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    fringie reacted to Zando_ in 10900k in 2021   
    If you want to reuse your RAM and don't want to hop to 5000 series Ryzen, go for the new Intel chips once they're available. 
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    fringie reacted to CommanderAlex in 10900k in 2021   
    Id take more powerful cores over more cores (11900K over 10900K). Plus it'll be the latest generation Intel processor out on the market and not previous generation. 
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    fringie reacted to seban in Nvidia Mining GPU CMP HX: The state of mining from 2 perspectives and a meme no one asked for!   
    how in the living hell did you read all of that
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    fringie reacted to Donut417 in Wifi Update - is it worth it?   
    WiFi at every location is different. However if your going to a WIFi 6E card it might be better. Not sure how many routers support the 6Ghz band. That all being said, every WiFi standard seems to be a bit more stable than the last. 
     
    Your goal would be to use 5 or 6 GHz signal. The issue is 6 Ghz is new to WiFi so not many devices support it. Checking 5Ghz coverage will be easy. That all being said, you wont know how good it is until you test it in your environment. 
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    fringie reacted to WkdPaul in Wifi Update - is it worth it?   
    * thread cleaned *
     
    OP is not asking for help with patch cable runs, but for help with his WiFi network and potential upgrades if needed, if you're not interested in helping, that totally fine ; simply don't reply and move on.
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    fringie got a reaction from Enzo1001 in Speedfan says CPU is at 128 degrees Celsius,   
    I don't get why people use custom water loops.. Fire extinguishers are the way to go.
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    fringie reacted to Windows7ge in Need advice on building a server for home & work use   
    If quantity of RAM is more important than individual core performance the Intel Xeon E5-26XXv1/v2 lineup (LGA2011-0) is a great cheap platform for a lot of expandablity at a low cost. Only catch is most of it would be used hardware.
     
    Do you want/need high single core performance or multi-core performance?
     
    This line of CPUs can handle 384GB of RAM. More than enough.
     
    Keeping it quiet you could buy a used barebones server and resistor mod the fans or you could build something from scratch but it'll cost more.
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    fringie reacted to Oshino Shinobu in Powershell - Help Shortening Command   
    Doesn't look like it. -like and -notlike matches a wildcard string but -match and -notmatch matches regex. I imagine that's why. 
     
    I guess if you're going to be using -like multiple times, you can just define it in a function first rather than typing it out each time.
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    fringie reacted to aisle9 in one of the threads of all time   
    1. Ask lots of questions like this.
    2. Tag @Energycore every time you think you've said something witty or intelligent (or both!)
    3. Shitpost all the threads.
    4. Be a long-standing member with a history of being knowledgeable and friendly.
    5. Send a check for $1,000 American (not Canadian pesos) made out to Linus Media Group.
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    fringie reacted to Mateyyy in Is it true that Netflix does not play at 1080 on Chrome (Windows)?   
    Yes, Chrome is limited to 720p and a lower bitrate, only Edge and Safari I believe allow 1080p. As others have mentioned above, you can use the Netflix app off the Microsoft Store which should give you the full quality.
    Also, if you want to check, you can press CTRL+ALT+Shift+D to see what bitrate and resolution you're playing at.
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    fringie reacted to homeofmew in Anyone's elses brain just isnt fit for programming?   
    The thing is a lot of people go "oh I like video games I want to make video games for a living".  The thing is most Universities make you crap tons of math, and things like "Gaming Mathematics" (which is basically 3 Dimensional Vector Calculus and Physics.) and not everyone is cut out for that stuff.
    As someone with a Degree in Math I saw a lot of my peers drop out because they thought it would be "fun and easy" but it really isn't. 
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    fringie reacted to straight_stewie in Anyone's elses brain just isnt fit for programming?   
    You'll capitulate and get a job, or else you'll be homeless is what you'll do.

    Jobs may seem like slavery, but that's because, at least by my estimation of it, 9 times out of 10 people go into jobs with the wrong idea:

    A job isn't a place to work and make money. A job is a place to learn things, learn them quickly and learn them well.
     
