chainingsolid

Born on February 15, 2023•83 Karma

5 days ago

•on: Valve removes free game from Steam after players d...

Most of the sandboxing you need for a game is less full sandbox and more a whitelist on file access and local network communication.

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6 days ago

•on: Starship's Twelfth Flight Test

Assumption not required. US ITAR regulations mean you're federally "encouraged" to be tight lipped. Add in the fact SpaceX is ahead of pretty much everyone else...

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7 days ago

•on: Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video...

This is correct or close too. The small steel on steel contact surface has so much less friction, that some conversion losses are fine in exchange for massive torque, and less moving parts (The diesel electrics replaced steam locomotives over maintenance cost/operation not pulling power).

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14 days ago

•on: Starship V3

Rockets are classified ITAR. There 1/2 of a ballistic missile.

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19 days ago

•on: A web page that shows you everything the browser t...

2/3 of the big browsers are open source, you could just change it this year! (Assuming your mobile device isn't from the former personal computer company turned status symbol manufacturer).

Harder problem is getting the economic system that relies on this information swapped out. Have fun when 99% of web doesn't 'work'.

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19 days ago

•on: A web page that shows you everything the browser t...

Ya, I'm not running my Pinephone's display at x2 cause its a high end display on a $200 phone.....

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20 days ago

•on: Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented sh...

My advice to anyone doing motherboard shopping is to read the manual off the manufacture's site before deciding. The pcie lane tradeoffs tend to be in the block diagram next to the contents page.

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20 days ago

This is exactly why my comment goes over the head of people who cry just get the basic boards. No, this is why the basic boards for $100 don't cut it. You now need to dive into the technical data and realize that the $100 board seems like a deal for a reason, and suddenly the $300+ category is your only option if you want to get a PC that doesn't run on fake specs.

dangus•

19 days ago

I'm just struggling to figure out how many people actually need the PCIe lanes for anything more than GPUs and storage, though.

Like, what are you actually connecting your desktop to?

The only reason laptops depend on Thunderbolt is because they have limited internal expansion and need high performance external I/O.

If you need more things than gaming boards offer then obviously you have very advanced needs and can go pay for a workstation board, something like an sTR5 socket Threadripper board.

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20 days ago

•on: Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented sh...

Well to be fair processors, ram and modern storage are lithography required to make parts. Not sure how much lithography the chipset requires.

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20 days ago

•on: Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented sh...

The only 2 parts that even make sence to "future proof" are power supply and case.

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20 days ago

•on: Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutoria...

I remember one of my math teachers claiming only TI showed up to the math text book meetings or something like that, so guess what calculator the book recommends...