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Well, the discussion was started about unskilled labour; you were the one who moved it into the office. That's somewhat automated there too, though, (orders via EDI drive the ERP which issues POs and WOs) so headcount is less than it used to be but I seriously doubt either management or the...

A company with a fully dark production line is TCL. Otherwise, the reason you don't see it very often was that it was cheaper to have humans shuttle the WIP from station to station and vision systems were primitive. Now, with minimum wage being raised and tech being much cheaper, customers are...

Brave new world, eh? It's what customers are pushing for, though. The government is going to have to figure out how to charge a robot income tax.

Fully automated means people do not need to do things. You keep ignoring the salient point because you believe people need to be involved despite being told they are specifically being engineered out of the solution.

That history you refer to includes some large scale wars that reduced the potential number of employees at the same time it scaled up the need for them so training was provided. The work then was, and mostly still is, semi-automated. We're talking about full automation now. No people...

Perhaps I'm a bit pessimistic. I don't think many are going to move laterally from button pusher in sector 7-G to engineer. Even if they could, the position will already have been filled as the overall need for labour will have been reduced. edit: a word

200 years ago, there were still a lot of jobs requiring manual labour that you could move laterally into which made for a softer landing. As it stands now, we're automating away the unskilled labour pool as the new mandatory minimum wage makes the ROI on the effort worth it. Most of those...

Thanks, I'll check that out.

I disabled power saving on my USB ports to no effect.

For me it is my wireless XBox reciever. It just winks out and then stays that way until I unplug it and plug it back it in. No rhyme or reason, but dmesg shows an error in negotiating the endpoint. Gigabyte Aorus Master x570.

They're frequently used for kiosks and displays as they are much cheaper than things like Samsung's MagicInfo Player. You can buy the 'business class' versions from Viewsonic with the NoTouch OS on it (allows for centralized managment). That said, you would normally expect a business to use an...

Wireless headphones & a recliner ftw! My kids spent many a night snoozing on me whilst I was slaying monsters in the Witcher 3 when they were babies.

Adlib Gold, probably. Pretty sure they all used the Yamaha OPL3 variants but had different PCM capabilities that had to be accounted for in software. SB16 had a wavetable daughter card available but it's CD audio passthru became the defacto standard for background music since it saved the...

First edition MT-32 was, crashes and all. The rest... eh.. ;) There are examples of the MT-32 being worse in games where it was composed with the OPL3 default sustain in mind. In the GM wavetable days I can remember having to switch some games back to the SB16 for music.

They either made card specific tracks or, worse, used a mapping wedge. Watch for an overview. LGR covers MIDI stuff from the DOS days as well.

Protocol downgrade or real-time decryption is possible. EFF: Gotta Catch'em All

FWIW, the current AMD building is down the street from the old ATI building in Markham.

You can still find him on /r/linux_gaming trying to convince people to use W10 instead.

Oof. GN not getting a Christmas card from nvidia this year

Back when he had a show, Arsenio Hall used to joke with his lighting crew about that as they'd really have to crank them up, which would make his pinstripe suits 'twinkle' when he moved. HDR cameras have helped a lot with this in recent years.

14GB more RAM and a wider bus? May not be too relevant for gaming but for TensorFlow/CUDA types that can't justify a Quadro it could be good choice. It's probably the best argument against Nvidia releasing a 20GB variant of the 3080.

Puts me in the inefficient zone for sure with a 1300W p/s. I had nabbed it on sale in anticipation of a Threadripper build and ended up going with a 3900X.

This isn't that uncommon. I used to find logic bombs in our PLCs that the vendor would put in there to make sure the cheque cleared or the maintenance contract renewed.

My first monitor (excluding the TV for my VIC20) had a dot pitch of .43. I don't often miss those days but when I do, I use a VT220 type font! :oldman: http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/

Considering how much of the source material is upscaled over-compressed crap, that's understandable. With stuff mastered for it, on my OLED 4k HDR panel, you can instantly spot the difference between 2k & 4k from 30' away.

You never would just 'throw in' another floppy as that really impacted your profit margins (as there was an upper limit considered viable for games sales) without first trying something else. The other trade off was disk flipping; you had to keep common items on the disk in the drive so you...

Thermocouples can report as quickly as 0.12s, FWIW. At this scale though, just how hot does the junction get and how quickly can we honestly expect to transfer it out?

Yeah, it does seem to be the new way. I'm just used to under-volting as my Skylake laptop would throttle like a bastard until I dropped it down a bunch.

I'm in the same boat; I've got the same mobo and it's way too willing to crank up the volts. Stock fan is a dustbuster too but that's on me because I didn't measure the case to see if I could fit a D15. Otherwise, it is a great processor. It's 4.0 all core when compiling Libreoffice (done in...

Google is testing them. Another 20-year old bug was unearthed. https://thehackernews.com/2019/08/ctfmon-windows-vulnerabilities.html

I don't know who worked on OS/2 Warp's UI but they were clearly Amiga fans; it felt much more like Workbench than Windows (and had Rexx built in!) Everything's been downhill since! :oldman::troll:

One of W95's selling features was you could put folders in folders on the desktop to reduce that clutter (640x400 wasn't much space after all). It's funny how long this argument over desktops has been going on. Some people are filers, others are pilers, and neither are "correct" it's just what...

It sometimes seems like it! ;)

That used to happen on my desktop PCs running Linux and I had to force hw accel on. It still happens with random videos on all my devices so I think it's more likely a video encoding using values not supported by the hw it's being offloaded onto.

A) Are you me? I just found an old box of Popular Science and CGW in my basement after the move. B) Dear god, we are old! :oldman: Wtf happened!? :eek:

I still have the 200-in-1 variant of that kit in my closet; it's awesome for demonstrating simple circuits to this day and a hell of a lot easier than futzing around with breadboards.

That's disappointing about OpenALPR but not surprising. I know for our TX2 part sorting project it's easier to setup a VPS with TF to train it than do it on-board (which took a week when we tried it!) As far as the power draw, the Jetson can be configured for 5W or 15W operation depending on...

Rent, salaries, licencing, electricity. Ultimately, hardware cost is a blip on the sheets compared to the ongoing costs.

That's where the Jetson shines as it has a well supported GPU on it. I'm setting up Zoneminder on mine to run my cameras and I want to experiment with OpenALPR. If nothing else, Tensorflow should allow for more intelligent Zoneminding! ;)

You could use a Jetson Nano for RetroPie, the GPU can handle it. This PI is a big step up as far as I/O. I'd been holding off a PiHole build due to the USB over Ethernet crap as I'd been able to swamp my Pi3. One more SBC for the household; my wife'll be thrilled! :D