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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    I take back every mean thing I ever said about our dystopian cyberpunk present. Clearly, we live in the best of all possible timelines.

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/with-ingestible-pill-you-can-track-fart-development-in-real-time-on-your-phone/

    Can I have it send me alerts when my fart is at 80% so I know when to levee to the room

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    VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    pimento wrote: »
    Veldrin wrote: »
    i5-2500k is Sandy Bridge, right?

    Yes but you can overclock it to ~4GHz on stock cooling (assuming airconditioned place..) if you have reasonable airflow in your case. At least, mine was that way for a year or so until I retired it.

    Yeah I might finally give this a go.

    Which monitoring software is good these days?

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Hmm my PC has an i5-4690K and the fiancee's laptop has i7-6700HQ shit I didn't even realize she had an octocore

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    pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    pimento wrote: »
    Veldrin wrote: »
    i5-2500k is Sandy Bridge, right?

    Yes but you can overclock it to ~4GHz on stock cooling (assuming airconditioned place..) if you have reasonable airflow in your case. At least, mine was that way for a year or so until I retired it.

    Yeah I might finally give this a go.

    Which monitoring software is good these days?

    I didn't use any, so.. no idea.

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    CormacCormac Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    pimento wrote: »
    Veldrin wrote: »
    i5-2500k is Sandy Bridge, right?

    Yes but you can overclock it to ~4GHz on stock cooling (assuming airconditioned place..) if you have reasonable airflow in your case. At least, mine was that way for a year or so until I retired it.

    Yeah I might finally give this a go.

    Which monitoring software is good these days?

    I use Open Hardware Monitor to keep an eye on things when running stress tests.

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Well looks like I'm safe from the Intel patch crap. My fiancee's processor is Skylake, and mine is a Devils-Canyon (way cooler name). So horrary for small miracles.

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    XeddicusXeddicus Registered User regular
    Sorry to break to you, Bucketman, but Devil's Canyon = Haswell.

    There's no escaping this.

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    HoA-playerHoA-player Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    They did that last year as well, and in Hamburg in 2014. Probably been touring the asian circuit in the meantime.

    I'd be more enthused if they were interesting robots, but they're not.

    They have been at every trade fair I've been to in the last 5 years. Which were all plastic and automation industry specific ones.

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Xeddicus wrote: »
    Sorry to break to you, Bucketman, but Devil's Canyon = Haswell.

    There's no escaping this.

    Well fuck.

    Hopefully its not so bad for me since I mostly just do gaming and like homework on my PC

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    pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    Bucketman wrote: »
    Xeddicus wrote: »
    Sorry to break to you, Bucketman, but Devil's Canyon = Haswell.

    There's no escaping this.

    Well fuck.

    Hopefully its not so bad for me since I mostly just do gaming and like homework on my PC

    It's unlikely you'll notice any drop in performance.

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    discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    Because it's unlikely they'll fix it?
    Really, Spectre is likely to see a significant % CPU speed reduction across the board.

    But if your games are not processor dependent, you'll probably be fine.
    Off the top of my head, it'll be things like Minecraft map generation that'll hit the CPU hard and likely suffer.
    Most games rely on the GPU for graphics processing instead, and RAM, for speed.

    Older PCs where you are pushing close to CPU capacity are likely to be affected a lot though.
    How close 'close' is, is a wild guess.
    Worst case scenario would be either flushing the cache after a failed speculative read, or turning speculative execution off.

    But my money's currently on 'Companies only address the vectors that weaponize Spectre, like Meltdown, and build new processors instead'

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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Bucketman wrote: »
    Xeddicus wrote: »
    Sorry to break to you, Bucketman, but Devil's Canyon = Haswell.

    There's no escaping this.

    Well fuck.

    Hopefully its not so bad for me since I mostly just do gaming and like homework on my PC

    The intel bug goes allllllll the way back to Pentium Pro.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    djmitchelladjmitchella Registered User regular
    Meanwhile, in everyone's favorite current tech bubble, it's even easier than I expected to get money:

    http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/long-island-iced-tea-corp-to-rebrand-as-long-blockchain-corp-20171221-00468
    Long Island Iced Tea Corp. to Rebrand as “Long Blockchain Corp.”

    Next in on this action: Kodak have launched their own cryptocurrency
    Shares in iconic film company Eastman Kodak rose by 117 per cent on Tuesday as the company announced plans to put out a cryptocurrency built on blockchain technology that will help photographers share and licence their work in exchange for payment.
    . . .
    "For many in the tech industry, 'blockchain' and 'cryptocurrency' are hot buzzwords, but for photographers who've long struggled to assert control over their work and how it's used, these buzzwords are the keys to solving what felt like an unsolvable problem," Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke said.

    "Kodak has always sought to democratize photography and make licensing fair to artists. These technologies give the photography community an innovative and easy way to do just that," Clarke said.

    This seems slightly more reasonable than an iced tea company, I guess? But it also feels like they're just sticking 'blockchain' in front of stuff and hoping magic happens.

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Meanwhile, in everyone's favorite current tech bubble, it's even easier than I expected to get money:

    http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/long-island-iced-tea-corp-to-rebrand-as-long-blockchain-corp-20171221-00468
    Long Island Iced Tea Corp. to Rebrand as “Long Blockchain Corp.”

    Next in on this action: Kodak have launched their own cryptocurrency
    Shares in iconic film company Eastman Kodak rose by 117 per cent on Tuesday as the company announced plans to put out a cryptocurrency built on blockchain technology that will help photographers share and licence their work in exchange for payment.
    . . .
    "For many in the tech industry, 'blockchain' and 'cryptocurrency' are hot buzzwords, but for photographers who've long struggled to assert control over their work and how it's used, these buzzwords are the keys to solving what felt like an unsolvable problem," Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke said.

