Recent content by LodeRunner

Longer 5.4 'sneak peak' from GDC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8-k9bYsta0 Nanite tessellation is quite cool.

The 7th Amendment would seem to apply as it covers civil suits, no? I actually think the 7th amendment should be grounds for a suit overturning binding arbitration requirements; but I’m not a lawyer, so what do I know. I certainly think that no contract clause in common law should be...

Without the UI, isn’t it missing a lot of things that regular apps depend on? Genuine question; I haven’t worked with PS only server since an early version of Hyper-V. IIRC, the audio subsystem is part of the GUI package as well. Be interesting if you manage it but I expect major package...

To the surprise of precisely no-one.

I can't speak to Asus's driver quality, but Creative's drivers for cards prior to the X-Fi series always gave me trouble and had a habit of causing BSOD's in XP. Their Vista/7 drivers couldn't crash the computer, but that was because MS forced them into user space, but I would occasionally lose...

I don't know how good a protocol it is, but but if memory serves, it's unencrypted and it's trivial to break into or interfere with wireless SCADA .

Stolen from FB, don't know original source: On topic: considering the power draw of modern datacenters, this is not terribly surprising. I wonder if any of the SMR designs are pebble-beds.

Haven’t had to call their support, but the pair of 2070 SUPER Minis I have from them have been rock solid and I got them in November of 2019.

For years. To prevent reuse/abuse of season passes and park hopper tickets (I have heard of people in the past going in as a group, then having one person run all the passes out of the park to bring in more people). On the topic itself, the initial headline made it sound like the Secure Enclave...

Along with copious error handling and correction, the simpler the design, the better; IIRC they use fairly large lithography for chips going to space as that reduces the probability of radiation causing a bit flip? I could be wrong and haven't the time to dive into it at the moment, but I could...

Conan is pretty fun; I've run a dedicated server for it before; easy to do using the official ConanDedicatedServerLauncher tool. No need to play on terrible public servers if you don't want to. Just checked in the server launcher I use, it has a box for tick rate. Server defaults to 30 which...

So they’ll give you a 2.5G WAN port but the integrated switch can’t handle it because they did a dumb with their backplane? Sounds about right for Ubiquiti, unfortunately.

I think this is the case, the SE upgrades the Pro by adding PoE and bumping the Gbe LAN port to 2.5 Gbe. Interface count and speeds are otherwise identical, has the same throughput rating, so probably the same or only slightly upgraded processor.

7.68 TB Intel D3-S4610 SATA SSD's can be had for $675, new in box. So two of those to hit almost 16 TB of capacity with no redundancy = $1350. A new Seagate Exos 16TB SAS drive can be had for ~$330. Raw capacity-wise: 12x 16 TB = ~$3960; 24x 7.68 SSD = ~$16,200. Per TB, the 16 TB is $20.63; the...

Barring a major change in NAND pricing (manufacturing breakthrough or major capacity expansion) it's going to be a while. Cheap bulk storage, at acceptable performance is still dominated by spinning rust because it's 10-20% of the cost per TB vs NAND.