• CIPWTTKT&GC 0x30 - Racing to the thread post limit
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https://i.imgur.com/0pueb3O.png Welcome to "Computer Illiterate People Who Think They Know Things (& General Chat)", the thread that began as a place to mock and vent about the computer-illiterate people who tend to make our lives hell, but is now basically just general chat for computer nerds. We get up to some weird stuff (I'm pretty sure I was crowned emperor at one point?) but we're pretty open. Go ahead and talk about the latest overpriced piece of junk Nvidia shat out, the half-broken 90's Thinkpad you found in a dumpster, the limitless ways PHP sucks, or heck, even tell your story of a computer-illiterate person being an idiot about it. In addition to this thread we also have a [Steam Group], the occasional Google Hangout, and an IRC channel: Server: benjeffery.ca Port: 6667 Channel: #cipwttkt I hear there's also something called a "Telegram" but I have no idea what that even is, let alone how to use it. If you're looking for tech support or PC building advice, probably best to just make a new thread. There used to be threads for that but apparently that's not the way we do things anymore. Only real rule (besides the global FP rules) is, try not to go all fanboy on us. Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac? Vim vs. Emacs? Which Javascript framework is best? Who cares? Just have fun with it. Previous Threads (now pretty outdated) (And yes, the version number is still in hexadecimal, thank you for noticing)
400 unformatted tho Once you format it and partition it and do the base10 to base2 conversion you lose space. 1TB drives are like 936GB.
It is even mentioned on the wikipedia page about Gigabyte This discrepancy causes confusion, as a disk with an advertised capacity of, for example, 400 GB (meaning 400000000000bytes) might be reported by the operating system as 372 GB, meaning 372 GiB.
375 * 2^30 = 402653184000 If that's the number that's showing up in Windows explorer, then it sounds about right. Windows measures sizes in GiB but then reports it in GB as if it were using standard metric prefixes, which has led to insane amounts of confusion throughout history.
Who thought locking at 999 posts was a good idea?
Yeah, what an arbitrary number. Threads should lock at 1024 posts or another nice round number.
It was made to combat megathreads, because Garry.
Wait, you're gonna be using that thing for games? Why would you even buy that thing? The I/O performance of SD cards usually kind of sucks even compared to hard drives, you could've gotten a proper 500GB SSD for cheaper.
Not if he's gonna be using it in a nintendo switch, chances are you won't notice the difference between that and a cart
Right, I forgot about portable consoles, you kind of don't have a choice there. When he mentioned 400GB of games I somehow immediately assumed PC
Has anyone had issues with Youtube, even though you have clicked on a new video, still playing the previous video until you reload?
Well at the current rate it'll be a while before the switch has 400gb of games
One of the disappointing things about these mini console releases is how they're just software emulations. With current technology, I think it would be very possible to have a 100% compatible version of the ps1 with wireless controller suport, displayport, usb-power, 'unlimited' memory card storage, and digital downloads that is as thin or thinner as the discman. Most of the thickness being the cd-reader otherwise it could be as ridiculous as an usb cable in one end that becomes a displayport on the other, with an sdcard slot somewhere on one end.
But then they couldn't cash in on nostalgia and continued updated releases (Playstation Mini: Analog is on the horizon I guarantee it)
You're looking at the wrong market. The mini consoles are aimed at people who don't already have the old console. Sony doesn't want to sell hardware that they won't see a cent of software sales for - which they won't, unless they start reprinting PS1 disks; all the money from buying games would go to used sales. Same for Nintendo - they could make a bit-perfect SNES replica but why bother if they don't also start making SNES carts again, and those shits were pretty expensive. The SuperFX chip was a full-bore CPU, more powerful than the SNES's own CPU, and there's three of them in the SNES Classic's library. Nintendo really doesn't want to restart production of SNES carts. I also think you're overestimating the market for these consoles, underestimating the quality of software emulation (NES/SNES emulation can be literally perfect now), and underestimating the cost of producing custom chips. 5 million units is a lot but that's half the sales of the Dreamcast, and that's in a far larger overall gaming market. That puts it firmly in "niche product that's only profitable if it's cheap enough" territory. So they're using the software emulation they already have. Nintendo's line are using the same emulator core as Virtual Console releases. Sony's almost assuredly using the emulator they're using for their digital downloads of PS1 games. They've already spent the time and money to make a software emulator that runs perfectly, or at minimum runs the games they're selling perfectly. That lets them use an off the shelf ARM SoC, which will cost them pennies, while a custom chip would probably double the price of the console.
I wasn't really looking at the market at all; I know/understand that there's a difference between the possible and the profitable. I know about the SuperFX, SA-1, CX4, and the SNES in general in a shallow-technical way (Want to write something for it one day). I don't, really. I know that atleast Higan(BSNES), Nestopia, and VICE are extremely accurate and prefer those; the emulation in the SNES classic could be better though, and PS1 emulation in general needs improving too; best one is mednafen I believe though I don't know accurate it actually is. All that aside, try telling to some demoscener that emulation for X machine is literally perfect and chances are that soon enough you'll say figuratively perfect instead :v (well except for the transistor-level emus ...maybe)
Mednafen is fairly accurate but only runs at PS1 native res.
