No, put all of the cars underground. It will prevent massive numbers of fatalities and perhaps make the air cleaner by keeping that nasty pollution contained.
Walking and biking are rights. Driving is only a privilege.
This is the same guide I followed in my own quest for a good homemade french fry. After many attempts following other tips (par boiling, double or triple frying, adding corn starch), I found this guide, tried it, and bam. Crispy (fairly), fresh, delicious french fries WITH a perfect texture inside.
I par boil and freeze now, sometimes double frying but sometimes not. The only remaining issue I have is the fact that modern home-use deep fryers are all limited to relatively low temperatures and capacities. This makes it hard to get a good crisp without burning or soaking the fries in oil. Double fry takes too long because you have to wait for the oil to reheat, and if you're doing more than 1 batch, forget about it.
I was seriously considering buying a thousand dollar commercial unit just for french fries (and a wall mounted fry press), but freezing has elevated my fries so much that I no longer see it as necessary. If I want a harder crisp on them I'll throw them in a hot oven toaster oven for a bit after frying. That has the bonus of keeping them warm (and uneaten) while I work on the next batch.
I both par boil AND freeze. Par boiling is to make it easier to crisp up the outside and removes excess starch (much better than an ice bath), but it isn't strictly necessary. You can also oven bake at high temperatures after (which makes it easier if you're cooking multiple batches) or double fry (which takes forever for a decent sized batch in a home fryers as you have to reheat the oil). It doesn't do shit for the inside. Par boiling alone will give you a softer inside, but it will be rubbery and mushy. I consider it worse than doing nothing.
Frozen fries are better. You get a better texture inside if you freeze first. What sucks about McDonalds fries is that they're too thin and they're often limp because they rush it.
Yup, Burger King makes the best fast food burgers out of all the big chains. They're still way behind places like In N' Out and whatnot, but I think we're calling them "fast casual" now.
1: Installs as if you're doing a dirty reinstallation of the OS, leaving you a "Windows.old" directory to revert to (if you're lucky it'll actually work). 2: Completely changes a bunch of Group Policy settings and Registry keys for things system admins need to control, like the various spying "features", the ads in the start menu and notification pane, the automatically deployed applications from the Store, etc. 3: Fucks your drivers, because fuck you.
In terms of actual features for users? Nothing anyone cares about. The "big thing" now is the SUPER ULTRA ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE mode. Which just means it disables relevant power plan shit so your CPU never clocks down because of Windows. (The hardware itself will still be able to control its own clocks, of course.) I have no idea why anyone would want this. It would be a placebo. The CPU ramps up when under load faster than anyone would ever notice.
Oh, I'm entirely sure that the WinSxS folder DOESN'T work.
MS's solution to that whole mess? Reinstall Windows twice a year and any broken dependencies are your problem. This is why Windows 8/8.1/10 have big updates with stupid names ("Fall Creators Update") that actually perform a dirty reinstall of Windows, leaving you a Windows.old directory for a week or so in case you need to revert.
Careful there, not sure about these particular ones but Intel's current crop emaciates the Samsung even though on paper and synthetical benchmarks (IOPS and transfer rate) the Samsung does better.
Testing it myself, the Samsung does good until you transfer ~2-3GB and then it drops like a brick to the lower 1000s of IOPS instead of the 100,000 or more it gave you.
The problem there is that Samsung gives you a good RAM cache (backed up with huge capacitors on their DataCenter models) but once you request synced rates or exceed that cache, the controller lags behind. In the mean time, the Intel continues chugging along at 70-90k IOPS.
What drive are you testing, exactly? Is it an NVMe drive? Are you using the proper drivers from Samsung? If you're on Windows, the default driver from MS is kind of shitty. You'll want to download the NVMe driver from Samsung. I'm not sure what the situation is on Linux.
The 960 series from Samsung has much better sustained IOPS performance after reaching steady state and in an extended load than the 950 series. It approaches that of the Samsung/Intel enterprise drives (which have gobs of over provisioning). I'm not sure how the 860 series behaves, but that's limited by SATA anyway.
