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The 9600X that Gamers Nexus has not tested yet because theirs was faulty showed a 1% increase in performance over the 7600X: At a 40% premium over 7600X street prices.

This is far better than my wildest dreams. To quote Steve: "It's the Skylake stagnation all over again." Well, and the memory stability problems of early AM5 are back with a vengeance. Steve found two positive things in his review: 1. It is really efficient 2. It is not from Intel Love the (admittedly few, but existing) benchmarks where the 9700X is behind the 7700X. Edit: Guess I was wrong, ey?

Nice going at the stock markets, good thing I dumped my tech investments a month ago. I thought I was playing it super safe by leaving this early, but apparently not. Hindsight says nigh perfect timing.

Doesn't bode too well for consumer graphics, more than anything else. Something tells me Pat Gelsinger will have a hard time convincing shareholders that Arc is worthwhile in the face of that earnings call. Who knows, perhaps I'm wrong and Lunar Lake is going to be so good that it encroaches on AMD's SoC monopoly. Meteor Lake sure didn't when you look at The Claw's performance. I want to be wrong because really, we need some competition in the consumer graphics space, but eight ball says outlook not good.

Obligatory link to the Epic NPC Man Breastplate video:

Seems logical. The actual problem is a manufacturing defect, patching the faulty voltage regulation microcode might prevent affected CPUs from ever becoming unstable in their normal lifespan (that remains to be seen though), but it can't patch out physical damage.

Can't argue with that, still a pretty bad moment when you have to recall CPUs already shipped to system integrators - systems probably all set and ready to be sold in the face of the worst possible moment for Intel since the Pentium 3 1133 debacle need to be worked on and validated again, and we're talking about a market segment where AMD is still trailing behind (x86 market shares being what they are when removing console SoCs). Somehow I don't think we're talking about quality issues that are "doesn't reach boost spec by 50 Mhz" like AMD had in the past, but hey, could be wrong. edit: as funny as that comment is, I think we don't need to consider the veracity of that. Ain't no way AMD would delay a product launch just to appear better than Intel when everything points to the new CPUs being better than Intel's current offerings anyway, and it would be really weird if they were not, it's a brand new generation after processors that were already competitive and in some areas much better (and more efficient) than Intel's most recent offerings.

Here I was wondering why AMD's stock kept tumbling down in the face of Intel's fumbling, but that explains it.

The German version has a line "mir wird kalt" which means I'm getting cold. Like I said, it is all but explicitly stated. Pulled by a light through space, feeling colder and colder. Yeah, no, that's dead with a capital d.

Surprise! It was/is a manufacturing defect, plus a bug in voltage control microcode. Intel's communication and response has been atrocious. Manufacturing defects can happen, but it looks really bad when not responsing properly.

The German original is a retelling of David Bowie's Space Oddity, down to having the same Major Tom. With the reference to a guiding light the entire song can be seen as a metaphor for death (i.e. letting go). Major Tom is pretty dead, I would argue, or at the very least he is dying. Literally (it is all but explicitly stated in the text) and allegorically (journey into the unknown with no apparenty return while still "coming home").

Very sorry for your loss.

Very sorry for your loss.

Dave Rubin also likes his friend Ben Shapiro ?

Yeah, my boss also picks the most wonderful of times to be on vacation. Like, you know, today.

I am sure it is misunderstood in the same way as saying "I am not racist, but <insert racist position here>." Everything before the but is just horse manure.

Had a fantastic day at work thanks to CrowdStrike. Although, yeah, I guess it's the ultimate way to secure computer systems: make sure they don't work at all.

The Acolyte season one finale: I saw Darth Plagueis, and I CLAPPED. Then I saw Master Yoda and CLAPPED EVEN HARDER! The series thus sets up a sequel season and a reboot within just one episode. If nothing else, that's a ballsy move in case Disney decides to make a season two, which seems very unlikely at the moment. The reception was (rightfully, although the idiot hate parade dislikes The Acolyte for all the wrong reasons) lukewarm, as it was mostly boring and could have easily been a feature length film instead of eight episodes. What resonates the most is, once more, the squandered potential: the idea that the Jedi are an order of decadent and arrogant hyprocrites lying to the senate and trying to weasel out of governmental oversight, thus preparing their eventually downfall at the hands of Palpatine, is a pretty good one for a series. A sliver of creativity? What a novel thing for Disney's Star Wars. Alas, what we actually got with The Acolyte is a rote Fallen Padawan story that would have best been told in standalone film, or better yet, not at all. The other problems I complained about after watching the pilot episode never changed, of course. The shots remained flat, the characters are by far and large boring and as flat as the shots, and none of the action sequences meant anything*. That it was still better than The Mandalorian season three just shows how garbage The Mandalorian was. *

The socially ingrained pursuit of happiness instead of contentness is relatively new, and with so many things, was driven by corporate greed. If people would be content with being, well, content, then what's the point of buying ever more stuff? Imagine people just buying whatever they actually need to live out their lives, the economy would collapse. There's a surprising number of things we take for granted that were invented and had the need for it manufactured after the fact, by commercials and therefore commercial interests. When Edna Murphey invented the first deodorant, mankind had survived for hundreds of thousands of years without it. Nobody needed a deodorant. Nowadays, after a century of dedicated marketing left us with the impression that body odor is bad, can you imagine a world without deodorant? In German, we have an idiom for finding someone intolerable, that literally translates to not being able to stand their smell. It makes no sense in modern parlance, as humans basically stopped having much of a smell, unlike in times past, where this had a very literal meaning. You found someone's actual smell disagreeable, so you did not like having them around. Anyone who is content with their lives please realize that this is perfectly fine.

Liar, I know for a fact that you celebrated every Scooter video I ever linked to. On that note, not Scooter, but something that only could have come from the 90ies:

As a grumpy early adopter I still have to chuckle about the idea that AI killed the worthwhile internet that consists of Fecesbook* and the hellspawn that crawled out of the underworld in its wake. People glorify a time period where the internet was already dead because corporate interests had taken over, i.e. some supposed golden age between 2010 and 2020. The actual golden age of the internet died at the turn of the millennium** - if not even earlier. Still, good video, as usual. Kyle makes good stuff most of the time. *The actual progenitor is probably MySpace, but nobody remembers that nowadays. **The YouTube microcosm is a little different as it took a while for hardware and users to catch up (making videos is much more time consuming and resource intensive), but the downward slope started when Google turned into the Umbrella Corporation, and generative AI making videos is just the nail in the coffin.

Well, aren't you Republicans happy that you made Biden immune to save your own candidate from having to deal with the fallout of his indictments?

Eh, there's no way I could get 10Gb here even if the ISP would offer it. We were one of the few households that were asked to participate in our ISP's pilot project, and I am fairly certain we've reached the limits of the cables laid back in the 80ies for TV. Networking CPU overhead is a concern for datacenters and speeds beyond 100Gb, which is why vendors have been pushing out smarkt networking solutions with ARM SoCs that handle everything related to networking, freeing up significant CPU resoures. Not sure how much that woud apply to a 10Gb connection at home, but you could always try to go for one of those cards. They just cost an arm and a leg.

ISP seems to have upgraded my bandwidth for free. What a novelty, instead of everything becoming worse and more expensive all the time.