🔌│tech

[pale sigil]

So in less than an hour I've lost 10%

Using reddit and discord

[astral haven]

Sounds about right

[pale sigil]

Never used to be like this :(

[astral haven]

Drop the res on your phone or something if that's not enough

Also

[pale sigil]

Id lose like 2-5 listening to Spotify and using discord/reddit on the bus

[astral haven]

Batteries degrade

[pale sigil]

It's just over a year old

No fancy refresh

Or res

[astral haven]

Lithium batteries degrade fast

You've definetly run a hundred cycles on it at least

And it seems that you were deep cycling it too

Which is worse for it

[pale sigil]

I try my best to charge at 25-30%

[astral haven]

Ah

Well that helps

[pale sigil]

But when the phone hits that it jusy tanis

Tanks

Recommended is 25-30 - 80%

Last I checked

[astral haven]

Well technically any discharging under 50% is hurting the battery alot

And any charging over 50% is hurting it too

Tho that depends on your battery

[pale sigil]

Just invent better berries pft

[astral haven]

Some people put 3.7v at a different %

Batteries are haaaard

[pale sigil]

Ik ik

But it's clear money is stopping innovation

[astral haven]

What

[pale sigil]

If we had good reliable batteries people wouldn't replace their phones as often

So there's no inventive

[astral haven]

Capacity in the same size has almost doubled

In the Last 10 years

[pale sigil]

Yes but like you said

They degrade fast

[astral haven]

🤷

Just buy lower capacity batteries

They always will degrade slower unless it's apple

Or get a phone with swappable batteries

[pale sigil]

Ye gl with that

[astral haven]

Or literally any cheap phone

That isn't Huawei or xiaomi

[pale sigil]

Is that the thing Google tried to do

Just on a smaller scale

Xiaomi is good

[astral haven]

They use gigantic glued batteries

[pale sigil]

Still good though

[astral haven]

Who cares If you lose 500mah if you have 6000 to start with

Lol

[pale sigil]

Confused

Do tell?

On about what Carmonben sajdn

Said

Tbh I paid fuck all for this phone

So getting how long I got out of it has done me good so far

[astral haven]

What part?

[pale sigil]

Glued battery

[astral haven]

Xiaomi and Huawei use glued batteries on even their cheapest phones
But they usually make them large enough capacity that it's not a problem

At least now

Eh $120 for 6kmah, 48mp, snapdragon is solid

[pale sigil]

What exactly does glue cause

[astral haven]

Glue vs hotswap

[pale sigil]

Oh

But why did you say loose maH

[astral haven]

If you have 6k mah and lose 500 of it it's not a huge deal

[pale sigil]

Oh

Ye

[astral haven]

Vs only starting with 3k and losing the same

[pale sigil]

That's why I kinda want a poco x3

Pro

[astral haven]

Redmi note 9 pro is the one my friend keeps drooling over

Cause yea it's a 5k lipo for like $200

I have a friend who just put down his moto

He was very unhappy

Till he used 5g

And was like holy crap I can get rid of my cable

The guy has a mmwave antenna line of sight from his front window

1.2 gig on his porch

[pale sigil]

Lol 4g

Is so shit here

Super fast 4g in my garden

Maybe 5g will get me 4g speeds finally

Depends were you are

Finland is dirt cheap according to @digital cliff

[crimson wigeon]

My superfast 4G got me 98.4 Mbps down and 4.10 Mbps up that's some sick upload speed right there

[old marlin]

[wheat plume]

HAH, fucking true :/

[reef tundra]

It is still a thing?

[wheat plume]

YEP .-.

They even removed transparency in the terminal cause "it lags on older hardware"

bish wot? my old ass laptop with an athlon processor never lagged and I had fancy ass animations using compiz that made windows explode and catch fire when you closed them

[reef tundra]

Gnome causes lag on older hardware. Im waiting for the rm -rf / command to pass through

[wheat plume]

lol

[wheat plume]

only cause its RAM heavy

[ashen spindle]

I mean its the same reason win7 aero would get turned off on low machines or disabled during high load

[wheat plume]

it stores most of the desktop in RAM so that animations are smooth and responsive

[ashen spindle]

I really have to ask though, what purpose does transparency give in a terminal

[wheat plume]

I dont like transparency in terminal
I like blurred backgrounds in terminal

[crimson wigeon]

None, I just like to have just a bit of it for some reason

[wheat plume]

you can make Konsole have a blurred background and its so pretty

[ashen spindle]

sounds like it'd be very distracting

[wheat plume]

can enable it on window terminal too

if you edit the config file

[reef tundra]

Compositor is the wae

[ashen spindle]

yea I used a custom shader so it has a moving generated forest in the background

[wheat plume]

window has the annoying habit of making unfocused windows lose all the acrylic effects

[ashen spindle]

but I also dont use terminal so I don't see it and just troll people with it

[wheat plume]

:')

[old marlin]

visibility > useless effects

[wheat plume]

I do love this effect, in the settings sidebar

its super pretty

[ashen spindle]

https://twitter.com/iquilezles/status/1369777008339611652 this is peak terminal performance

inigo quilez (@iquilezles)

An Elevated Command Prompt (friends from the #demoscene will get this one).

Thanks @zadjii at Microsoft for allowing shaders in the Windows Terminal (https://t.co/tQAI120wgD). Now, before your manager notices, add hot reloading, error reporting AND mipmaps for "shaderTexture"..? https://t.co/u1pUTq7HFe

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[wheat plume]

why tho xd

ok, it might be cool with shaders that arent that impractical

[crimson wigeon]

You are given the power of shaders

Why not use them

[ashen spindle]

it's just a shader he already wrote so he put it in terminal

[wheat plume]

mmm, jelly mode

how they get this to work on GTK?! and work so well

I once found an gnome extension that did it but it was so janky and horrible

[ashen spindle]

oh yeah the windows sidebar does have transparent effects

man that is distracting

[wheat plume]

wot? I like it a lot

[ashen spindle]

idk it's confusing and distracting as hell if it's not above a same color background

[wheat plume]

o vertical monitor

[pale sigil]

the correct way to do it

[wheat plume]

nah, this best

[ashen spindle]

point is the blur effect is weird as fuck

[wheat plume]

its also got inconsistent amounts of blur depending on the app

even among windows apps

settings has less blur, groove music has more, clocks has barely any

[ashen spindle]

ah there is the off button

[wheat plume]

calculator has the same as groove

[ashen spindle]

much nicer

[wheat plume]

Yeh, there is

I dont like the solid panel

[wet cedar]

Good morning

Getting this error when trying to use

anyone have a solution?

[ashen spindle]

#archived_fortnite_double_movement dont post the same in multiple places

[cursive summit]

Card Specs:

Price: 999$/1099$
VRAM: 12 GB DRR6X
Hashrate: 118 MH/s ( Lite Hash Rate Limited)
Clore Clock: Base: 1‎440 MHz, Boost: 1905 MHz

[reef patrol]

So... lower clocks, higher memory

No wait... why is google giving me 2080 specs. Lel

[pale sigil]

i hate this

that they release TI so later

only 2gb

[cursive summit]

Cal's now going to go on about how his 3080 is now bad

[pale sigil]

thats weird

[ashen spindle]

that's not weird, that's how the memory controllers work

you can't just use random ammounts

[pale sigil]

ik

[ashen spindle]

let alone thinking about where to put them on the board for cooling etc.

