Can we talk seriously for a moment?

This is my everyday wristwatch. It's a Skagen, made in Denmark. Lightweight, stylish, classically European. The exact opposite of a Rolex / Omega / Apple:

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Now, I am not a small man. 6'2", 175 lbs. I have to shop online for shoes, because most stores have only 1-2 pair in my size, if even that. I barely fit into my NB, and more than one co-worker has literally laughed out loud in the parking lot upon seeing me get into / out of my car for the first time, not previously knowing that it was what I drove.

And yet I wear this wristwatch with the hasp in the *smallest* hole on the band. You can see the crease in the leather, so you know I'm not bullshitting you.



Turns out that the same is true for hospital-grade sphygmomanometers (blood pressure cuffs.)

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See those three armbands on the wall? They used the smallest of the three on me. (Side note: when the cute nurse says "Doctor, BP is down to 95/40, heartrate 44," with more than a little anxiety in her voice, as you're face-down on the operating table, fully conscious, having many large-bore needles jammed into your spine under a fluoroscope, this is moderately disconcerting. Seriously, what is it about hospital nursing that attracts *all* of the cute young blondes and Koreans? Private-practice nurses have nothing on these ladies... )



This is, no joke, completely serious, kind of legitimately concerning to me. By any reasonable definition of the word, I am on the "freakishly large" side of "normal," and yet in terms of circumference, I am apparently a "petite" with regard to 21st century body-image norms.


Something is wrong...

correct.

According to Merriam-Webster, ‘fascism means:’

“a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.”

Here’s Google’s definition:

“An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.” with a secondary meaning of “(in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices.”

Joe, the translation thing is funny. Obviously using an out-of-date program or translators not familiar with any thing that is slightly technical.

At my last company, Ramsey Winch, the joke was a winch manual that had been translated (this company always picked cost over quality in matters like this). There is a requirement to use lubricant on the wire rope at designated intervals. Apparently the way the translation company translated "contact your wire rope manufacturer for an appropriate lubricant," was translated as something to the effect of using, ahem, "personal lubricant" for the wire rope.

Idioms are also a real problem for translation. Por ejemplo, "Cut the power to the circuit breaker." Could be translated to literally mean, "Cut the incoming power line going into the circuit breaker."

Attachment 179679Or maybe you just have daintier wrists than you realize.
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Aside from the fact that your Skagan is apparently sized larger than my Fossil (I usually wear a Wenger which my parents gave me a decade or so ago, but it has a metal band which makes for harder comparison), I notice that I wear my band a centimeter or two larger than you do, in the fourth and fifth holes from the outside. I'm 5'9", wear an 8.5 shoe, my glove size is usually a men's small, and I'm hardly portly, nor do I go to the gym.

For what it's worth, my Swiss-Canadian frame of reference puts 6'2" at 175 lbs into the "bean pole" category. Heck, I weigh more than that despite being 5 inches shorter, and I still show a bit of ab if I flex lightly.

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Stop dissing on my Omega!
I'm not going to take this kind of abuse from a puny ectomorph.:fael:

--Ian

<-- nerd.

Except I usually use graph paper and cut out the furniture because it's faster to move around than in digitalspace.

If you've only got two bookcases then your nerd card is revoked.

--Ian

^Those objects are three dimensional. Mapping them in two is likely a waste of time and/or space.

Speaking of space:

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Horribly inefficient design. You need to put more shit on the sofa.

Two wooden ones that can't be broken down. At least, not in such a way that they can be re-assembled afterwards. The rest are plastic and easily disassembled into a small pile.

I've done this every time I've moved. The goal is to lay out the footprint of all of the big and/or heavy stuff in the most optimal way possible. Boxes are then packed into the space which remains, stacked on top of the big stuff, etc.


G4mer d00dz be like: "whoa."

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I dunno man.

I put 8 15 inch woofers in boxes on my sofa when it shipped cross country.

space efficient, but broken sofa was no good.

Stryke AV15:

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I currently have one in use at home. With Linkwitz transform, it plays loud enough and flat down to 20 Hz anechoic.

Of course now I have children. So it doesn't do that much anymore. Not yet.

I think they will bounce back, as long as they do well with the R3 and R5 series in small/medium consumer desktops with cheaper prices than Intel. I feel the uninformed are the ones selling AMD stock over poor gaming reviews. If game devs start pushing better compatibility to make use of the cores, then 'cpu limited' games will be a thing of the past and it will really start to shine.

