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    Unixsystem got a reaction from LAwLz in Intel Demoes i9-11900K Against Ryzen 9 5900X   
    These are CPU benchmarks, upping the resolution only increases the chance of encountering a bottleneck somewhere else in the system. For GPUs or full system benchmarks 1440p+ makes sense but if you're doing direct CPU vs CPU comparisons then the lower the resolution the better (within reason). 
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from CarlBar in Bitcoin is breaking records again.   
    Because people are salty that they need to wait a few months for a GPU upgrade. 
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from Castdeath97 in Scalping Next-Gen Tech Products on eBay Has Generated $40 Million in Total Profit   
    1) Assume every launch is 6 months away from product availability.
    2) Never pay more than MSRP
    3) Start complaining to AMD and Nvidia to stop doing paper launches and release new products with supply.
    Congratulations, you solved the issue. Scalpers would stop overnight if people stopped buying their product. 
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    Unixsystem reacted to SolarNova in CISA Issue Emergency Directive To All Federal Civilian Agencies To Power Down SolarWinds Orion Products Immediately Due to Hack   
    So the un-hackable totally secure and trustworthy election system that has recently been used in the US ..is in fact ...not that.
     
    Go figure
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    Unixsystem reacted to Dataanti in CISA Issue Emergency Directive To All Federal Civilian Agencies To Power Down SolarWinds Orion Products Immediately Due to Hack   
    this is a major happening if i ever did see it
     

     
    https://www.solarwinds.com/company/customers
     
     
    that is a very concerning list. is it war now?

    also kind of related... load this up on mobile and check out what powers the dominion voting companies site 
     
    https://dvsfileshare.dominionvoting.com/
     
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from unsorted in Scalping Next-Gen Tech Products on eBay Has Generated $40 Million in Total Profit   
    1) Assume every launch is 6 months away from product availability.
    2) Never pay more than MSRP
    3) Start complaining to AMD and Nvidia to stop doing paper launches and release new products with supply.
    Congratulations, you solved the issue. Scalpers would stop overnight if people stopped buying their product. 
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    Unixsystem reacted to Arika in Nvidia Sold $175 Million Worth of GeForce RTX 30 GPUs To Crypto Miners   
    says who?
     
    Miners are customers too. Why are "gamers" more entitled to new GPUs than anyone else?
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    Unixsystem reacted to BuckGup in Five Eyes (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, US) again call for breaking encryption, says it threatens public safety   
    ^^^^^^
     
    People who don't care or say "I'm not a criminal so I have nothing to hide" scare me
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    Unixsystem reacted to RejZoR in Three times the charm - New AMD CPU announcement + big Navi Teaser   
    Don't like the new Zen 3 processors? Then buy the bloody 3600 whatever. It's not that hard.
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    Unixsystem reacted to Taf the Ghost in Rare punishes streamers who called them out for not stopping harassment from their partners   
    Makers of the Game. Basically, looks like some community vs community harassment. The couple that is getting harassed also comes off really poorly. They have a legal issue. Yes, it's horrible, but the Game Company isn't the proper authority to deal with the issue. There's also community strife over PvP vs PvE aspects.
     
    From Kotaku's angle, this is clearly a backdoor way of getting Rare/MS to implement more policies to their liking. This really doesn't have anything to do with the parties listed.
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from BiG StroOnZ in AMD Ryzen 5000-series “Vermeer Zen 3" CPU Benchmarks Leaked (Update 2)   
    As a single core boost it seems totally reasonable. Not guaranteed by any means, but 3xxx was the first gen on 7nm. With over a year of refinement on the node plus whatever architectural upgrades they've made, a couple hundred mhz doesn't seem at all out of the realm of possibility. All core boost, almost certainly not (maybe with a golden chip on a custom loop). 
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from harryk in Starlink $1 pre-trial minimum bandwidth speeds revealed: 35Mbps DOWN and 5Mbps UP   
    Keep in mind that the current satellites don't have the intra-constellation laser links that they are planning to start launching later this year (IIRC). At that point the signal can bounce from satellite to satellite, completely bypassing any ground infrastructure until its right next to the target. 
     
    It's going to depend a lot on the total number of sats as well as the number of ground stations, and it'll never be as fast as an ideal ground based wired connection, but moving the signal almost entirely into orbit has the potential to completely bypass congestion points. It won't improve the minimum latency much, but it should bring the maximum down and potentially lower than the maximum latency on certain wired connections. 
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from FakeNSA in Starlink $1 pre-trial minimum bandwidth speeds revealed: 35Mbps DOWN and 5Mbps UP   
    It's absolutely a possibility, however I'd imagine that most ground based connections aren't going to need to cover nearly as much distance as even a Starlink connection. Speed of light differences could wind up making up some of that difference, however I'd imagine that there is an order of magnitude more latency gains to be made by (potentially) removing network congestion and routing bottlenecks. 
     
    If they can get Starlink ground stations set up on or near all the major backbones and big data centers, they could conceivably bypass effectively all of the current infrastructure and keep the data totally within their network. How much faster that would be, I have no idea, but I'd have to imagine that any system built from the ground up is going to be more efficient than the weird bootatrapped network we use now. Anyone who has a better perspective on how the backbone level services actually work, feel free to correct me. 
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from dalekphalm in Starlink $1 pre-trial minimum bandwidth speeds revealed: 35Mbps DOWN and 5Mbps UP   
    Keep in mind that the current satellites don't have the intra-constellation laser links that they are planning to start launching later this year (IIRC). At that point the signal can bounce from satellite to satellite, completely bypassing any ground infrastructure until its right next to the target. 
     