• the memory is barely relevant, the core count is more important imo

[pale sigil]

just thought it would be like 16gb

idk why

[ashen spindle]

I think 20 would've been the next option possible

at which point they would've just killed the 3090's reason for existing

[pale sigil]

xD

[crimson wigeon]

äx deee

[ashen spindle]

eyy gigabyte released the 1.2.0.2 bios finally

[reef patrol]

Assrock too. My riser finally works.

[ashen spindle]

though at this point might as well wait for next when when 1.2.0.3 is supposed to come xD

[ashen spindle]

first ubuntu breaks my VM because I make an update then it refuses to download at a normal speed...

already hate it enough

[crimson wigeon]

omegalul

[ashen spindle]

seriously how is it the same for linux or windows, the media creation tool download also sucks balls in speeds

[crimson wigeon]

dunno, my ISOs download fast ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[ashen spindle]

yeah the windows iso download is super fast, the media cretion tool not

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah that thing is shit hence why I don't use it

[wheat plume]

🤔

why no can see SMART status for my NVME ssds?

[ashen spindle]

if it is what I think it is, no comment

[wheat plume]

?

[misty saffron]

just use rufus weirdchamp

[ashen spindle]

I am now, still doesn't speed up the ubuntu download...

[misty saffron]

unfortunate

[ashen spindle]

and for windows, didnt know it was a thing bc I dont remember having that issue in the past

gigabt download, still 2 hours for a 2gb iso...

thanks ubunut

[wheat plume]

ubunut

:')

[misty saffron]

idk, rufus gives me a bootable windows 10 usb in 2 minutes

or you mean DOWNLOADING in media creation tool

[ashen spindle]

yes

[ashen spindle]

the windows iso was downloaded 5 times as fast as the MCT

also thats not the version im downloading

18.04.5

[wheat plume]

ahh

[ashen spindle]

because for whatever reason on the newer "Stable" versions it won't run

idk how you can break basic stuff on an LTS version but w/e

[reef tundra]

dd it

[pale sigil]

I want 10gb NAS or Server so bad.

first thing im buying when i get back on track with money is a damn 2tb nvme

so fucking stupid

[reef patrol]

Step 1 : Stop using proprietary NAS

[pale sigil]

i will

in time

it was my first nas

and a damn good one

[reef patrol]

chants

FREENAS FREE NAS NOW ITS CALLED TRUE??? NAS TRUE NAS TRUE NAS

[ashen spindle]

yeah but does free nas have an easy to use equivalent to surveilance station?

[crimson wigeon]

Wait what why what is the reason for charging for that

[pale sigil]

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22407376/apple-european-union-antitrust-charges-app-store-music-competition-commission-margrethe-vestager

[crisp granite]

🙄

everyone does it, it's widely accepted in the industry

or was, until recently

[pale sigil]

I don't see the issue with Spotify offloading payment outside the app

Which they do stm

What's so bad about that

Discord does the same

[crisp granite]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

the issue is when you spit in the face of apple while waltzing around her stinger traps

which is what epic did

[pale sigil]

I know

[crisp granite]

but I hate how complaints come out about it now

just because one company made a major misstep

[pale sigil]

I mean I get the complaints tok

Too

Especially with stuff like steam, xbox etc

[crisp granite]

it makes sense for companies to charge for a listing on their storefront

[pale sigil]

I mean

Apple do anyway

You pay for a dev account and to publish

[crisp granite]

seems fair to me

their house, their rules

[pale sigil]

I mean

It's pennies to publish

[ashen spindle]

while listing their own things without the needed markup, that's textbook anti-competitive

[pale sigil]

I don't think it's fair what they are doing when it comes to cloud gaming platforms

[ashen spindle]

nobody says they should not be allowed to make to only make a penny per year

[pale sigil]

They expect xbox to give a share in sales lol

[crisp granite]

it's their storefront, why charge themselves when all that money will flow back into their own pockets, or artificially raise their own prices?

[ashen spindle]

just not take a major cut when in exchange they literally do nothing

because there is no other option than using their storefront?

[crisp granite]

their platform dude

same with xbox

and playstation

[ashen spindle]

yes and the same got microsoft in trouble when they default installed internet explorer instead of options etc.

[pale sigil]

Well no

Xbox and PlayStation provide a lot

In return tbf

XD

[crisp granite]

yeah

but still

their platform and they charge for it

same with macOS in my eyes

and windows

[pale sigil]

Imagine if Microsoft disabled exe files

[ashen spindle]

you know thats like saying steam needs to pay 30% because they use windows, to microsoft

[pale sigil]

And only allowed what they went

And charged money to be able to run thst exe file

Would be very very very bad

[crisp granite]

no, I'm saying that it's their platform, they make the rules

[astral haven]

It's not their platform any more

They got too big

Welcome to antitrust litigation

[pale sigil]

Ye there's only so much ms can do with windows now

[crisp granite]

🙄

[pale sigil]

If they do anything to knock balance

[crisp granite]

it's all well and good until they are too well and good

[pale sigil]

Governments will grt involved etc

I mean

[astral haven]

Yup

[pale sigil]

Maybe have basic features and not be awful to use

XD

[ashen spindle]

do you want to allow ISPs to charge you 3 grand a month for .1 up/down, when you only have one isp in your area? because thats the same point

[hard thicket]

i'd appreciate if they would release a Windows for professionals, without most of the gimmick with performance and functionality in the foreground

[astral haven]

Windows for workstation

[crisp granite]

already the fucking case here buddy

3 ISPs

all shit

[astral haven]

Yes?

[crisp granite]

hard for smaller players to hop in and actually make shit better

[astral haven]

Drm is a thing?
Most games ask for it?

[ashen spindle]

wait so you are saying you want more regulations so they can't offer you shit service for high prices?

hmmm

[pale sigil]

I'll be honest

[hard thicket]

wut

[pale sigil]

Steam drm never bothered me much

[crisp granite]

nah, gov't gave them the monopoly iirc

[ashen spindle]

ok but do you WANT that

or would you want cheaper prices for better internet

[astral haven]

90% of the time steam drm can be stopped by deleting the drm dll
And if that doesn't work the game has built in drm

[hard thicket]

you want more for less ? how dare you

[pale sigil]

Honestly I think I'd feel a bit uneasy releasing drm free content

Steam drm only is fine in my eyes

Kinda

Complicated

[ashen spindle]

but while we are on the topic

https://magazine.artstation.com/2021/04/artstation-is-joining-the-epic-games-family/

As of today, we’re massively increasing the earning potential of sellers on the ArtStation Marketplace. We’re dropping our standard fees from 30% to only 12%. For Pro members, the fee reduces from 20% to 8% and 5% for self-promoted sales.