You can drastically improve minimum IOPS by increasing over provisioning using Samsung Magician. I haven't tried this on any of the boxes I care about performance on, though. On those I use RAID.
If you care about latency you're going to want to just keep your shit in RAM. That's the trend on the enterprise side.
Consumers and even high end gamers do not benefit from that small latency advantage. Optane drives only beat traditional drives when you do synthetic, random access tests or crank the queue depth down for no reason. People moving large files don't benefit. Gamers don't benefit - assets are loaded from sequential blobs and (ideally) kept in RAM/VRAM. People working with media and shit don't benefit as their video/design/etc. files are big sequential blobs.
About the only real life, consumer level workloads that I can see benefiting are virus scans and code compiling.
The focus on latency by review sites is because INTEL IS PAYING THEM.
This started back with the 900P on PC Perspective. PC Perspective developed their own benchmark just for reviewing these new drives from Intel.
Except, that's not what happened. What happened was Intel approached "Shrout Research", which is run by Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective. Intel paid him money for a "white paper", gave him samples of the product for that white paper, and gave him direction on what the white paper should say and how to test things.
PC Perspective then took the conclusions from the white paper and presented it as an unbiased review, without disclosing the fact that the site owner was paid for that shit, or that the site was using the samples given for the "white paper" as the samples tested in the review (which is why they had so many to test with when other sites were lucky to get one), or that they white paper even existed.
PC Perspective got called out on all of this. Their response? Adding a vague disclaimer to the very end of the very last page of the review.
Disclaimer:
Ownership of PC Perspective also operates consulting firm Shrout Research. Shrout Research has provided research, consulting, and analysis for many companies in the high-tech industry including AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Arm. A white paper was published by Shrout Research using 900P engineering samples and was commissioned by Intel. All testing for this review was conducted separately and on retail samples of the 900P. This review was not commissioned or sponsored by Intel.
That disclaimer should actually say: Intel paid for this review and our new testing methodology that focuses on the only thing that Optane is good at.
We know that the review testing was not conducted separately from the white paper (people have gone through both and shown that shit was copied) and we know that they didn't buy their own retail products to test with (based on the date the review was published and the availability of the product).
PC Perspective has been scrambling to downplay this and spin it ever since some Scottish YouTube guy called them out on this shit. But at the end of the day, tech sites that review these things are suddenly starting to care about latency as the biggest thing? GEE, I WONDER WHY!
These things CLAIM to have impressive endurance. That remains to be seen.
During Xpoint's development, just about every promised spec, including endurance, was decreased by several orders of magnitude. When the first generation of Xpoint devices launched, they included a huge amount of extra hardware for over provisioning. If Xpoint doesn't need it, why include it? And why so much of it (more than an SSD needs).
Further, the only endurance spec that matters is the one on the box. Samsung's products carry a similar warranty for a much lower cost. And they're proven in the real world.
Anyone needing that small latency advantage for random access workloads already has something much better. RAM. Even with the ridiculous RAM prices now, the trend is moving to in-memory computing for workloads that benefit from it.
what we need is control of OUR computer back. updates when WE WANT THEM, not when you insist upon slowing down our internet, consuming our precious quotas, and rebooting whenever the fuck you want.
fuck, just today, we had a pc launch the "upgrade assistant' which went and started downloading fcu while windows update was also already downloading it... attempts to remove the "assistant" were met with it magically reappearing over and over, even after reboots, and, yes, downloading the 4 fucking gigabytes itself over a metered connection again with windows update's own download of the same damn thing. we had to disconnect the pc from the internet, manually download the installer to a usb drive on a different pc, and run the 'upgrade' from that removable drive instead.
we also want absolute and full transparency (i hate that term, but it applies here) on exactly what data you're gathering on us, and allowing us absolute and full control to turn that spying shit off.
Nah, that would just further expose the fact that Windows Explorer is fundamentally broken and isn't even aware enough to handle the various links in NTFS properly.
For example, in Windows Vista and 7, you've got the dreaded WinSxS folder, which stands for "Windows Side by Side". This folder basically stores copies of every version of every library/etc. that's been installed on your system. It grows in size forever. Don't worry, though - MS says it's just REPORTING that large size, but not actually USING it, because while there are many duplicate copies of files in there, they're only hard links.
