blattimwind

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by blattimwind 6y ago
I think that's exactly the point and it even applies to Macbooks: Apple just makes some pretty average laptops with poor price-performance ratio (even in the allegedly-high-end segment) and they clearly don't have a monopoly or ev
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Are these still around though? Single-rail designs have been trickling down into lower and lower price points, meanwhile the cheapests power supplies never had independently regulated rails in the first place.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Funnily enough, the "Edison" effect was originally discovered in the 1850s. It got rediscovered approximately every ten years after that.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Overload resistance and overall robustness.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
You can MITM OTP, but you can't MITM U2F. You can copy/steal the OTP secret from a phone app, but you can't copy/steal the U2F private key from a Yubikey (easily).
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by blattimwind 6y ago
US justice system is a meme.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
You can't make a competitive video encoder that isn't.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
And individually color-coded cables. Lovely.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
> Valve games use Protocol buffers and UDP connections to the lobby server, in their netcode (someone correct me if I'm wrong). The netcode originally used in GoldSrc/1.6 came from QuakeWorld and predates Google. IIRC it got re
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by blattimwind 6y ago
This could serve as a demonstration what a long way way web sockets/rtc/channels still have to go, since the experience is much worse even considering the ping compared to 20 year old netcode.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Using IA for market segmentation purposes is such a classic from the "Bad Intel Ideas" basket...
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Is that a recent change? I'm pretty sure some of my less popular remarks earned double digit negative points.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
A look into American popular culture is rather revealing in this aspect. Consider the currently running series "SWAT", which portrays the rise of a good-cop SWAT leader. That's the lead "good character" of the serie
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by blattimwind 6y ago
These don't look much different from control rooms elsewhere from the same time? Heck, a lot of process control rooms still look a lot like this (and for good reason), just with a row or two of desks with screens in front and perhaps s
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by blattimwind 6y ago
For high core count (server) CPUs all levels of cache are local to core(s). For example, in Intel's current plattform each core has a 1.x MB L3 slice attached to it. In AMD's Zen 2 design, each CCX (group of four cores) has 16 M
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Did you manage to do that with hard drives?
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by blattimwind 6y ago
The thing is, if you don't want to loose a lot of performance on that storage, either a bought or a built NAS will set you back 1000+ bucks; you can run an idling desktop PC for at least 5 years for that price (80 W idle power consumpt
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Both have very different failure modes depending on what is failing. Controller / electronics failure tends to instantly brick either. Some hard drives experience a single failure event that wipes out a bunch of sectors, but they wor
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Linus specifically explains that for a predictable predicate a branch is preferable and why, while for an unpredictable predicate a conditional move is preferable.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
.kkrieger is a full 3D shooter in just 96K (needs slightly more than 96K of memory to run)
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by blattimwind 6y ago
> seems like a dumb move, but I'm sure they have their reasons. Uhm, Intel has been doing this since always. One generation of boards for one generation of CPUs. At most two.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
The 4xxxHS parts seem to be rather competitive there as well. Note that these are monolithic Zen 2 APUs, I suspect this is the same silicon that will ship as 4xxxG parts on the desktop.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
They do. CPUs tend to run at pretty high core voltages to achieve their high clock speeds compared to GPUs, so GPUs consume even more current: 300 W at ~1 V = 300 A. In AMDs case the CPU is supplied with a common core voltage that's re
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by blattimwind 6y ago
~90 %
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by blattimwind 6y ago
I don't think CSGO provides much insight, considering that its engine was already outdated for many years on release (2012) and has received few significant updates since. The 3rd party benchmark map that is typically used for these te
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Memory latency is 20-50 % worse, but that doesn't mean 20-50 % lower FPS. What it does mean is in CPU limited scenarios Ryzen CPUs currently cannot touch Intel's CPUs. Even several year old high end Intel parts outperform Ryzens t
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by blattimwind 6y ago
These are a full generation behind, though. 3xxxG is Zen+, 4xxxG is Zen 2. Memory compatibility is substantially worse (the Ryzen 3000 / Zen 2 memory controller is very good actually, but severely bottlenecked by Infinity Fabric) and C
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Thermalright coolers are sleepers; not well known, but superb performance and price-performance ratio far superior to anything else. You can basically get something that gets close to a 100 € Noctua NH-D15 for less than half the price.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Worth pointing out that 3xxxG parts are Zen+ and not Zen 2 like all other Ryzen 3000 parts. So the CPU in the 3200G is very different from the one in a 3700X.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
> Intel CPU market is behind after many years. Long live AMD design + Taiwan manufacturing. Except Intel still delivers better and more consistent gaming performance largely based on better overall architecture (L3, IMC and what connects

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