[pale sigil]

They sold an insane amount on gog

Also they made loads

Also fuck them for not giving good bonuses

[ashen spindle]

ehh I think they probably sold enough on steam to dorp to the 25% or w/e steam added now?

or was it 20% after10mil?

[pale sigil]

Steam offers a bunch of resources

[crisp granite]

they're basically the full package in my experience

offers about the same amount of resources as consoles for the end user

epic has none of that atm

[ashen spindle]

"For all sales between $10 million and $50 million, the split goes to 25 percent. And for every sale after the initial $50 million, Steam will take just a 20 percent cut."
while that's nice, I feel like it would've been better in reverse? surely an indie game could make more use of it than a AAA studio

but hey, progress

[crisp granite]

it's better than a flat 30%

[ashen spindle]

it got EA back onto it, so you dont need to install origin

[astral haven]

Smaller the game the more distribution overhead

[ashen spindle]

sure so it would've hurt them maybe a bit more? still don't see it costing more than doing it in reverse

that sentence made no sense, I mean it probably isnt that big of a difference

its not even altruism, easy to say its to develop more indie games and on the board meeting you sell it as PR

and I don't mind them using lower rates as goodwill as that just means both benefit

like I don't care if Sweeny genuinely thinks it should cost less or if that's a pr move, both parties benefit so why should it matter to me what the real reason is

[astral haven]

A game costs the same amount of resources to push an update through all of their servers around the globe

The smaller the game the more resources relative to sales

[ashen spindle]

sure, but if you take less cut there they have more money, can make better updates/sequels that provide more overall sales, bringing that cost in favor of the distribution again

because once again, nobody is asking for a 0% cut anywhere

[astral haven]

🤷 all the people making free games are

[ashen spindle]

I know it does, I just don't think I've ever played a game I could've gotten there

[crimson wigeon]

and now they filed a lawsuit pepelaugh

[pale sigil]

[dull rampart]

and not sign any agreements or contracts with Valve
interesting... could I have some elaboration?

[crimson wigeon]

So why then do all the hot EGS exclusives have the same high prices?

[ashen spindle]

a) they don't b) it's not all about giving it 100% to the consumer back

[crimson wigeon]

Then why do they have all this "bawww customers forced to pay high prices" stuff there then

I know I know lawsuits are all about throwing all you possibly can and hoping enough sticks

[ashen spindle]

ye

in the end even if a studio makes double the ammount they could burn the game down if they are doing a bad job

but at least they have more options

[zenith sonnet]

These failed efforts include ones by the largest gaming and technologycompanies in the world, such as Electronic Arts (“EA”), Microsoft, Amazon, and Epic. The failure of these deep-pocketed companies is instructive, showing that Valve’s monopoly power in both the PC Desktop Gaming Platform (through the Steam Gaming Platform) and PC Desktop Game Distribution (through the Steam Store) markets
The reason those "deep-pocketed" companies fail is not because Valve is anti-competitive, it's because they never offered an enticing package. Either they lack content, or features.

[cursive summit]

ArtStation has been acquired by Epic

[ashen spindle]

smh not even reading what has been posted before

[cursive summit]

Aw sorry

[zenith sonnet]

Also, the success of GOG shows you can be successful, if you offer something to your customers.
Epic is just heavily engaging in anti-consumer practices
EA only ever had their own games on the store
I don't even know Amazon had a games store, and I don't even know what Amazon Gaming does, other than Twitch. They just market themselves really poorly
And Microsoft isn't failing. They've got the best deals out of anyone right now. Gamepass is amazing for the price, if it has what you want.

Also PS and Xbox and whatever else it was sold on

Yet somehow you can find them everywhere for cheaper

[ashen spindle]

the issue with steam is people get used to it, don't have big bad issue directly in their face and thus think steam is flawless

meanwhile steam makes billions and gives almost nothing new to the user

so then afterwards people get weirdly defensive about rich companies that only sometimes by accident care about the user

yeah but now I can have purple 69 on my profile so steam is godsend and epic is satan because a shopping card for the 5 million games they want to buy at once is not there

like sure it's a bit of a meme by now

but if I ask someone why he's not using egs

and the answer is "doesnt even have a shopping cart"

bitch you buy one game every 6 months

apparently it was news worthy that epic spends a lot of money on making free games available so haha epic losing money

[zenith sonnet]

20. For example, Valve has set up visibility in its Steam Store to focus on games that
    are nominally “on sale” to gamers. Knowing that the best way to reach their audience is through
    discounting, game publishers must artificially inflate their list prices so they have headroom for
    discounting. But the “sale” price is not consistently available, and therefore some gamers pay an
    artificially inflated list price for the game. These supracompetitive prices increase Valve’s cut,
    force gamers to overpay, and prevent publishers from setting the most efficient game prices they
    could in the first place. Even worse, these supracompetitive prices are transmitted across the
    broader market by the contractual restraints discussed above.

[ashen spindle]

like, yes thats how free games work..

[zenith sonnet]

This is simply false

[ashen spindle]

someone pays for them

so on one hand they want free/cheaper games

but also make fun of the company using money to make games cheaper/free ?????????

[zenith sonnet]

Point in case: J.C. Penney

As Bitar notes, Sears also sliced up the company's management into numerous rival teams all vying for company resources and Lampert's approval. The thought was this would make for an efficient company, but it actually managed to raise administrative costs. "It really just ended up backfiring on them," Bitar said.
Huh. That some real world proof of what I've always thought. Having multiple companies provide products to the same market is less effective than having a single large one.

I mean, just look at the semiconductor industry.
AMD, Intel and Nvidia waste a lot of resources trying to the do the same things, fighting for the same resources, trying the reinvent the wheel multiple times because of bullshit like patent law, needing 3 managements instead of one, building three graphics drivers instead of combining the efforts into one superior driver, and so on...

They'd be a lot more efficient as a single entity

Or even freaking retail stores
Why the hell does my village need 5 supermarkets/discounters?
All that does for me is having to visit multiple stores every time or having to drive over to the next town where a larger one is.
What's even worse, is that they're all in the same general area, so they don't even increase coverage...
Would be so much better if they were all combined into one large retail chain, and maintained two or three well-stocked stores in key locations

No. Walmart operates for profit

Also, they need to price competitive or they open themselves up to competitors emerging, at the cost of quality of the products for a lower price and service

[young pecan]

@zenith sonnet Your plan only works with the honour system intact.

Ergo it doesn’t work with humans.

[zenith sonnet]

It also works with regulations

[young pecan]

Yes it does, but who has the power to change those and has done so many times in the past?

Very rich people.

The honour system means your rich people need to have the mindset of “Yeah, let’s help the poor and get no benefit out of it”, that’s why communism doesn’t ever work, and it’s the same reason why having a single megastore will never work.

Historically the rich have never consistently helped the poor without some extreme problem that makes the whole system untenable, this is how the communism do.

As much as I agree it'd be great to have a single uberstore that just has everything, it'd be exploited like no tomorrow and we'd be seeing the most fucked market ever.

[zenith sonnet]

Then your regulations aren't flawless. It's a good starting place, and then work away at the problems.

