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f001 commented on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking? torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza

amelius · 6 days ago

I think the problem with such an approach is that the majority of people will stop reading if the arguments become too complicated.

This is how populism works.

f001 · 6 days ago

Additionally, it’s usually more effort to refute something than to state something, especially as it seems there is little requirement for proof when making the statement.

f001 commented on My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer gill.net.in/posts/my-ques... · Posted by u/mygnu

beloch · 4 months ago

Motorcycle fatality rates have been trending upwards, not downwards[1]. Brake lights on helmets may illuminate one of the culprits: An ever increasing number of American trucks with poor visibility. Sitting on a bike, you're even shorter than a pedestrian and more likely to be completely out of sight. Perhaps its time to start regulating for better visibility, as Europe has done.

[1]https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-motorcyc...

f001 · 4 months ago

Very much depends on the style of motorcycle. Sitting on my dual-sport BMW F650GS[1] I can see well over sedans on the road and this is with a slightly lowered version of it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_G650GS

f001 commented on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen theverge.com/electric-car... · Posted by u/kwindla

hinkley · 4 months ago

The problem with bench seating is not side impact but accidental steering wheel input during hard cornering. In the typical 10 and 2 hand position having your butt move makes your shoulders move, the shoulders make the hands move, and now you’re understeering. Understeering on a mountain road likely means death, and on other roads a ditch or hitting a phone pole.

f001 · 4 months ago

Steering position has been taught as 9 and 3 for a long time now… but still fair point. You can add a bit of alcantara to the seat to help you stay in place though. My RDX has it for the sporty-ish trim and it helps.

f001 commented on Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions autocar.co.uk/car-news/ne... · Posted by u/zfg

whoitwas · 6 months ago

Windshield wipers, turn signal, heat? I feel like you're being dishonest or just accustomed to the hostility.

f001 · 6 months ago

Or live somewhere with no weather and moderate temperatures so no need for any of them minus the turn signals. It’s my pet theory of why tesla’s auto wiper setting is so bad: they’re located somewhere without rain/snow or without varying amounts of rain/snow.

f001 commented on NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument gizmodo.com/nasa-shuts-of... · Posted by u/01-_-

jacobgkau · 6 months ago

Why do you think it's particularly likely that two tiny objects running out of power will not only outlive Earth, but also any future objects sent from Earth to do the same things they're doing now? Or are you betting on the lack of future space exploration probes and relatively quick destruction of the Earth?

f001 · 6 months ago

If I were to guess it would be the latter. We seem to be heading for it rather quickly at least.

f001 commented on Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf] nokia-apple-iphone-was-la... · Posted by u/late

repler · 7 months ago

I wouldn't count Toyota out. Their mega battery plant in North Carolina is coming online this year, and the biggest drag on their current EV/PHEV lineup is the batteries. New EV/PHEV models are on the way, and frankly if they just update what they have with better batteries they will be absolutely phenomenal because they are currently great to drive and run extremely well despite lackluster battery range.

f001 · 7 months ago

For the PHEVs yes they are battery constrained. They have great products and a ton of demand and difficulty keeping up manufacturing due to limited batteries.

For their EV, they have yet to make something that is competitive. Their EV is slow to charge, slow to accelerate, somewhat short in range, and quite expensive before they started adding—-in some cases five figure—-incentives to move them. It even had a recall for the wheels coming off.

f001 commented on Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident microsoft.com/en-us/secur... · Posted by u/nar001

rdtsc · a year ago

> We plan to work with the anti-malware ecosystem to take advantage of these integrated features to modernize their approach, helping to support and even increase security along with reliability.

> Providing safe rollout guidance, best practices, and technologies to make it safer to perform updates to security products.

> Reducing the need for kernel drivers to access important security data.

They are being as diplomatic as they can, but it's definitely a slap to CS. Read as "they don't know how to roll things out, they need guidance on basic QA practices, we'll happily teach them...". Then, they list a set of facilities running in user-mode to avoid needing to run as many things in kernel mode.

I would be interested what the water cooler discussion about CS was like inside Microsoft. Especially in teams needed to respond to customers about "Your windows OS is broken, our hospital patients are suffering...".

f001 · a year ago

I can tell you they’re quite unhappy about it. Have a friend working there who frustratedly says it wasn’t their fault every-time it comes up. Which is quite often and at every social occasion since.

f001 commented on Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure

Rinzler89 · a year ago

The 65W tdp you keep bringing up is under load and data is from 2017 when I tell was still on 14nm, but we're talking about idle power draws here and Ryzen looses to Intel in most cases in most modern data in the <10nm era.

Here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809852

https://youtu.be/JHWxAdKK4Xg?si=OFx6puKRSc1TYSX8

f001 · a year ago

For both the 1700 and 5800X, the i/o die uses ~12W at idle, and 20W max at load (assuming he’a doing something that keeps the i/o die at max power consumption when everything else is idle).

This leaves us with 60W-68W unaccounted for at idle. Even in the worst case for i/o power usage that’s 75% unaccounted for.

I keep talking about TDP and load power because even in the case where the cpu isn’t using lower power states correctly for whatever reason, the i/o die cannot possibly be majority of the 80W power usage.

Source for power usage of i/o die:

1700 (same i/o die as 1300x/1500x): https://www.anandtech.com/show/11658/the-amd-ryzen-3-1300x-r...

5800x: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...

f001 commented on Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure

Rinzler89 · a year ago

Yes it does.

You're looking at chips from 2017 when Intel had stinkers and under load, but what I said is true, the IO die has high idle power draw compared to modern monolithic designs, which gets hidden away under load.

Just Google if you don't believe me, plenty of older desktop Ryzen owners complain about higher idle power draw compared to Intel.

f001 · a year ago

The ryzen 1700 is also from 2017. Intel’s cpus still dominated at the time for anything single-threaded, they were just bad at multithreaded workloads. I’m not saying i/o die power consumption isn’t higher, it is for sure. And I agree, it doesn’t go down at idle because it can’t turn off or do power gating.

What I’m saying is that a computer with a cpu that is 65W TDP (from a time when amd’s TDP was close to being accurate as ~ max power consumption under load), the i/o die (which is part of that 65w TDP; which is for load) cannot possibly be the main reason his computer is idling at 80W. Especially when I linked an instance of a system also with a ryzen 1700 that was idling for 57W and with a similar configuration as an intel contemporary only being 7W greater at idle.

f001 commented on Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure

Rinzler89 · a year ago

>cannot get this system to idle below 80W

You can't do anything about it. It's a limitation of your Ryzen's chiplets based design where the ineficient IO die sucks a lot of power leading to poor idle efficiency.

Intel chips, Ryzen laptop chips and the new G chips like the one in the article don't have such issues because they're a monolithic die.

f001 · a year ago

That doesn’t seem right. The tdp for the 1700 is 65w… no way an io die is consuming most of that. Here’s a comparison of a system with a ryzen 1700 idling vs intel contemporaries which don’t have a separate i/o die: https://www.bit-tech.net/reviews/tech/amd-ryzen-7-1700-revie...

Note that it’s only 7W greater at stock clocks.