In other news today...
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Gąska If only one of the participants in the one that caught fire had to pee, then they could have all been saved
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ed1d3f24-44bf-465d-aee3-823ba624fbd3
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Nagesh said in In other news today...:
World's biggest statue at the price of $182 million
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/world/asia/india-worlds-tallest-statue.html
Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just whip it out?
That would be obscene and violation of section 294 of INDIA PENAL CODE.
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@Nagesh said in In other news today...:
If you want to give christmas gift,
Aren’t you a little late?
here is interesting device.
Hilarious article.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
the need to poop is pretty unpredictable for us
This is one of those rare instances where quoting out of context won't add much.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Nagesh said in In other news today...:
If you want to give christmas gift,
Aren’t you a little late?
here is interesting device.
Hilarious article.
Late is concept of time, and as you know our nation's concept of time a bit different from yours.
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@Nagesh said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Nagesh said in In other news today...:
World's biggest statue at the price of $182 million
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/world/asia/india-worlds-tallest-statue.html
Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just whip it out?
That would be obscene and violation of section 294 of INDIA PENAL CODE.
But not the penile code?
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@Gąska That's good, because our company actually does call us all engineers. Even new hires straight out of school.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I thought music Microsoft eliminated the support cycles for all their products...
Are you talking about Zune?
Also, they didn't eliminate support for ALL their products... yet
My phone has a memory leak, which (among other things) can cause weird glitches in autocorrect. For instance, it chose to replace "that" with "music".
You definitely are managing the most hilariously broken tech stack.
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I still have no idea what it does or what it can be used for. I suspect marketing somehow takes up 50%+ of the budget.
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@boomzilla well, better check his hair follicles.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I still have no idea what it does or what it can be used for.
They're supposed to do large, complex searches. But without knowing the number of qubits and how many operations can be done on them collectively before the whole system collapses, it's hard to say what sort of actual complexity can be achieved.
I suspect marketing somehow takes up 50%+ of the budget.
It's IBM. That's a given.
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For fucks sake. You're a day late and a dollar fucking short.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
For fucks sake. You're a day late and a dollar fucking short.
What if I couldn't read what's behind the link in your tweet because my ad blocker is blocking your tracking?
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The 24-year-old received a notification in December telling him that he had matched with a woman in his area. After she messaged him to say hello — unlike other dating apps, Bumble requires women to make the first move — Harrison asked how she was doing.
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At first, Harrison figured it had to be a prank. His profile on the dating app doesn’t mention what he does for a living. But in rural McIntosh County, a community of roughly 20,000 residents where he’s worked since 2017, plenty of people recognize him as the game warden.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
All sorts of ...
The cops compelled DNA samples only after the facility discovered it could not legally force its employees to undergo DNA testing or voluntarily conduct the testing itself under federal law.
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That'll be the Branston pickle that does that, nothing as depraved as a man all cheesed up:
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Today in "sequential numbering is hard", The Radeon VII:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uilkteCmqTI
Although, the naming is kinda clever. VII as in 7 for 7nm GPU and VII as in V2 for Vega 2.
Promises performance of above a 2080 at a slightly lower price than a 2080. Set to be a combination of a gaming GPU and a pro GPU, making it like the Titan (and the previous Vega). Comes with 16GB HBM memory. Releases february 19.
Also, AMD did a teaser of the next-gen Ryzen by showing off an engineering sample, claiming better performance than a 9900K at a lower power draw. Also, PCIe 4.0. Finally! The one thing I have been waiting for to finally replace my PCIe 2.0 PC! Coming mid-year. Drops into existing AM4 socket. AMD hype!
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@Atazhaia
Vega II indeed. It's supposed to be 7nm, but that TDP number, if correct - and it probably is -
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@Atazhaia Yeah, but does it have hardware support for DXR et al.?
1TB/s sounds sweet. Even if that's only the marketing numbers, it's a significant bump from what NVIDIA claims for a RTX 2080 Ti (660GB/s). Then again, it's AMD, so who cares. :-/
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@cvi Different memory tech. AMD are using HBM which is integrated into the GPU package compared to Nvidia using GDDR6 which are chips external to the GPU package.
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@Atazhaia Sure. Doesn't make that 1TB/s less sweet (though how much you actually can reasonably use in different scenarios is a good question - I'm not too familiar with the ADM archs, so I don't know how badly it will react to different patterns).
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@cvi At least Radeon also gives you 16GB of it, compared to Nvidia only giving 8 or 11. And RT has proven to be quite the memory hog... But yeah, if the RVII performs comparably to a 2080 at a similar price, then I'll pick the RVII. But as I have to wait until Ryzen 3000 before I buy a new rig I have a few months to see how it'll perform in the wild.
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@Atazhaia are you really going to buy the world's #1 GPU and world's #1 CPU at release? Wouldn't you want to buy a new car instead?
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
But yeah, if the RVII performs comparably to a 2080 at a similar price, then I'll pick the RVII.
Stuck in CUDA world, so not much choice there (at least if I want to work from home occasionally). TBF, I typically go for the new features over super high-end anyway. Personally waiting for the reports on the RTX2060, and then deciding if I should get one of those or a 2070.
IME NVIDIA tends to push out new features into the public. Last I checked (which admittedly isn't that recently), AMD sucked big time on that front. Then again, I've not heard anything on the contrary from other people either.
