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

Not surprising. It's a giant pain to work with. Cheers

It makes the Return on Capital better. Your return isn't dramatically worse, but your invested capital is significantly lower.

About February 6-9.

Is there an updated download location? I already have a key, but my download dates from August 2018 and several files are different. Cheers

It's a well-known cognitive bias to be more convinced by authoritative-sounding answers that align with your pre-conceived views. Humans have been exploiting that for millennia. Cheers

We've had a long history of mandates in this country that were decried as not practical and would hurt the economy. To pick two simple examples, you cannot buy a car without seatbelts, or one that burns leaded gasoline. Both took far too long with lots of industry pushback, but now we would not consider a car without either. I have a delightful 400hp Audi that gets 23mpg because of mandates that have forced automakers to actually innovate rather than push the same garbage that they were giving us in the 1970s and 1980s. The (IMO, preferred) alternative to mandates is taxes. That allows the population to make economic choices as to their behavior, it still gives them the option to go one way or another, whichever makes more economic sense. That's why I prefer a carbon tax over cap and trade or mandates - you want to do this, fine, you pay more to do it. (Subsidies are a negative tax, so the same thing). I finally drove an electric vehicle for the first time last year - I loved it. There was a little bit of a challenge regarding charging since we were in a _very_ rural area, but overall it was a good experience. Given my wife's commuting habits, an electric car is likely to be next for us. And given what is going on with electrical generation with renewables, I expect a glut of solar to make the spot price go negative during the day pushing smart meters and ToD pricing. For those who talk about the drawbacks of charging electric vehicles, I can see the day within the next decade where it will be close to free to charge my vehicle during a certain time of day, and I will be able to automatically do that. When will gas prices drop by 90% 2 hours of the day, and your car automatically refill its tank with this cheap gas? 🙂 Cheers

https://caredge.com/guides/electric-vehicle-market-share-and-sales From the summary: U.S. EV market share was 10.5% in Q3 2025, a new record high. EV sales volume climbed sharply to a new high of 437,487 fully-electric vehicles sold. Tesla dropped further to 41% of U.S. EV market share. General Motors doubled EV sales since Q2 2024, while Ford’s EV sales were down. Among the nearly 90 EV models on sale, only nine posted sales above 10,000 units. The average daily commute appears to be 42 miles: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/24/average-commute-distance-us-map This can only be a productive discussion if you cite data, not whatever random opinions you want to believe.

Sounds like vaporware. If I build a revolutionary new battery technology, I'm not going to put it into a motorbike - there are other applications that will literally give you tens of billions of dollars from existing players. It's being discussed here: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/can-renewables-replace-fossil-and-nuclear-fuels.1248863/page-236 maybe in 237. Cheers

Yet another key piece of flight sim infrastructure gone. GitHub is a thing. Even if you don't want to open source right away everything is there for you to open things up when you walk away. Selfish.

As abandonware, and each new simulator platform or operating system upgrade runs the risk of breakage. Flightsim has too many dead products because their authors couldn't think beyond themselves.