    What has helped me the most in life is a simple realization. If you still have the ability to make rational choices, then there are only two things that matter in life: Family and knowledge. Those are the only two things that you will always have, that everyone who can make rational choices always has, no matter what.

    We are the product of our predecessors and we have a brain. That's it. That's all you get, and therefore, that's all that matters. Once you realize that, all of that other nonsense fades away.
     
    I'm not saying you need to quit doing what you're doing and go get a "real" job. If what you're doing is working, then that's great and you've accomplished something that alot of people wish they could do. I'm just saying that you should be mentally prepared that one day, you might have to get a normal job, and it'll be quite a bit easier if you're thinking about it right when that happens.

    Oh, and I'm also saying that learning programming solely for the purpose of making money never works. You have to be in it for the knowledge or else you'll give up before you get anywhere with it, because programming requires a serious amount of effort just learning how to do it. And that's before the serious amount of effort that it takes to actually build something useful once you know how to do it.
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    fringie reacted to Bombastinator in Anyone's elses brain just isnt fit for programming?   
    So you made up your own definition.  “Smarter” refers specifically to cunning rather than understanding and work refers to acquisition rather than effort.   in your definition.  Standard get-rich-quick stuff.
    it can  work I guess as long as you remember that what people are talking about when they refer to that phrase has very possibly absolutely nothing to do with what you are thinking about.
     
    Get-rich-quick schemes tend to be very high risk, and because it’s such a draw there generally lots of predators hovering about the concept.
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    fringie reacted to Bombastinator in Anyone's elses brain just isnt fit for programming?   
    Buzzwords.  
     
    “smarter not harder” means in theory work efficiently.  Sometimes for some people it means shamming and passing stuff off on others.  
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    fringie reacted to straight_stewie in Anyone's elses brain just isnt fit for programming?   
    If you've never been a good programmer, and you already know that you struggle with software development concepts, then you've got many years of dedicated practice ahead of you before you have the knowledge necessary to design, build, deploy, and maintain any software that will generate worthwhile amounts of money.
     
    If you're in your 30's, and since all you care about is money, you simply don't have the drive necessary to spend the requisite amounts of time studying, thinking, and practicing, without making a dime from it, and possibly while spending many dimes on textbooks,  for many years. Sure, lot's of people go to university and some get pretty good at what they're studying in only four years: But they spend 8 hours a day or more doing literally nothing but trying to learn, with no immediate benefit, and lot's of immediate cost.

    There are many things you can do to make money. I program only as a hobby, even though I have formal education, while I work as a heavy equipment operator to pay the bills. Yes, most of the people at my job suck. Yes, I spend nearly all of my time at work. Yes, my boss is a racist, conceited, smartmouthed asshole. Yes, I frequently have to do things that I don't want to or that I find scary or stupid. But there's simply nothing else near me that's going to pay me the kind of money that this job pays me, using the skills and knowledge that I already have.

    So you don't like being bossed around, commuting, or anything else involved in life. To bad. Get over it. Everyone else in the world has to. Ignore and override.

    My advice to you is unrelated to programming: Spend some time looking at yourself. Think honestly about what you have and what you want. Be realistic with that last one. Then think about how to get there using the skills that you already have.
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    fringie reacted to Sauron in Anyone's elses brain just isnt fit for programming?   
    That's not true, there are definitely people who will hire you if you're good at what you do.
    I don't know what you mean with "rank"
    Yeah, that's not something you can do in an afternoon starting from scratch.
    Usually people do what they need to to make enough money to survive and do the things they enjoy in their spare time. Some get to make money doing something they enjoy, others don't.
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    fringie reacted to Sauron in Anyone's elses brain just isnt fit for programming?   
    Programming or not, working as a freelancer is never going to be stable. If you're unable to go to office regularly for some reason then look for positions that allow you to work from home - 3D animation is something you can definitely do from home. Part time jobs are also a thing.
     
