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    The Nike Adapt BB Is the Latest Iteration of the Self-Lacing Shoe

    I actually did for most of my time in school; the bus took longer to get to my stop than cutting through the ravine and walking, especially in winter. I'm looking forward to annoying my kids with this when they're old enough! :D
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    Picard Will Lead "Radically Altered" Life in New Star Trek Series

    I think people have rose-tinted glassed when it comes to TNG as they dropped a few anvils about social issues over the years. "Angel One" comes to mind, as does the episode where Riker tries dating an androgynous alien ('The Outcast'). For all its faults, DS9 did a better job of exploring...
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    Picard Will Lead "Radically Altered" Life in New Star Trek Series

    Damn it all, I just realized that episode aired 25 f'ing years ago. :oldman: I don't need a reason to dislike this new Trek; it can get off my lawn! :troll:
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    Picard Will Lead "Radically Altered" Life in New Star Trek Series

    Addressed in that episode. He was now a professor and wanted to 'look distinguished' and aged his appearance accordingly (and took some shots for both his beard and pipe.)
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    Picard Will Lead "Radically Altered" Life in New Star Trek Series

    I'm sure you meant to say "post season 4", heathen!
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    NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Dismisses the Radeon VII as "Underwhelming"

    Interesting, I didn't know that. I assumed they would source through AMD.
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    NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Dismisses the Radeon VII as "Underwhelming"

    If you are shopping work around at 1k pieces per month vs 1k pieces per week, which gets the higher priority?
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    Harley Davidson Reveals the Pricing and Specs of Its "Livewire" Electric Motorcycles

    Quieter is better. I use earplugs on long trips because reducing wind noise also reduces fatigue. If you want to wake up cagers, install an air-horn. Works better than loud pipes (since it faces forward!) and doesn't kill your hearing with endless droning. I think something like a GL1800 is...
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    NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Dismisses the Radeon VII as "Underwhelming"

    I'd say the key influence AMD gets is with their fab. Volume speaks volumes.
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    NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Dismisses the Radeon VII as "Underwhelming"

    Yeah, this really looks like a prosumer card at a killer price. I expect OpenCL types will jump on it.
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    NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Dismisses the Radeon VII as "Underwhelming"

    16GB of VRAM gives you benefits right away, nVidia's RT cores may or may not be useful down the road. I've been Team Green for a decade but I'm willing to forsake CUDA to be able to get decent GPU rendering without having to buy Quadro.
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    HP and Razer Tease Laptops with OLED Displays

    On a semi-related note, my parents babysat my kids for a week and all they do is leave the TV on CNN. No burn-in occurred from that so the TVs self-protection measures seem to work. I have high-hopes for its durability but I doubt it'll hit the 17 years of the rear-projection TV it replaced.
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    LG Electronics Surprises Analysts with a 80% Drop in Q4 Operating Profits

    That was my exact thought (the tech's as well.) Apparently all 8 spares were accounted for so they had to go for part replacement. Guess it's still bleeding-edge and not leading-edge.
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    LG Electronics Surprises Analysts with a 80% Drop in Q4 Operating Profits

    My new LG OLED TV developed a white pixel that was always on. Covered by warranty but it took two tech visits to the house on their dime which isn't cheap. Swapped the panel instead of the TV so there's time in that as well. It's hard to imagine that my purchase would still be considered a...
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    HP and Razer Tease Laptops with OLED Displays

    Those most apparent is on our time stations which are on 24/7. They're using eLo resistive touchscreens. The static user elements are still visible on the rare occasion I have to drop to desktop to do something. Its probably more accurate to call it ghosting but you can still see a faint...
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    HP and Razer Tease Laptops with OLED Displays

    I can't speak for the laptop size panels but my LG TV shifts the image around by a few pixels in an attempt at wear-leveling. There's also a screensaver with an aggressive timeout. The LCD panels I have on the shop floor have all burnt in so I'd say your use case will have the greatest impact...
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    Microsoft Wants to Kill Passwords, Starting with Windows 10

    When I worked on the helldesk for Kodak, the majority of our morning calls were about this. It didn't help that it was people in Vancouver trying to use PC/Anywhere over a 28.8k modem and the keylife was 60s. :facepalm:
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    AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX Performance Regressions Linked to a Windows Bug

