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There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

+12K to the figure... https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update/

I wouldn't trust any of them. Why would someone sell a card that is practically new for well below it's value? If they were low in cash, they could just have returned it. I assume it is some sort of a SCAM. If you want one of those cards, buy new ones or get one that is in your price range. In many cases, buying used means buying out of warranty. Even if the seller can provide a receipt, the shop or the manufacturer may refuse your claim.

Simple answer is no, probably.
Long answer, I don't really know

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Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff
 
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Curious about whether the current progress in AI is imapcting the dicision 
 
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https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update/
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I use the Xbox1 controller, AA's have lasted me 3 months, or i can play via USB...

Socket compatibility says nothing about it actually fitting in there. Take a look at this: http://www.apaqdigital.com/main/supermicro/x7sbe.jpg You cannot fit a 120mm fan between a card in that top slot and the DIMM slots. To give you some perspective, the mounting holes are 75mm apart. I don't have the exact measurements either but it's clearly less than 22,5mm from the mounting holes to the obstructions. 
 
OP, if you can see that faint white square painted around the socket, it's a clear area specified by Intel and it's 96x96mm. As long as no part of the cooler protrudes outside that 96x96mm square, it's guaranteed to fit (sinse no part of the board or other HW protrude inside it). In the specs of the cooler you linked, it says it's 102.4mm on one side so there's a chance those heatpipes will hit something. If you want to be absolutely sure, get a cooler that's smaller than 96x96mm. Hyper 101 for instance.

You say that, but I recall watching Linus make his own water block also arguably not relevant. 
 
I do think the idea on the all in one Lan rig is good, I do love the idea of building a full system into a pelican case.  

So this is something everyone does so i thought I'd weigh in a idea for a scrapyard wars / build log. 
 
In short:
 

 
Naturally I think it would be a laugh to watch someone / people build an 'on the go' system, ghetto laptop, whatever. 
 
 
So I think the idea is to have a system that can be moved in one piece only input peripherals may be removable. 
 
 
What I imagine will actually be produced by LMG LINK
 

 
 
So what are your thoughts?
 
Is it just me and this idea is terrible?

I think it sounds like a really cool idea. With all the slim laptops, hybrid systems, tablets and so forth
this isn't as relevant as it might have been. But making your own loop isn't practical by any stretch 
of the imagination either.
 
The ultimate portable lan all in one system sounds like a fun project

Id love to see them actually build an AIO-PC, Id imagine they'd strip the screen and internals of a monitor and make kind of a build like Luke has built for scrapyard wars 3 - all fixed on a wood. It'dd be awesome . with an TFX PSU- kind of the FallOut 4 bomb PC luke built.
 
Actually, i see this more as one of the crazy builds as the one mentioned above than a ScrapyardWars.

So this is something everyone does so i thought I'd weigh in a idea for a scrapyard wars / build log. 
 
In short:
 

 
Naturally I think it would be a laugh to watch someone / people build an 'on the go' system, ghetto laptop, whatever. 
 
 
So I think the idea is to have a system that can be moved in one piece only input peripherals may be removable. 
 
 
What I imagine will actually be produced by LMG LINK
 

 
 
So what are your thoughts?
 
Is it just me and this idea is terrible?

If only I lived in Canadia

Looks like it's 72 hours (3 days), according to this guys rant lol
 

ooh i forgot to mention  email notifications. vessel needs to implement that 

Linus I'll love you long time if you test this zotac pc and the aver media live gamer portable to see if it's able to stream to twitch. This would be a pretty cheap solution for a secondary streaming pc.