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by greggyb 6y ago
If you're going to attack the "spec" that is TDP, you may as well do it correctly. None of the scenarios you mentioned align with what TDP is supposed to "measure". Even if TDP weren't the flawed measure it is,
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by greggyb 6y ago
That's not really a good air vs water comparison. You'd have gotten similar results if you swapped for a better tower cooler as well. The stock coolers are basically built to cover base clock and a bit of turbo.
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by greggyb 6y ago
And those seconds will be dominated by the tens of minutes I spend in other apps per day. And Android and iOS already monitor which apps you use. The calculation of ratios could easily be done locally.
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by greggyb 6y ago
I have a hunch that I won the silicon lottery with it, though I haven't confirmed with any overclocking. I'm happy to dive deeper if you want. Below is a basic summary. I have 5x140mm intake fans, with a Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 coo
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by greggyb 6y ago
Yeah, there's plenty of edge case handling you might want to do. My first pass would be to do it based on screentime. My second pass would be to give the screentime ratios to the user, allowing them to tweak the ratios themselves.
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by greggyb 6y ago
Netflix takes the stance 'adequate performance gets a generous severance package.' You can read more in their culture doc that made the rounds a few years ago. Original deck: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001&#x2
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by greggyb 6y ago
> Has anyone come up with an ed with the advantages of a modern screen, so it shows the full file on the side but you can still run ed commands on it? It's called vi or vim.
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by greggyb 6y ago
I can get much more surface area of radiator than can reasonably be reached by the heat pipes on an air cooler. There are limits to how many radiators you can effectively leverage in a cooling loop. Additionally, a loop with a large volume
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by greggyb 6y ago
The biggest lever in the toolbox for a typical user to optimize network is good old ethernet. Wired vs wireless will typically reduce latency a little bit and massively improves on jitter, which is arguably more important for competitive
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by greggyb 6y ago
I'd be happy to use an app store that tracks active screen-time per app and disburses a monthly "subscription" proportionally to the developers of all the apps I use. I don't have any concern about the type of currency u
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by greggyb 6y ago
With most modern PC processors, both GPU and CPU, one of the primary limitations is thermal headroom. There are features and technologies with varying names across brands and processors that essentially do the same thing: run at the maximum
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by greggyb 6y ago
Intel's name for its CPU architecture is "Core." Nevertheless, AMD discusses its CPU cores. "voodoo" and "Voodoo" need not be the same (;
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by greggyb 6y ago
I absolutely understand the importance of network performance in gaming. My observation was on how vocal gamers tend to be in their excitement about hardware. I see gaming media go nuts over CPU and GPU releases. There's excitement and
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by greggyb 6y ago
Do you need the PC today? Yes -> Buy it now. No -> Wait for third party reviews with benchmarks that represent your workload. Decide on the price/performance tradeoff then. In general, there will always be a better processor comi
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by greggyb 6y ago
Compiling large programs. All sorts of data analytics use cases. Rendering - covers still and video. HPC. Real-time data processing.
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by greggyb 6y ago
Gamers appear to be the most avid and most vocal fans of any given computer technology (except maybe networking?). They're probably trying to ride the hype train. That said, you should always wait for third party benchmarks from a sour
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by greggyb 6y ago
5960X would be a Threadripper part (at least based on the releases of the 3000-series Ryzen desktop processors). Threadripper has typically lagged the Ryzen announcement. I think we can expect some insane TR parts soon.
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by greggyb 6y ago
That 5950X (and its predecessor) seem like voodoo with the core count, clock frequency, and TDP (yes, I know TDP is a flawed, flawed number - it's still impressive).
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by greggyb 6y ago
Why not put a mailo: link at the bottom of a post, with a subscribe message to a listserv for the blog? If you really want, you could also render threads into a comments area.
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by greggyb 6y ago
This is not the only database product that is poorly configured for peak performance on Azure. Even their managed offering for their own Analysis Services OLAP database, Azure Analysis Services, is handily beaten by an IaaS instance with a
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by greggyb 6y ago
I don't have a link handy, but this is what Google did when digitizing books for Google Books back in the day. They had a hardware setup that I believe had foot pedals to snap the picture, but human hands are (were?) still the best pag
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by greggyb 6y ago
I put a small XFCE panel next to my windows taskbar. I put launchers for any windowed programs I want to launch. My .bashrc checks if the host is WSL. If the host is, then it checks for a running XFCE session. If there isn't one runnin
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by greggyb 6y ago
I run GUI emacs under WSL with an X server running on Windows.
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by greggyb 6y ago
I routinely see order of magnitude or greater improvements moving analytical workloads to compressed, columnstore engines vs rowstore engines. The shortest useful description I can give of what constitutes an analytical workloads is that it
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by greggyb 6y ago
To be protected by copyright, a work most be considered a creative effort. Legal documents, in my experience, are not often considered creative works.
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by greggyb 6y ago
HTML form to jam the search string into a format like below (: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ayour-site.tld+the+user+search+string
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by greggyb 6y ago
This site[0] is going a little out of date but has good info for several-generations old Thinkpads right now. As a sibling mentioned, Ebay is your friend. The other nice part about Thinkpads is that they are quite user serviceable and you c
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by greggyb 6y ago
Thank you! This has been an annoyance for a long time for me. Appreciate the share!
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by greggyb 6y ago
And a similarly specced Thinkpad will be perfectly usable if purchased in 2-3 years as they cycle out of enterprise fleets, and for a better price than the notebook in the article. Not a satisfying option for everyone, but a great one in my
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by greggyb 6y ago
AWS has multiple generations of its own ARM processor. I can't say anything about it, as I have no experience with it. I know it's at least two generations in and they claim 40% cheaper for similar workloads. What I can say is tha

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