theevilsharpie

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by theevilsharpie 1y ago
> The Dems, because deep down they'd rather have the GOP over real progressives. Decided to rig it for Hillary again in 2016. Sanders had an actual base, but the DNC didn't want him to win. Sanders was a candidate in the Democr
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
I can't speak for the original GLQuake on 3dfx hardware, but on OpenGL-compatible Quake engines (which include modern Quake source ports such as Quakespasm, Ironwail, and vkQuake), bilinear texture filtering is an option that can be tu
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
Being able to run some graphics diagnostics without a host CPU would be useful. However, if we're talking about putting a general-purpose processor/RAM onto a GPU that has enough power to run Linux, at that point, you've esse
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
> But to do this sort of thing you need a dictator at the top who is willing to risk a run of negative-profit quarters to fix the company's underlying rot. Private companies still have shareholders that the CEO answers to -- who ten
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
> To be fair, these are meant for datacenter applications where it would be absolutely normal to run your fans at full speed all of the time. Case fans for rack mount chassis are very powerful, and also can take up a significant amount o
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
Ars Technica is more of a general tech and science news site. They do some computer hardware and phone reviews, but nowhere near what a dedicated tech site does, and they're often not Day 1 reviews. I find their content generally prett
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
In a past life, I was a system administrator for Windows-based computer systems. While I'm not in that world anymore, I do dip my toes into it occasionally to help out acquaintances that still are, and it is both mind-boggling and disc
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
> I was wondering if there really are no negative long term side effects Weight loss via caloric restriction inevitably results in losing lean muscle mass along with body fat. That's why diet and exercise are paired -- diet loses th
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
The number of non-Apple desktops and laptops running ARM is likely a rounding error, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon. Intel has never had a significant presence in mobile devices in the current smartphone era, and they'
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
The last time I had to commute to downtown Los Angeles (about a 50-mile drive), my Prius got 72 MPG. My car is nearly 10 years old, so either I somehow managed to obtain the world's best Prius (with no loss of hybrid battery capacity o
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
I'm still using GCP services that were deprecated years ago (e.g., legacy VPC, classic non-HA VPNs, decommissioned images, etc.). In some cases I can't create new instances of these services, but those that already existed continu
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
> Say what you will about AWS or Microsoft products, if you build something on those platforms you know it'll be supported for a long time. AWS literally has the same terms.[1] Azure claims that "certain" Azure services
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by theevilsharpie 2y ago
Google Cloud DOES have a deprecation "strategy". They publish it in Google Cloud Terms of Service.[1] In short, any service that is listed as "Generally Available" (i.e., not alpha/beta) is guaranteed to have at lea
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
This is referring to ECC as reported from an out-of-band management controller on those specific motherboards. This needs either some platform-level integration into the memory controller (which is unlikely to be present on consumer Ryzen),
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
Ryzen CPUs report ECC errors like any other modern CPU -- it raises a Machine Check Exception which the operating system is expected to handle. Linux and Windows will both handle and log any ECC errors that the CPU raises. Presumably the va
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
(2022)
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
> Personally, I prefer https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake because it allows disabling texture smoothing. All hardware-accelerated Quake source ports that I'm aware of allow you to disable texture smoothing, going
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
> Ok so tell me what it looks like. _That's_ what I want to know. Suppose an application running on your machine suffers some type of malfunction -- a segmentation fault or a seemingly-random kernel panic that you're unable to
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
> what sort of protection does ECC ram give me? The ability to detect (and possibly correct) physical memory errors. > I've been using them both for over 2 years, and not once in that period (that I'm aware of) have I found
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
> IIRC AMD doesn't validate the ECC functionality on their ryzen chips? So you could theoretically end up with a defective ECC circuitry if unlucky. This is not the case. Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC use a unified memory controller
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
> You mean flexibility to claim ECC support but not doing any validation to make sure it actually works? The actual ECC functionality is part of the memory controller, which is entirely AMD's domain. The ECC functionality of the mem
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
> Wow I came back to post this exact reply. I set my system to a slightly high frequency, ran memtest overnight with errors. > > Set it back down to a supported frequency, ran a full memtest suite again with no errors. Cool. You t
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
> Had no idea that 7000s series doesn’t official state support of ECC. You've misinterpreted the author. All currently-available Ryzen 7000 series CPUs have official ECC support, but it requires motherboard support as well.[1] This
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
Ryzen consumer CPUs use the same memory controller as their EPYC counterparts, and have full ECC support if the rest of the platform (i.e., motherboard, DIMMs) also supports ECC. What separates Ryzen from its professional-grade counterparts
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
This reminds me of a hack that Traveller's Tales implemented for Sonic 3D Blast on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. If you physically wiggle or hit the game cartridge enough while the the console is powered on with the game inserted in
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by theevilsharpie 3y ago
> My Mac uses almost an order of magnitude less power than the PC and I keep the PC powered off. Either you are not measuring power consumption correctly, or there is something very wrong with your PC.
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by theevilsharpie 4y ago
(February 10, 2023)
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by theevilsharpie 4y ago
> So another reason I don't use ECC RAM on workstations: Remember that ECC RAM is notoriously long to do memory initialization and memory training. > > Not sure if its an AMD thing but my friend booted his EPYC server with 25
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by theevilsharpie 4y ago
> Do you have any suggestions at all for where to look? I've bought from Memory4Less in the past and had a good experience. ServerSupply was also a source I used for work, although I don't think I've ever bought anything f
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by theevilsharpie 4y ago
Ryzen desktop CPUs support ECC as long as the motherboard supports it. What it doesn't support is registered (including load-reduced) DIMMs, which is the most commonly available type of server memory. Unbuffered ECC DIMMs only.

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