With the Intel side of things, an optimized 14nm chipset should be released later in the year. And single threaded applications will be off the charts.

All in all, AMD needs to prove that their new chips will be around to stay with gaming/single thread applications. Their best sell at the moment is workstation applications where the CPU gets the most use...

Time will tell, sooner or later time will tell.

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Selling after the Vega / Polaris (for us) press release though?
If AMD can switch the market like they did years ago and get mainstream consumers to buy products with their chip in it, they will bounce back.

Maybe i'll buy some AMD stock June 1st.
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Pic is titled "Extreme Sports"
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Never going to happen. The R5 is shit. Same price as the 6700k but half the speed.
No info on the R3 yet but i'm expecting more of the same.

No worries Vega will fix it :D

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Poor AMD...

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But seriously, nothing new here. Just as Intel's development process operates on a tick-tock cycle, AMD's operates on a win-fail cycle. Right now, Intel is spending a lot of time and capital doing something awesome, so AMD decides to do something even awesomer. So they cut corners and rush a product to market that turns out to suck. When Coffee Lake drops in a few months, it'll be a knife in AMD's gut, and then when Cannonlake happens, it'll twist the knife.

And then AMD will release the 2nd - 3rd gen version of Zen architecture, which will catch up to Intel in terms of raw performance, sacrificing TDP for cost as usual. And then the cycle will begin anew.

And here's a possum in a camphor tree behind my house tonight.

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Cute little fella.

I've been watching covers of ELO's Mr. Blue Sky for the past two hours. Many of them suck a lot less than would be expected.

God bless ELO. And God bless you, Jeff Lynne.


The original 1977 version, had it been produced during the 1990s heyday of music videos, with 2010s technology:



('77 Was a good year, unless you happened to be Elvis, my maternal grandfather, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the University of Evansville men's basketball team, or a Camaro)





























And, I shit you not, this came up in a Youtube search for "Mr. Blue Sky Metal":







Again, I renew my request that YouTube introduce a new filter into its search engine, with the following options:

• A truly professional effort, worth viewing
• This was probably a good performance, but we'll never know for sure because the quality of the recording is shit
• Talentless ass-clown

wanna know why I always complain about the poor performance in my PC?

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Because you have impossibly high standards, and an ingrained sense of entitlement? (Also because of laws regulating gun ownership and appellate court opinions finding in favor of police officers who acted reasonably in life-threatening situations.)


Picture unrelated:

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no dude, it runs like crap. i cant view 4k videos, barely 2k. the one application i use the most Adobe Lightroom, has like 5 second delays between button press and action.

Oh, I see the problem. You're running an AMD processor.

Man, those things were great back in the early 90s...


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yeah, i told my wife she's buying me a new computer for my birthday next month. I won't be going with AMD again.

i dont think i ever posted my MB running out of warranty:

So passing 50k miles turns on the blinker as an indication you should pull over and abandon the POS?

Happy invented marketing holiday!

:bigtu:

Almost there



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I did a thing.

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You made your slow computer also unstable?

yes

:likecat:

GHz isn't everything, AMD's usage is mostly workstation. Intel zips by on instruction per clock for single thread. I like both :dunno: I plan on using the 1800x in the future.

I'm surprised it can't do 4k, I have a weak 6 core AMD compared to yours and load 4k just fine.

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i never tried was the thing.

Oops...

I would have to wear a brown racing suit for that event.

Also, googling brown racing suit yields interesting results.

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reminds me of my drive from Sorrento to Positano:

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Brain, you made your processor smoke some ganja?

On a more srs note, did it help at all? Or does it just stutter now.

i cant really tell.

So, totally serious for a moment here...

This is what mine looks like:

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I built this PC in 2010, and recently maxxed out the RAM at 16 GB. My i5-750 is three years older than your 8320, and wasn't even the hottest thing on the market back when it was new. It Passmarks at less than half of yours, and even scores very slightly lower in single-thread performance (historically Intel's strong suite).

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Right now, I have the following running:

• Chrome, with fifty-one tabs open, many of which contain Java / Silverlight / etc elements.
• Opera, with eleven tabs open, all of which are YouTube.
• AutoCAD 2014, with three drawings open.
• Jasc Paint Shop Pro, with four images open.
• VLC media player, with a big .mkv file paused.
• Oracle VirtualBox, running a virtual Windows 7-64 machine inside with 3GB of RAM committed to it. That machine is running:
  • Chrome, with nine tabs open.
  • uTorrent.
  • PIA.

