Daily Tech News 29 January 2023

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Now that AMD's low-power Ryzen 7900 (non-X) is out there's never been a better time to build a high-end PC except what's that Lassie the 7900X is faster, cheaper, and comes bundled with 32GB of DDR5 RAM if you buy it from Microcenter? (WCCFTech)

Oh.

The 7900X runs at 170W while the 7900 (without the X) runs at 65W. Despite using 60% less power, it's only 6% slower on multi-threaded tasks and 3% slower single-threaded.

On the other hand you can configure the 7900X to a 65W TDP, which turns it into a 7900.

On the seventeenth hand you can configure the 7900 to run in PBO mode which turns it into a 7900X.

On the forty-eighth hand, the 7900X comes with 32GB of free RAM. On the seventy-second hand, the 7900 comes with a fairly good CPU cooler, which is an extra cost on the 7900X. On the three-hundred and twenty-eighth hand, that cooler is only fairly good and won't suffice if you enable PBO to turn your 7900 into a 7900X anyway.

Just buy whatever. It's a good chip.

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Inside a very, very early Dungeons and Dragons computer game. (Old VCR)

The Mattel D&D game from 1980 had two kilobytes of ROM, a whole 64 bytes of RAM, and a 4-bit CPU running at 475kHz.
Ordering numbers can't be that hard, can it? I mean, that's what computers do. (orlp.net)

Oh sweet summer child.
How to use Intel Optane PMem DIMMs. (Serve the Home)

You can't. Forget it. They've cancelled the entire Optane division and these modules only ever worked on a small subset of high-end Xeon CPUs that you don't have anyway.

It's like they wanted this to fail.
Is this the rumoured Nvidia Titan RTX Ada (or RTX Ada Titan, or whatever)? (Tom's Hardware)

It looks absolutely stupid, fills four slots, and uses 800W, so yeah, probably.

Someone Is Wrong on the Internet Video of the Day

The quickest way to uncover a deeply buried fact is to be confidently wrong about the subject in as embarrassing a manner as possible.

Disclaimer: That goat was just like a goat to me.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'day Hordians.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 29, 2023 04:05 AM (JOtiF)

2 Whatever happened to 4-Chan? Did Pixy kidnap them all and put them to work on the hamster wheels?

They've been quieter than a Dem accused of stealing.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 29, 2023 04:08 AM (JOtiF)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 29, 2023 04:13 AM (odVni)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2023 04:20 AM (xhxe8)

5 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 29, 2023 04:20 AM (T4tVD)

6 2 Whatever happened to 4-Chan? Did Pixy kidnap them all and put them to work on the hamster wheels?

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 29, 2023 04:26 AM (BLOW1)

7 Howdy all, Just have to say that mishums joke about the grocery store had me laughing in tears. Everyone needs to laugh that hard sometimes, and in my life Ace of spades is what makes me really laugh.

Just checked on the snowfall, looks like we just got about 5" on top of a couple of inches we had just before that, most snow I've seen on the ground here in 2 years.

Posted by: Farmer at January 29, 2023 04:30 AM (55Qr6)

8 Good morning morons

We had rare winter fog yesterday that clung to the city most of the day despite the sunshine

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2023 04:35 AM (EZebt)

9 In other tech-related news, an Australian anime sharkgirl university professor is teaching about LaTeX while clad in latex.

Posted by: Vanishingly Rare Foreign Youkai at January 29, 2023 04:37 AM (6Xd4f)

10 As a child I played a game called dungeon hack. The most famous version (after my time) was called Mines of Moria. The main character is an ampersand and every other command is a hotkey that I had to figure out.

I play Crypt of the Necrodancer when I want to scratch that itch now.

My graphics card is busted (I hope that's all it is) and I will down-grade today to the previous GTX970 that I saved in a box.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 29, 2023 04:42 AM (ybIRR)

11 7 Howdy all, Just have to say that mishums joke about the grocery store had me laughing in tears. Everyone needs to laugh that hard sometimes, and in my life Ace of spades is what makes me really laugh.
Posted by: Farmer at January 29, 2023 04:30 AM (55Qr6)

I kept waiting to see if maybe the husband got a lawyer friend to make up that letter!

Posted by: m at January 29, 2023 04:45 AM (4VwiF)

12 In my case, the ONT reminds me of me and my mama getting horrified at the shenanigans my dad and sister would get up to in department stores.

Dad's favorite was the one with clothes displays where you prop half the hangers so they're balanced on the very tip of the hooky loopy hangy bit, so that the first person who walks up to browse that rack makes half the display fall to the ground.