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@Atazhaia If you think sequential numbering is easy I suggest you come play over in distributed systems with me.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the Radeon VII:
[There's] no ray tracing, no AI. It's 7nm with HBM memory that barely keeps up with a 2080. And if we turn on DLSS we'll crush it. And if we turn on ray tracing we'll crush it.
That's a lot of "ifs" and that's the entire RTX launch right there. None of the two major features have arrived in a big way. Raytracing? That's BFV being the poster child for that, and for the first it's not a game where you can stand around and admire the effects. It's a fast-paced FPS. And secondly, if you want RT on Ultra you better pony up for a 2080 Ti and only play at 1080p. If you want RT at all you need at least a 2080. The 2070 doesn't deliver acceptable performance with RT on and now they are releasing the 2060 and are promising RT on that? But that's fine, because once DLSS comes that'll fix the performance issues! But that's the thing. That's the other major feature and it's still not here. Why was that not included on release, if it's such a big feature that will boost performance across the line?
So you got an overpriced and underperforming GPU line where the major features are just not here, months after release. And there's nothing right now that says RT will be anything other than a niche thing for the foreseeable future. One thing mentioned as a likely culprit for the RT performance issues is that it uses a lot of VRAM, and Nvidia loves cheaping out on the amount of VRAM on their cards. So it runs out of it, and we get thrashing as then it has to resort to using the slower regular RAM to store textures and such. Right now, turning on RT will only crush your own graphics cards, Nvidia...
[FreeSync] was never proven to work. As you know, we invented the area of adaptive sync. The truth is most of the FreeSync monitors do not work. They do not even work with AMD's graphics cards.
Which is total bullshit. So, if FreeSync is broken, then why are you spending so much time validating your graphics cards with it? Also, if AMD cards wouldn't work with it, I think there would have been more reports of that floating around tbh...
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Nvidia loves cheaping out on the amount of VRAM on their cards.
Radeon VII looks very nice on that score, but I really wish they'd jammed more memory onto the RX Vega 56. That would have meant it wasn't just a poor alternative to a 1070 Ti. 700 USD for the VII will just be too high for me.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
That'll be the Branston pickle that does that, nothing as depraved as a man all cheesed up:
Grilled Cheese Sandwiches were essential accessories in the Car Wars tabletop game, so it makes sense.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Next version of Windows 10 will make sure big updates can be applied
Note that (at present) only new installs will have this. Even in Insider builds you have to go in and edit the Registry to make Windows enable it during the next version update.
I don't like how they're doing what they're doing here; it would have been preferable to change Windows Update to better tell how much space is actually needed before starting the major version upgrade process. :/
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@LB_ said in In other news today...:
EDIT:
Reserved storage won't be unused though. It'll be a dumping ground for temporary files that users would have to remove anyway if they've got insufficient space at the time of an update. Temporary files are automatically placed in reserved storage.
Why ? Seems like a good idea. If they are going to reserve it anyway, at least put it to good use.
The WTF is that users still have to manually clear it for updates to work, unless the article lied about that.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Microsoft is quick on failed update this year
MS is not to leave behind Win7 users
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@TimeBandit
He must be angling for a gig at Ars, using "bricking" for a deactivation bug
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@izzion Literally!
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If you start to drink after you get home, the police show up at your door
Don't open the door. They can't get in without a warrant or you giving your consent.
But of course, most people will just let them in
While criminal lawyers predict the new law will be challenged
Indeed. And it will most probably be declared unconstitutional.
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@TimeBandit Just to confirm, you saw the maple leaf? America's Hat has a constitution but its Bill of Rights and Freedoms isn't exactly the same as our own.
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@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
Just to confirm, you saw the maple leaf?
Yes, I did.
The police must, therefore, rely entirely upon a valid and unrevoked invitation to enter and remain in the house. … Unless authorized by statute or the common law, a police officer may not enter the premises of another without that other’s permission and must leave if and when that permission is revoked.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Don't open the door. They can't get in without a warrant or you giving your consent.
They don't need to get in. They just need you to give them a breath sample, which they're allowed to demand and you're required to provide. And if you don't have to let them inside, then I suppose that means that you have to go outside.
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@brie said in In other news today...:
They just need you to give them a breath sample
When the police knock at you door, don't answer
Note that I'm saying this as someone who doesn't drink.
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@TimeBandit
Suddenly, they now exigently need to perform a wellness check, since you might well be unconscious on your sofa from drug overdose. Checkmate, drunk drivers!
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@LB_ said in In other news today...:
The WTF is that users still have to manually clear it for updates to work, unless the article lied about that.
It's only manual if you've turned off Storage Sense's automatic cleanup of temporary files, according to this TechNet blog:
FWIW, in my Insider VM it reserved about 2.5GB after I enabled it.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4832762/impaired-driving-canada-breath-samples/
Now, the onus is on drivers to prove they weren’t impaired when they were on the road.
Guilty until proven innocent. What's not to like?
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@Zecc this page:
...has a bunch of tweets talking about the texting. It's pretty amazing.
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And people think us IT types are nuts when we say "letting the governement crack encryption to save the children is a stupid idea and will let anyone crack your encryption whenever the hell they feel like it"