    Regardless, programming isn't something you can just "get into" in a few months and just start profiting from it - particularly if you lack the patience to work on a new skill every day.
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    fringie reacted to SpookyCitrus in Anyone's elses brain just isnt fit for programming?   
    So do you know how to code and program? Since you dropped the course, did you get a good way into it where you know the basics or no? If you like/know 3D animation that's usually pretty good to do from home or you can try your hand at Graphic Design, making logos and such for businesses, I used to use Photoshop in high school to make/redesign logos and signs for businesses and then email them to see if they'd be interested in it, made two hundred sometimes more a week doing it but it's iffy and definitely no way to make a living especially for someone outside of highschool, unless you did it on a much larger scale. I don't know your whole situation or why you're tired all the time but it may be better to try your luck at an actual job working for someone else rather than trying to make it by the skin of your teeth trying to employ yourself or make apps in the freelance market.  If you don't want to learn or be taught how to do something and don't have the will to do it, then I don't know what to tell you. No matter what you do you'll have to know/learn how to do it, nothing out there where you make a lot of money is going to be easy or as easy as you seem to want it.
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    fringie got a reaction from SpaceHippy1975 in Banned From My Origin/EA Account.   
    Probably..  That's my expereience at least (with other companies). Keep trying & the worst case scenario get refunds from your bank.
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    fringie got a reaction from pyoa in I get 144fps on a 144hz monitor and im lagging in all the game i'm playing.   
    Check your input lag, this happened to me also. Turns out my input lag was bad, since resolving that games are butter smooth. In my case it'd spike to like 60ms and wasn't uncommon to be stuck at around 20-30ms which was noticeable (+ you have the normal netcode latency etc so it does add up), only rebooting would fix it.
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    fringie reacted to Franck in Displaying text string in CMD file   
    Just out of curiosity, why not simply run the script from the DC
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    fringie reacted to Midnitewolf in Will the next gen Nvidia RTX cards come out this year?   
    I tend to agree but Nvidia apparently doesn't.  I mean it is pretty obvious NVidia has been taking advantage of us consumers when it comes to high end GPUs when you consider that a 1080 Ti's original MSRP was $699 and then the next gen 2080TI jumped to $999.  That is a huge generation to generation price jump and the 2080 TI can't be that much more expensive to manufacture than the 1080 TI.  I was expecting maybe $750 when the 2080 TI release, not $1000.
     
    Honestly I think it was a bad move on Nvidia's part.  I know for example that the fact that they seemed to have price gouged us consumers has put a bad taste in my mouth as far as Nvidia as a company is concerned and turned me into a Radeon fan.  I truly believe Nvidia has the better product, but because they don't seem to care about their customers, as long as AMD can give me a somewhat comparable product, at a decent price, I will keep buying AMD cards, kind of out of spite if nothing else. 
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    fringie got a reaction from ReHaNTHEREAL in A bit of a project   
    You can create functionality that exports to excel using a variety of JavaScript frameworks i.e. kendo-ui. 
     
    You can probably do what you want without a custom app though. If the exams use the browser the OneNote extension will probably work? There's a windows 10 app called steps recorder and it takes screenshots of all the things you interact with.
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    fringie reacted to LinusTech in SlideNJoy is *A SCAM* and Linus and team need to take down their review video   
    I have reached out to my contact there giving them 48 hours to respond to both this thread and their use of our logo and my picture on their website.
     
    We never entered into any sort of endorsement deal with them, and the way we're being represented on their site makes it appear as though we have...
     
    Linus
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    fringie got a reaction from ucan in How to learn programming?   
    Set a goal and go achieve that goal. By time you achieve that goal you'll have struggled through the hard parts, achieved somethat is useful and learned a tonne of skills in the process. Rinse and repeat. It's a tried and tested way to improve :). For me personally, the best motivation is when I see I've achieved something.
     
    Also, set achievable goals. If the goals are too big you might not want to do it anymore. Small goals that eventually get bigger and bigger. You could maybe start focusing on a small topic. Even if the goals are extremely small, over time you'll get a tonne of knowledge. When I was younger, I was in programming communities for a good 6 years before I really began to get decent at programming - just spending that time reading the things people had done etc really did help develop a technical mindset IMO.
     
    All the best dude  
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