XPS 17 scores. For reference, here is a top scoring XPS 17. In this case, scores are much closer.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10481116?baseli...

That might be a lemon XPS 17. With a higher scoring XPS 17, the benchmark is much closer:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10481116?baseli...

I don't think that was a good sample, most of the XPS 15's I see have a much higher single thread score, almost double the one linked above:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10491562

It looks like the original as been updated, the differences don't seem very drastic especially when you consider what the SKU's w/ the m1 max cost

guess it's about a 1.5-2x difference in battery life though

One big thing to consider is that this is just the first m1 Max Geekbench score, compared against the world's greatest 11900Ks. Most 11900K's are nowhere near the levels of the top preforming one.

Once Apple starts shipping M1 Max in volume, and as TSMC yields get better, you will see "golden chips" slowly start to score even higher than this one.

Golden chips?

In every manufacturing process there are always chips that perform better than others. They all reach the "bin" that they're designed for, but the actual design is for higher than that, so that even imperfect chips can perform at the required level.

The corollary of that is that there are some chips that perform better than the design parameters would have you expect, they're easier to overclock and get higher speeds from. These are the "golden" chips.

Having said that, it's not clear to me that the M1* will do that, I don't know if Apple self-tune the chips on boot to extract the best performance, or they just slap in a standard clock-rate and anything that can meet it, does. I'd expect the latter, tbh. It's a lot easier, and it means there's less variation between devices which has lots of knock-on benefits to QA and the company in general, even if it means users can't overclock.

There are slight variations in materials, processes, etc.

End result: some chips just end up being better than others.