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ptomato··on Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's Proton initiative
Assuming you aren't going to be gaming on Linux directly (only in the Windows VM), PCI-E bifurcation can do this. Going down to x8 from x16 only loses you a few FPS, generally speaking, and something like Sliger's SM560 (http://sliger.com/products/cases/sm560/ - no relationship but I have a SM550 and am pretty happy with it) would allow you to fit a 2-slot Nvidia card for the Windows VM (recommended over AMD; Vega & Navi AMD cards cannot don't do pcie FLR or full reset properly so you'll have to do full machine reboot per VM restart if you're using one of those for Windows), and a 1 slot AMD workstation card for desktop usage. Note that you'll need a motherboard with BIOS that supports bifurcation; Gigabyte & ASrock tend to, ASUS rarely if ever does, other brands YMMV, but regardless you should check mobo manual before purchasing and see if the settings are there.
ptomato··on Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia
Because nvidia's driver licensing terms require you not to be using the consumer stuff in a datacenter.
ptomato··on Docker Hub Registry is down
Likely the traditional model of taking a large amount of VC money, putting it in a pile, and then setting it on fire and waiting until they stop adding more, at which point the company ends.
ptomato··on Troubles with the AWS web console
so 200 megabytes/second? I'm not sure what your definition of large files is, but hashing anything sizable with SHA1 is trivially CPU-bound with any modern SSD, in the absence of a processor with the sha asm extensions.

that being said, quick glance at the source suggests that awscli's s3 sync only compares files by size & timestamp, not etag, so it's not hashing anything client-side.

ptomato··on MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers
Ahh, that’s unfortunate. Thanks for looking it up anyway.
ptomato··on MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers
Do you have any documentation on using the onboard packet accelerator with OpenBSD? I thought it was just binary linux blobs.
ptomato··on The FastMail Security Mindset
That's very unacceptable, and enough to make me consider leaving Fastmail - I've used them happily for over 7 years and have recommended them to many people, but their support having the ability to do that is giving me pause.
ptomato··on How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
He has 340000 _followers_, not subscribers. Subscriber counts aren't public but if his follower/subscriber ratio is similar to some of the top streamers he'd probably have around 5-6000 subscribers.
ptomato··on On Password Managers
They have a standalone Chrome extension currently in beta, https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/79940/a-present... for details. Only works with their synced service however, not local vaults.
ptomato··on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X and 1950X CPUs Announced
Are there any Ryzen motherboards that support ECC currently? ("support" defined as "corrects errors", not "can plug in ECC ram and it functions as normal ram without error correction")

Last I am aware there are not.

ptomato··on Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?
Like https://www.exolymph.news?
ptomato··on Why I switched from OS X to Linux
> great

> ElectronJS

A tad mutually exclusive.

I did try N1 ~6 months ago and performance was as bad as expected in an Electron app, though admittedly it may have improved since then.

ptomato··on The Gun Industry's Lucrative Relationship with Hollywood
In some states, yes – regardless, they must have been manufactured before 1986. I think the cheapest that comes these days is around $6k for a shitty Mac-10. An M16, for example, starts around $20k.
ptomato··on HP Unveils Mini Workstation
In the mini-itx space, there's also http://asrock.com/mb/Intel/X99E-ITXac/index.us.asp which is DDR4, not SODIMMS, and your choice of processor, including V4 Xeons. I have one with a E5-2680V4 + 64GB of ram in it. (128 should be feasible with 64GB sticks as far as I know, but as they're about $700 each last I checked I haven't tried it.)
ptomato··on Help Your Users Vote
If you send me a push notification unrelated to your app, I will immediately uninstall your app, and you will deserve it for being a spamming sack of shit. I strongly suspect I'm not alone in this.
ptomato··on MacBook Pro
Yup. I'm just saving having (better, more power hungry) integrated graphics seems like a waste when you already have a dedicated GPU for when you want more performance.
ptomato··on MacBook Pro
Well, not only is there no iris KL, there's no quad-core KL yet, either. Dual-core 15W CPU in a pro machine seems... inadequate. Also, all the 15" have dedicated graphics so an Iris Pro would seem like just a waste of TDP to me.
ptomato··on MacBook Pro
They do use the 15W Skylake in the non-touchbar MBP. Same claimed battery life, though.
ptomato··on Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement
I'd expect that most devs capable of writing reasonable Linux kernel code would not have difficulty finding employment somewhere else doing something else.
ptomato··on Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
> easily start a design discussion with 4 or 5 engineers

or, rephrased, the ability to destroy 3 man-hours of productivity on a whim.

ptomato··on UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
> It would have certainly worked here

So no, you can't cite an example?

> "I believe he was secretly (fired)"

I see no reason to believe that what both the board and Eich are claiming is technically false. If you define "fired" to include "you know where this is going, get out now and save some face by resigning" then yes, sure, I believe he was secretly fired.

ptomato··on UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
> Then you're basically saying that the entire board and Eich himself are liars.

I see that the board claim he was not asked by the board to resign. You can differentiate I guess between "You see which way the wind is blowing, better do what needs to be done" and "Resign or we'll fire you" but that's really a distinction without a difference and would seamlessly segue into the other state, I expect.

> but it would completely deflate the opposition in an instant

Can you cite an instance of apologizing quelling an outrage mob?

ptomato··on UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
95% probability that was "voluntarily step down or we'll fire you."
ptomato··on Employee #1: Dropbox
Still exists. https://developer.apple.com/download/more/?q=Hardware%20IO%2... is the link you're looking for.
ptomato··on iTunes will never work well
Yup, it does.
ptomato··on Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States?
> Baden-Powell's ideas aren't gospel

I'm not making any argument about what the Boy Scouts should or shouldn't do, but rather responding to the statement that Lord Baden-Powell would be disappointed by it or parts of it rejecting atheists, which is clearly false.

ptomato··on Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States?
> Lord Baden-Powell would be very disappointed at the Boy Scouts as it exists today.

Lord Baden-Powell as he was or a hypothetical version of him with modern morality applied?

"No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws. So every Scout should have a religion....Religion seems a very simple thing: First: Love and Serve God. Second: Love and serve your neighbour." - from Scouting for Boys. And, generally, he seemed to consider that pretty important.

ptomato··on How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac
Their filesystem integration would have been just as seamless without the badging. I admit the badging is a useful feature, and certainly made Dropbox better but by no means is it core to the product.
ptomato··on How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac
I honestly am not sure, it was quite some time ago. I recall being quite unhappy with something about how it handled a sync conflict but I'm not sure of the specifics.
ptomato··on How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac
Their only feature which necessitated that, as far as I know, was the sync status badge display which is hardly necessary to the product.
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