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fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: Welcoming Beat Games to Facebook

Yeah, there's no doubt in my mind that this is a bad thing for the game and VR in general. We need less platform lock in, not more.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed on Thursday

Don't trust the hardware survey. If the headset isn't plugged in it doesn't exist. Not many people leave the headset plugged in 24/7, so I don't think the HW survey is a reliable source.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed on Thursday

I don't think it's actually trending downward, the hardware survey only shows devices connected at the time. I have two vr headsets and I only plug them in when I'm actually using them, so according to the survey I don't have one. I'm sure a lot of people do the same. Also, totally ancedotal evidence, but four of my friends bought into VR in the last few months since the price finally came down low enough for them to do it and they wanted to play Beat Saber. If that can sell headsets Half Life certainly can.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review

It seems like ECC support is pretty widespread, I know for a fact that my Asus Prime X570-PRO has an option for ECC memory in the bios and it's a midrange board. Might depend on the board manufacturer to enable it. Asus seems to have it in most if not all of their boards.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: The future of my games on Apple and what this means for art games

FYI Steam doesn't even have content restrictions on the marketplace now. There's a ton of adult games on there now. So not the best point.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend

Hmm, I see 1.0.0.3abba was released for that board on 9-18-2019. That should include the fix, although I'm not an expert, maybe it isn't there for some reason?

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend

You would definitely be fine as long as you're using an updated motherboard with at least AGESA 1003ABB, which would be any x570 board and likely the vast majority of x470s by now.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend

It was patched for almost all systems almost immediately like he said. I suspect the reason he still had the bug was due to the Asrock Rack X470D4U motherboard being an older generation board, and also a micro atx server board of all things. They might have only sold a couple hundred of them total in a niche like that so it's not too surprising it would be a low priority on the bios update list.

I also find it kind of funny that he calls Asrock Asus every single time he mentions them in the article. If he was trying to install an Asus bios on his Asrock mobo then he's got bigger problems than this bug.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU

Yes, I know, but it never actually goes below 4.0 for me on all cores when doing a render. The 4.6 was referring to my 4770k which was at 4.6 on all cores all the time.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

I see you've met my CTO.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

Can being the keyword. None of that is even close to required. You have the option to tinker, you aren't required to.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU

Not sure what cpus you're looking at but everything in the desktop space is over 4ghz nowadays. My last cpu was at 4.6ghz its entire life and my 3900x stays at over 4ghz on all 12 cores when doing a render.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicated server and Go

The website it's linked on is called widgetsandshit.com. I think that's a bigger problem if you're that worried.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: If You're Poor in America, You Can Be Both Overweight and Hungry

Seriously, the attitudes of so many people on here are absolutely disgusting. Why don't we throw all the poor people in camps while we're at it?

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try

I remember my uncle playing my copy of Bioshock way back when, he walked up to a random door and typed in 0451 and it opened. My mind was blown.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks

I can believe it, Google pestered me to review a bubble tea place I drive by every day. I've never stopped there and never will but I continued to get the popup until I finally gave the place a 1-star rating just to shut Google up. Not really fair to the business but I was sick of seeing that notification.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit

Weirdly enough it works for me from Edge but not Chrome.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench

Have you seen the Asrock Deskmini A300? It's not quite NUC sized but it's very close. I think it would fit the bill for you.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

You really think any cashier is going to read the microtext on every bill they get? You practically need a magnifying glass just to see the typo. It's an absolute non-issue no matter what way you spin it.

fivefive55 | 6 years ago | on: Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says

I know you're just using Netflix as an example, but has anyone actually had that app pulled from their TV? I have an old 32 inch Vizio smart tv that I bought back in 2011 and all my big apps still work on it, albeit kind of slowly. Netflix, Prime, Vudu, all still available.