iamjanco

...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...

Just finished binge watching the series since it was released on Wednesday.

It's okay, was a bit slow in places, but kept me interested enough to finish watching the first season; and the very end of the last episode (Episode Eight) definitely creates room for a second season. 

My recommendation: if you've never played the game and have thought about doing so, watch the series beforehand. 

levity...

I think it's a great idea, E!

Would clicking on the attachment itself take the reader to the post the attachment is associated with? Or just open the attachment in a separate tab/popup?

I'm guessing most would likely find the former useful if they were after context.

4 minutes ago, The Pook said:

 

jesus christ d'jango?

jeremy clarkson d'jango?

johnny cash d'jango?

jackie chan d'jango?

jim carrey d'jango?

 

mainly a mix of the first and third, with sprinklings here and there of the other three.

1 hour ago, The Pook said:

never played it and it was $1ish

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

...it's a great game; but i know you really bought it coz the lead character's initials (jcd) are the same as mine.

jc d'jango

that said, i may be easy, but i'm not cheap...

57 minutes ago, GanjaSMK said:

Down Home Blues 

 

...full album

John Hammond: The Time Tom Waits Wrote Me A Song On The Spot

Hard-knock Manlocal Legend Hans Olson Is A Master Of The Blues
But Will He Ever Get Control Of His Destiny?

...for when you're not eating chocolate pudding with them.
Angels in Heaven, filmed on the Spoon Lady's front porch for Play Music on the Porch Day, in Asheville, North Carolina.
(proof that Asheville is properly equipped to host dueling banjos) 

Heavy Blues/Stomp Rock Playlist
 

Fairly decent Dick Cavett video from 1969 highlighting the depth of soul (heart) Janis put into her performances:

@Cerberusspeaks for me (I don't need any prizes).

...out of the blue today, I received a response to a comment I made nine years about a song by a German band known as F.S.K. (also known as Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle; or, literally translated, voluntary self control, in English). The gist of my original comment and this new response had to do with two different versions of the same song, one recorded during a BBC Peel Session and the other, the original version of the song (which I regularly used as a Friday night DJ to close out my sets in a German bar in Southern Germany, for reasons I won't go into at this point in time). While a screen cap of that conversation follows, as does the original version of the song, I should note that FSK  is also short for Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft, Germany's self-regulatory body of the movie industry, which plays a role in certain levels of censorship in German media.

and a couple more by them...