Kind gives the game away when a man and his little daughter start cackling maniacally from across the store....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 04:49 AM (9UlRk)

13 9 In other tech-related news, an Australian anime sharkgirl university professor is teaching about LaTeX while clad in latex.
Posted by: Vanishingly Rare Foreign Youkai at January 29, 2023 04:37 AM (6Xd4f)

I bet their GIMP tutorials are.... "problematic".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 04:50 AM (9UlRk)

14 https://twitter.com/i/status/1619451740256104448

They must go. Every last one of them.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 29, 2023 04:53 AM (odVni)

15 At American Digest, there's a lovely reposting of Gerard Van der Leun's "The Name in the Stone," "On Living with the Loss of a Son in Wartime. Written and first published on Memorial Day, 2003."

https://americandigest.org

Posted by: m at January 29, 2023 04:57 AM (4VwiF)

16 So Dave Rubin spent the weekend here with Elon and he is posting about 1. How sh*tty San Francisco is and B. How everyone knows something has happened that at Twitter that has reimposed arbitrary censorship but they can't "figure out" exactly what

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2023 04:58 AM (EZebt)

17 Who is Dave Rubin ?

Posted by: The Earl of Shacktown who broke the bank at Monte Carlo at January 29, 2023 05:07 AM (9X60i)

18 https://twitter.com/i/status/1619451740256104448

I find this sort of thing very clarifying. It was an inflection point in my own personal political journey when the reaction to pictures I had posted of Arabs celebrating the 9/11 attacks were so negative from people who had been my erstwhile political allies for years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2023 05:08 AM (EZebt)

19 Who is Dave Rubin ?
Posted by: The Earl of Shacktown

Inventor of the Rueben sandwich.
He had to change his name for business reasons.

Posted by: Bruce at January 29, 2023 05:21 AM (vd8XM)

20 Who is Dave Rubin ?
Posted by: The Earl of Shacktown

Inventor of the Rueben sandwich.
He had to change his name for business reasons.
Posted by: Bruce

I guess the Dave Sandwich didn't sound appetizing enough.....

Posted by: JT at January 29, 2023 05:24 AM (T4tVD)

21 Who was the Rubin who was a big shot music producer in motown or something like that?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 05:25 AM (9UlRk)

22 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 29, 2023 05:26 AM (ju2Fy)

23 I guess the Dave Sandwich didn't sound appetizing enough.....
Posted by: JT at January 29, 2023 05:24 AM (T4tVD)

Eeew.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd at January 29, 2023 05:26 AM (9UlRk)

24 I guess the Dave Sandwich didn't sound appetizing enough.....
Posted by: JT

Sounded too much like a three-some.

And not the good kind

Posted by: Bruce at January 29, 2023 05:26 AM (vd8XM)

25 there's a lovely reposting of Gerard Van der Leun's "The Name in the Stone," "On Living with the Loss of a Son in Wartime. Written and first published on Memorial Day, 2003."

https://americandigest.org
Posted by: m at January 29, 2023 04:57
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I read that yesterday. Quite moving.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 29, 2023 05:27 AM (ju2Fy)

26 About 5 inches or so of snow yesterday. Sat in the house and watched it pile up.

I'll remove it from the drive and walks this AM. Tonight starts another cold spell.

Posted by: Bruce at January 29, 2023 05:28 AM (vd8XM)

27 You can find the Rubin Report on utube or rumble

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2023 05:29 AM (EZebt)

28 I'll admit i don't really care that much about Israel or Israelis as such, but i really do think that the level to which a person hates them is an amazingly useful and accurate indicator of exactly how fucked the rest of their worldview is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 05:29 AM (9UlRk)

29 Presently 47 and cloudy here. Going to a high of 35.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 29, 2023 05:36 AM (ju2Fy)

30 From Insty:

https://bit.ly/3Yo7zCr

Congratulations, nutsacks. You just invented the sippy cup.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 05:39 AM (9UlRk)

31 Congratulations, nutsacks. You just invented the sippy cup.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Ooooo...nice. A worker behind the counter who may or may not have washed their hands after emptying the garbage, will be snapping on a lid for me to put my lips on so I can suckle the sweet sweet nectar inside the cup.

Posted by: Bruce at January 29, 2023 05:45 AM (vd8XM)

32 G'mornin' everyone!

day 2 of Winter Field Day!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 29, 2023 05:46 AM (XzIdt)

33 The idea of a permanent World Map is a pretty recent innovation. This idea that "These are the countries of the world, and no one must ever try to change or reshape them or else they are Evil. Unless we like them. In which case the other guys are evil" .... it's not natural. It's not how humans work. It doesn't make the world more peaceful. It just displaces civilizational conflict into uglier, less noble formats.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 05:48 AM (9UlRk)

34 Evening and morning to all the folken out there! The cats woke me only a few minutes before the alarm. It's cool and scheduled to rain most of today, so I need to get in my workout shortly.