[young pecan]

rolls eyes And who oversees those regulations?

People.

People have a price, man. That's how Apple manages it's shit, it lobbies (pays off people in power to pass laws as it wants) to become more powerful to be able to lobby harder.

And more importantly, you cannot have a single set of regulations because you deal with technological growth, the regs need to change. That means there has to be a guiding hand and the people in charge of it need to be immune to greed. This is not how the human do.

And sure, let's go into imagination land and pretend that you can actually find 200 high level government members appropriate to the job and by some miracle they've managed to stay in power without being dickheads, what happens when a very rich company like Apple decides they can spare 50 billion dollars giving 60% of them a nice big payoff to loosen one of it's chains a little.

Then we start the inevitable cycle to where we are today.

There's no such thing as a flawless system, and while we humans oversee ourselves there cannot and will not be a successful honor system baked into anything.

That, sadly, is how the humans do.

[zenith sonnet]

You solve the "Apple and Steam problem" the same way. Force every and all digital purchases to be processed through a singular, state owned, non-profit appstore
And if you allow a company's bribes to affect the system, your system needs more work

[young pecan]

Human greed is the problem here.

Look, you know what the 51% attack is, yeah?

[zenith sonnet]

Yeah, but it's irrelevant

[young pecan]

No, no it isn’t.

If you reach 51% of any democratic government you right up have enough seats to start passing shit.

It’s not a whole lot of power from there before you can actually pass laws.

The problem is that it’s run by people that’re flawed. You want a flawless system but put flawed people in charge of it? What do you expect comes from that?

[zenith sonnet]

So you gonna do what, get the majority in government seats?
If any company could pull that off, we'd have already seen it
But then what? You'd have to get a 2/3 majority in legislative and a majority in executive and jurisdictive, to actually do anything with the system

[young pecan]

Mm. Yesn't.

You don't need to have them in your pocket, but it's trivial for Apple to cleanly pass a little money, a few hundred grand, under the table to swing a vote.

We know they've done that at least 16 times in the last decade.

Fuck knows how many we don't already know of, and that's outside of lobbying which is doing it publicly.

[zenith sonnet]

So, do away with democracy. It's a flawed system to begin with.

[young pecan]

And what should we change to?

Anything else is far more fucked.

[zenith sonnet]

Technocracy is a step ahead

[young pecan]

No, no it really isn't.

It's a step to the side, just like so many others.

[zenith sonnet]

Democracies are inefficient and outdated systems

[young pecan]

Forwards in some ways, extremely far backwards in others. No form of government created by any thinking individual in history has ever been immune to shit like lobbying. Technocracy is far from immune.

Hell, a technocracy works like a democracy with more focus on technology and science.

It's literally weak to exactly the same issues.

Not trying to be an asshole, but have you even put any real thought into how screwed a position we're currently in?

The US is basically an oligarchy.

[zenith sonnet]

The US is a bad example for many things, but especially for governments

[young pecan]

And anywhere else is much better?!

China is extremely uber fucked, so is Russia, Japan, Australia, Canada, everywhere in Africa, and almost everywhere in and around the European region.

That's just about every major location on the planet.

Don't get me started on South America either, that place is actually a nightmare land in a good number of places a fair bit of the time.

You'll also notice I deliberately left out any hellscapes like Saudi for a fantastically obvious reason as well.

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/fbYExfeFsI0

I wish I had this video last year for my web dev project

[reef patrol]

CRUD. My nemesis

[young pecan]

Many advantages to Mongo over MySQL? Wish I could switch from MySQL but everything seems to hate Mongo for reasons.

[wheat plume]

So far I did crud in JavaScript and C#

[reef patrol]

The name doesn't help xD

[wheat plume]

Isn't MySQL a relative database?

[young pecan]

Different database architecture, yeah.

[wheat plume]

Monogodb is a document database
It stores Json objects

[young pecan]

Not like the shit I need for my infinitely scalable MC server can’t use Mongo, tho.

20% of the plugins do, just not the ones I actually am forced to use. :L

[wheat plume]

I think it would work better with mongo
Cause it doesn't matter if you have null data
It doesn't doesn't include that variable in the object if it's null

It just doesn't*

[young pecan]

It would, yes.

Just... people don’t like Mongo for reasons I guess. :C

[wheat plume]

It's a pain to get started unless you use the cloud host

I hope the free tier clusters get deleted after a period of inactivity
Cause I can't access my account cause I lost my Google authenticator profile

.-.

[young pecan]

You should switch to Authy.

[wheat plume]

It doesn't matter now

Can't access the account anymore

[young pecan]

Authy can prevent it in the future.

Access on multiple devices. Just lock it down hard.

[wheat plume]

Hmm

[young pecan]

I’m planning on a robust networking setup in the future.

[wheat plume]

At some point I need to try to recover that account
Idk how though

[young pecan]

All passwords and details in LastPass, Authy for 2FA.

Ubiquiti Teleport to VPN back to home and back out again through a Ubiquiti USG 4 so I can run E2E encryption from anywhere on the planet.

Then just throw a PiHole in the system somewhere so no ads ever. Also no malware ever.

[wheat plume]

Pihole block malware??

[young pecan]

USG 4 does.

Combined I’d have pretty clean internet. Just throw Malwarebytes on everything for user stupidity and I can only really think of 3 or so kinds of malware that even can get past.

[lost cradle]

why does my wooting have problems with W and S every other time i use it

so annoying

[pale sigil]

@lost cradle please head to #archived_helpdesk_for_keyboards :) hopefully we can sort thst out

[cursive summit]

You might need to consider that idea of reworking server entrance rules Pleasant

[shadow minnow]

How many 3090s is Tesla model 3?

[young pecan]

At the current exchange rate of 3700 AUD for a 3090 and 105,000 drive away for a Model 3, the exchange would be around 28.3 3090s.

Not as many as you'd think.

[reef patrol]

You should see danish car taxes. You pay like 280% of the car's value xD

Ohhhhh no no. We also hate subsidizing electrical cars as well for some reason, even though the government wants to entice electric use. They're setting up charging stations everywhere - Converting conventional parking into ones with chargers (and making them Electric car only)

[young pecan]

@prisma crag That's for the best model of the Model 3.

Best one money can buy drive away.

[misty saffron]

i'd love to try driving an ev

too bad you can't rent any in my city

from what i've heard the gas pedal fucks you up because it doesn't work the same as on normal cars

i.e. a certain pedal position corresponds to a certain speed

[misty saffron]

wtf ev owners don't pay taxes in russia

no engine = no tax

[ashen spindle]

russian government doesn't want you to know this 1 simple trick

[cursive summit]

EV engine = no engine?

[misty saffron]

technically not an engine

[cursive summit]

So, steam engine = no engine?

Brb going to make a land train

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/YxQ3yfhViOA 🤔 oo, new Assistant AI

[wheat plume]

https://www.komplett.ie/creative-sound-blaster-audigy-rx/80045095/product/9416

dang this thing has a lot of ports

https://www.komplett.ie/creative-labs-sound-blasterx-g1/80046742/product/9416
can something like this USB one increase audio quality?

