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by magila 6y ago
> No, no they don't. Yes, they do. The power limits are set in MSRs within the CPU and the CPU has default values for those MSRs. > basically no desktop motherboard at least follows Intel's "recommendation" out of
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by magila 6y ago
Those youtubers are measuring "turboing" by looking at the maximum frequency column in HWiNFO. So they consider a CPU to have hit a frequency even if it only touched it for a single millisecond during a minutes long benchmark run.
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by magila 6y ago
> I'm pretty sure you've got that exactly reversed, AMD's power draw tends to stay closer to the rated TDP than Intel's. I was talking about the CPUs in their factory default configuration. Intel CPUs default to limit
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by magila 6y ago
AMD's not really any better when it comes to fudging specs. At least Intel CPUs actually limit their sustained power draw to the TDP when running in their factory default configuration, even if enthusiast motherboards usually override
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by magila 6y ago
Early on Rust had optional GC boxing before it morphed into Rc/Arc, it never required GC of heap allocated objects like Go/Java/C# et al. Deterministic resource management has always been the default with Rust.
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by magila 7y ago
Compared to other racing simulators the official F1 games are, to put it kindly, not the highest fidelity. Their design is geared towards mass market accessibility, not accuracy. For more serious sim racing, iRacing is usually the game of c
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by magila 7y ago
It's perverse because it's harmful to both Netflix and the ISP's customers. The only reason ISPs get away with it is because they hold a monopoly on their user's internet access. If ISPs were subject to competition it wo
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by magila 7y ago
To a typical consumer "Moore's Law" used to mean they could buy a computer that's the same price but twice as fast as the one they bought a couple of years ago. That trend has been dead for a while now. The technical def
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by magila 7y ago
Engagement seems a pretty blunt metric for this. Especially since Youtube has a near monopoly on user generated video content. A user would have to be mightily perturbed to abandon their favorite content altogether over poor video quality.
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by magila 7y ago
If we just threw open the flood gates sure, but that's far from the only option. Simply increasing the immigration quotas gradually year-over-year would eventually allow an equilibrium to be reached without creating a large shock to th
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by magila 7y ago
Contrary to popular belief, even consumer drives will honor flush commands. The problem is operating systems generally do not send flush commands, even when you might expect it (e.g. last I checked fsync() on Linux does not send a flush). D
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by magila 7y ago
The bit about disk drive lying about syncing writes is a persistent myth. There have probably been some HDDs at some point which had notable bugs in their flush command, but in general drives do actually write data to disk before reporting
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by magila 7y ago
Another big gap is the sockets API. Chrome apps have direct access to TCP and UDP sockets. PWAs can't have this for obvious reasons.
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by magila 7y ago
One of the big selling points of the Miata is it's light weight. Mazda has gone to pretty extreme lengths (for such a low priced car) to keep the weight down. A heavy battery wouldn't fit with that at all.
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by magila 7y ago
Heroin produces a stronger euphoric effect than synthetic and semi-synthetic opioids like Dilaudid and fentanyl relative to its less desirable effects like respiratory suppression. Studies have shown that recreational opioid users prefer he
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by magila 7y ago
> Only a small subset of people are going to lie about their dog being a service dog. Clearly you don't live in California. Fake "service dog" harnesses are very common here. Many people claim their pets are emotional supp
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by magila 7y ago
> They definitely are not, as displayed by the fact that binary lengths are the root cause of a huge number of security flaws. JSON mostly avoids that. I assume you're mainly referring to buffer overflows, which are a problem with t
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by magila 7y ago
Boost frequency is not related to TDP. Just because a processor says it can hit a maximum boost of 4.7 GHz doesn't mean it can do that with all cores active and stay within the TDP. It may not even be close. Base frequency is what is t
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by magila 7y ago
Even AnandTech mostly just regurgitates what is feed to them at press events these days.
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by magila 7y ago
Even in the unlikely event that prices did stay the same after building massively more housing, it would still mean a whole lot more people able to live in a highly desirable area. Who are you to tell people where and how they should work a
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by magila 7y ago
The parenthetical in your sentence is the key of course. In theory IPv6 allows for much greater aggregation than IPv4, especially as the latter becomes increasingly fragmented due to address exhaustion. Of course in practice things are not
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by magila 7y ago
The difference is that the routing table has to be stored in TCAM which is a very specialized and expensive type of storage.
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by magila 7y ago
While there are obviously still cases where C++ makes sense to use today, those case are overwhelmingly based on the age and maturity of the C++ ecosystem. Now that Rust has proven that a language can provide memory safety without compromis
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by magila 8y ago
Not everyone is building apps which need to be "web scale". Optane has the potential to significantly raise the performance ceiling of a single-master database. I bet there are a lot of companies who will happily drop six figures
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by magila 8y ago
I never claimed systemd owns resolv.conf so the fact that the latter predates the former is irrelevant. resolv.conf is to be used to implement the resolver API. Any tool which uses resolv.conf for any other purpose does so at its own peril.
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by magila 8y ago
Something which is wrong but has mostly worked by accident is still wrong. A tool which parses a config file it does not own and whose semantics do not necessarily match what the tool expects is wrong. The blame for any breakage which resul
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by magila 8y ago
All Intel systems contain ME hardware and firmware, but most consumer systems are not configured to support remote administration via the integrated ethernet port.
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by magila 8y ago
No. Systems which don't advertise vPro support probably don't include the necessary firmware even if the hardware is capable of supporting it.
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by magila 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at. The AR-18 was intended as a cost-reduced substitute for the AR-15, hence the change to a stamped steel receiver instead of forged aluminum. Design wise the AR-18 is still more closely related t
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by magila 8y ago
Unfortunately sub-5" phones are nearing extinction. The last holdout on the Android side was the Sony Xperia Compact line, and even that seems to have been discontinued. All that's left now is a dwindling supply of existing models

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