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Old 21st July 2021, 15:11     #42681
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Bugger that - more rain in 3 days than in the entire of the previous year.
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Old 21st July 2021, 15:59     #42682
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More water evaporates when it's warmer. What goes up must come down.
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Old 21st July 2021, 16:24     #42683
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Yeah, I guess the meme was oceans rising. When it's oceans falling that's turning out to be the real problem.

They have done quite extensive water removal projects where I live. For months a road was up putting in new massive drains. Newmarket had large projects maybe 10 years ago. I assume other places too.
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Old 21st July 2021, 17:32     #42684
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I get the impression Aussies are very meh about covid and global warming
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Old 21st July 2021, 17:36     #42685
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I get the impression Aussies are very meh about covid and global warming
Everyone has their bubbles. The people I interact with day to day tend to fall in the university-educated progressive lefty space, and everyone seems to care a lot. But I'm a realist, and I understand that governments rise and fall based on the desires of a small number of swing electorates, and the people in those electorates aren't in my bubble.
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Old 23rd July 2021, 10:22     #42686
Nich
 
Anyone else getting twitter ads for prepaid funerals with cheap caskets? They be targetting people following crypto twitter.
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Old 23rd July 2021, 11:42     #42687
Ab
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a) what is twitter
b) what are ads
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Old 23rd July 2021, 20:04     #42688
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I got an Intel i5-11400F - this thing is fantastic!

Workload is a PostgreSQL database, so my benchmark is an account invoice report over a 1.3M row table with various joins and calculations with other tables.

Results:
AMD EPYC 7601 (cloud server, 16 allocated threads, 32GB RAM): 22.5 seconds
AMD Ryzen 2600 (6core/12 thread, 16GB RAM) : 12.1 seconds
AMD Ryzen 3100 (4core/8 thread, 16GB RAM): 10.0 seconds
Intel 11400F (6core/12 thread, 16GB RAM): 7.6 seconds

PostgreSQL isn't doing much in parallel queries (max 2), so it's more of a single thread test than a summed test of all the cores - a lot of the time is a final sort of the table, which I don't think is parallelized.

I tried 3200MHz RAM vs 2400MHz RAM but it makes very little difference in this test on either Ryzen or Intel - ~0.1second difference for both cases. That's about 1% in reality for what looks like 20-25% on paper.

It's not just a case of one CPU family is "better" than the other, it really depends on what you're intending to use it for: the Ryzens still beat the Intel significantly doing xmrig (Monero hashing), and time to calculate the DAG for ETH mining. Easily 30% faster for these things, even the older 2600 - but as far as bang for buck, this Intel is pretty fucking good, and is great for my PostgreSQL stuff. CPU was $259, total system build was ~$700 (no GPU, I use it headless). I very much doubt that a more expensive 11th Gen would reduce my execution time significantly - at least not enough to justify a 'twice the price' CPU.
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Old 23rd July 2021, 22:36     #42689
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I wonder what the viewership of the Olympics is going to be like. If it bombs, I won't be surprised.
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Old 24th July 2021, 14:41     #42690
Lightspeed
 
This uproar over TVNZ playing ads during the moment of silence is pretty lolz.

Nothing in the media yet, it'll be interesting to see who breaks rank first, it'll be pretty sus if it just gets ignored.
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Old 26th July 2021, 16:51     #42691
Lightspeed
 
Random wild prediction:

Next-gen alternative to the Olympics. Instead of all these dominant super-sports, it will be a display of all the kinds of niche activities people get into and hone to a high degree.

Held around the world simultaneously, rather than spotlighting a nation.
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Old 26th July 2021, 18:11     #42692
Ab
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Dominant super-sports like (checks notes) skateboarding, ice dancing, and synchronised swimming?
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Old 26th July 2021, 18:26     #42693
Lightspeed
 
Exactly. Stuff everyone has heard about, had some experience with.

As opposed to say, Mid-West Freestyle Canoeing.
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Old 26th July 2021, 21:43     #42694
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Isn't She Lovely is a pretty catchy tune, but now I'm listening as a parent and it hits me right in the feels knowing exactly the sense of pride and wonder Stevie is singing about.
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Old 26th July 2021, 22:28     #42695
Ab
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It do be like that
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Old 26th July 2021, 22:57     #42696
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Oof yep I had one of those moments with that song.
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Old 27th July 2021, 10:07     #42697
Nich
 
I noticed Hazel loves dancing to 12/8 feel. So played the song, watched her dance, and listened to the lyrics. Happy tears.
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Old 29th July 2021, 08:58     #42698
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RIP Dusty.

Top man.