[young pecan]

Yeah nah.

That won't be happening.

Like, the price would be that without government fuckery.

Huge tax on buying electric cars.

Yeh, but that nasty electric car tax.

Too much money gets made by the government to allow electrics for cheap.

shrugs

Ew.

Get a Dragonfly instead of buying garbage.

[wheat plume]

these look like USB sticks

oh wow

[cursive summit]

Please don't buy audioquest products

[young pecan]

The higher end Dragonfly line are actually good.

[cursive summit]

They are widely regarded as bad quality for far too expensive price

Just, get a dedicated DAC

AudioTechnica makes good shit

[young pecan]

That's the only exception I'll make, Dragonfly if you can't actually use a DAC.

Not all the time.

Small desk, limited slots, broken slots, etc.

[young pecan]

Lmfao, new?

Nah.

Little things are surprisingly rugged.

Yee.

[cursive summit]

I'm getting this boy at some point in the future

https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/eur/en/products/hi-fi/dacmagic/dacmagic100

This thing slaps

[young pecan]

I'm going for some Cavalli stuff eventually.

[crimson wigeon]

@digital cliff to match on xinput rather than some arbitrary interface number

[young pecan]

One of the Liquid line for the tubes.

That or custom.

[cursive summit]

How's the dacmagic 100?

Ah yes the "pro gaming" brand

[young pecan]

You don't really need a sound card.

So long as the mobo is good, the integrated DAC will be enough for most use.

[wheat plume]

whats sibilant?

[young pecan]

So long as it's an actually good mobo, tho.

[cursive summit]

Like I don't want to shit on Creative cause they ain't that bad, but man they are kinda not worth the price

[young pecan]

There's a good 7 of them atm.

[cursive summit]

Google it

[wheat plume]

ahh

ooh ook

[cursive summit]

I think that might just be a problem with the DT990

[shadow minnow]

Apple Watch is really useful out in cities/towns during coronavirus. FaceID working with face mask, paying with watch, even it working as watch…
Although I have the watch since Christmas, since I live in village was not in any city till now, but found out it’s super useful. Lot more than it was normally when I barely used it twice a week

[crimson wigeon]

@digital cliff dunno, magic xinput numbers, I wish I didn't have to use magic interface numbers for analog / wootility since those might not necessarily be the same for all woots

Because to the system those are literally just "generic HID interface" :(

[ashen spindle]

until they figure out they can just go right instead of left and don't need to marsh through EU to get to NA

[pale sigil]

I got a multi meter with my solder iron kit

How does this even work

[ashen spindle]

solder the multimeter to what you want to use

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/RMWNvwLiXIQ
ooo, this is amazing news :DD

A guy who gives a crap about UI, ease of use and powerful features

Hes also the manager of MuseScore

many many many people

[misty saffron]

why the fuck is js still not JITed

genuine question

the fact pretty printed scripts run slower is utterly fucking retarded

[pale sigil]

Welp

I'm probably about to destroy my fave keeb

[ashen spindle]

first bexin now you, why is destroying boards so popular now

[young pecan]

They got jealous that I killed a 4790k.

Wanted in.

[pale sigil]

Which is + on an led

Long or short side

Long

Thought so

Best temp for solder?

[pale sigil]

Pm

OK

What the fuck

The leds won't work unless I touch them with the iron

I'm guessjng thst means there's a contact issue

[crimson wigeon]

Remember to blow on the solder to cool it off

[misty saffron]

remember to spit on the solder to cool it off

[pale sigil]

The solder isn't sticking to the pad

[misty saffron]

use glue

[crimson wigeon]

Tape it down

[misty saffron]

you dumb?

taping something hot

[pale sigil]

Hate you all

[misty saffron]

we love you bro

it is usually rosin

which is garbage for soldering

[reef patrol]

Are you adding or removing?

[misty saffron]

rosin leaves too much residue that's somewhat hard to clean

just get normal flux

you are disgustingf

to be fair it smells nice

though inhaling it is probably not the healthiest thing ever

[pale sigil]

Can someone explain this shit

[crimson wigeon]

What kind of soldering strat is that?

[pale sigil]

I'm just showing you whet I mean

The leds only work when the soldering iron touches them

[misty saffron]

callum you're supposed to solder

not pat it

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah heat it up, reflow it, add more

[pale sigil]

OK

It just won't stick to the pack

No matter how much I add

Maybe I'm using the wrong solder top?

Tip

[crimson wigeon]

You find the equivalent of this and drag 'em around until it's good

Back when I was still using X without some fancy DE I liked using arandr

[ashen spindle]

so this is causing all the chip shortages smh I knew it

[pale sigil]

Did one

Miracle

I ran out of leds

XD

Wanted to test

I'll order more

[reef tundra]

Basically it works by making a huge canvas/screen/image and the monitors display a portion of that full image.

[crimson wigeon]

That's how X works, and is why multimonitor suppot there is so screwy

[fair gull]

i mean

windows also technically does that

but apparently better

[halcyon moss]

So does gnome..

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/v2K_WgL71Ro

These things are actually amazing, oh wow

[reef tundra]

hehe, explosives go boom

[wheat plume]

They are all sold out already :O

woah, ok

[reef tundra]

There goes your chance to finally rob a bank

[wheat plume]

ikr

They cost $80

[reef tundra]

Need to use the lame thermite again

[wheat plume]

oh boiz, new Muta video https://youtu.be/GEJvy1nlD2o?t=65

I think he does

And for $80, they are a bargin for new users

[reef tundra]

VPNs are easy shit. Best usecase is to access lan only accessable devices by connecting with an public accessable device first and using it to pass the commands

Lockpicks are legal in most sane countries

I dont think that it was made to be cheap

[wheat plume]

o?

[reef tundra]

Nah, the server room is a secured environment

[wheat plume]

oo

[reef tundra]

Same here, cant even drill the lock here

Best way to break the lock in my front door is to throw a brick through the triple glass

[wheat plume]

Yeah .-.

[reef tundra]

and remove the door from its hinges

[sick urchin]

that shouldn't work

[reef tundra]

You already inside to be able pull that off

[cursive summit]

Tbh you can like, make your own in theory for little less than 5$

[reef tundra]

You can also enable the nightlock and make it impossible to open the door from the outside even with the key

[wheat plume]

ArcoLinux is wonderful https://youtu.be/NGGT1_mHKhg

There is a new version, its like a minimal ArcoLinuxD but prethemed and setup

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/BruI_wB2PSE

dat ping tho

this is the M1 Garand of the keyboard world

Dave: I dont care about that stuff (keyboard acoustics)
Also Dave: Has a custom built mech keyboard with 0 ping noise

[pale sigil]

time code?

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/BruI_wB2PSE?t=148

[pale sigil]

isn't that bad

at all

Oh fuck me

hahah

holy shit

literally like an m1

lmao

[wheat plume]

YEP

the M1 Garand in keyboard form

[pale sigil]

sec

@wheat plume

[wheat plume]

:')

[pale sigil]

@wheat plume i did something special

just for you

❤️

[wheat plume]

OwO?

