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Lol, does this mean all my EK water cooling items will become rare commodities in the future that I'll be able to ask for and receive a fortune for them on (e.g.) eBay?

Note to self: never tee off Tech Jesus.

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I'm gonna drop this here for now while I work out what I want to post about what follows; in the meantime, I recommend not buying any of their recent releases until others have at least had a chance to properly vet them. Probably take a day or so to gather my thoughts:

3D Realms is not your mama's mama's Duke 3D publisher anymore.

...it's not only about 3D Realms.

5 hours ago, Kaz said:

Discord has always been a spy program.  From the beginning they emphasized how secure their end to end encryption is.  Yet at the same time they tell everyone what you are doing and track your program use.  You can tell them not to tell everyone, but they never stop tracking your program use. 

 

Blame Warthunder, it's been responsible for 9 leaked documents in 2023 alone.  Officials have talked about how discord has flown under the radar.  So there's a demand for access to messages.  It's a national security demand.  Suddenly we have this. 

True, but I think the blame really should be attributed to the idiots who shared classified information. While we probably can't be absolutely sure any of those people did so with harmful intent, their punishment should fit the crime.

As for Spy-Pet itself, I can't help but wonder if its existence is more attributed to profit-taking than most anything else. Seems to happen quite a bit these days. For example, during the pandemic, existing clients of mine in search of profiting off the situation had me scrambling to put together a web site that they could use as wholesalers of protective medical gear. I got them started, but eventually dropped them because as people started getting seriously ill and dying everywhere, I really didn't want nor need that kind of money.

That's just one example; and I'm not the only one who's acutely aware that a lot of people are in a hurry to get as rich as they can these days (not necessarily a bad thing, mind you), but those certainly are the times we live in now, as we have in the past; it's more or less our nature and the way we've been for centuries, to varying degrees, and for varying reasons.

...whether altruistic, or not.

2 hours ago, GanjaSMK said:

I'm not asking for 1988 and Gremlins back...

 ...but i'd take them.

p.s. here, have some free elephants:

22 minutes ago, The Pook said:

 

come at me

 

Pook Pookleton

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

...now i know where to send you stuff.

While I'll admit that I think the tech behind it is fascinating, examples like the rappin' Mona Lisa above seem to substantiate that we are devolving as a species ( it's got electrolytes comes to mind). 

Now show me the progress we've made curing cancer using such tech and you might be able to color me impressed  .

Early Joplin: 

^^^If you like 'boogie' blues, See the Youtube version for the entire playlist.

On 13/04/2024 at 19:46, tomekmak said:

Sup.

I am new there.

I am dedicated overclocker

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tomekmak @ HWBOT

HWBOT.ORG

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HWBOT is a site dedicated to overclocking. We promote overclocking achievements and competitions for professionals as well as...

 

Witamy na stronie internetowej!

...much really hasn't changed in the ~60 years since then.

about today's news this morning...

maybe levity is in order?

39 minutes ago, Kaz said:

Did they engineer their hardware to do this from the beginning?  Maybe...

Maybe, but given the pursuit of corporate profits these days (read the stock market(s)), it wouldn't surprise me if that sort of thing has become the norm (fudging numbers, regardless of industry).

Fairly recent news, perhaps relevant to the discussion; mostly applicable to higher end Intel Xeon processors:

LinkedIn: Intel Accused of Inflating Over 2,600 CPU Benchmark Results

PCWorld: Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results:

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I’ll point out that both the Xeon processors and the SPEC 2017 test are some high-level hardware meant for “big iron” industrial and educational applications, and aren’t especially relevant for the consumer market we typically cover. But companies giving their chips a little extra oomph for the sake of attention-grabbing benchmarks isn’t exactly novel. Most recently, mobile chip suppliers across the industry (Qualcomm, Samsung, and MediaTek, supplying chips in almost every non-Apple phone) were accused of effectively faking Android performance results in 2020. Accusations of interference in companies’ own self-reported benchmarks, often without specific parameters and therefore unverifiable, are incredibly common.

Also see:

Source: SPEC CPU®2017 Run and Reporting Rules

                        1.4. A SPEC CPU 2017 Result is a Claim About Maturity of Performance Methods:

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SPEC is aware of the importance of optimizations in producing the best performance. SPEC is also aware that it is sometimes hard to draw an exact line between legitimate optimizations that happen to benefit SPEC benchmarks, versus optimizations that exclusively target the SPEC benchmarks. However, with the list above, SPEC wants to increase awareness of implementers and end users to issues of unwanted benchmark-specific optimizations that would be incompatible with SPEC's goal of fair benchmarking.

 

The tester must describe the performance methods that are used in terms that a performance-aware user can follow, so that users can understand how the performance was obtained and can determine whether the methods may be applicable to their own applications. The tester must be able to make a credible public claim that a class of applications in the real world may benefit from these methods.

Phoronix: Targeted Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler Optimization Rules Out 2k+ SPEC CPU Submissions

c'est la vie...