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Exmoor commented on AMD Zen 5 CPUs Reportedly Made on TSMC's 3nm Process, Mass Production in Q3 wccftech.com/amd-zen-5-cp... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

wing-_-nuts · 2 years ago

Wow this is terrible timing. I was literally planning on building my first pc in 20 years and I had settled on the 7800x3d. This might convince me to hold off for a bit if the 8800x3d is right around the corner. I'm also waiting to confirm whether the 5090 will have a 512 or 384 bit bus as that informs whether it'll be a 24 or 32gb card (need the VRAM for AI / ML).

Exmoor · 2 years ago

Keep in mind that the 7000 X3D processors lagged the non-X3D processors by ~6months so if that follows for the 8000 series you might still be quite a ways out from those.

Exmoor commented on X says it is worth $19B, down from $44B last year nytimes.com/2023/10/30/te... · Posted by u/c420

reddog · 2 years ago

Meanwhile, SpaceX valuation has increased about $35 billion over the same time period.

At his current net worth, Musk will be able to underwrite Twitter for the next 3 centuries before he starts running out of money.

Exmoor · 2 years ago

...And TSLA is down about $80 billion in that time period.

Exmoor commented on Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (2022) old.reddit.com/r/motorcyc... · Posted by u/behnamoh

Exmoor · 2 years ago

I've had this issue with my Samsung Note 20 Ultra, but not from motorcycles. I run a couple thousand miles a year and about 6 months ago I noticed my camera would come up out of focus. If I tap the phone fairly hard it will usually come back in focus eventually, but its super annoying. I've started carrying my phone in a pocket on my outer thigh where it should get less impact, rather than a loose zippered pocket of my shorts, but the damage is done to this one. Hopefully my next phone does better.

Exmoor commented on Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story wired.com/story/archiving... · Posted by u/Geekette

michaelt · 2 years ago

> Unfortunately, most of this material was only released in unofficial forms, often on low-quality MP3s and often with some random dude shouting over the intro.

If that's the art form as it was experienced, do archivists need to make a "better" version?

Exmoor · 2 years ago

I get your point, but I absolutely do prefer to hear older recordings where they have been able to in some way improve the quality over what was initially released. An extreme case would be some of the old 78rpm records that recent innovations have been able to clean up substantially. While the hip-hop records I'm talking about are not nearly that bad, the releases were often made in 128kbps with whatever encoder was available. Some may even have been transcoded.

Exmoor commented on Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story wired.com/story/archiving... · Posted by u/Geekette

Exmoor · 2 years ago

I've thought about this quite a bit. I'm a big fan of the record label Bear Family, a German label that specializes in releasing boxsets from R&B/Rock&Roll/Country artists from the 20's-70's. Want to hear every song The Carter Family ever recorded in their original incarnation? They have a 12 CD boxset for you! They generally do this be acquiring the original master tapes from the labels, which often include a lot of previously unreleased songs or alternate takes, and remastering them.

Hip-Hop probably has a higher percentage of this material than almost any other genre, especially once you get to the mixtape/blog era. Unfortunately, most of this material was only released in unofficial forms, often on low-quality MP3s and often with some random dude shouting over the intro. A lot of these tracks were also recorded over unlicensed beats/samples, so even if clean recordings were available official release would be impossible.

Exmoor commented on Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow infosec.exchange/@paco/11... · Posted by u/luu

deckar01 · 2 years ago

I once had to troubleshoot the math department director’s PC misbehaving. It turned out that he let prime95 have every spare cycle on a core 2 duo for a decade and the machine would only boot if it had cooled to room temperature.

Exmoor · 2 years ago

It took me way too long to remember that Prime95 is useful for something other than stress testing.

Exmoor commented on LCD TVs won’t see any further development tomsguide.com/news/its-of... · Posted by u/belltaco

nailk · 2 years ago

"8k" name in this case is just a marketing. It's not 8k, it's 4230p only.

Exmoor · 2 years ago

8k is double the vertical and horizontal resolution of 4k. You can argue that 4k was deceptive, since it switched from measuring the vertical resolution (2160p) to the horizontal, but 8k is just sticking with the established standards.

Exmoor commented on Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest twitch.tv/reddark_247... · Posted by u/minimaxir

Exmoor · 2 years ago

Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but if Reddit doesn't backtrack what's the endgame here? I've seen multiple subs indicate they intend to fully shutdown if the API changes continue, but for the popular ones what's to stop Reddit from just appointing new mods and starting the sub back up?

Exmoor commented on It's difficult to read an audiophile guide as an analogue engineer hackaday.com/2023/03/28/i... · Posted by u/zdw

sacnoradhq · 2 years ago

Hahaha. The title says it all. My dad was one of these who should've known better making a living at electronics.

I recall an urban legend about an audio engineer who added a "richness" control to a piece of studio equipment that did absolutely nothing but allowed some rich person to feel like they engineered an album.

Over a long enough distance (~30 m), it's better to use ADC <-HDMI-> DAC usually than send line-level signals due to losses involved unless one wishes to spend zillions on the most perfectly engineered and widely-incompatible shielded coaxial cable imaginable.

Another is denial of Nyquist–Shannon. If you can't hear over 8 kHz, then you don't need 256-bit @ 96 kHz sampling. It's more likely a badly-chosen lossy compression codec (or it's parameters), a nonuniform DAC, or some other source of analog signal loss is causing loss of fidelity by the time it reaches ears.

Further is the belief that lossless codecs cannot be replaced compressed lossless or sufficient parameters of some lossy formats.

Obsession with vacuum tubes and/or vinyl. I get the ceremony of vinyl, but it's not going to improve over perfect digital reproduction.

Exmoor · 2 years ago

> I get the ceremony of vinyl, but it's not going to improve over perfect digital reproduction.

As a millennial, I'm always slightly amused (and maybe a little horrified) to see my peers spend endless time and more than a little money hunting down vinyl releases of the music of our generation. I also listen to a lot of music from earlier generations and have noted that older collectors were and are thrilled to see that music get well-transferred and mastered releases on a digitally perfect and durable medium and generally consider those to be the definitive release.

Exmoor commented on Academic urban legends (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/... · Posted by u/gammarator

wyldfire · 3 years ago

> The myth that spinach is a good source of iron has its origin in a decimal point error in the 1890s.

I think this persists well into the 2000s.

Exmoor · 3 years ago

I'm literally just learning about this being untrue at this very moment. I was actually looking at adding foods that were high in iron to my diet recently and was very confused at what the nutrition data I found for spinach indicated.