[crisp granite]

oh dear

this is where cal shows us his handmade body pillow

[wheat plume]

:P

[pale sigil]

that was last month

[wheat plume]

yOuR WAiFu iS TRaSh

[crisp granite]

@hardy idol

you hear that?

you suck

<3

[wheat plume]

wot?

[crisp granite]

idk where my brain was about 20 seconds ago

nvm

I'm gonna go eat some FOOD

[wheat plume]

Nano is extra colorful

I like it

[pale sigil]

@wheat plume spent way to long on this

[wheat plume]

o.o
well dang

is trippy

[pale sigil]

@wheat plume even better

[wheat plume]

ffs :')

its 1am, go to bed :P

<3

[pale sigil]

hmm

whats a good subreddit to post it too

[wheat plume]

Go piss off all the mech board subs :')

[reef tundra]

old gun

[wheat plume]

Great gun

[reef tundra]

nah, magazines > clips

[pale sigil]

catchy title?

"Alienware's laptop mechanical keyboard be like..."

wall i got

[wheat plume]

The M1 Garand of keyboards

[pale sigil]

perfect

[wheat plume]

Xd

[pale sigil]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/n2uv15/the_m1_garand_of_keyboards/

also https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/n2uumm/the_m1_garand_of_keyboards/

[reef tundra]

Not a repost, downvote

[pale sigil]

Shut it quinty

[ashen spindle]

???

[pale sigil]

idk

i saw you typing

[reef tundra]

You have been shut

[ashen spindle]

[pale sigil]

[reef tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/ricky-berwick-toy-gun-shoot-nerf-gun-playing-gif-13811086

[pale sigil]

shit

https://tenor.com/view/paz-white-flag-wave-waving-flag-gif-15666633

[crisp granite]

damn

so much PING

[pale sigil]

ye lol

[crisp granite]

a nerf rapidstrike

I remember wanting one of those

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/aoBWUs8poYU?t=16

That ping ❤️❤️

[pale sigil]

i was gonna boost the ping in audacity

but couldn't be assed

[wheat plume]

This is much ping

[pale sigil]

my job is done

going bed

😄

[wheat plume]

Night xd

[pale sigil]

can sleep knowing i made memes

[wheat plume]

Hehe

You didn't even use the ping from the gun video

Wait no

I think discover broke

[reef tundra]

https://youtu.be/_Aykv_2e3lI

[pale sigil]

Well that’s the whole point of the meme

Replaced the ping from the gun with the keeb

[wheat plume]

Xd

Yes yes

What's this blue tick icon??

In YouTube

I'm so confused

Yes

The blue check mark

[astral haven]

Could you not?

[astral haven]

talking about the dude who was spamming in every channel lol

got deleted thanks mods

[dull rampart]

that's... quite a few Don't know / Not sure answers... 🤔

[astral haven]

those graphs are formatted in such a painful way...

[reef tundra]

Im not sure if the first one is even usable in any capacity. Mostly due to vagueness. Does the 0% mean they dont sell there or they get no revenue. What kinds of revenue are considered and are all forms in revenue similar enough to be lumped in together. Eg. are micro transactions comparable to game sales etc. Quantities sold and at what rate are they going. eg. high volume but on sale having equivalent revenue as low value full price.

[zenith sonnet]

It paints a clear picture though
Steam is very far off from being a monopoly, not even close to 75% like was suggested the other day

[timid chasm]

for real. What the fuck. Who made these

[pale sigil]

That's a lot of Netflix

[timid chasm]

so supposedly 78% of those surveyed who sell their games on EGS say it makes up 0% of their revenue?

or <1% would be a better way to word it, I guess

[ashen spindle]

what site is that even from

and what year and who is gettings asked etc.

[timid chasm]

wemakeshitgraphs.com I assume

[cursive summit]

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-ROCm-CRIU-Prototype

[ashen spindle]

ROCm
so irrelevant

[ashen spindle]

@fickle ore https://www.anandtech.com/show/16635/the-adata-gammix-s50-lite-ssd-review-mainstream-pcie-gen4

as you recently mention cost/entry for pcie 4ssd

tldr ok for a entry gen4, but gen3 can do better so not much point yet

so next gen should be able to have costs down enough that entry gen4 makes sense

no clue if they release new controlelrs in a year or a quarter though

[empty wren]

@old marlin given your mice experience, do you know if these mini-microswitches are any good?

[old marlin]

idk

prob not

[empty wren]

alright

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/w_nRdG1q4ZY

ooo, whats the app he opens to edit the CSS?!

[ashen spindle]

sooo lots of indie games?

[fickle ore]

@ashen spindle yeah looks bad :I

SN850 looks like the winner atm

[ashen spindle]

it also works on gen3

[reef tundra]

You need an infinite amount of vram

[crisp granite]

tbh, if I wanted to go full send

it's possible to desolder RTX 3070 VRAM chips which are 1gb, and replace them with 2gb chips from the same manufacturer, some BIOS trickery and boom

double VRAM

to 16gb

but you really don't need that much anyway

8gb is a healthy amount, for now

[reef tundra]

https://tenor.com/view/christopher-plummer-more-moar-i-want-more-i-need-more-gif-10411109

[crisp granite]

I want more VRAM as well, because bragging rights

but I'm really not inebriated enough to take a soldering iron and heat gun to my RTX 3070...yet

:)

[reef tundra]

Thats going to go horribly

[crisp granite]

yes

[reef tundra]

Bga chip has been desoldered, pcb is popcornin

[crisp granite]

especially I can barely use a soldering iron sober

gotta love being a spazzer

:(

I remember my first keyboard build, literally had second degree burns on both of my hands

blisters

all the fun stuff

[reef tundra]

just hold still parkinsons aint that bad. in the morn you forget what happend

[crisp granite]

couldn't move my hands for a few weeks

then I finally typed on my keyboard

well worth the pain imo

[reef tundra]

You using lava to solder?

[crisp granite]

no

I used a soldering iron

I just suck at holding an iron still

[pale sigil]

Feel you bro

[reef tundra]

Pro gamer strats. stealin from the stock image guys

[pale sigil]

Have no feeling no lack of control in my left hand and right leg

@crisp granite

[zenith sonnet]

Finally updated to 20H2, got fresh chipset drivers and the new graphics driver

Now to wait for 1.2.0.2

[young pecan]

What're the costs for fiber internet for everyone?

Looking to change to more enterprise grade stuff atm, gigabit down, 200 up etc.

Cheapest is about $250 AUD.

[astral haven]

yikes we get symm gigabit for $60 just with a shitty carrier

[young pecan]

...

Feelsbadman...

[zenith sonnet]

Gigabit? Like 90€/month

Not symmetrical, though

[young pecan]

Bruh...

Wth is with aussie prices?

[zenith sonnet]

Population density, mostly

[young pecan]

Create Hack Pro.

Just do it.

