Oh Hayoung of Apink makes her solo professional debut as a singer in her first mini-album, the lovingly-titled 'OH!', which is cutely her surname. I was super excited to hear that she was making a solo album as I am a huge fan of Hayoung, she's my second favorite member of Apink, closely behind Jeong Eunji, South Korea's #1 vocalist and absolute fluffball of cuteness.
I find Hayoung's voice unique with its misty, pillowy soft natural tone and ability to effortlessly reach highs. She blends
BTOB Blue is a subunit consisting of BTOB's Eunkwang, Changsub, Hyunsik, and Sungjae, essentially all the vocalists of BTOB minus the rappers, Ilhoon and Peniel. When It Rains is the quartet's 2018 single, and of course will follow the ballad style that the vocalists of BTOB are known for.
I love the vocals of BTOB a lot so having all the vocalist in a subunit like this seems like it will make for a soothing, relaxing, comfortable, warm ballad to listen to when it rains, no pun intended.
Eunji's EP, The Space, features her next exploration into her solo career, with her new title track, The Spring, a ballad made for thinking about the season of Spring. I am a huge fan of Eunji due to her amazing voice, and I put Eunji as South Korea's #1 vocalist. Her voice is also unique and soothing with a cool tone to it. I can't wait to listen to this EP and share my thoughts on each song. I have chosen to leave out the piano version of The Spring due to it being relatively the same as the o
AOA's latest EP, New Moon, released November 2019, has officially come out, and having bene a long-time fan of AOA for the latter part of my life, I am extremely excited to check it out.
This time around, AOA has 5 members with the departure of Kwon Mina, but if their Mnet Queendom appearance taught us anything, it's that AOA can slay the entire K-pop industry no matter how many members leave. Their title sing Come See Me has been highly anticipated, so I will be sharing my thoughts on not
The MX Brown is the last of the Cherry originals, its siblings being the MX Blue and MX Red, a clicky and a linear switch respectively. The MX Brown is the tactile switch that completes the trifecta of Cherry's flagship switch line.
I personally prefer linear for its smooth actuation, and tactile for its actuation indication, and unfortunately the MX Brown isn't tactile at all. It's almost a linear. I describe it as a Red with a food baby. The bump is so minimal, yet it is just enoug
A common complaint or concern I hear with Task Manager is that what it reports doesn't seem very useful or that they wish what it'd report was something more meaningful. A commonly cited one is CPU % Utilization, which people have commented that it doesn't really represent what the CPU is actually doing.
After stewing on this I thought of a way to think about what Task Manager is better thought of: a status report to a company's department head. For example, let's take a company's he
The MX Blue is a part of the iconic trifecta of original Cherry MX switches next to its siblings the Red and Brown, as well as their distant relatives, the Clear and Black.
The MX Blue is the flagship clicky switch manufactured by Cherry and cloned by the likes of Gateron, Kailh, and Outemu, but what they all have in common is the same mechanism, the click jacket, to generate their tinny, wimpy, dissatisfactory click.
The main draw towards opting for a clicky switch such as the
The Blue ZIlent V2 is a silent tactile switch offered by ZealPC, the same vendor who has created other famous switches such as the Zealios V2, Tealios V2, and the Healios. This time around, Zeal has created the Zilents V2 which was made to compete with the MX Clear.
The Zilents V2 are offered in 62g, 65g, 67g, and 78g weights, similar to its brother, the Zealios V2, which are also offered in those four weights, and additionally in four colors, with a progressively darker stem color with eac
With NVIDIA's RTX cards out and the company pushing ray tracing, I figured I have a look around at what I could in the graphics community through blog posts and whatnot about ray tracing itself. Then interacting with the community it seems like there are some misunderstandings and perhaps a warped interpretation of what's going on. So this post is a random assortment of thoughts regarding the encounters of others discussing this topic and what my input is.
Ray tracing describes a typ
This is a statement I see prevalent in tech circles: Whatever computer you install Windows on can't be booted on another computer. The most common cited reason is the drivers that were installed on that particular Windows will conflict and cause issues with the hardware in another computer. This is false. If only because I've not only successfully booted into Windows installed for another machine, but managed to do work in it. I used this method to fix someone else's computer and even when the d
One of the more touted features of applications using DirectX 12 and Vulkan is "asynchronous compute." Over the years it's seemed to gain some mystique with people saying one thing or another creating a sort of stir of information. In this blog we'll go over what asynchronous compute is, where it came about from, and how NVIDIA and AMD handle it.
