seminatl

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by seminatl 7y ago
Ok but if it’s “trading blows with” and “within a few percent of” a CPU costing half the money, why is it rational to prefer it? I know why I want AMD parts and that is because of ECC memory support but this article doesn’t even mention i
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by seminatl 7y ago
I don't really get how they reached their conclusion. It seems like on most of the tests this new part gets beat by a cheaper one from Intel. It seems like a kinda unfair approach to use handbrake without AVX-512 support? Also not sure
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by seminatl 7y ago
The power adapter that comes with the Switch supports only parts of the usb-pd standard. That’s why it didn’t work with your other phone. You’re absolutely right about the protocol being unreasonable with two batteries connected together. F
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by seminatl 7y ago
The PCIe root ports are integrated with the CPUs these days. If you want more slots, get a breakout box. Nobody can get you more lanes.
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by seminatl 7y ago
That's the big question. It seems like many AMD AM4 socket boards claim to support it. Few Intel boards do, unless you go with a Xeon socket. You can never really tell if they've done it properly until you get one on the bench a
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by seminatl 7y ago
The lights are just personally offensive to me. I'm happy to pay more for their non-existence.
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by seminatl 7y ago
Now that Intel exited the business, what is the motherboard brand for people who just want a motherboard that works? One without any lights on it at all. It seems like supermicro would be the straight-faced alternative, but they don’t pay a
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by seminatl 7y ago
I see your point but aircraft engines can burn diesel, and many small power plants and backup power stations use aircraft engines in stationary services with diesel fuel.
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by seminatl 7y ago
Why do marine engines weigh so much for that power? An airplane uses ~100MW (depending on how you want to calculate it) but obviously its engines don't have a combined weight of 200 tonne.
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by seminatl 7y ago
That’s just time-shifting. You paid in opportunity cost to move those payments backwards in time. This may have been rational for you, since it lowers the risk of the loan I.e. you can always walk away from such a loan when it is backed by
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by seminatl 7y ago
Fun fact: the pprof tool that comes in gperftools can read perf data files, so you can use them together if you prefer pprof’s reporting.
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by seminatl 7y ago
The replacement cycle of cars has been getting longer since about 25 years ago. The average age of cars on the road is now about 12 years. This fact is often overlooked by folks who predict a rapid shift to electric cars.
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by seminatl 7y ago
This is a weird summary because everyone who buys a car on credit is always “underwater”. The cars are never worth the balance of the loan. People buy cars on credit not because the car has intrinsic value or is an investment, but because i
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by seminatl 7y ago
Looking forward to all the contortions people will suggest so that we can do literally anything except not ban cars on crowded marathon days, which is the obvious and easiest solution.
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by seminatl 7y ago
Test case not really needed. The evidence supporting the lead-crime hypothesis is iron-clad at this point. https://www.dropbox.com/s/07z65p9a5wdppfl/LifeAfterLead_AEJ_...
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by seminatl 7y ago
The “towns around Flint” exist and are wealthy due to explicitly racist maneuvers during the White Flight era that intentionally impoverished inner cities and their black residents.
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by seminatl 7y ago
You just leaped to the unfounded conclusion that every computer needs to run untrusted JavaScript. The vast majority of computers have no such need. Especially in a performance-sensitive contest like buying CPU for your database server that
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by seminatl 7y ago
Many people have to deal with base64 codes and these people order their cpus by the cubic meter. Think gmail etc.
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by seminatl 7y ago
I'm not sure if Nat'l Semi died or not. They became a division of TI which is currently trading near its all-time-greatest valuation. TI is one of the most valuable companies on earth. Before the acquisition National had healthy