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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.

In my experience, 90%+ rated life remaining. Reputable sellers will provide data in the listing or on request; however there are plenty of shitty sellers who manipulate the SMART data. Price-wise 50%+ discount from original price can be had. Cheap enough to buy a cold spare or three, easily.

If they made that capacity as SAS, I’d do it in a heartbeat; I want to get rid of spinning storage for reliability and power consumption reasons. The wattage consumed by my current spinning storage is not insignificant; this density of SSD would let me get rid of two external disk shelves and...

Provantage has them in 2.5” U.2. The 60 TB is a smidge under $4k USD. Marked as a special order. The 30.72 is $2.5k. I’m actually quite tempted vs buying a bunch of 7.68 TB units.

Yeah, here's hoping 16+ is more serviceable. We bought 13 Pro's up front with the expectation of flogging them for 5+ years; The cost of phones these days is in the neighborhood of good portion of what I spend on PC refresh builds and I only do that every 5-8 years unless something just isn't...

Yeah, the wife and I had iPhone 6S's until sometime after the release of the 13's. I had the battery in hers replaced twice, mine once. Both actually still work and I use one of them as 'tablet' for my toddler son; he loves drawing and typing in the Notes app; the other I use as a stream deck...

Going from the article, which is derived from other articles, the announcement from an Apple rep specified RCS Universal.

They used to sell rackmount versions of the Precision workstations that had Intel i-series processors in them (like the R3930), but looks to be all Xeon (and a 2P configuration to boot) now. The T5820 and T7820 had rackmount conversion kits, taking 4u.

Oh also the Mellanox SN2700, 32x100Gbe, can be had for sub-$2k on eBay US; though you may need to acquire software as a separate purchase.

I’ll have to double check later but I swear my Arista 7050QX-32S supports all that. I definitely have RDMA between my Hyper-V hosts for the Starwind VSAN setup I run. But my setup is a home lab and I can’t afford anything other than used/EoL/EoS enterprise gear. From your comments this sounds...

Dunno how much lag it might add, but here's a fairly well regarded scanline converter. Not cheap though: https://www.retrotink.com/product-page/5x-pro

Chemical Vapor Deposition has been a way to make diamonds in various configurations and diamond compounds for a while now (several years at least to my admittedly faulty memory). A light description of the process: https://www.alicat.com/synthetic-diamond-production-using-chemical-vapor-deposition/

Yeah, when we rebuilt the cluster at my current job, we ordered the servers with the bare minimum RAM Dell would sell and then bought it from Crucial or Amazon, can't remember. Saved several thousand dollars on the final project cost. And that was buying a spare kit as well.

What a perfect description of my Steam library.

Some early benchmarks I’ve seen, dated a day after that “oh no it’s got fewer cores” article show the M3 Max handily beating the M2 Max, and also beating the M2 Ultra which was basically two M2 Max chips glued together.

Maybe the performance per core is up enough to get away with that and the memory bandwidth reduction will turn out to be ultimately meaningless? We’ll see when reviews come in I suppose.

In the PC space TB usually limits you to Intel builds. Tthe Precision laptops we're getting have two TB ports, or usually one. But they also have network, audio, USB-A and C, and DP and/or HDMI as well, so I honestly consider that a wash. AMD laptops may have TB ports at this point, but I...

Oh I know who you were talking to and have a feel for his general opinion of Apple. For me, aside from personal preference and the fact I work in Windows Sysadmin, so I keep my hand in on server and client stuff at home, if a M3 had the grunt to replace/exceed my current PC at half the price...

Which is great for people where that's the case and I tell people to buy whatever does the job for them at the price they're comfortable with.

If it ran the software I require and met all my other needs? Sure. But it doesn't, and if Apple had hardware of that class, it sure as hell wouldn't charge half as much as the PC equivalent. One thing Apple has never been is cheap, or even particularly stupid; hardware of that class would have...

Interesting. I guess I should install that latest update on my LG CX panel.

Best Exchange server crash I ever saw was where Single Instance Storage was not enabled (ooold Exchange) and some C-level knucklehead attached a some stupidly large PowerPoint file and sent it to everyone. Near instantly destroyed the storage on that box. C-levels had previously complained about...

That’s interesting. At every job I’ve had, at least that I can recall, the location was not explicitly nailed down on the agreement. So, if your office moved, even like to a different suite or just down the street would you have to sign a new contract or an amendment? Or is it more generalized...

Yeah some major differences between EU and US law. Also presumes that the authorization to work from home was a contract change and not an exception forced by the government. In the EU, if WFH was an exception granted due to circumstances and not an actual contract change, would it become...

IANAL, but that seems like something that entirely depends on what state they're in, and if the employment contract was modified, or if WFH was simply an exception, not an actual amendment. In the latter case, if the contract already set the expectation that the employee would be in the office...

To a small degree I’m surprised Nvidia is t going the Arm route of doing an architecture license or custom design that a client can then go get their own fab time for. I mean right now, their lead is big enough to not need to, but looking to the future, seems like trying to secure some of the...