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27° C outside at five minutes to midnight. FML.

@Gorth I think what Bruce is trying to ask here is how much time you will spend partaking in the joys of the Reeperbahn. /scrn

Done with season 5 in Diablo IV. Time to wait for the expansion pack.

Surgery with local anaesthesia is great, especially when the dosage was off and the effect's fading while the surgeon's still rummaging around your insides and doesn't believe you. I can also recommend stapling highly sensitive parts of your body back together while the numbing effect is all but completely gone. Good times. Well, granted, that was like almost thirty years ago, I'm sure medical tech has improved a lot, but once bitten and all that.

But... why?

Some videos in the interwebs from channels that claim to have "sources" inside of tech companies did not age all to well. Like this one from MLID: Well, what do you know. Manufacturing defect/microcode bug in voltage control/stability issues aside, the 13900K rebrand turned out to be a much better Zen 5 competitor than expected. *snort*

Please, for the love of god, do not use the Admin account unless you really have to (hint: if you would, you would know - just forget it even exists). Getting ten frames per second more is definitely not a use case. Love how much work the tech channels have to put into these videos simply because the DIY tech bubble can't get over the fact that Zen 5 isn't a good product outside of some productivity workloads. Fair enough, I mainly used the NSA as an example because of their confirmed supply chain attacks.

Watching Abba: In Concert (1979) in a live stream of our national public broadcaster. It being a somewhat strangely cut documentary style concert movie nonwithstanding, ABBA sure was a great group for mainstream music. Then again, back in the 70ies and 80ies mainstream music wasn't as awful as it is today. edit: they streamed (and, well, broadcast) a number of concerts today, including Bruce Springsteen and the Bee Gees. Pretty nice for running in the background.

Sinkclose exploit allows potentially unseen and night unremovable malware to be carried by virtually all AMD CPUs of the past decades. Well, AMD's right in saying that in order to exploit this on a CPU in the field you already need so much access that it doesn't matter any more. It's a good thing supply chain attacks don't happen and that there's no precedent with the NSA installing backdoors in intercepted Cisco shipments. One could start to wonder, in such a case.

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.