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Everyone in the enthusiast community knows that manufacturer-provided benchmarks must be taken with a grain of salt. There's lies, damned lies, statistics, and benchmarks
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Bullshit on both sides.
This cracked me up:
...enabled "Game Mode" in AMD’s Ryzen Master utility...AMD’s user guide for Ryzen 7 specifically states that Game Mode is reserved principally for Threadripper and that Ryzen customers shouldn’t use it Perhaps, "Threadripper Master utility" would be a better name.
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It almost sounds silly - train a neural network to generate random numbers - but it has more practical uses than you might imagine. That's much more cost effective than 2d20
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The DoD, the report reads, didn't make cybersecurity a priority, even though GAO has been warning it for decades about the risks it's taking by not making sure its systems are properly protected. What's the worst that could happen?
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They have surely installed a copy of tic tac toe... problem solved.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And then a nice game of chess.
TTFN - Kent
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The world's largest computing society, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), updated its code of ethics in July 2018 – but new research from North Carolina State University shows that the code of ethics does not appear to affect the decisions made by software developers. "A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world"
Either that, or I was going to re-use, "The code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules."
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I like the "guidelines" quote better.
Parfait?
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We know Microsoft’s decision to join OIN may be viewed as surprising to some; it is no secret that there has been friction in the past between Microsoft and the open source community over the issue of patents. It's as if millions of Linux fanboi voices cried out in shock
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They need to expand the name to OINK.
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I'm thinking Dennis Ritchie, for starters. [^]
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I've seen enough movies to know that the pigeons will end up being 15 feet tall and carnivorous!
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And so would be the resurrected Dennis Ritchie!
TTFN - Kent
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Does anyone really want a revitalised Dennis Ritchie coming after their job? 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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It appears the bug that caused file deletion was related to Windows 10 users who had enabled Known Folder Redirection to redirect folders like desktop, documents, pictures, and screenshots from the default location. “If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.”
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Support for Known Folder Redirection is patchy at best. I have a smallish SSD as my C drive, and large iron for my D drive. I have the OS boot from the SSD, but moved Documents etc. to my D drive.
Many programs completely ignore the redirection. This includes many of MS's own apps which evidently fail to respect the user's changes.
So it comes as no surprise to me that they broke this, I doubt they even tested it.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Researchers have developed two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other -- in particular, how sound can give rise to visual illusions. "Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?"
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In an era of fact-checking and "alternative facts," many people simply choose not to believe research findings and other established facts, according to a new paper co-authored by a professor at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. If you can believe it
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They are confusing "findings" with "facts". Given that between 30% and 70% of "scientific" studies cannot be replicated and the problems of confirmation bias in fields at points in time, being skeptical of studies isn't irrational.
If the article is accurate, the blindingly clear biases of the researchers makes their paper yet another "we're academics, how dare you don't listen to us" screeching rant.
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There you go - they gave you “facts”, you don’t believe them. They win, send more grant money. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: many people simply choose not to believe research findings and other established facts,
You don't need a study for that... just go to the SoapBox and read the converstations a couple of days...
The one that believe doesn't need proof,
The one that don't believe, doesn't want proofs
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: You don't need a study for that... just go to the SoapBox
Or FoxNews. Or POTUS.
Oops. Soapbox material! I see your point. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I often find what I deny is more real than the other.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Launching on Pixel 3 family in US, coming to other Pixel phones "next month." Yes, please
Countdown to them figuring a way around it starts about now.
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