blattimwind

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by blattimwind 6y ago
I don't have first hand experience with higher spec build on the single CCD Zen 2 chips, but the dual CCD chips are not particularly good in terms of thermals. Only the very best of air coolers can handle them, and are not particularly
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by blattimwind 6y ago
That's roughly equivalent to Cinebench points per dollar, which is unrelated to gaming performance, if you want that. Doesn't mean the 3600 is bad , but it does mean that these kinds of synthetic benchmarks tell you very little a
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by blattimwind 6y ago
The bar really isn't "has to be good out of the box", if it requires some tweaking on a line to line basis that would probably be ok and still much, much cheaper and much quicker to iterate on than voice actors for these high
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by blattimwind 6y ago
I could see this being used for RPG games to fix the choice deficiency that has been caused by going for fully voiced dialogue. Also, making Hitler read copypastas even more convincingly.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
I would have thought the fact that splashing IPA over your skin makes it turn white-ish and gives it a weird texture should be a pretty big pointer for people to not do that but I guess people are people.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
HVDC works for linking grids and for very long distance transmission between few stations. It does not work well at all for distribution. Never did. Never will. Sorrynotsorry.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
You're looking at an SXM module, so that PCB is the whole thing. TDP is 400 W. I assume these run at a sub-1 V core voltage due to their relatively low clocks, so yeah, you are looking at a core supply current that may well exceed 500
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Uses Pentium Pros -- the first Intel CPUs to be vulnerable.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Tesla is famous in the US for inventing polyphase AC and induction motors, but this is really one of these stories were a bunch of people invented the same thing very closely to each other due to a precipitating reaching of understanding. N
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Data is only inserted, not changed or deleted.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
They take a long time to produce and to consume as well. Video is a neat but inefficient form of communication for a lot of content.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
For modern video editors (aka "not Adobe") the CPU barely matters at all. I suspect "content creation needs strong CPU" is held up largely by Adobe, while more modern systems ditched CPUs for heavy lifting a long time ag
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by blattimwind 6y ago
A Bulldozer FX barreling down the highway at over 8 GHz is actually still slower than any modern CPU at less than half the clock speed. The latter also doesn't require LN2 cooling and doesn't draw more than 100 W for a single core
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Keeping a CPU under 70 °C while dissipating 300+ Watts is going to be tough even for high end custom loops. Air just isn't an option for these CPUs at all.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
For price-performance, absolute performance and acoustics laptops never made any sense at all . A 3700X annihilates the highest perf part Apple uses and can be cheaply cooled under full load without causing much noise; or without causing
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by blattimwind 6y ago
MVCC.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
The untrusted system could flash malicious firmware to a component with DMA (e.g. GPU VBIOS) to infect the second system.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
It's not a solved problem for CSGO, but surprisingly the situation now, as a F2P game, is much better than what it was before F2P. It's really quite rare to run into cheaters, most people are just smurfing.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
> Even Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) which is considered by many to not be very intrusive, used to intercept DNS queries to detect communication with paid cheats DRM. I was surprised hearing this. It seems like what they actually did was if VAC
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Most anti-cheats and some "DRM solutions" do not allow you to run inside a VM, trying to mask the fact you do might be enough to get banned. Even with PCI passthru you can't expect full performance (CPU is also still virtuali
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by blattimwind 6y ago
> The effect is that out of the box a 1 MB region size will be used, while for the fixed heap case the region size will be 2 MB. It might sound like a small difference, but the benchmark uses a significant amount of large objects that ne
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by blattimwind 6y ago
The whole point of modern cryptography is to take all the oodles of rope to hang yourself with and hand it over to the cryptographers, to leave just the absolute minimum amount of rope with the application developers. JWT is the opposite of
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by blattimwind 6y ago
(1) You sit much closer ... (2) Computer CRTs supported ... (3) And at the end ...
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by blattimwind 6y ago
As far as I know lots of TV shows were not shot on film but rather on tape, which naturally limits quality to PAL/NTSC, since that's what gets recorded on tape. Similarly the archives of broadcasters are/used to be tape.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Only cheap/low-end LCDs are 6 bit. Most are 8 bit with no dithering.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Three reasons: You sit much closer to a computer screen compared to a TV, so your peripheral vision has a better chance with the computer screen to see flicker. Computer CRTs supported higher refresh rates, so they used phosphors with short
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by blattimwind 6y ago
It's 0.3 mm thinner, you'd be hard pressed to notice that even with a ruler in a side-to-side comparison.
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by blattimwind 6y ago
> The only problem with the headphone jack is that it is a very old standard. It's big connector, and takes significant real state inside a phone. The 2020 iPhone SE is much bigger than the 2016 iPhone SE and almost 50 % heavier. Th
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by blattimwind 6y ago
> i would usually assume 96 bit -> 48 bit would be enough but they have what I think is some pessimistic advice: The "You have n Bits, then you need 2^n/2 tries for a birthday attack, so your real 'security level'
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by blattimwind 6y ago
Yeah, exactly. I don't think we disagree, I just abused the name a little bit - not a good idea in this field!

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