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Michael Frank

00:36

Getting Github integration with Atom editor to work is painful.

bwDraco

tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-pcie-4.0-motherboard,38401.html

Interesting... PCIe 4.0 may be possible on existing boards, and not only that, they are making the 500-series chipsets at GlobalFoundries from an in-house design, rather than having ASMedia supplying them.

Michael Frank

00:47

So when Windows says "Don't turn off your computer" that's just a suggestion, right?

bwDraco

While Windows's servicing stack does have measures to prevent data corruption from occurring (indeed, everything is supposed to be transactional), there is a risk of the system being rendered unbootable or otherwise corrupted if you cut power during an update.

Journeyman Geek

@bertieb any nefarious plans involve cats not dogs

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek No, the cats mastermind the plans. The dogs unwittingly carry them out.

bwDraco

01:34

pcworld.com/article/3332205/amd/…

> While Su didn't say for certain that the upcoming 3rd-generation Ryzen would ship with more than the eight cores that she announced on stage, well, it wasn't hard to read between the lines. "If you look at the evolution of Ryzen, we've always had an advantage in core count," Su said.

[...]

"Some people may have noticed on the package some extra room," she said with a chuckle. "There is some extra room on that package and I think you might expect we will have more than eight cores."

16 cores confirmed?

:P

I'm looking forward to when they actually announce third-generation Ryzen parts.

There's no reason for AMD to have left such a conspicuous hole in the chip package if they're not going to add a second chiplet there.

Also, we don't even know what clock frequencies that Ryzen engineering sample was running at. They're not final, and are likely to be a bit higher at launch. Also, considering the power consumption numbers (looks like they're hitting i9-9900K performance levels in a 75W power envelope, per AnandTech), there definitely is room in the thermal design for more cores.

AMD has Intel cornered at this point. 10nm simply cannot come soon enough for Chipzilla.

That a company one tenth the size of Intel and simultaneously competing with NVIDIA is able to outfox its competition in processor technology is nothing short of a miracle.

That gap in the package is not there for no reason. Indeed, if there were no plans for a second chiplet, that 7nm core chiplet might as well be aligned to the 14nm I/O chiplet, as doing so would make routing of wire traces easier.

(anandtech.com/show/13829/…)

MYGz

02:03

Is there a single process that manages the os orchestration, a single routine that manages all the other subroutines? ntoskernel.exe ( windows)?

rahuldottech

@bertieb @DavidPostill the Satanic Temple is basically just a bunch of be good to others stuff that's called Satanic for the heck of it (the religious/community basically exists to prove through satire why mixing of state and religion is bad)

"Satanism", on the other hand...

s/religious/religion/

@CanadianLuke what I sent: redditgifts.com/gallery/gift/wow-my-secret-santa-awesome-4

rahuldottech