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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:09PM (#32827146)
DSP is amazing. Even with some of the rough in-development edges, I really enjoyed that experience. Evidently, I somehow sunk 60 hours into that game inside of two weeks.
>A lot of people are undervolting their RTX GPU's because for an only about a ~3% performance loss you get about 10C less temp which translates to far less fan noise

Bah, this is brilliant. I just upgraded a 1070 to a 3070 and am flabbergasted at how much heat it dumps into my room. One of the reasons I did not go with the 3080 was the ~100 watt lower draw.

Do you know of any good tooling to assess the impact of undervolting or is it a manual guess-and-check process?

Re:Jackson’s water crisis: latest updates on Saturday September 10, 2022 @08:42PM (#32795823)
Given the size of the armed forces, assigning some percentage to domestic infrastructure seems like a fantastically good idea.
Re:Go Developer Survey 2022 Q2 Results on Thursday September 08, 2022 @01:09PM (#32768461)
>Surprised to see language satisfaction so high.

Who else do you think responds to these surveys? I have a long list of grievances against Go, so I don't use it, and am not qualified to participate in a survey.

Re:Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:41PM (#32755646)
Currently dealing with Flask and it makes me sad from the endless decision fatigue. Enormous variations in quality of code, documentation, SO answers, etc. To not even consider the potential for supply side attacks.

With Django there is a happy path answer for most everything. If I run into a problem, I know I'm not the first.

Re:Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:35PM (#32755561)
My ask would be to get rid of the need for conda all together.

Conda obviously offers a lot of value in sharing hairy compiled packages, but it does not play well with anything else. None of available the tooling really works with both conda and pip. It fragments the already lousy packaging story.

Re:San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:46PM (#32741391)
>But building codes in many places in the USA disallow making places that small.

Given how little exercise people get and that we are typically glued to a screen (tv, laptop, or phone) during waking hours, I could see an argument for lowering floor space minimums.

Re:CA grid: real-time status on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:15PM (#32731915)
Anecdotally, as a Chicago transplant, I was shocked at the atrocious quality of windows when I moved here. Only fit for blocking the wind. Doubt they would be legal to install in the Midwest.
Re:Using Stable Diffusion's img2img on some old Sierra titles on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:27PM (#32730237)
>Looking closely. None of that is there really, just a suggestion of it.

In contrast to the photorealistic pixel art?

Re:Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:43PM (#32717524)
This is making me furious. I do not think I have ever called 911, but it is one of those safety features I thought I could fully expect to work when needed.

I have only ever used Android, but this is going to be my final such device. I have accepted a lot of rough edges over the years, but this wilful negligence regarding safety features is where I am drawing the line. At least with Apple I will not have to hope that maintaining Emergency Services will get someone promoted.

Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever on Friday September 02, 2022 @10:38PM (#32698110)
Quite a few more programmer jobs than elite executive MBA opportunities.
Note that the last commit was 8 years ago (when Rust hit 1.0).
Even if losses were something absurd like 15%, I don't see how that would meaningfully change the numbers. Location offsetting sunlight seems like a huge win.
Re:VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry? on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @11:21AM (#32566219)
Given the frequency of updates, maintaining a privacy fork with anything but minor changes would be a Sisyphean task.
If he succeeds, his skillet becomes the Platonic ideal of an AGI developer.
> but we would never consider building a natural mountain to improve turbine efficiency

Maybe we could? Mining operations already produce huge volume of material from tailings and overburden. Not an outrageous idea to be more strategic in how and where that material is placed. Could create some artificial ranges with better wind properties.

Re:Some Thoughts on Zig on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:42AM (#32189229)
Nim?
Re:Intel Microcode Decryptor on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @09:24AM (#32151084)
Are there rules/standards for how these top secret keys are stored? HDCP, Mediavine, keys to the Internet, etc. Sure, you could keep it locked in a Scrooge McDuck security vault, but you need to be able to burn the key into hardware/software, meaning it ultimately needs to be distributed across many machines, greatly increasing the number of people with potential access.
Re:Intel Microcode Decryptor on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @09:16AM (#32151003)
>...unless you receive a secret password from an Intel employee (which probably is within the means of some 3-letter agencies).

Phone calls are easier.

So all of these attacks work? Targeting different systems? Probably took non-zero effort to develop? What exactly is the problem?

Let me tell you about these chemists that publish paper after paper involving carbon bonds. Like, give it a rest.

Re:Monitoring tiny web services on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:30PM (#32040699)
Re:Monitoring tiny web services on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:28PM (#32040682)
Rightly or wrongly, if I see an Oracle deal that sounds too good to be true, I'm going to assume someone at Oracle has a plan to trap me into a costly arrangement.
Is it Google in name only or does it send telemetry of my every click to the mother ship? Would be interested in trying it as a VSCode remote development + minimal Linux utilities platform.
Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:01PM (#31743376)
What exactly is the issue? Company predicts that the market is not going their way, and they are tightening their belt. Sucks to be on the receiving end, but are they supposed to keep all employees forever, business conditions be damned?
Re:Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @12:42PM (#31571694)
Are those the same solar panels that Walmart is suing Tesla for causing fires?
Re:Programming in the Apocalypse on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:58PM (#31561705)
>Phones are going to be in service for a lot longer. We all felt that both Android, with their aggressive backwards compatibility...

Come again?

Re:Run your home on a Raspberry Pi on Sunday May 15, 2022 @11:06PM (#31393349)
Pre-pandemic, I picked up a fanless NUC style computer for ~$200. Takes a SSD and runs under 15 watts. I do not know if that pricing is still attainable today, but is my recommendation for someone looking for a tiny home server.
Re:PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities on Sunday May 08, 2022 @03:21PM (#31307271)
Considering how much energy my work laptop burns on a daily basis because of the four(!) different security products, I am curious how Awake is where they draw the line.