Memory use is extremely high (this is one thing I wish I could upgrade further, but I'm at the limit on this board:

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But CPU load is hovering around just 50% total with none of the cores maxxed out:

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And my machine is not sluggish or slow.


Something is wronger with your PC than just the weak-sauce processor.





Also, Erat, I might hold off on that AMD buy order. GPUs aren't a large enough portion of the total processor market to negate this, especially since Intel and Nvidia are both growing in the mobile market, where AMD does not play:

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(puckering sound)

There are some great roads up and down Palomar Mountain near San Diego where the cliff looks a lot like that, except no guard rail. They have to send out the mountain rescue team pretty much daily in the summer to sweep up bits of motorcyclist from the bottom. Combination of awesome roads and a huge Marine Corps base with kids returning home from their first combat deployment, feeling invincible, buying liter bikes, and then learning that they're not.

Shifting back up into 3'rd for a moment...

The Dutch are fucking crazy, and I love it. I visited Groningen briefly about 7 years ago, and I really want to go back.



Seriously, you gotta watch the whole thing. I literally* LOLed at 2:00.

I loled.


I also find myself seriously coveting this Piper Arrow: 1977 PIPER PA-28R-201T Turbo Arrow 3 Aircraft for Sale at FlightPlanet.com


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$60k, low airframe hours, recent overhaul, IFR-capable, and it has ALL the nav/comm. Can't help but wonder what's wrong with it at this price...

This happened just down the street from my work. Paine field is where we fly our new planes away. Guy walked away from this.

^ Yeah, I see the problem there. The pilot shouldn't have hit those power lines and then crashed into the ground.

(But seriously, what's all all the drivers changing lanes suddenly? Are they deliberately trying to block access for emergency vehicles?)


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I've been a resident of all three West coast states. Here's my impression of the driving culture in each:
California: impatient and competent
Washington: impatient but incompetent
Oregon: patient and incompetent

Given the above traffic scenario, the Californian would have gunned it and driven through the fireball to avoid the traffic. The Oregonian would have gotten out of their car and walked away, and the Washingtonian obviously tries to pull a U-turn, making things 10x worse.

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I can attest from personal experience that the above is true.

Unless it was in Oakland, in which case they'd have gotten out and fired a few rounds vaguely in the direction of the crashed airplane, for the inconvenience, before peeling out to head to the next drug transaction.



Unrelated to Oakland and airplanes:

Joe, what is your impression of Chicago traffic?

It reminds me of driving in Brooklyn or Queens, but with a lazy, Midwestern flair. All of the confusion and anger, none of the sense of urgency or purpose.

My morning commute is 2.3 miles, and takes about 20-25 minutes. If it weren't for my back being fucked up, I could literally make it faster on foot.

Sometimes, the light turns green and the car ahead of you just sits there until you lay on the horn.

Sometimes, the light turns red, and the cars crossing the intersection just keeps on going until they feel like stopping.

I see drivers stop and yield to pedestrians who are still 2-3 steps or more away from being in the path of the vehicle nearly every day.

The bus drivers don't give a shit about humanity. They routinely stop a foot or more from the curb, blocking traffic to their left.

WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH ALL OF THESE DIAGONAL ROADS? SIX-WAY INTERSECTIONS DO NOT WORK!

Chicago PD is quite good about setting cones AutoX style (with one at each end laid down on its side to indicate the path you're supposed to take around the obstruction) and yet some people have no idea how to interpret this, and wind up in the berm, causing traffic to come to a halt while they slowly, gingerly back up.

There are many, many speed cameras. Drivers here don't understand that it's OK to drive past them at 30 MPH if the speed limit is 30 MPH. This causes massive tailbacks.

Don't even get me started on evenings when the Cubs are playing a home game. I have to drive past Wrigley Field every night, and lemme tell you, these baseball fans are like New Yorkers on acid, with no sense of self-preservation.



Still, it's better than San Juan, where I first learned to drive (and with a 4MT in my cousin's Tercel, no less.) Things like lane-markings and hard shoulders are considered to be purely aesthetic there (the sidewalk is a perfectly good passing lane, after all), and they never bothered to put up signs at freeway off-ramps indicating which road you're about to exit onto. You just have to know.

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If you ever decided to wonder up to Detroit, i'd love to show you around. Diagonal roads are the best.
Maybe even buy you a beer.

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