What exactly is asynchronous compute?
Instead of trying to find an answer from the interwebs as this term didn't really exist much bef
Well guys,
It seems that due to an error on my part with the datasheet we have managed to omit all who hit the minimum requirements who had less than 1 million points. So, here are the list of the guys who hit the requirements but were omitted due to a simple error in the IF statement. In order to make sure that you guys haven't missed out on any giveaways we are planning to use any unclaimed prizes to be raffled to you guys. I hope this makes things right, as always we will endeavo
After a brief hiatus, I reverted my attention back to the Dell Optiplex. Today was painting day; the paint job isn't fully complete yet, but here's a front panel picture for now.
Well guys, my oh my has it been a month of pure excitement and an unexpected plot twist, the king has been dethroned!!!
But before we get into it I just want to say a few things, first and foremost, I want to thank the guys who have been helping behind the scenes, @Gorgon for his exceptional data handling and filling in for blog posts, @palespartan for being my rival giving a helping hand with data validation, prize allocation and a blog post or two and @Imbellis for validation and g
And here we are guys, the the, but, the project does go on, the science must flow.
These ranks are preliminary are the final confirmed ranks along with the raffle will be posted sometime tomorrow, if for some reason this is not the case an update post will be added.
I'm not going to say much here until we have validated the places and ensured everyone has met the minimum requirements listed below.
minimum requirements: 100k points, 20 WUs, and 20 days of h
Two 1TB HDDs from Free Geek have arrived! I purchased both of these HGST drives for a total of $24. 1TB hard drives usually sell for around $18-$20, so $12 per drive is pretty nice.
With only one day to go the question is can the team step up to make that final push for 8th place?
as always:
Please remember that this is a friendly event, but we are all folding away for Science, AND GLORY!
I'm really impressed with the numbers we are seeing here, Thank you to all who are involved and who make this worth while every year.
Remember we are a team first and individuals second, so give thanks where thanks is due and
With only two days left in the competition there only a little while left for people to make a push for ranking.
Top 10 - 30.6%, top 50 - 54.91%, top 100 - 71.17%.
as always:
Please remember that this is a friendly event, but we are all folding away for Science, AND GLORY!
I'm really impressed with the numbers we are seeing here, Thank you to all who are involved and who make this worth while every year.
Remember we are
We often see, during the closing days of the event that, the leader board is mostly set, there are some upsets to be had, but few and far between they will be..
Top 10 - 28.76%, top 50 - 53.69%, top 100 - 69.59%.
as always:
Please remember that this is a friendly event, but we are all folding away for Science, AND GLORY!
I'm really impressed with the numbers we are seeing here, Thank you to all who are involved and who make this worth whi
Day Thirty One - Four Days Left
Moving in to the last 4 days of the Competition were seeing the top 10 is pretty stable but @Favebook is making a play for the top 10.
@shp has moved into 100th place with 33.3 Million points and if @suchamoneypit and @StaffCorporal can keep their production up they might be able to make it past the bar too.
Top 10 - 27.83%, Top 50 - 53.15%, Top 100 - 69.17%
as always:
Please remember that this is a friendly e
The MX Red is one of the most iconic switches thanks to Cherry, the German mechanical keyboards and switches manufacturer famous (or infamous depending on how you look at it) for their MX Red, MX Brown, and MX Blue switches, which are linear, tactile, and clicky switches respectively.
Today we'll be taking a look at the MX Red, this particular model specifically from Gateron, a manufacturer of switches whom have cloned Cherry's MX Red design and made their own edition, coined the Gateron Re
With only five days left in the Competition things are heating up and there's some jockeying going on as Folders vie for coveted positions in the top 10 and top 25 for bragging rights and others put in a final push attempting to break into the Top 100 for more chances at the the loot being offered this year.
At 100th with 32 Million points we have @Self_Ignition but will they live up to their handle and burn up under the strain? @Xoggy is close behind but @Szah @shp and @StaffCorpo
Here's another local find, this was all purchased for $50.
•2 x 8GBs of ADATA XPG DDR3 @1600MHz
•MSI R9 270X TWIN FROZR 2GB
•MSI A78M-E45 FM2+ motherboard
This sale initially included 32GBs of DDR3, but through a miscommunication with the seller I ended up with 16GBs. Not a terrible deal, but I was still a little disappointed. I'll definitely be able to make good use of the RAM and 270X, but I don't have any plans for the motherboard.
