sjwright

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by sjwright 6y ago
Does WOW need single core performance beyond what AMD offers? Or is this entire thread one big troll and goalpost shift?
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by sjwright 6y ago
Any older single core game will run just fine on probably any (non-embedded) x64 CPU on sale right now. Your original premise simply isn’t a problem.
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by sjwright 6y ago
So sue me (SSM1.0)
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by sjwright 6y ago
It’s worth remembering that the PS4 and XB1 consoles both have eight relatively slow x64 cores. Thus any multiplatform titles targeting either of these platforms has to be optimised for many cores and cannot rely on single core performance.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Obviously. Everyone is different. Still, that's a common reaction from people who use Windows. I've used both Mac and Windows on a near-daily basis for the past ~30 years. Both have spent roughly equal amounts of time as my domina
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by sjwright 6y ago
Maximising windows stopped making sense to me after we hit 24 inch widescreen monitors. It’s just not something I ever do anymore.
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by sjwright 6y ago
> All cost based optimisers rely on statistics being correct. And inevitably there will be a case where they aren't. Every single time the SQL Server query optimiser did something obviously wrong, rebuilding statistics fixed it. The
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by sjwright 6y ago
Sorry, but hard disagree. For all the failings of SQL systems, they work staggeringly well 99% of the time as long as the operator understands how they work. No-SQL systems do have their place, but all too often their choice stems from a fa
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by sjwright 6y ago
Then (in your absurd hypothetical scenario) those agencies are being incredibly stupid, they're wasting their time on on high risk / low reward strategies. Oh wait, you're probably talking about the United States? It's s
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by sjwright 6y ago
Oh and by the way it starts faster and uses less RAM than Eclipse. That's fucked up.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I laugh at conspiracy theories which revolve around the Government paying special attention to normal individuals. Dude, Governments have the power to tax millions of people. They don’t need your piddling bribery money. It’s too much work f
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by sjwright 6y ago
I’m mostly kidding about nano, I only use that when I have to. My main editor is HomeSite+ 5.5 running on Windows XP in a virtual machine on my Mac. And I’m not kidding.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I found SQL Server's query optimiser to be magical, but it relies on its table statistics being somewhat correct. Every now and again they liked to suddenly become wrong enough that queries go from magical to catastrophic mush. (Most r
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by sjwright 6y ago
> You don’t get the svelte lightness of the Air The Pro is barely any thicker and barely any heavier.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Name one that doesn't fit any of my five categories.
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by sjwright 6y ago
And that was one of the sillier holy wars, since text editors have near-zero network effects and it's trivial for distros to ship both. (FWIW I use nano.)
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by sjwright 6y ago
One big interdependent blob? Sounds like the Linux kernel to me.
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by sjwright 6y ago
> Another problem is the "I know better" attitude. All good software is based on this attitude. Wait, I hear you interject. You have examples to disprove this. Well whatever it is you might think isn't the "I know b
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by sjwright 6y ago
You seem to be under the misapprehension that anyone remotely cares. Childish tantrums are counter-productive as they almost entirely blowback onto your own psychological state rather than affecting anyone else's. You are permanently s
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by sjwright 6y ago
Hard disagree. IKEA LED lights are excellent. Maybe some early models were bad, but so were CFL back then too. Current IKEA LEDs are reasonably high CRI and are available with low lumens options. It’s often difficult to find a quality LED b
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by sjwright 6y ago
The world is a better place when companies like Apple do stuff like this properly. Besides, I’d guess that well over 95% of the chargers Apple ships are bundled with a device. Possibly 99%. So the retail cost of the charger on its own is be
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by sjwright 6y ago
Quite.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I would have thought all of those points would apply to ICANN. The issue isn't having clearly defined goals, the issue is that for some value of N, the Nth administration of an organisation eventually behave like exploiters rather than
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by sjwright 6y ago
Exactly right.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Politicians are easy—reward them with a generous pension rather than a generous salary. Bonus points if part of that pension can be inversely tied to future private income.
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by sjwright 6y ago
This is a problem that pervades all forms of organisational stewardship. It's true for ICANN, it's true for all forms of national government, it's even true for ivy league universities. Eventually they all end up being run in
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by sjwright 6y ago
That wasn't a response. The OP didn't say to find evidence of greater than zero scandals during the Obama administration.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Wrong question. The right question is what do the specific individuals at ICANN have to gain?
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by sjwright 6y ago
Yes, hence the strategic use of the word “almost” in my post. :-) In that scenario, the water isn’t a write cache, it’s just sending the heat directly to /dev/null
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by sjwright 6y ago
> the ultimate performance of a cooling solution is how fast you can move heat into the working fluid and how fast the radiator can move it out of the working fluid. Really, it’s all to do with how fast the heat can be permanently ejecte

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