Of course, since Explorer and the rest of the OS (including dir) are unaware of the hard links, everything reports the hard links as being copies and the effect is your hard drive runs out of usable space even though it's not actually filling up.
A "cord cutter" is one who is paying for cable, but only paying the ISP for the data portion of it, then paying Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/Whoever for the traditional content (or simply stealing it). And as we've seen, costs keep going up for those other services, and content keeps getting siloed off or pulled into brand new services that have only one or two things people want to see.
"Cord cutting" hasn't really changed the industry for the better. Piracy has, though, because services need to compete with that convenience and their's a lower ceiling to the price people are willing to pay when they can go and get shit for free.
It seems to me Lucas and Disney and an entire army of shitty fan fic / EU "writers" shat on everyone's memories (childhood or otherwise) with the release of everything after Return of the Jedi.
Did you like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Did you jerk yourself off when watching Chris Pratt be smart enough to train raptors, but not smart enough to use a human sized door to enter a giant dinosaur enclosure in Jurassic World?
Hollywood is shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
All of the EU Star Wars shit is crap. I don't care what Disney has canonized, or which shitty cartoon came in after the last canonical axe fell.
Star Wars canon is: Star Wars Star Wars: Holiday Special Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi The various Star Wars PSAs from the era of the original trilogy (drunk driving, immunization, etc.)
I'd even accept the prequel trilogies before I accept the shitty CGI cartoons and the Disney shit.
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No, that's not what anyone credible said.
We now have credible informants detailing big reveals coming soon (possibly this week).
#releasethevideo #hrcvideo etc.
Reddit is trash. The administrators and most of the users are liberal zealots. Pizzagate is real, and we'll learn a lot more in a couple of days.
No, put all of the cars underground. It will prevent massive numbers of fatalities and perhaps make the air cleaner by keeping that nasty pollution contained.
Walking and biking are rights. Driving is only a privilege.
Biking is not a right, you cuck.
You've got that backwards. There are plenty of liberal conspiracies masquerading as science.
This is the same guide I followed in my own quest for a good homemade french fry. After many attempts following other tips (par boiling, double or triple frying, adding corn starch), I found this guide, tried it, and bam. Crispy (fairly), fresh, delicious french fries WITH a perfect texture inside.
I par boil and freeze now, sometimes double frying but sometimes not. The only remaining issue I have is the fact that modern home-use deep fryers are all limited to relatively low temperatures and capacities. This makes it hard to get a good crisp without burning or soaking the fries in oil. Double fry takes too long because you have to wait for the oil to reheat, and if you're doing more than 1 batch, forget about it.
I was seriously considering buying a thousand dollar commercial unit just for french fries (and a wall mounted fry press), but freezing has elevated my fries so much that I no longer see it as necessary. If I want a harder crisp on them I'll throw them in a hot oven toaster oven for a bit after frying. That has the bonus of keeping them warm (and uneaten) while I work on the next batch.
WRONG.
I both par boil AND freeze. Par boiling is to make it easier to crisp up the outside and removes excess starch (much better than an ice bath), but it isn't strictly necessary. You can also oven bake at high temperatures after (which makes it easier if you're cooking multiple batches) or double fry (which takes forever for a decent sized batch in a home fryers as you have to reheat the oil). It doesn't do shit for the inside. Par boiling alone will give you a softer inside, but it will be rubbery and mushy. I consider it worse than doing nothing.
Wrong, retard! Vinegar is necessary.
Frozen fries are better. You get a better texture inside if you freeze first. What sucks about McDonalds fries is that they're too thin and they're often limp because they rush it.
Yup, Burger King makes the best fast food burgers out of all the big chains. They're still way behind places like In N' Out and whatnot, but I think we're calling them "fast casual" now.
That will only delay it. After a certain amount of time, it will ignore your wishes and download anyway.
No. Every major update does three things:
1: Installs as if you're doing a dirty reinstallation of the OS, leaving you a "Windows.old" directory to revert to (if you're lucky it'll actually work).
