x86-64 is a CISC architecture

In many cases it’s actually RISC under the hood and uses an interpreter to translate the CISC commands and run them in the most optimal manner on the silicon

ARM and RISC-V absolutely scale up to multi-hundred watt server CPUs quite easily. Just look at the Ampere systems you can rent from various VPSes for example

The big benefit that ARM and RISC-V have is they have no established backwards compatibility to keep carrying technical debt forwards. ARM versions their instruction sets and software has to be released for given versions of ARM cores, and RISC-V is simply too new to have any significant technical debt on the instruction set side.

Atom cores were notable for focusing the architecture on some instructions then other instructions would be a slog to execute, so they were really good at certain things and for desktop use (especially in the extremely budget machines they got shoved into) they were painful. Much like how eCores are now. They’re very carefully architected for power efficiency, and do their jobs extremely well, but an all eCore CPU is a slog for desktop use in many cases

There’s even extreme edgecases where a compromised machine being part of a botnet actually improves security because the malware shores up security to help itself remain persistent and not find itself removed/blocked by other malware or attackers

Oh so it’s a compatibility triangle of C being compatible with A makes it incompatible with B? Sounds like a mess for sure

Maybe I’m just not awake enough but I’m not entirely following exactly what’s going on. Can you give me a quick summary?

Forever Ago I Ran A Minecraft Server And 2 Friends Joined And One Typed Everything They Said Like This and the other managed to misspell every single word with more than 2 letters in it. They misspelled the word “the!” According to Sir Capitalizes Every Single Word, its just much easier to type that way, which raised far more questions than answers…

Hey, this must be that self-documenting code I keep hearing about

Looks like NOAA has a bunch of such data available but I really don’t understand it enough to tell if there’s an easy download link in my cursory glance.

On the subject of NOAA, did you know you can get your weather forecasts ad-free and straight from the source? Weather.gov is one of the my most frequent bookmarks because it bypasses all of the crap of commercial weather sites

As someone who’s gone to college twice, let me just tell you, go to Cupertino for that trip. Even if you have to take out additional student loans for it. Is it financially responsible? Heck no, but its something you’ll look back on and be happy you did, plus its a great networking opportunity to both get a feel for the industry you’re preparing to enter and to potentially meet people who might help you land a job later on.

This is the value I see in AI is letting human agents work way faster. An AI which is trained on your previous human-managed tickets and suggests the right queue, status and response but still allows the human agents to ultimately approve or rewrite the AI response before sending would save a mountain of work for any kind of queue work and chat support work

It’s really down to where you want the files to live. Sure synching would provide easy redundancy with a copy of the files on every machine, but that 20GB of documents or whatever would effectively become 100gb of files if it’s being synced to 5 different computers, eating up 20GB of space on every computer, meanwhile using a standard network share would give you a single centralized location with one copy of the data, then you just make backups according to whatever your backup scheme is.

That would certainly do it! Stating the obvious, here, looks like you have 3 clear paths to take:

1. Purchase Plex Pass to enable hardware transcode
2. Switch to Jellyfin to avoid paying for Plex Pass
3. Upgrade the server to something with more CPU horsepower (and of course higher energy consumption) to compensate for lack of hardware transcode support

I’m not entirely certain. QuickSync is an Intel GPU feature and generally just listed as Yes/No on ark.intel.com so I’m inclined to suspect it doesn’t have significant change from one generation to another. Most GPUs have a limited number of of video streams they can transcode at a time, so if you’re exceeding that number then I believe it will have to brute force it on the processor which will be anemic on an older Celeron. Have you verified that Plex is actually using QuickSync to transcode? If its been hitting the processor this whole time that would easily do that.

Video encoding you’ve really got 2 clear options: Either a 8th gen or newer consumer Intel chip with integrated graphics for QuickSync support or toss a GPU in there. You can also rely on raw CPU cycles for video transcode but that’s wildly energy inefficient in comparison.

I’ve heard good things about how anything AM4 compares to x99 era Intel on both raw performance and performance per watt, but I have no personal anecdata to share.

Personally I’m currently eyeing up a gaming computer refresh as the opportunity to refresh my primary server with the old components from the gaming computer, but I’m also starting with literal ewaste I scrounged for free, so pretty much anything is big upgrade.

I listen to a lot of punk music so obviously it’s strongly political. Here’s just a few off the top of my head:

• White People for Peace by Against Me!
• Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners by Against Me!
• Survivor Guilt by Rise Against
• State of the Union by Rise Against
• The Eco-Terrorist In Me by Rise Against
• 45 by Sum41
• Empty Walls by Serj Tankian
• Prison Song by System of a Down
• Christian Nationalist by Anti-Flag
• Die for your Government by Anti-Flag
• 72 hookers by NOFX
• Please Play This Song on the Radio by NOFX
• Fuck Euphemism by NOFX
• Take Back the Power by The Interrupters
• Quarantine by Blink 182

I tried to include a bit of variety and not all be anti-war songs from/about the Bush era. A couple are about the music industry specifically, and one is a musical rant about kink culture (and it’s not the one you think based on the title!) I’m also a big Rise Against fan so I tried to pull out some non-singles from accross many years since basically any song by them has a good political message. I highly recommend looking up the lyrics to all of these after the first listen or better during the second listen

Keep in mind you can only contribute to an HSA if you have a HDHP. If you don’t have an HDHP, it’s not an option.

Forgot about this part. I just saw it was an option through my bank and thought it might be a good idea. If the bank one does require being tied to an insurance account then that won’t work since my insurance has too low of a deductible to let me get an HSA

My youngest child needs speech therapy because he’s nonverbal and should be stringing full sentences together by now. Speech therapy is entirely coinsurance based so I have to pay $95/appt until I reach the $2000 deductible then I’ll be paying ~$20/appt

These appointments are biweekly and started in November. I had a long conversation with both insurance and the therapy office to clarify my options. I found out the therapy office charges only $65/appt if you don’t go through insurance, reduced the appointments to weekly, while reducing all other spending I could to stretch it out, then come end of the year (open enrollment) I maxed out the flexible spending account at $3k for the year and verified the new year didnt drastically change the insurance coverage. I still had to lean on wealthier family to help me pay for everything but pretty soon we should hit the deductible and it’ll (hopefully) be smooth sailing from there.

I’m also thinking I should setup a HSA and toss some of the tax return in there when that arrives as another line of defence. My wife tends to treat our checking account as the “available budget” so I’ve taken to shuffling money into various other accounts as that’s far easier than fighting to get her to manage money better

probably one of the last working ones in existence

I just decommissioned mine. I got it for free from my parents who got it for free from my aunt who got it with their house when they first moved to the area about 15 years ago. Only reason I decommissioned it is it no longer plays any audio from HDMI sources, and we wanted something a bit more power efficient. I plan on opening it up and seeing if I can repair it, then it’ll probably be put into another room to continue being used as a TV

Never Again*

I have certain things I don’t buy the generic for, such as Mac & Cheese and crescent rolls (one because the sauce is unmatched by off-brand and the other because the cans are impossible to open) but this is generally good advice

Bruh, it’s screeching Karen’s wasting everyone’s time trying to get something for nothing when they’re already in the wrong. Let’s bring it back to the real world, here.

I always used what flexibility was available to me to try to do right for our customers, but we had a shocking amount of people literally trying to commit insurance fraud among other things.