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drzaiusapelord commented on AMD Reveals Next-Gen Desktop Processors for Extreme PC Gaming amd.com/en/newsroom/press... · Posted by u/doener

KennyBlanken · 2 years ago

It's six year old mid-tier performance.

AMD marketing had to dig pretty deep to find decent numbers...4-5 year old games. Metro Exodus? Shadow of the Tomb Raider? GTA 5? And some random kid's game nobody has ever heard of?

Given the choices are between "buggy as hell" (Intel) "space heater and slightly buggy" (AMD discreet) and "good but stupidly overpriced" (Nvidia), a fourth option, for the low end of the market, is welcome.

Edit: since I'm being downvoted for claiming the games listed aren't relevant: go look at steamcharts. GTA5 and Dota are the only top 25 games; Cyberpunk is #26. The rest aren't even top 100 games.

drzaiusapelord · 2 years ago

Kid's game? Tiny Tina/Borderlands is a huge franchise in gaming. I think its clear these two games were chosen because the cell-shaded style they use is less GPU demanding, but its still impressive. But note things like Cyberpunk 2077 is there too. These are all popular games. I don't think its this dishonest ploy you're making out to be.

My 2070 barely handles those games at that fps.

Yes those are older games because this APU is not going to play modern AAA at 4k, but it can handle some pretty hefty games fairly well and might be tempting to budget gamers especially when mid-tier cards start at $500-600 nowadays.

drzaiusapelord commented on AMD Reveals Next-Gen Desktop Processors for Extreme PC Gaming amd.com/en/newsroom/press... · Posted by u/doener

GeekyBear · 2 years ago

If you consider "Extreme PC Gaming" to be AAA games at 1080p on low settings, sure.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21208/amd-unveils-ryzen-8000g...

drzaiusapelord · 2 years ago

63 fps on Cyberpunk 2077 which when it came out was "unplayable but on the most powerful PCs" is incredibly impressive without a GPU.

This is pretty close to my 2070 GPU does, which cost me $400+ a couple years ago and uses 215W. My CPU also uses 100W, so about 300W compared to 65W for very roughly similar performance (in some games) is still pretty incredible.

Now GPUs are almost twice that for that xx70's and xx80's cards. I don't know what market this is aimed at, but this is very impressive for an APU. There's a pretty strong budget PC gamer community that could benefit from this. There are a lot of people who can't afford gaming PCs anymore and this could be a big seller to the budget community. Also at 65TDP power supply and fans and ventilation costs will be low, so they can be sold in cheap and modest cases and ps's.

I'm not sure if these chips translate into laptops, but a laptop that games well is always desirable in the gaming market.

drzaiusapelord commented on Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/saltysalt

drzaiusapelord · 2 years ago

“[C]ollision and damage repairs on an EV can often run about twice that associated with a comparable combustion engine vehicle,” Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr said in a recent analyst call.

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This is concerning. These cars are essentially delicate ipads with wheels and repairs for them are costly and specialized. Driving, in general, is dangerous and accident prone. Waking up to twice your repair cost or insurance premiums must not be great for Hertz.

Also the article doesn't mention the EV value cut-off unrelated to MSRP. When the battery reaches 50-60% of its top capacity, then range anxiety is back. No one wants a 150-100 mile Tesla, or worse in the winter with the heating on.

Range issues aren't a big deal with regular owners as with regular use they only lose 10-15% range in the first few years, but Hertz drives theses hard everyday, unlike someone with a suburban commute who gets groceries on the weekend. Who knows what their internal data is suggesting. Id be very, very hesitant to buy a Hertz used Tesla. I'd want to see how bad the battery is first, especially what its real world range is in the winter. I wouldnt be surprised because how hard these cars are run, they'll have more battery degradation per year/per mile than a well kept car babied by someone who loves their Tesla.

I just took a look on their website and the long range sedan I'd be interested in at that trim level 2024 model is going to be about $50k. Hertz has a 2022, a less than 2 year old car, with 80k miles for asking $31k. A 40% depreciation in 2 years is very rough.

Their resale value is particularly punishing. Hertz doesn't keep cars for all that long, so a tough depreciation isn't something they can ignore.

drzaiusapelord commented on A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant canarymedia.com/articles/... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

whalesalad · 2 years ago

Fun fact - the exhaust cooling tubes at that old plant dump out into the ocean and create a really warm environment that is rich in sea life and a very popular diving/snorkeling spot. It's even called Electric Beach. https://www.snorkeling-report.com/spot/snorkeling-electric-b...

I lived there for a few years and tried to snorkel there - but my submechanophobia prevented me from getting more than a few feet into the water. Seeing those big spooky tubes scared the ever living shit out of me.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fe...

drzaiusapelord · 2 years ago

On the flipside, its not as obvious what coal burning exhaust has done to other parts of the biome. I imagine its extremely damaging. Not to mention, what it does to human lungs.

