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by powercf 8y ago
> North America, Asia (in asia it's insane how much AC is wasted), and I don't see it as much in Europe but probably some stores do it + Brasil. It's infuriating.
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by powercf 8y ago
… and Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing
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by powercf 8y ago
The world doesn't need any more people. Fewer would be an improvement. My problem with AC is how ubiguitous it is, and how people use it without thought of the environmental cost. It's ridiculous in many cases: people who sleep wi
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by powercf 9y ago
It seems to be a mix of personal, professional and medical information, some of which will be permitted under GDPR (e.g. an employer recording LOC written by an employee is surely permitted). The outcome will be interesting to get a better
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by powercf 9y ago
> Your concept that there are no accidents, only oversights, is not correct. Say I’m crossing the street and I don’t see your car coming, because I look the wrong way or I’m distracted, or my view is blocked by the sun. You may not be ab
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by powercf 9y ago
> You know that the English language doesn't originate in America, right? Of course, but it's not relevent. > I see the spread of the Spanish language a step in the Peruvianization of the world, which is a shame. Peru isn&#x
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by powercf 9y ago
My problem is that, as time goes by, English use will become more common, and Icelandic less. The spread of the English language (e.g. the children in the article who '“know what the word is” for something they are being shown on the f
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by powercf 9y ago
> The case was initially about patent infringement, and for undisclosed reasons they were all tossed out. Possibly because the patents were invalid due to the existence of prior art? Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinat
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by powercf 9y ago
Yes, mostly at amateur level. Rugby (union) also has problems with serious injury, and it shouldn't be considered a better, or safer American football. At national level many teams play a very direct style - smash repetedly into the op
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by powercf 9y ago
Being around long enough to recognize what's going on increases the chance of some intervention. Casual criminals usually try to avoid areas with a lot of pedestrians (more chance of a do-gooder I assume), whereas roads with a lot of c
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by powercf 9y ago
I was recently the victim of an attempted mugging, while walking. This occured on a busy road with dozens of cars driving by in the short time this took to happen, but with no other pedestrians around. No car stopped, no driver offered any
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by powercf 9y ago
It's not ridiculous, but there's pratically no more information about it. No major tech sites have covered it, beyond Phoronix. AMD haven't acknowledged it, beyond stating that "a performance marginality problem exclusiv
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by powercf 9y ago
> This problem only affects a minority of chips in the first place (likely a litho flaw in the cache section) What are you basing this on? I've seen no good reporting on this* but the AMD Community segfault thread ( https:/&#x2
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by powercf 9y ago
> Lists are for humans to read and therefore should use the natural numbers, which start at one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms#Formulation To address the content of your post: I agree, but humans aren&#
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by powercf 9y ago
Can you explain why you need 16/16/16? Wikipedia tells me that one x16 PCIe 4.0 connection has a capacity of 32GB/sec (x8 is 16GB/sec). A quick search shows NVMe drives with a sustained read or write speed of ~2-4 GB&#x2
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by powercf 9y ago
Zen is the work of a huge team of talented engineers. To single one out as "the man behind Zen" seems very wrong. I don't know what Jim Keller's contribution to Zen was (and without a blog or autobiography or similar fro
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by powercf 9y ago
I hoped this just affected Ryzen CPUs, but this Reddit post indicates that it affects Epyc also: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6rmq6q/epyc_7551_minin... The first post on on AMD's community
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by powercf 9y ago
Only AMD can really say whether Vega turns out to be a failure or not. We don't know what their goals or constraints were. In the end, if it has a performance/price advantage over Nvidia's (year-old) offerings, then it will b
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by powercf 9y ago
This should get more recognition from the media. Especially as AMD are launching server and high-end CPUs with high core-counts (where I assume a large part of the market will be programmers), getting 120fps instead of 140fps in ${SOME_GAME
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by powercf 9y ago
On my Windows 10 install, Windows Update uses 100% of one core to do whatever it's doing. Once it starts, it seems to spin away indefinitely. Some searching shows that it's not just me that's affected by this. I've also
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by powercf 9y ago
Humans have more or less empathy for other animals. Some humans (me included) feel enough empathy for other animals, that they choose not to eat them, in order to reduce their suffering. I assume empathy is important evolutionarily to human
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by powercf 10y ago
re. UTF-8 support: ncurses does include this, in libncursesw. It seems to work, although I haven't tried anything outside of Latin-1.
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by powercf 10y ago
I have used ncurses to build a simple backend interface, that I use for testing new features etc. The end result looks nice, and is functional, but ncurses the library is a pain. It feels like something that would not be written by a progra
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by powercf 10y ago
> It's anandtech, it will be accurate. There are 87 benchmarks there. I do not believe they re-do all 87 each time someone releases a processor. It's more likely that they are reusing old 8370 results and comparing with new 660
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by powercf 10y ago
The results on that page seem to indicate that the i5 is faster (sometimes up to twice as fast) than the FX on single-threaded workloads, while the FX is faster (sometimes up to twice as fast) than the i5 on multi-threaded workloads. They&#
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by powercf 10y ago
That case seems* to have been dismissed. My (very brief) reading of it is that there is no industry-standard definition of what a "core" is (other than possibly being able to simultaneously execute), and what can or cannot be shar
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by powercf 10y ago
Games are a very specific workload, and I find the focus placed on gaming performance in CPU reviews to be ridiculous. For another specific workload: software that can use 100% of 8+ threads, the FX CPUs are probably ahead of Intel CPUs in
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by powercf 10y ago
56.8… Given that they've defined "::" differently to the usual "as" the answer could be anything. More specifically, the answer is f(64), where f(x) is wharever was in the head of the guy who made the question. The
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by powercf 10y ago
> He spent the night insulting them and they told him that no one cared, that's not rude that's response in kind. That's not true. Asking, in one tweet, if it's "narcissistically gratifying" for MW to be the
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by powercf 10y ago
Pretty shocking - the response from MW, and then the vitriol on twitter, and on the slate article.

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