Luke

I am shocked that a 32-core, 64-thread CPU will outdo a 16-core, 32-thread CPU. Who would have guessed? 🙂 The point is not absolute performance; it's filling a niche above the 9950X3D and below ThreadRipper. Is the niche large enough to be viable? Maybe, maybe not. But it's not an exercise in grift as you make it out - it's half the size of your ThreadRipper but only $900 instead of $3900. At that price/performance ratio, seems like a pretty good deal to me.

What workloads do you have that require high core count? Are you running a render farm or doing video editing/encoding/compression at volume? Cheers

It's an HEDT chip for people who don't next the extra PCIe lanes or ECC support (and therefore is actually VERY AFFORDABLE for those people considering ThreadRipper just for the core count). You're not the target market. Your outrage is likely caused by that mistake.

It's not a gaming chip - if anything it's an HEDT chip for folks that don't have the I/O demands of ThreadRipper. I'm not sure why all the outrage. Cheers

I'm curious as to the rationale behind that, unless they are counting support. The marginal unit cost of software is essentially zero. And there's a solution for the support costs. 😉 Cheers

I'm reminded of the punch line - "we already know what kind of woman you are, we're just haggling over price." At the end of the day, we're not animals, and we're just talking degrees of assault. If it would get me hauled into court to see a magistrate if I did it to an adult, it's amazing that people are comfortable doing to a child who is incapable of fighting back or defending themselves. Doesn't matter. Even if they are less likely to step out of line, why don't they face the same punishment if it is so effective? I don't see why, if it's so effective as a means of corrective behavior and treating respect for authority. Why not a rap across the knuckles with the cane if one is habitually late for work or mouths off at the boss? There's a reason we stop corporal punishment at a certain age, and it's not because people have figured out social behavior. There's plenty of inappropriate behavior by adults. We stop because they've figured it out, in the sense that they're big enough to hit back. My mother used to hit me regularly, until one day I got angry and hit her back. I guess I figured it out, because she never did it again. To me, hitting children who are incapable to resisting or fighting back is just abuse. And as we see, there's plenty of people who are former abusers or justifiers of said abuse.

I have two questions for you. 1. If beatings are so effective, why not use them on girls? 2. If beatings are so effective, why limit them to people who cannot fight back? Surely their effectiveness would be enhanced in areas with larger impact, like the workplace. Inquiring minds want to know.

There but for the grace of God go I. I've had a two year old stuck in a 2h ground delay pass out about five minutes before she would have completely melted down. I have tremendous sympathy for others who are less lucky than I was. This forum is turning into the grumpy old men complaining and talking about whatever Youtube nonsense got in their feed today. 😕

A great article in the Atlantic - discussing how automation in cars decreases vigilance. It's the same challenge with autopilots - 99% of the time they are better than humans, but the other 1% of the time it's thrown back to a human with insufficient time to react or resolve. The other challenge - especially with consumer goods such as cars - is how big business weaponizes the TOS to blame the driver for what is fundamentally a systems fault. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/self-driving-car-technology-tesla-crash/686054/?gift=ObTAI8oDbHXe8UjwAQKul6acU0KJHCMEsvPjPPlG_MM Cheers

Cars catching on fire? Old news. https://www.statista.com/statistics/377006/nmber-of-us-highway-vehicle-fires/

I am shocked, shocked to hear this.

Same thing that happened to Boeing. The engineers in the C-suite got replaced by MBAs. Cheers

What they paid in 1970 is probably more than a first class seat would cost today - and at least internationally, First is way better than what it was in 1970. You get what you pay for. Cheers

What does the GSX log say? Cheers

It's almost certainly some bad scenery. You'll need to disable it one by one until you find the offender. Cheers