2: Completely changes a bunch of Group Policy settings and Registry keys for things system admins need to control, like the various spying "features", the ads in the start menu and notification pane, the automatically deployed applications from the Store, etc.
3: Fucks your drivers, because fuck you.
In terms of actual features for users? Nothing anyone cares about. The "big thing" now is the SUPER ULTRA ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE mode. Which just means it disables relevant power plan shit so your CPU never clocks down because of Windows. (The hardware itself will still be able to control its own clocks, of course.) I have no idea why anyone would want this. It would be a placebo. The CPU ramps up when under load faster than anyone would ever notice.
Oh, I'm entirely sure that the WinSxS folder DOESN'T work.
MS's solution to that whole mess? Reinstall Windows twice a year and any broken dependencies are your problem.
This is why Windows 8/8.1/10 have big updates with stupid names ("Fall Creators Update") that actually perform a dirty reinstall of Windows, leaving you a Windows.old directory for a week or so in case you need to revert.
Careful there, not sure about these particular ones but Intel's current crop emaciates the Samsung even though on paper and synthetical benchmarks (IOPS and transfer rate) the Samsung does better.
Testing it myself, the Samsung does good until you transfer ~2-3GB and then it drops like a brick to the lower 1000s of IOPS instead of the 100,000 or more it gave you.
The problem there is that Samsung gives you a good RAM cache (backed up with huge capacitors on their DataCenter models) but once you request synced rates or exceed that cache, the controller lags behind. In the mean time, the Intel continues chugging along at 70-90k IOPS.
What drive are you testing, exactly? Is it an NVMe drive?
Are you using the proper drivers from Samsung? If you're on Windows, the default driver from MS is kind of shitty. You'll want to download the NVMe driver from Samsung. I'm not sure what the situation is on Linux.
The 960 series from Samsung has much better sustained IOPS performance after reaching steady state and in an extended load than the 950 series. It approaches that of the Samsung/Intel enterprise drives (which have gobs of over provisioning). I'm not sure how the 860 series behaves, but that's limited by SATA anyway.
You can drastically improve minimum IOPS by increasing over provisioning using Samsung Magician. I haven't tried this on any of the boxes I care about performance on, though. On those I use RAID.
If you care about latency you're going to want to just keep your shit in RAM. That's the trend on the enterprise side.
Consumers and even high end gamers do not benefit from that small latency advantage. Optane drives only beat traditional drives when you do synthetic, random access tests or crank the queue depth down for no reason. People moving large files don't benefit. Gamers don't benefit - assets are loaded from sequential blobs and (ideally) kept in RAM/VRAM. People working with media and shit don't benefit as their video/design/etc. files are big sequential blobs.
About the only real life, consumer level workloads that I can see benefiting are virus scans and code compiling.
The focus on latency by review sites is because INTEL IS PAYING THEM.
This started back with the 900P on PC Perspective. PC Perspective developed their own benchmark just for reviewing these new drives from Intel.
https://www.pcper.com/reviews/...
Except, that's not what happened. What happened was Intel approached "Shrout Research", which is run by Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective. Intel paid him money for a "white paper", gave him samples of the product for that white paper, and gave him direction on what the white paper should say and how to test things.
PC Perspective then took the conclusions from the white paper and presented it as an unbiased review, without disclosing the fact that the site owner was paid for that shit, or that the site was using the samples given for the "white paper" as the samples tested in the review (which is why they had so many to test with when other sites were lucky to get one), or that they white paper even existed.
PC Perspective got called out on all of this. Their response? Adding a vague disclaimer to the very end of the very last page of the review.
Disclaimer:
Ownership of PC Perspective also operates consulting firm Shrout Research. Shrout Research has provided research, consulting, and analysis for many companies in the high-tech industry including AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Arm. A white paper was published by Shrout Research using 900P engineering samples and was commissioned by Intel. All testing for this review was conducted separately and on retail samples of the 900P. This review was not commissioned or sponsored by Intel.
That disclaimer should actually say: Intel paid for this review and our new testing methodology that focuses on the only thing that Optane is good at.