    In the FFMPEG source tree, libavfilter/pthread.c defines the default # of threads as # of cores + 1. The only win32 specific define I see is the call to w32thread_init(). Does Handbrake expose what settings it's applying when calling FFMPEG?
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    AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX Performance Regressions Linked to a Windows Bug

    Are those threads or fibers? That impacts scheduling in Win32.
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    Microsoft Edge Is Still More Power Efficient than Chrome and Firefox

    Spell-check is built-in, under Options->Language. I'm constantly fighting with the damn thing over Canadianisms such as "neighbour "!
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    U.S. Department of Justice Has Indicted Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers

    That'll just blow up in our faces given that we buy from them. Remember the capacitor fiasco?
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    Microsoft Admits Normal Windows 10 Users Are "Testing" Unstable Updates

    All our W10 PCs (SP4s no less) have stopped installing updates as well; I've had to download them from the catalog and install them manually. Not the shitshow that Vista was but grinding its way there slowly.
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    Amazon is Reportedly Tired of Selling Low Cost Items

    No kidding. Single Monoprice Cat5 cable on Amazon is 9$; same cable on Monoprice is $1.78 (but they screw you on the shipping to Canada, so fill the box)
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    Woman Sues Apple over iPhone Notch

    Long ton vs short ton; they differ because of the hundredweight. (112 vs 100) We have a history of this doing this crap to ourselves! ;)
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    Microsoft Admits Normal Windows 10 Users Are "Testing" Unstable Updates

    Naw, that'd be Arch users!
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    FCC Panel Suggests Taxing Business Internet Usage to Pay for Rural Broadband

    Yeah, flying cable is dirt cheap. The most expensive part is all the permit wrangling. When we pulled fiber into our building (a distance of 15m from the DEMARC) it took six weeks of arguing with city hall and a half day to install.
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    Huawei is in Trouble

    It's actually going to be a bit of a shit-show since the laws the US are trying to apply don't exist in the same form in Canada, which is a requirement of the extradition process.
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    Huawei is in Trouble

    Are you being deliberately obtuse? The CBC is a crown corporation for fuck's sake; that's exactly state-sponsored.
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    Tom Cruise Thinks You Should Turn Off Motion Interpolation

    Well, of course you can, one is in colour!;)
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    Board dying? CPU dying? Corrupted OS?

    BIOS code can have bugs too, it's good that you were able to sort it out!
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    LG Files a Patent for a 16 Camera Device

    The camera you have in your pocket is much more valuable than the camera you left at home, so it's reasonable that this would be most people's focus.
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    Gamers Nexus Reviews the Walmart Gaming PC

    https://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart
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    Gamers Nexus Reviews the Walmart Gaming PC

    This is an established fact, not a rumor. At Walmart's scale the tooling isn't that expensive and they'll even help you identify the pieces to change. I'll try and dig up the interview I read about this.
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    Old RTX 2080 Ti FE Meets Replacement RTX 2080 Ti FE

    nVidia - putting the 'halo' in 'halo product'! I'm holding out for one that can reincarnate into a Quadro!;)
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    Microsoft Pulls Faulty Office Updates and Warns Users of Another

    Drunk baboons would occasionally get it right, this is Microsoft doing things on purpose.:rolleyes:
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    Old RTX 2080 Ti FE Meets Replacement RTX 2080 Ti FE

    He did warn you he's an engineer! ;)
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    New Bill Would Fine Robocallers Up to $10,000 per Call

    Sue, no. Send the cops, yes! https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/national-cra-india-rcmp-scam-1.4883796 Sadly, it took forever for the government to get off their ass about this. The only reason they did is that people have taken to ignoring all calls from the CRA, which makes communication...
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    New Bill Would Fine Robocallers Up to $10,000 per Call

    Once upon a time you could use recording of the SIT tone to do this (I think this is how the Telezapper worked) but modern dialers can ignore them.
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    NVIDIA on the Cause of RTX 2080 Series Card Failures

    The low volume part is the GPU; the caps and resistors will be high-volume and normal probabilities apply. When you ship 10k pieces a day a bad part can get deep in the chain before somebody has even read the report. Of course, this is known and can be accounted for, but clearly wasn't.
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    Board dying? CPU dying? Corrupted OS?

    Most modern boards should have visibility on that; whether or not it gets logged is trickier. Does your BIOS have a logging facility?
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