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XKCD

00:08

Their signature play is the three-point combinator, a recursive offense which is guaranteed not to halt and continues accumulating points until the buzzer.

1 hour later…

bwDraco

01:31

(while restarting Astaroth for an update)

...that's a .NET exception. This might be related to the fact that the system was being restarted for a .NET Framework cumulative update...

Michael Frank

Could just be derpy Logitech software.

bwDraco

Yeah. Logitech Options is rather... buggy.

I've had SetPoint (the predecessor to LogiOptions) cause bluescreens.

anandtech.com/show/14925/…

A new generation of Intel HEDT processors, now with massive price cuts.

All of the parts are based on Cascade Lake-SP HCC silicon. Intel has decided to simplify the product stack, skipping the 16-core part. The 18-core Core i9-10980XE Extreme Edition will cost about $1,000 at retail.

This was a much-needed move after AMD massively undercut them in the previous generation.

I'm hoping this will spur more interest in Intel's HEDT platform...

I wonder what their profit margins are... (note that Intel's manufacturing costs for 14nm silicon should be much lower now than 1-2 years ago because the 14nm process is now very, very mature)

Thoughts?

6 hours later…

djsmiley2k

07:38

sigh

i'm back to paper and pen to work out wtf this code should be doing

Hennes

08:03

@bwDraco Too late.

As in, many people already have all the cores they need now, often from AMD

2 -> 4 core was huge.
4 -. 6 less

And personally after going 8/16 on a laptop no new CPU is needed for a while

3 hours later…

bwDraco

11:00

@Hennes What system?

I'm assuming you're working with a 65W Ryzen chip...

Performance per watt has always been a strength of the Zen architecture...

bwDraco

11:26

Something overlooked by some is the presence of enterprise-oriented features like AVX-512 (two FMAs per core) and Intel DL Boost (introduced in Cascade Lake-SP and inherited by these processors).

Plus 2.5GbE and Wi-Fi 6 ready, with appropriate network controllers.

Burgi

64 Core EPYC CPU – HOLY $H!T

►

tereško

11:53

well, my next PC will be probably a threadripper :D

but the ETA for that is about mid-2020

and, yes, it's "probably" because there is a chance that from now till then something goes horribly wrong at AMD hq and they start sucking again

djsmiley2k

12:49

argugle barlgle fargle.

2 hours later…

bertieb

14:36

@djsmiley2k They've table warble fashes?

Channelling your inner Slartibartfast there :D

djsmiley2k

lol

the atomic brain buster has finished me

that and a bit of python

bertieb

The what and the who now?

djsmiley2k

lol

djsmiley2k

14:55

how have I not worked out this simples python yet, @bertieb?!

bpaste.net/show/TKiO

I have this but it's derp

bertieb

I don't think I've worked with python's CSV lib

Think I... rolled my own?

What's the issue, anyway?

djsmiley2k

15:18

i just have a load of lines ina file, doesn't need to be csv exaclty

in the file, 4 columns

Name,Members,IP,Subnet

Name is always set, if members is set, then IP isn't....

for any given 'group' (Name value) find all the members, and from the members get the Ip addresses

oh god

I changed something

i've ran it

and it's still running.

> 28946 tim 20 0 219412 184720 4888 R 99.7 4.6 0:34.87 python3

go python go!

hahaha infinte loop ftw

/me gives up

2 hours later…

bertieb

17:16

TIL Trump wanted a "Moot stuffed with alligators and snakes"

Isn't that word antipodean slang for, uh, something quite else

Aibobot

17:39

Moot?

djsmiley2k

18:03

dunno but the points moot, after all if he asked for it, it must be stoopid.

1 hour later…

rahuldottech

19:26

893

Q: Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?

The last weeks and days have seen some erratic behaviour by Stack Exchange Inc., such as likely illegal changes to the content license and the firing of an upstanding community moderator with no explanation except copy-pasted responses (leaving many to believe it was for no good reason). It wou...

HOLY SMOKES SO MUCH DRAMA

Justified drama, but still...

Journeyman Geek

.... Yeah

Uhm. Wait

I am sure you knew

rahuldottech

No, I didn't know any of the recent developments

djsmiley2k

stuff is wild.

rahuldottech

I just knew that you resigned because Monica was fired for some stupid BS

Nothing beyond that

Visiting SE after a few days today

Journeyman Geek

Ah ok

For the benefit of those who don't know...

So - if I get your pronoun wrong, feel free to correct me. I'll try to do better. I do expect folks to follow the same.

I'd be disappointed in them otherwise

djsmiley2k

19:36

t's sad that you feel you need to even say that

Journeyman Geek

19:49

But here we are

Someone has to set an example 😁

2 hours later…

Burgi

21:41

a guy i know works at the BBC

he has asked me to share this with you folks

bbc.co.uk/quiz/the-apprentice/q02101500

2 hours later…

bwDraco

23:18

So... my Logitech MX Master 3 just came in. The MagSpeed wheel feels... weird.

It's not a mechanical click. It's electromagnetically controlled so the detents feel much softer.

bwDraco

23:54

The middle mouse click is much more solid on the MX Master 3 than it is on the 2S.

The amount of "friction" in the wheel in ratchet mode is much lower; the wheel will spin much further when flicked without disengaging the electromagnetic ratchet. This will definitely take some getting used to.

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