We know that the review testing was not conducted separately from the white paper (people have gone through both and shown that shit was copied) and we know that they didn't buy their own retail products to test with (based on the date the review was published and the availability of the product).
PC Perspective has been scrambling to downplay this and spin it ever since some Scottish YouTube guy called them out on this shit. But at the end of the day, tech sites that review these things are suddenly starting to care about latency as the biggest thing? GEE, I WONDER WHY!
These things CLAIM to have impressive endurance. That remains to be seen.
During Xpoint's development, just about every promised spec, including endurance, was decreased by several orders of magnitude.
When the first generation of Xpoint devices launched, they included a huge amount of extra hardware for over provisioning. If Xpoint doesn't need it, why include it? And why so much of it (more than an SSD needs).
Further, the only endurance spec that matters is the one on the box. Samsung's products carry a similar warranty for a much lower cost. And they're proven in the real world.
Anyone needing that small latency advantage for random access workloads already has something much better. RAM.
Even with the ridiculous RAM prices now, the trend is moving to in-memory computing for workloads that benefit from it.
In every spec that matters, these are far worse than Samsung's 950 and 960 offerings.
Maybe next time, Intel!
what we need is control of OUR computer back. updates when WE WANT THEM, not when you insist upon slowing down our internet, consuming our precious quotas, and rebooting whenever the fuck you want.
fuck, just today, we had a pc launch the "upgrade assistant' which went and started downloading fcu while windows update was also already downloading it... attempts to remove the "assistant" were met with it magically reappearing over and over, even after reboots, and, yes, downloading the 4 fucking gigabytes itself over a metered connection again with windows update's own download of the same damn thing. we had to disconnect the pc from the internet, manually download the installer to a usb drive on a different pc, and run the 'upgrade' from that removable drive instead.
we also want absolute and full transparency (i hate that term, but it applies here) on exactly what data you're gathering on us, and allowing us absolute and full control to turn that spying shit off.
No.
- Satya Nadella
Every other file manager has it.
Nah, that would just further expose the fact that Windows Explorer is fundamentally broken and isn't even aware enough to handle the various links in NTFS properly.
For example, in Windows Vista and 7, you've got the dreaded WinSxS folder, which stands for "Windows Side by Side". This folder basically stores copies of every version of every library/etc. that's been installed on your system. It grows in size forever. Don't worry, though - MS says it's just REPORTING that large size, but not actually USING it, because while there are many duplicate copies of files in there, they're only hard links.
Of course, since Explorer and the rest of the OS (including dir) are unaware of the hard links, everything reports the hard links as being copies and the effect is your hard drive runs out of usable space even though it's not actually filling up.
The world would be much better off if people weren't forced to pay for shit they don't use or want.
Isn't fast-loading minimalist advertising kind of the center of Google's revenue stream?
No, it isn't.
A "cord cutter" is one who is paying for cable, but only paying the ISP for the data portion of it, then paying Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/Whoever for the traditional content (or simply stealing it). And as we've seen, costs keep going up for those other services, and content keeps getting siloed off or pulled into brand new services that have only one or two things people want to see.
"Cord cutting" hasn't really changed the industry for the better. Piracy has, though, because services need to compete with that convenience and their's a lower ceiling to the price people are willing to pay when they can go and get shit for free.
It seems to me Lucas and Disney and an entire army of shitty fan fic / EU "writers" shat on everyone's memories (childhood or otherwise) with the release of everything after Return of the Jedi.
Did you like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Did you jerk yourself off when watching Chris Pratt be smart enough to train raptors, but not smart enough to use a human sized door to enter a giant dinosaur enclosure in Jurassic World?
Hollywood is shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
2 chicks at the same time.
All of the EU Star Wars shit is crap. I don't care what Disney has canonized, or which shitty cartoon came in after the last canonical axe fell.
Star Wars canon is:
Star Wars
Star Wars: Holiday Special
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
The various Star Wars PSAs from the era of the original trilogy (drunk driving, immunization, etc.)
I'd even accept the prequel trilogies before I accept the shitty CGI cartoons and the Disney shit.
His audience is gaming and computing savvy.
Nope, his audience is tweens and early teens who don't know shit and love ridiculous clickbait.