MrFoof

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by MrFoof 4y ago
Which, hilariously, is what got people to use Google in the first place. What made Google take off was not only was it fast, but you also got what you were looking for in the first page of results — if not the top of the first page. No more
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by MrFoof 4y ago
There’s reasons for that though. I could drop a few more watts if ASRock could put together a decent BIOS where disabling things actually disables things. SuperMicro costs what it does for a reason. —- ————- If you’re looking for a chassis,
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by MrFoof 4y ago
I personally have at 43-45W idle… >Corsair SF450 PSU >ASRock Rack X570D4U w/BMC >AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5750GE (8C 3.2/4.6 GHz) >128GB DDR4-2666 ECC >Intel XL710-DA1 (40Gbps) >LSI/Broadcom
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Don't forget the larger companies who'll try to negotiate Net 90, one month in arrears, in which they'd still probably feel they had another 2 weeks of wiggle room. Companies try that. With me it ends up Net 30 as usual whe
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by MrFoof 4y ago
>How can I get these people to think that I will be good enough and polite enough to make their lives easier without being a threat. This. Consulting for my market weakened significantly within the past 5 years, so I had to subcontra
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by MrFoof 4y ago
>Why don’t they stick an Airport of Time Capsule in these things? Because after they started winding down that business unit, those employees basically went and founded Ubiquiti.
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by MrFoof 4y ago
F-150 Lightning prices have increased three times since it was launched. In May of 2021, a “stripped out” Pro trim was $39,974. As of December 2022 they are $55,974 before destination and other “out the door” charges excluding sales tax
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by MrFoof 4y ago
I think the cheapest near me in Boston is Walmart, where it was about $4.39/dozen a week or so ago (seems to be $4.85/dozen now) , but seeing a lot of local supermarkets where the cheapest is $6.49/dozen it really made me t
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by MrFoof 4y ago
This. My barber rents about 600 square feet in Boston near a major college, and that is $8000/mo. And that’s a good deal considering both the area and that he’s always had so much business he’s forever booked solid. Folks, actually
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by MrFoof 4y ago
>To be fair, pay is irrelevant in this context. You think someone making $15/hour isn’t any more likely to be swayed to do what a company says, compared to someone making 6-digits a year, when being threatened by a $100,000 fine?
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Apparently the case that really ticked off the FTC was a security company threatening to try to hit security guards for $100K if they left for a competitor. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/noncompete-agreement-feds-sue-
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Having a 5950X myself I am very impressed at its power efficiency. I've tweaked mine a fair bit (plus aggressive memory with manually adjusted timings) and it's been great. Up to 6-cores it can sit at 5GHz all day long (on air
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by MrFoof 4y ago
>This seems like a rather significant scheduling nightmare to me. I look at this as Zen 5 test bed. Microsoft already said scheduler tweaks will come in Win 11 to better accommodate Zen 4 X3D, and I assume Linux kernel devs have been
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by MrFoof 4y ago
>Now also talk about production costs, staff salaries, and taxes. Per the article... "Total expenses are 30400 USD (5% of earnings). That includes Lego parts (7600 USD) and other stuff like film equipment (22800 USD). Such a low
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Not just Twitter accounts either. Bloomberg reporting it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-23/bankman-f... No-paywall: https://archive.vn/0HWBA ----- Her husband didn't d
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Yep. The challenge for OpenAI right now is how to drive cost-per-query down, particularly if they wanted to scale their capacity to something approaching Google scale. Right now their cost per query is about 10-100x what it costs Google to
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Yes, fusion. I 1000% blame mobile autocorrect. > What was the movie that actually featured a scene with those, btw? I think it had Morgan Freeman It was specifically a SimCity 2000 reference.
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by MrFoof 4y ago
I’m glad we might see fission power plants in my lifetime (next 30-50 years). My father still finds it novel that he basically gets to wear Dick Tracy’s watch. Yet I’m concerned that shortly thereafter, the giant robotic laser death spider
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Michael Schumacher's 2000 Ferrari F1-2000 was 4397mm x 1795mm, or 7.89m². Michael Schumacher's 1995 Benetton-Renault B195 was 4350mm x 1990mm, or 8.66m². Ayrton Senna's 1988 McLaren-Honda MP4/4 was 4394mm x 2134mm, or 9.
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by MrFoof 4y ago
>I personally don't like the Monaco GP due to how big the cars have become making it (nearly) impossible to pass. Believe it or not, a modern Formula 1 car has basically the same footprint as a Chevrolet Tahoe A 2022 Formula 1 car
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by MrFoof 4y ago
>You can control everything with local wireless remotes and be completely underworked. Or you can buy the hub which gives you app control on the local network only. Yep, as I described: ” It means I need to use an app that communicates
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by MrFoof 4y ago
My hard rule is I refuse to buy any “Smart Home” product that is IP addressable, or can directly connect to a host outside my own network. Any new device gets tossed into a super restricted VLAN, and monitored. If it tries to reach the ou
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by MrFoof 4y ago
The reality is the simple graphics is what allows you to keep things very easily distinguishable as you zoom out to a great distance. Additionally, they required less time to create. Last, the other point of keeping things as relatively abs
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by MrFoof 4y ago
> Many folks buy cheap DVDs, because their favorite movies stop being available on their current subscriptions of streaming services. This is it for me, except I’ve never bothered with the subscription services because they never seem t
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by MrFoof 4y ago
To note, this is the THIRD time in the past two calendar years that Steve Burke and the folks at Gamers Nexus have done a product investigation on something capable of causing a fire. They also prompted Fractal Design to do their own inves
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by MrFoof 4y ago
>Wait, how big does your screen physically need to be to even call 5K a win over 4K As I mentioned with "productivity, not gaming", preferring 5K over 4K isn't about making picture prettier. This is about having a 5K 27&
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Honestly, the bit I’m happy to see is DisplayPort 2.1, as it might finally open up a lot more options in the display market. I’ve been waiting a decade for 5K120 to be ubiquitous. That it might start existing with real selection (and com
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by MrFoof 4y ago
I have Verizon prepaid. I pay $26.56 a month including state sales tax. For that I get… * Unlimited voice. * Unlimited SMS. * “Unlimited” data. The first 5GB/mo is at 5G speeds, the rest at 4G speeds which I typically see between 60-
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by MrFoof 4y ago
GM also has electronic primary door release mechanisms in their vehicles. So if the car has no power, you can’t open the doors from inside. Granted, because of regulatory requirements there is STILL A MANUAL RELEASE… on the floor, near the
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by MrFoof 4y ago
At $1B a month, that's approximately on par with the GDP of an island nation like Sint Maarten or Grenada.

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