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ajoy39 | 4 years ago | on: Up to 600 watts of power for graphics cards with the new PCIe 5.0 powerconnector

The difference is that with GPUs nearly every model has a different layout of components around the actual chip, and those components need to be cooled too, so making a universal cold plate for them can be really challenging. The AIO I bought for my last computer could be used with any CPU, AMD or Intel, released in the past decade. The water block I bought for the GPU I put in my desktop two computers ago could only be used with reference designs of the AMD R9 290 or 290x.

There are models of GPUs with AIOs, EVGA makes their Hydro series, Gigabyte has their waterforce series. They just usually aren't worth the cost since you have to design a new full cover block not just got every generation but also usually for different cards in the same gen too.

Lastly, TDP is not a defined standard and each manufacturer defines it differently. Intel for example defines TDP as the maximum allowable power draw under full load. How that translates to actual heat output depends on architecture and process node. Intel's most recent chips for example all max out at just over 100 watts TDP, but they're known to need 200+ watts of heat dissipation for sustained workloads.

ajoy39 | 5 years ago | on: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

There is a world of difference between what you imagine and creating a digital likeness of someone else, that will almost certainly then be distributed. Comparing the to and comparing the banning of them to thought crimes is incredibly dishonest. And yes, people do have a right to their image and likeness, those rights are protected by law.

ajoy39 | 5 years ago | on: Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform

How does this have anything to do with REAL rape and REAL stolen video and images being uploaded NOW? Just because you can theoretically, in the future, make a fake video of someone having sex doesn't mean it's in any way justifiable to allow actual video of real violent crimes on your platform now. And even when this future does happen, do people no longer have a right to their own image and likeness? Is it okay simply because it's fake?

ajoy39 | 5 years ago | on: Chrome Is Bad

You're awfully confident for someone who has provided no additional evidence.

The OP claims the high CPU usage went after uninstalling chrome and rebooting their machine.

Rebooting their machine.

The thing we tell everyone to as the absolute first step in trying to solve any problem with a computer, "have you tried turning it off and on again?".

This isn't proof that chrome or keystone or anything at all caused the problem. We have nothing to determine the root cause.

ajoy39 | 7 years ago | on: Google pulls gender pronouns from Gmail Smart Compose to reduce bias

It obviously depends on the algorithm but if you train your hiring algorithm based on past hires, and your company has predominantly hired males in the past, your going to end up preselecting males. algorithms aren't bias in themselves but if you want to avoid biased results you have to be very careful on the data sets you use to train them with.

ajoy39 | 8 years ago | on: Hacking the Tax Plan: Ways to Profit Off the Republican Tax Bill

you don't pay corporate taxes with a pass through LLC. You deduct your expenses from your income, and the rest gets passed through the LLC to you as personal income. So you're getting taxed on less because you can essentially write off any expense that you can justify as being spent on the corporation itself.

The downside is, usually, that you get taxed on ALL profits personally no matter how much you actually withdraw from the LLC but if you are the only member and you're just using it for tax purposes that's less of an issue since you intend to take all the money anyway.

Disclaimer, I am not a tax professional, and I do not actually do the taxes/distributions for the LLC I part won. This is just how it was explained to me by the person who actually does those taxes.

ajoy39 | 8 years ago | on: Sublime Text 3.0

I found an old laptop I hadn't used in about 3 years, fired it up and quipped to my friends "Hah, this thing is so old it's still running the beta of ST3!"

ajoy39 | 9 years ago | on: Trump, our next president, promised to block AT&T/Time Warner merger

Obamacare also lets people under 26 stay on their parents health insurance longer, prevents insurance companies from dropping people from coverage or denying them coverage in the first case because of illness (yes, this used to be a thing in america, if you got cancer or some other disease that takes years of very expensive treatment to deal with your insurance company could just say "nah we're not paying for that" and drop you like a rock) and made health insurance affordable for millions of people who previously could not get it.

the affordable care act is far from perfect, but it's also not useless in any sense, and it needs to be modified not repealed. And yes I'm partially saying that because I and my brother will both lose and not be able to afford health insurance if it is repealed. I'm also saying that because I strongly belief in the benefits that have come out of the bill, even at the cost of some major downsides.

ajoy39 | 9 years ago | on: MacOS Sierra

had to reinstall xcode command line tools (which I should have seen coming) and then run an update on home-brew itself but all appears well now. brew doctor passes, and it updated my outdated packages just fine

ajoy39 | 9 years ago | on: There Is No Island of Trash in the Pacific

They're not saying it doesn't exist, they're saying it's been exaggerated to death to the point where the actual thing doesn't resemble the myth at all. There is no floating trash island, it's not "twice the size of texas", and in fact as stated in the article no scientifically sound estimates to it's size exist. The story was told as basically an iceberg of trash the size of a continent in the middle of the ocean and that's not at all what it really is. It exists, it's a problem, but it's not the mythical thing it's made out to be.
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