    "Kodak has always sought to democratize photography and make licensing fair to artists. These technologies give the photography community an innovative and easy way to do just that," Clarke said.

    This seems slightly more reasonable than an iced tea company, I guess? But it also feels like they're just sticking 'blockchain' in front of stuff and hoping magic happens.

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    A Kodak-branded bitcoin miner labelled the "KashMiner" has been displayed at the photography company's booth at CES 2018, with Kodak Blockchain Project licensee Spotlite Energy Systems of California showcasing the product.

    According to the Kodak licensee, an upfront payment of $3,400 for a two-year contract would lead to bitcoin production value of around $375 per month at current bitcoin value.

    The partnership would provide the licensee with half of the resulting $9,000 made over the 24-month period.

    Bitcoin production would reach around $25 per day on the Kodak Bitcoin HashPower Upfront Payment Plan.

    The Kodak-licensed bitcoin miner was showcased on the same day that Kodak announced its own KodakCoin cryptocurrency utilising blockchain security technology, which it said is aimed at enabling image rights management for photographers

    http://www.zdnet.com/article/kodak-bitcoin-miner-on-display-at-ces-2018/

    we have lost our way


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    OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    It's kinda funny how easy it is to spot this stock bubble though

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
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    KarlKarl Registered User regular
    I mean

    if that's true


    Fuck him, he deserves it

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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    kodak is still relevant in 2018? Nice.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    QuantumTurkQuantumTurk Registered User regular
    On the one hand, the companies jumping into blockchain is dumb. On the other, shit, their stock leapt up each time, why WOULDN'T they jump on this train? I'd imagine any employee with some stock options and some foresight was happy for a hump and dump. Especially at Kodak. (No idea how the iced tea company does generally, I guess selling iced tea is a fairly evergreen proposition)

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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    wait, kodak sells tea?

    I thought they just sold like, ye olde camera stuff

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    kodak is still relevant in 2018? Nice.

    They are desperately trying to be, at least.

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    JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    the picture of that kodak thing reminds me of the pictures of that Phantom console way back in the day

    definitely not made in some madmans garage no sir

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    UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Looks like a prop from ghostbusters...


    ... 2

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Jasconius wrote: »
    the picture of that kodak thing reminds me of the pictures of that Phantom console way back in the day

    definitely not made in some madmans garage no sir

    no no see just pay me $5000 dollars for it and I guarantee you if you just plug it in you will make back infinity money

    also I want half of the infinity money you make just in case this works

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    That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    Where do I send the payment?

    PSN: ThatDaveFella
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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User, Moderator mod
    bowen wrote: »
    wait, kodak sells tea?

    I thought they just sold like, ye olde camera stuff

    no they're referring to the Long Island Iced Tea company which also diversified into cryptocurrency and changed their name to something involving the word "blockchain"

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    PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    I just got my replacement phone, and in order to transfer my SMS and contacts from my old phone to my new one, I had to approve the transfer on the screen of the old phone.

    Considering the screen on the old phone doesn't work, it was just me tapping a white screen blindly trying to hit the approve button.

    Psykoma on
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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    wait, kodak sells tea?

    I thought they just sold like, ye olde camera stuff

    no they're referring to the Long Island Iced Tea company which also diversified into cryptocurrency and changed their name to something involving the word "blockchain"
    Have they not heard of global warming? In five to eight years ice tea is going to be doing a killing!

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    JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
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    OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    What's the best windows archive utility?

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    furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Oghulk wrote: »
    What's the best windows archive utility?

    Winrar and 7zip are both pretty good. I prefer 7zip because it has a lot of options and it is free.

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    KadithKadith Registered User regular
    Yeah I've continued to use 7zip because i haven't had a need to find anything new since I started using it several years ago.

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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    wait, kodak sells tea?

    I thought they just sold like, ye olde camera stuff

    no they're referring to the Long Island Iced Tea company which also diversified into cryptocurrency and changed their name to something involving the word "blockchain"

    ah I thought it was a reference to kodak directly

    the local kodak guy in syracuse was on the news tv talking about it and my eyes almost rolled out of my head

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    Anyone have thoughts/experience with UAG phone covers?

    I bought one to try and keep my new phone from breaking, but didn't look too closely at it when ordering and was surprised that the backing of it was plastic for some reason? Thought it looked vaguely metallic.

    The buttons are a bit stiff but not much of a problem as far as I can tell though.

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    OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    ok I have both WinRAR and 7Zip was just trying to get an idea

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Psykoma wrote: »
    Anyone have thoughts/experience with UAG phone covers?

    I bought one to try and keep my new phone from breaking, but didn't look too closely at it when ordering and was surprised that the backing of it was plastic for some reason? Thought it looked vaguely metallic.

    The buttons are a bit stiff but not much of a problem as far as I can tell though.

    I had one on my iPad for like four years. Tough as heel and the buttons will get better with use

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    OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    So I just archived a folder

    and it went from 5.9 GB

    to 4.9GB as an archive

    uh, I thought it would...compress more...?

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Depends what's in it, and what compression algorithm you're using. Some filetypes are already close to maximum efficiency.

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    OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    I have a shit ton of PDFs so maybe those are already really close? I mean it says the compression ratio is over 90% so I was just...surprised, I guess.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    It's possible to compress a file and have it end up larger than you started with.

    Computers!

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