[neat oriole]

Mid spec is a better value

You get an Ethernet port, 2 more USB ports, an extra gpu core, and the Touch ID keyboard

Mfw Touch ID keyboard is $300

It’s not bad as a Netflix machine

Got a really nice screen

Like as a light work machine and media machine

[halcyon moss]

8gb today feels like a ripoff

[astral haven]

just add more swap
who needs ssds to last for years

[cursive summit]

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/amd-rdna-3-5nm-gpus-radeon-rx-7800-xt-7900-xt-reportedly-coming-in-q2-q3-2022/

Why is tech now below game talk eh?

[astral haven]

seems a bit late?

a full year and a half between flagships?

[cursive summit]

Either way, it appears that AMD will be launching its next-gen graphics cards quite a bit earlier than NVIDIA which is expected to delay the RTX 40 series (Ada) to Q4 2022 or possibly even Q1 2023.

[astral haven]

idk what they are talking about

before lovelace there is hopper and ampere refresh

why tf would they lol

and also
amd+radeon

if they can use ryzen to pull up radeon like they are working hard to do, its gonna sell no matter how bad the msrp

well to a point lel

🤷‍♂️ these ones apparently arent entirely broken due to drivers

[old marlin]

[astral haven]

lmao

no their dx11 this time is functional

[old marlin]

go on

use rocm then

[astral haven]

and the gpus dont crash all the time

[old marlin]

only works on random linux distros and versions

[astral haven]

thats all apis tho

cuda is the same story yet it is great

rocm doesnt

it has zero scalability

you have to design around it not the other way around

[proper crystal]

ARM is CISC though?

First of all, RISC is mainly a marketing term. Second, if an ISA wants to scale to high performance, it has to abandon most RISC "commandments" (and ARM has done that years ago).

Third, ISA does not matter much. x86 does have higher power floor, but in high performance where it plays, that doesn't matter much anyway.

[cursive summit]

Didn't Arm phase from RISC to CISC or something

Or will do so

[astral haven]

Technically everything is pretty much a Cisc architecture running on risc hardware

The nanosecond arm added any vector operations they load the last possible argument of being risc

[proper crystal]

Also they got the complex decide which is a massive no-no for RISC.

But it was always more a marketing term anyway.

[misty saffron]

in practice everything is risc today anyways

who cares

[ashen spindle]

man, it's painful seeing 3080s for 1800€ on mindfactory, and then seeing how tehy slowly but steady get sold completely

[silver creek]

not this again ahhh

arm is risc

variable size instructions does not equal cisc

[ashen spindle]

arm is load/store and from how muddy risc/cisc has become, that's all it needs to be called risc iirc?

[silver creek]

cisc is a term invented after the actual cpus it first described, and theyve never really had that much of a meaning

essentially it boils down to a CISC cpu being microprogrammed while a RISC cpu is not

but even that definition gets a bit muddy

[proper crystal]

RISC and CISC were always more marketing terms. The reason I responded to a post saying (paraphrasing) "RISC or GTFO" with "ARM is CISC" is to point out that meaninglessness.

CISC was a term designed to make "the old" ISAs sound bad.

[silver creek]

arm is literally not cisc though

in any sense

[proper crystal]

It's not RISC either. Because neither term actually is relevant to the uarch.

[silver creek]

id look up what ARM is an acronym for

[proper crystal]

KFC is an acronym for "Kentucky Fried Chicken". Are all their chicken from Kentucky?

[crisp granite]

that would be scary

[silver creek]

i wouldnt say that it implies they are from kentucky, but i dont think thats relevant lol

[crisp granite]

how much chicken would they need to produce in kaintuck to just keep up with global demand for KFC?

[proper crystal]

If I copy x86 ISA and name it "TRA" for "Totally RISC Architecture" does this mean my copy of x86 is now RISC?

[silver creek]

:')

arm identifies as a risc designer, and their cpus fit the various definitions

what more do you want

[proper crystal]

Your logic is that "ARM stands for Acorn RISC Machine" so because it is named that, it's RISC.

[silver creek]

nope, but if it both sounds like a duck, and look like a duck, and acts like a duct... it probably is one

[ashen spindle]

why argue about this the complicated way, just write/cite your definition of risc, no point in saying "no that's wrong" when nobody knows what the term means from the other persons viewpoint

[proper crystal]

It would help if engineers from ARM that I know told me that ARM is RISC... which they don't even claim because they know RISC is a useless marketing term from the 90s, with little to no impact on modern ARM ISA and microarchitectures using that ISA.

[silver creek]

so your argument is that RISC is a marketing term so you can call ARM cpus whatever?

[proper crystal]

No, my argument is that a) modern ARM ISA is microcoded, has complex decode, and includes non-RISC instructions, and that b) it doesn't matter because RISC was always a marketing ploy, and today is irrelevant to the hardware and to the ISAs that began as RISC-like.

[silver creek]

what arm isa is microcoded?

[proper crystal]

ARM implementations are. You can make a non-microcoded x86 chip if you wanted to.

[silver creek]

just because it has an instruction decoder it does not mean it has microprogramming...?

you are aware that even by the original definition, risc cpus had instruction decoders...?

[silver creek]

implementations are initially "coded" once through an actual hardware store, yes, but the purpose of this is not at all the same as a cisc instruction decoder

with a cisc architecture you can add instructions, change implementations, etc. the instruction decoder does a lot of work

a risc instruction decoder can be omitted, but its so simple that it doenst really hurt performance at all, as its just implemented through discrete logic gates.
its a nobrainer, close to 0 disadvantages but you get a cleaner instruction set that has room for more stuff

[silver creek]

the other side of this is to awknowledge that a term can evolve, and let people call modern RISC cpus 'RISC' instead of inserting your opinion that ""risc is a marketing term so it has no meaning"". you're the person that is actively trying to make it have no meaning.

[proper crystal]

So what is this modern definition of RISC then? And how is it relevant to actual hardware?

Also, ARM ISA sure has added a lot of instructions over the years. Sounds kinda CISC-y. And I didn't say "decode" - I said complex decode, as in cracking instructions into what are effectively microops.

[silver creek]

which instructions do that?

[silver creek]

it is relevant to the hardware in the sense that it is a design philosophy, and it has marks on the hardware as an effect of that

[ashen spindle]

" As CISC became a catch-all term meaning anything that's not a load-store (RISC) architecture" on wikipedia btw

[silver creek]

yeh i wonder why lol

if cisc means lots of instructions and an instruction decoder to you, then there sure is a lot of cisc cpus in the world lol

[proper crystal]

https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/f/cortex-a-forum/48877/mops-macro-ops-uops-micro-ops

Let's see what ARM themselves say.

µOPs are generated on-the-fly by the processor and are not directly visible to the programmer.

Oops, sounds like CISC, surely this must be some x86 saboteur... nope,an ARM employee...

[silver creek]

look at the picture

[proper crystal]

Fairly small reppercussions and peculiarities. Once you get to high performance computing (x86 stomping ground), the hardware design features and tradeoffs blend into each other.

ISA is not all that relevant to the end product in HPC space, aside from software compatibility (which also isn't a horrible issue).

[silver creek]

why just focus on high performance computing...?

look at the apple m1 for example

[proper crystal]

Because that's what most normal people mean when talking about hardware. This is not a specialised forum.

