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by cdr 11y ago
CCCP was amazing when it first came about. The last time I wanted to watch something, though, KCP was recommended over CCCP. Things are forever going to be a bit of a mess with playing anime since there's a long tradition of being on t
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by cdr 11y ago
When I gave the Nexus Mod Manager a try a little while ago, I wondered how it managed to take 18 hours to copy a few hundred files from one directory to another - on a SSD. Wouldn't be surprised if this was at least part of it.
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by cdr 11y ago
$5/student/year with volume discounts available, according to the NYT piece.
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by cdr 11y ago
Firefox performance on my older laptop just gets worse and worse. Just a few tabs open to the wrong websites can peg CPU usage at 100%. As far as I can tell this is mainly due to Mozilla "improving" the guts of their rendering at
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by cdr 11y ago
I think they're called flexi discs. http://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400369975/its-thin-its-plastic...
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by cdr 11y ago
Much much cheaper? What? The 512GB 950 Pro is $349, 512GB SM951 is as much as $490 if you can manage to find it. The 256GB SM951 is more available, but it's the same price as the 950 Pro at the very best. And that's before you sta
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by cdr 11y ago
I'd say SSDs are going down in price pretty dang fast. The technology is advancing far more rapidly than HDDs could ever dream of. The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB is already ~25% cheaper than the equivalent 840 was a year ago, with better pe
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by cdr 11y ago
I haven't really used Twitch broadcasting since it was just justin.tv, but back in those days it was very much just IRC. You could just connect to the IRC channel, and in fact if you wanted to capture logs of the chat or do bots that&#
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by cdr 11y ago
> I wish they would tone down how loose the physics on ragdolls There's more than one "they", of course. You can certainly fault Havok for the default settings being set for impressive demonstrations rather than realistic
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by cdr 11y ago
If by chance it's an 840 (rather than the VNAND 850), there's been two firmware updates to improve performance over time - make sure to update the firmware.
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by cdr 11y ago
If you count professional music artists, producers, and songwriters among fans, sure. It's certainly true that anyone can create a vocaloid track and have it gain popularity, but a number of the biggest hits have unsurprisingly been pr
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by cdr 11y ago
As sz4kerto said, it was probably tracked by building systems. But beyond that, weather services track every single lightning strike in most of the developed world. Eg BELLS: http://radar.meteo.be/en/3337408-Lightning+d
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by cdr 11y ago
If the measurement was originally per 1000 gallons it makes sense to preserve the unit. It may be rounded from acre-foot/year, which is 893 gallons/day.
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by cdr 11y ago
If you're not interested in spending the money to get top-tier performance, there's absolutely no reason to buy Skylake right now. The Intel 750 is NVMe, the next generation of storage interface. The 750 can outperform a SATA SSD
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by cdr 11y ago
Ah, I guess I'm used to the Haswell DMI bus speed still, which severely limited M.2 speed even if it was 3.0 and 4 lanes. I guess that's probably not the case with Skylake.
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by cdr 11y ago
You're right, it looks like most of the Skylake launch boards in Anandtech's review are M.2. Somewhat disappointing. I still suspect M.2 is obsolete in the long run, but seemingly not for this generation of Skylake. There are at l
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by cdr 11y ago
If you care about spending an extra $30 on a CPU cooler, I'd say Skylake is definitely not for you. If you're getting Skylake for gaming you should probably be planning to drop $400 (or more for a bigger size) on an Intel 750 SSD.
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by cdr 11y ago
> M.2 My impression was that M.2 is going out of style, at least for desktop - the primary form factor for the Intel 750 etc is an actual PCIe card. The alternative connector if you want a 2.5" drive form factor is U.2 (SFF-8639).
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by cdr 11y ago
The biggest thing I've seen that Skylake provides for high-performance gaming is 26 PCIE lanes. This means you can run a PCIE 3.0 4x+ lane NVMe SSD like the Intel 750 while also running a 3.0 16x GPU (or two GPUs in SLI/CrossFireX
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by cdr 11y ago
That's true of most anti-social behavior (as you acknowledge with "crimes of opportunity"), notably cheating.
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by cdr 11y ago
They were pretty huge in volume at one point, mostly wholesale and rebranded. I don't know about now. 10-15 years ago you would always look for CD/DVD blank deals that were rebranded TY, and they were never difficult to find. When
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by cdr 11y ago
That was an entirely bizarre incident with entirely unique circumstances. Nothing similar has ever happened before, or may ever happen again once the troll is shot down in court. Among other things it involves someone who's made 2,200
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by cdr 11y ago
When I was using 2-3 monitors, I had all kinds of trouble with them under linux. This was no doubt mostly due to them being different orientations, but there were no end of driver/window manager issues with various distros. Windows alw
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by cdr 11y ago
You seem to be overlooking a huge thing - collectibles have an (above-the-board) resale value. While perhaps the market crashes someday, for 25 years Magic cards have done nothing but go up in value. I'm personally up tens of thousands
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by cdr 11y ago
That was not well researched though, if at all - it's by complete outsiders with little actual knowledge of what happened. Even the person they talk to (Skaff Elias IIRC) gives them a dubious offhand anecdote. It's a Malcolm Gladw
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by cdr 11y ago
As far as I can tell, the tax avoidance is a bonus, but not the primary driver of this deal or most any deal that gets accused of being such.
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by cdr 11y ago
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/17/393596736/forget-binge-watchin...
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by cdr 11y ago
Really difficult for a non-technical user, absolutely. For a technical person, more annoying than difficult.
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by cdr 11y ago
The best practice for installing free Windows applications is definitely to use something like https://ninite.com/ which skips all crapware for you. If a free utility isn't on ninite, I think extra hard about whether I
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by cdr 11y ago
$200 TB SSDs is not what you should be excited about... sub-$400 400GB 2400MB/s consumer NVMe SSDs (Intel 750) is what's exciting.

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