    It's going to depend a lot on the total number of sats as well as the number of ground stations, and it'll never be as fast as an ideal ground based wired connection, but moving the signal almost entirely into orbit has the potential to completely bypass congestion points. It won't improve the minimum latency much, but it should bring the maximum down and potentially lower than the maximum latency on certain wired connections. 
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    Unixsystem reacted to PlayStation 2 in Wait 36 hours to review bomb-Metacritic makes you wait 36 hours to review a game   
    How about devs don't make a game that actively insults its customer base or doesn't piss on the legacy of a previous game? 
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    Unixsystem reacted to avg123 in TSMC to stop supplying Huawei with chips   
    yeaf there is no difference between the US and the compnany aiding the chinese government which has forced millions of people in labour camps, illegally occupying Hong Kong, murdering dissenters 🙄
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    Unixsystem reacted to straight_stewie in TSMC to stop supplying Huawei with chips   
    Not really. They (the Chinese government) both do ostensibly the same things as far as undermining security and spying on their own citizens goes.

    The difference is that China actually uses the information they glean to hurt citizens of their own country en masse. The US may or may not do that, we can't tell yet. If the US is doing it, they are doing it much more covertly than China is.
     
     
    If the new regulations fall under ITAR (I think they might, but I'm not 100% sure), then no, it's probably not worth compliance for them.

    Not necessarily because of sheer expense, but because it's just a whole lot of trouble.
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from ColdPressCoconutOil in NVidia ends 'Turing' card production midst, making room for 'Ampere' cards midst the mining resurgence   
    Didn't Turing initially get pushed back specifically because they had a massive overstock on 10-series cards? I seem to recall numerous news stories about how there were warehouses full of 1060s that they were trying to shift to prevent them from taking away from the newer generation. 
     
    I'd assume that this move is just to avoid a similar scenario. 
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    Unixsystem reacted to Trik'Stari in Hello MB my old friend - Proposed Bill would require backdoors in any device with over 1GB of storage.   
    The only way this bill should be accepted is if it applies to members of congress, law enforcement, the executive branch, and SCOTUS. No exceptions, no allowances, no dispensations, all or nothing.
     
    End of story. End of discussion, full fucking stop. I don't care which party or politicians support it.
     
    We, the people, should absolutely NOT tolerate ANY form of "exceptions" for members of government, of any law proposed.

    "BuT iT's A nAtIoNaL sEcUrItY iSsUe!"
     
    Then it's important enough to apply to everyone, end of fucking discussion. The reason being that it would then enable some rando hacker to expose all of congresses personal communications, which would result in internet privacy becoming a human right with alarming speed.
     
    There is not much more to be said here. Fuck this bill and anyone who signs off on it.
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    Unixsystem reacted to jaslion in Bill Gates, Airbus, Softbank back EarthNow plan to cover Earth with real-time video surveillance satellites   
    This just sounds horrible. For all the good it can do it will do so far more worse things. Once anyone with bad intentions gets access to this be it a single person, a group, a government or whatnot things can easily spiral out of hand.
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from HaRdLy007 in The three major HDD manufacturers are selling slower drives, without telling us   
    I don't think it matters if they are Barracudas or if Seagate comes out with a new line called "Garbage Drives For Garbage People," if the drives used the be universally one standard of performance and then it gets changed to a grabbag of maybe worse performance, there needs to be either a rebrand or a concerted effort to inform consumers both on their spec sheet as well as on the various store listing what drive is running what technology. 
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from beersykins in The three major HDD manufacturers are selling slower drives, without telling us   
    It's a lot easier to find data and reviews about a specific CPU SKU than it is for an HDD. There's also the issue that most store pages online don't put the model number front and center, it's usually buried in the stats and a lot of times they will update the store page to the newest model without making it clear that anything has changed. If you buy a WD Red today on Amazon and then three years from now hit "Order Again" you will almost certainly wind up with a different model number, which in this case may be a totally different base technology. 
     
    If I ordered an i7 today and then a year from now order another from them same tier (9700k to 10700k, for example) I would absolutely expect the new CPU to be at minimum the same performance with the same or improved technologies under the hood. If Intel put out an i7 tomorrow that had no AVX or one less core than the previous gen at the same price tier, that would be shitty. If they did that same thing but put it out as a revision of an existing SKU and didn't very clearly specify what changed, that would be bordering on criminal. 
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from TechyBen in The three major HDD manufacturers are selling slower drives, without telling us   
    Because typically most HDD lines will go through dozens of revisions with slightly different model numbers but the same performance and reliability. The general expectation is that if something significant changes, it would either be introduced as a new line or it would be a bigger rebrand of an existing line. At the absolute minimum it should be added to the specs list on all of the big etailer's product listing. 
     
    I don't understand all of the people arguing in favor of the company's doing this. Is it a life ruining bit of false/misleading marketing? No, but why would you ever not want the end consumer to have more information? I don't see anyone in either of the two threads on this topic arguing that they shouldn't sell SMR drives, just put it on the damn box so the more informed consumers actually know what they're buying. 
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    Unixsystem got a reaction from jagdtigger in The three major HDD manufacturers are selling slower drives, without telling us   
    Because typically most HDD lines will go through dozens of revisions with slightly different model numbers but the same performance and reliability. The general expectation is that if something significant changes, it would either be introduced as a new line or it would be a bigger rebrand of an existing line. At the absolute minimum it should be added to the specs list on all of the big etailer's product listing. 
     
    I don't understand all of the people arguing in favor of the company's doing this. Is it a life ruining bit of false/misleading marketing? No, but why would you ever not want the end consumer to have more information? I don't see anyone in either of the two threads on this topic arguing that they shouldn't sell SMR drives, just put it on the damn box so the more informed consumers actually know what they're buying. 
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