[silver creek]

id read further down this link you sent me, and you'll quickly realise how wrong you are :')

[proper crystal]

Yes. M1 is designed for power efficiency, Apple has complete ecosystem control. It is a nice chip though.

[silver creek]

the original comment you responded to is literally about the m1

[proper crystal]

Which is not an HPC chip. It is not competing with desktop x86 chips. It is more energy efficient, for the most part, but it is not as fundamentally performant.

[silver creek]

and...?

how is any of this relevant

[silver creek]

have you read the link yet? :)

[proper crystal]

I read it before I posted it here.

[silver creek]

i'll spoil it for you - instructions are decoded into MOPs, which are then not decoded further at any point, but MOPs that contain both an address and a data segment are split into microOperations because the cpu can't really do anything with those two merged together as one

i hope you see how fundamentally different that is from cisc microprogramming

by that definition literally every cpu ever made has been cisc, since they all interally work with the bits of the instruction (or should i say the single bit microinstructions its made of)

[proper crystal]

It's not though? The entire system as implemented today is not much different.

And yes, I do think because of the loose or useless definitions, anything could be called CISC or RISC. Well maybe not MIPS, but there's a reason MIPS is all but dead...

[silver creek]

but why use your loose/useless definition instead of an actual good one? and why force your interpretation on others?

[silver creek]

its not different from how x86 handles instructions in your mind?

[proper crystal]

We could go in circles forever. Especially since you haven't really provided your bulletproof definition either (maybe I just missed it).

Anyway, excuse me while I put more stock in actual ARM engineers I know, people who work on designing actual ARM cores, and who don't care about RISC/CISC because it doesn't impact their work and has very little effect on it or its results (i.e., the microarchitecture).

[silver creek]

👏 yes, go talk to your arm engineers about your opinions instead

[proper crystal]

👍

[astral haven]

Both architectures are no longer directly running instructions on the high performance cpus, they are what a software engineer would call interpreted

[reef patrol]

[crisp granite]

can't fall out of your ear if it never fit inside to begin with

[reef patrol]

[pale sigil]

Pretty funny ngl

[fair gull]

guys have u heard arm is cis

[umbral knot]

:(

[zenith sonnet]

2H 22... sooner than expected?
I'd call that later than expected

[young pecan]

Not like it’ll matter much.

Once Eth 2.0 hits and everyone panics there’ll be a GPU flood, I’m counting on that. Once people realise that nothing has changed the miners will be back in full force.

I’d wager when RTX 4000 drops you’ll have all of about a month to buy cards before they’re all scalped.

[ashen spindle]

esp once people realise the hash rate limiter on the new skus coming this month only limits eth mining so noting changes for whatever the next coin on the list is

[zenith sonnet]

What does a GPU flood have to do with next gen cards?

[young pecan]

Not much directly.

[zenith sonnet]

At that point it'll be over two years between gens

Quite a stretch

[young pecan]

Just that 4000 isn’t gonna exist in real supply, so it’s best to pick up ex mining cards when shit happens.

And dude, supply isn’t going back to normal for a year and a half at very best.

I have my bets on 3 years before we see GTX 1000 and RTX 2000 supply.

[umbral knot]

😢

[zenith sonnet]

I was talking about next gen cards, not about what miners do or don't with current gen cards?

[young pecan]

Ok, the supply is fucked, yeah?

And it’ll be fucked for 3 years? One year longer than the release window of 4000.

Means the miners and scalpers are likely going to take most of the 4000 line. The steam boost from COVID won’t help.

Ergo when Eth 2.0 happens it likely is the best idea to pick up a cheap 3000 series so you don’t get shafted.

I don’t see prices coming down any time soon. It’s just not likely.

Especially with PoW being the current core of Eth, PoS soon, it’s still very profitable to GPU mine, and even if it isn’t then there are still many other currencies.

[reef patrol]

Naw.

[crisp granite]

PC gaming isn't falling out of fashion

I'm sure once supply issues are ironed out, there will be more PC gamers entering the fray

like me

first gaming PC was my current, R5 3600XT and RTX 3070

supply will improve eventually to meet demand

wait, locke blocked me
why am I even trying to argue if he'll never see this?

[reef patrol]

Owning a house is overrated.

[crisp granite]

IKR!!!

too much space, more than I could ever use

I'd be fine with a condo, closer to the city centre

[pale sigil]

its not overrated at all

[crisp granite]

it's equity

[pale sigil]

Especially if you have a family to leave it behind for.

[crisp granite]

an investment

but so is any other property tbh

and it's only as valuable as the plot of land it's on tbh

if you have a house 2 hours drive from a city centre, it's not gonna be worth over $1m

but if you have a house a 20 minute drive from the city centre, but smaller

it'll sell for $2m+ easily

[reef patrol]

Oh but it is.

You see that's a US problem. Round here to have to basically piss off every single neighbor to th point of a stack of complaints to be kicked out.

You can't be evicted at random at all.

[crisp granite]

here it's hit or miss

totally depends on who you rent from

if it's a property someone bought and and just leased it, you have next to no rights

[reef patrol]

Ah but you see. We dont really do the whole private renting thing. Almost all apartments are run by non profit organizations.

[crisp granite]

but if it's a purpose built rental space, you have shitloads of rights

[crisp granite]

canada, the fucked up bridge between american capitalism and european social welfare

in my city, most rental spaces were for sale, someone bought, and decided to rent out

which is an issue

because all you need as a tenant is 48 hours notice before your landlord does something with the space

like has an open house for potential buyers

or sells it

royally fucked up

but proper rental spaces aren't like that, you can't get evicted without good reason, it needs to go through a court of sorts before eviction

prices are still stupidly high for even tiny apartments, but C'est la vie, non?

[cursive summit]

https://www.aquilatech.co.nz/productDetail.asp?idProduct=5199091

https://computersperth.com/product/nda-late-may-gigabyte-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-ti-eagle-12g-video-card-gv-n308teagle-12gd/

[crisp granite]

for aussie and NZ prices, that isn't that bad tbh

somewhere in the middle of a 3080 and 3090, and the price reflects that

still, way above what it should be

[cursive summit]

Thing is I don't understand how these leaked

It's literally spelled out "Don't fucking post this, NDA'd"

[chrome estuary]

well for one a picture during shipping got showed.

[cursive summit]

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-21-4-1-dx12-agility-sdk

[ashen spindle]

are we now just linking to new versions of adrenalin/GFE? lana is that you

[cursive summit]

This one has some cool stuff though

Dx12 is cool

And whatever this is

How many decoders do we need

[ashen spindle]

literally the main option aside from h265

[cursive summit]

Ah so that's the AV1 thingy

Wonder why they had to slap the "PlayReady" on top

Anyways

Microsoft acquisition failed

https://www.sie.com/en/blog/announcing-playstations-new-partnership-with-discord/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Now Sony is my best friend

[ashen spindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc

[zenith sonnet]

Is land as well as construction not a lot cheaper in the US than in Europe?

[wheat plume]

this image weirds me out

[zenith sonnet]

https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/
Doesn't look too bad, considering that's sales of existing houses