Evolution didn't create all this life with the assumption there would be electric beaches. I suspect the loss of this warmth will be a small price to pay to reduce emissions and that other parts of the biome will flourish in-line with how evolution developed life in that regions for billions of years.

drzaiusapelord commented on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/ColinWright

csours · 2 years ago

"Why is a wrench on the internet?!"

Because we need to track critical bolt rundowns (generically called fasteners) and tool condition.

That being said it doesn't need to be on the public internet, but it makes it a lot easier than setting up and managing a private network.

I'm not defending putting this tool on the public internet, but its very normal to put all kinds of stuff on the network in a manufacturing plant.

drzaiusapelord · 2 years ago

I feel like we're at some weird technological historical point where we have IoT everywhere but we aren't passwordless yet. So we're polluting our world with IoT devices like this but they ship with "admin/password" as the default and expect someone with some technical knowledge to secure it, with the blessings of management who takes security seriously. In many organizations they have either one of these, or none of these. In people's homes, they have none of these.

No one would care about IoT wrenches if they forced some app-based auth with mfa. We only care because we can trivially exploit them.

Companies like Bosch shipping these things insecure by default is the real problem. Near everything embedded does snmp 'public' with write options and very few devices force strong passwords or passwordless or force mfa. The embedded space is a mess and where computers were pre-2000.

This it the classic "we invented cars before seatbelts and don't want to spend money on safety anyways," scenario.

Regulation here is badly needed. The market won't fix this itself. Bosch isn't really hurt by this stuff. They can just blame operators, the same way Boeing blames pilots or airlines when their Max's crash or fall apart in the sky. This is a classic perverse incentive of capitalism at play here and now that politics has moved towards idealizing a low-regulatory environment, we're only going to see more awful scenarios like this.

drzaiusapelord commented on SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed] twitter.com/SECGov/status... · Posted by u/pawelduda

cempaka · 2 years ago

Matthew C. Klein pointed out on Twitter: "the owner/operator of this website has a longstanding grudge against America's securities regulator."

drzaiusapelord · 2 years ago

Also this should be a massive warning to companies, non-profits, and governments who think "Sure, Elon is mismanaging this and platforming the worst people and making it a cult of personality, but its not that bad. We get to reach a lot of people, so its still good for us."

Now they have to worry about whether Elon is in the mood to give your account proper security or if your password hash leaked "by accident" by a "junior dev." Or just the everyday incompetence of all personality-cult organizations. Elon went from being sued by the SEC to hosting its humiliation.

Elon is chuckling it up right now. The problem with personality-led companies is that if you get on the bad side of that personality, then anything goes.

drzaiusapelord commented on SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed] twitter.com/SECGov/status... · Posted by u/pawelduda

ceejayoz · 2 years ago

Web3 is the crypto nonsense. It was a rebrand attempt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3

drzaiusapelord · 2 years ago

Its sad to think web 2.0 so long ago was a move towards more human centric websites, UI's, AJAXy sites, etc and now web3 is just a marketing term for fraudsters, exit scammers, shady VC's, and criminals. The late-stage capitalism of the internet is obvious to see.

drzaiusapelord commented on What has a 1 in a million chance? (2010) stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous... · Posted by u/ksec

erostrate · 2 years ago

The following are all ~ 1 in a million chance of death, or 1 micromort:

Travelling 6 miles (9.7 km) by motorcycle

Travelling 17 miles (27 km) by walking

Travelling 20 miles (32 km) by bicycle

Travelling 230 miles (370 km) by car

Travelling 1,000 miles (1,600 km) by jet

Travelling 6,000 miles (9,656 km) by train

But switching from car to bicycle for short trips still increases life expectancy due to health effects.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920084/

drzaiusapelord · 2 years ago

Chicago to LA is about 2,000 miles.

So in the article about 200 miles driving (in California) is 1 in a million chance of dying. So lets use that number nationwide to be lazy.

Now we can move a decimal point over. So the death chances of a Chicago to LA drive is 100,000 in one. But you drive back, so then its that twice. Once in 50,000 people dying on a Chicago to LA and back roadtrip is extremely frightening. How many people from the midwest make this drive a year? Or from the east coast? How many don't make it back?

The USA, on average, has 100+ fatalities via auto transportation a day.

The above ignores serious injury, permanent disability, etc. Its just death. The chances of having to deal with a broken spine, losing a limb, blindness, 3rd degree burns all over your body, etc aren't even calculated, but those are real and far more common than death. Death being harder to achieve with modern medical treatments.

Cars are extremely dangerous. We downplay what it means to drive.