You brought Texas blues to the 70s/80s/90s.
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Old 29th July 2021, 23:40     #42699
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I know it's that time of year where people are contemplating germinating seeds for planting into a garden, but this is your reminder that it's illegal to grow a garden in New Zealand.
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Old 30th July 2021, 06:22     #42700
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I know it's that time of year where people are contemplating germinating seeds for planting into a garden, but this is your reminder that it's illegal to grow a garden in New Zealand.
Yes - was fully prepared to soak some chilli seeds this weekend, then I remembered.
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Old 30th July 2021, 13:14     #42701
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Three films which have 99% ratings on Rottentomatoes:

Casablanca (1942)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Suicide Squad (2021)
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Old 1st August 2021, 14:36     #42702
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Rocket Lab returns to service with “flawless” launch for U.S. military
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Old 1st August 2021, 19:18     #42703
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^ Yup - t-shirt is in the post, because it had a chilli on it.
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Old 1st August 2021, 20:08     #42704
Ab
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Hooray for the US military!
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Old 3rd August 2021, 12:55     #42705
Ab
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Things I do not expect to see: Valerie Adams not winning gold
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Old 4th August 2021, 13:19     #42706
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That 400m hurdles final yesterday was insane. Has got to be up there with Bolt's 9.58.
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Old 4th August 2021, 13:29     #42707
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To put that race in some context, Warholm's time for the 400m hurdles is faster than the NZ national record for the 400m flat.
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Old 4th August 2021, 13:38     #42708
Lightspeed
 
They check his testosterone levels?

Seriously tho, epic achievement.
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Old 4th August 2021, 13:52     #42709
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They check his testosterone levels?
Yeah that's what PED testing is all about. But it's an arms race so who really knows. The track surface is made of a springy new material that is supposedly producing fast times.
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Old 4th August 2021, 15:48     #42710
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I thought lawyers were supposed to be smart?

What part of impacting until rupture, the case of a highly reactive element, seemed like a good idea? Unless, of course he really did want to wipe and dispose of his phone, in which case her found a rather effective method.

Did he not remember 4th form chemistry?

/edit - sorry, re-read it. Auckland lawyer...

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Old 4th August 2021, 17:42     #42711
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Yeah that's what PED testing is all about. But it's an arms race so who really knows. The track surface is made of a springy new material that is supposedly producing fast times.
Isn't he also claiming that the shoes worn by his competitors are from a shoe manufacturer that's not the one he has an endorsement contract with and thus those competitors are cheating?
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Old 4th August 2021, 17:45     #42712
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I thought lawyers were supposed to be smart?
Intellectual opportunity cost. Can't be smart at one thing without being dumb at something else.
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Old 4th August 2021, 17:59     #42713
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Does that come at such a cost that you lose common sense?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you should know how volatile those batteries are.
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Old 4th August 2021, 18:26     #42714
Lightspeed
 
Yeah, absolutely. Some people live these laser focused lives, something our society facilitates. Most needs can be filled my simple virtue of abundant cash, with only the most rudimentary of social mores.

So, yeah people absolutely can and do live in these hyper-bubbles where the only sense they need is that which affords them cash. It's basically the premise of American Psycho.

What's fascinating is it's really hard to catch people outside of their bubbles, especially when they're so tight, so it's infrequent we actually experience this apparent stark lack of sense.
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Old 4th August 2021, 22:06     #42715
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... so it's infrequent we actually experience this apparent stark lack of sense.
Unless one has ever worked in IT support, anywhere, ever :P
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Old 4th August 2021, 22:49     #42716
Lightspeed
 
Hahaha, that's where you spot it right? These edges where you encounter people where you're left wondering how they survive, let alone thrive.
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Old 5th August 2021, 00:50     #42717
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Was introduced to a guy the other day, cousin of a wife of a friend, seemed normal at first but after 15, 20 minutes of innocuous conversation things went from "glad we're out of lockdown" to "the Jews are behind it, they murdered Christ and want to depopulate the world" in the blink of an eye. My head was spinning, I literally did not know how to deal with it. He was dead serious and he couldn't believe how I could not see the self-evident truth of what he was saying.
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Old 5th August 2021, 11:23     #42718
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Personally, I love meeting people with insane theories like that. I have an overwhelming urge to see how deep the crazy goes.
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Old 5th August 2021, 11:47     #42719
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^^^ Just don't cross the event horizon, as there may be no coming back.
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Old 5th August 2021, 11:51     #42720
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I blame the girl guides...

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Ian Chesterman, Australia's chef de mission, told reporters Wednesday that he had received a report from Japan Airlines about the "unacceptable" behavior of team members.
Athletes "failed to respond to requests for them do do whatever they needed to do on the flight," Chesterman said.
"And then there was also the issue of at least one person being sick in the toilet and leaving that inoperable for the remainder of the fight," he added.
The Japanese flight crew were not aware that the passengers came from a land downunder?
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