It's one reason I prefer it, higher 3D res looks weird. KeePassXC?
I've been using dashlane lately with all the issues lastpass has with firefox, been pretty impressed.
KeePass.
I bought up the last of a certain case, the nexus prominent 9 https://www.quietpc.com/images/products/nx-prominent9-large.jpg https://www.quietpc.com/images/products/nx-prominent9-side-large.jpg I'm gonna give it this treatment: http://i.imgur.com/urjIb.jpg when I get the money. Gonna make it a nas with a 200GE and some A-series motherboard. Thinking I'll give it a VM too with something user-friendly so that I can use a kinekt and a screen to control it inside the kitchen and have my hands covered in sauce but none of it gets on a keyboard or mouse or screen.
Hello CIPWTTKT, I just came across 8 Nvidia m2050's at work, and I was wondering what modern cards they're equivalent to? Also, is there anything useful I can do with them, especially anything involving graphics? I hear these don't output video, but is there any way around that? Thanks!
Fucking A. So Firefox is planning to remove Live Bookmarks (their RSS reader) sometime next month, maybe month after. I seem to be the only one but I absolutely 100% rely on Live Bookmarks. I've tried a bunch of replacements, but they just do not work for my workflow (which is "reading far more webcomics per day than is probably healthy", seriously I'm over a hundred at this point). Seriously, there was a bug in the entire Firefox 3.x series that made RSS updates happen on the main UI thread, the entire browser would lock up while it was downloading them and I have a multi-megabyte rss.xml file in my feed list because some idiot wants his entire thousand-plus-page archives in the feed. The browser literally was unusable for fifteen minutes out of every hour... and even though I switched to Chrome for normal browsing, once a day I'd still spin Firefox up to check my stories. That is how much I need the feature. I knew I'd have to build a replacement from scratch. How hard can it be to write an RSS reader? Download some XML, display a list, open some links. It's not like Live Bookmarks was perfect for me anyways, there were tons of flaws in it, and if I'm making it myself, I can make it work exactly the way I want. Which will probably be a lot of hand-massaging data because there's so much quality variance when it comes to RSS feeds. I figured I'd probably do an Electron app, since hey, writing the UI in a web browser isn't dumb because I'd need to embed a web browser anyways. But then I thought, hey, if I'm going to be writing for a browser, why not actually write for a browser, and make it an extension? After about four hours of work, minus a break for dinner, I have a pretty rudimentary but functional RSS feeder. Considering I barely know Javascript, and spent like an hour thinking I was using promises wrong when really I forgot to put the magic word in my manifest.json file, I think I did pretty okay. Still lots of missing features (the list of feeds is hardcoded for now), performance issues (seem to be doing something sync that should be async), and it's ugly as sin... but it fucking works. I'll probably spend the weekend getting it into proper working order. Still not sure if I want to bother releasing it, since I plan to tailor-fit it to my exact whims. Anyone think they might have a use for it? The M2050 was based on the GTX480. I don't think they're much use for graphics even if you can get output from them somehow - they're somewhere between a GT1030 and GTX1050 in SP performance, which is what matters in games, although for DP performance they're up there with the 1070. Nvidia gimps their gaming card's DP performance so they can charge people way more for a Tesla like the M2050. They might make a decent PhysX card, if you don't mind the Titan-level power draw and can figure out how to get the drivers to play nice. Or maybe a Blender render farm, or something like that? With no video connector, they can't drive a display but they might be useful in other ways. Don't expect them to be efficient at it - they're pretty old, bordering on obsolete.
Am I the only one who just couldn't trust a 3rd party password manager? Does that make me some sort of technophobe?
No, it's totally reasonable. I just personally decided the convenience is worth the risk.
I'm progressing a bit with my external SSD enclosure. I got my powersupply, the SF600 Gold from Corsair. I did make a mockup of it with some cardboard, but damn 600Watts in something the size of my fist is crazy. Got some fans in. Some Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM and FLX and got some ML120 maglev fans. Probably tomorrow I can finally begin cutting and building. I've mostly finalized my design to fit two 120mm fans in the bottom and back.
biggest brain: make your own
I hate how much RSS has died, and instead we've moved to garbage Push notifications from browsers. I've been using a little program called FeedNotifier, but it's not a full-fat RSS reader proper: GitHub - Feed Notifier.
Sad reacts only Thanks Adobe https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/6cf7a29e-bd7c-435f-93d4-4e384e3aaf1d/image.png
Wait, did Firefox ever even have a proper RSS reader? If you're talking about the automatically refreshing bookmarks thingy, that's really barebones and unwieldy to use once you're subscribed to more than a few feeds. I've been using Brief for quite a long time, it does pretty much everything I need it to.
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