An Invaders from 1967 is on MeTV. It has a bunch of familiar character actor faces -- and Gene Hackman! It must have been one of his first speaking roles.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2023 05:50 AM (omVj0)

35 An Invaders from 1967 is on MeTV. It has a bunch of familiar character actor faces -- and Gene Hackman! It must have been one of his first speaking roles.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2023 05:50 AM (omVj0)
===
We used to play that and Land of the Giants in the neighborhood

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2023 05:53 AM (EZebt)

36 yeah, W-o, right up there with the One Constant Temperature Planet myth, right? And usually the same people, too ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 29, 2023 05:56 AM (XzIdt)

37 An Invaders from 1967 is on MeTV. It has a bunch of familiar character actor faces -- and Gene Hackman! It must have been one of his first speaking roles.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2023
===
We used to play that and Land of the Giants in the neighborhood
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2023

***
With my brother and me, it was The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2023 05:56 AM (omVj0)

38 Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 05:48 AM (9UlRk)
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No love for the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2023 05:58 AM (EZebt)

39 No love for the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2023 05:58 AM (EZebt)

I still lament the loss of Poland-Lithuania.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 06:00 AM (9UlRk)

40 test

Posted by: vic/ at January 29, 2023 06:00 AM (sbuTN)

41 With my brother and me, it was The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2023 05:56 AM (omVj0)
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You are a few years older. We were Get Smart

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2023 06:00 AM (EZebt)

42 ... when i was little, used to play Leave Me Alone You Spastic Windowlickers I'm Trying To Read.

I was not what one would call a "popular child".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 06:02 AM (9UlRk)

43 37.9 degrees in the back yard.

And my hovercraft is full of old eel snack wrappers.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2023 06:05 AM (uLr+K)

44 Vic

A+

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2023 06:06 AM (uLr+K)

45 NOOOOOOOOD

Posted by: Bruce at January 29, 2023 06:07 AM (vd8XM)

46 my neighborhood was Man From U.N.C.L.E. too, with some crossover from Bond movies; I remember we had the folding mini-scuba tanks from Thunderball, for instance. Anything you could make a reasonable model of, you could use.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 29, 2023 06:08 AM (XzIdt)

47 I still lament the loss of Poland-Lithuania.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 06:00 AM (9UlRk)
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And the Russians are still in Koenigsberg

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2023 06:08 AM (EZebt)

48 Our neighbor's cat has come up as missing for 2.5 days now.

I can go through the security camera hits remotely, filtering just for 'animals' to see if he has followed his normal nocturnal pattern across our front yard and porch.

So far...no joy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2023 06:09 AM (uLr+K)

49 Decades Channel is running a Honey West marathon -- Anne Francis. She was lovely, and projected a palpable intelligence in all her roles too. But the show was only 30 minutes long. Not much time for plot and character development in that space. Though eps I've seen moved fast and did some neat plot switches, like clever short stories. The one I'm looking at has Joe Don Baker, long before Walking Tall.

The irony is that HW laid a blueprint for "strong" women in action-adventure stories -- the sort of thing The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. needed to do the next year, and might have if it hadn't been infected with the "camp" virus.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2023 06:09 AM (omVj0)

50 42 ... when i was little, used to play Leave Me Alone You Spastic Windowlickers I'm Trying To Read.

I was not what one would call a "popular child".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2023 06:02 AM (9UlRk)

LOL

Posted by: m at January 29, 2023 06:38 AM (4VwiF)

51 >>>Ordering numbers can't be that hard, can it? I mean, that's what computers do. (orlp.net)

I TRIED to read it!

Posted by: m at January 29, 2023 06:44 AM (4VwiF)

52 About 5 inches or so of snow yesterday. Sat in the house and watched it pile up.
I'll remove it from the drive and walks this AM. Tonight starts another cold spell.
Posted by: Bruce at January 29, 2023 05:28

Yes Bruce about the same west of you. It is a light, fluffy snow. Not as hard to shovel. Snowblower is in the shop, azzhole should have it done by now.

Posted by: Farmer at January 29, 2023 07:09 AM (55Qr6)

53 Sell you some "posts",if your feeling lucky punks.

Posted by: safristi at January 29, 2023 08:54 AM (qktfm)

54 Are you really tellingh people to buy a defective video card that turns into a pile of lava? JFC you millennials are truly broken on every level.

Posted by: Fisht at January 29, 2023 08:57 AM (ZRarh)

55 I honestly don't see any good reason for nVidia to do a Lovelace Titan. It just eats into their data center line where they make more money, and it is hard to think of any non-professional workload that might be able to use it. Even in high end VR the 4090 is overkill.

Posted by: Voyager at January 29, 2023 10:27 AM (u5PZm)

56 Isn't it, "that snorkel was just like a snorkel to me"?

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https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=402941

If I click post link (in this case, the link under "4:00 AM"), then there is an "Access Comments" link to

http://minx.cc/?post=402941

which doesn't work - "minx.cc took too long to respond".

This make links from other places annoying. E.g. this post would be linked as

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/402941.php

but if you go there, you can't read the comments for this reason. You have to go back to the main page and search for the post.

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