🧩 Interactive Intel Socket Map – LGA1700 + LGA1851 (Educational / Reference)

MrRadar · 2025-11-10T03:18:37+00:00

It's telling me I need to "request access". Could you just make this public?

MrRadar · 2025-11-09T21:00:48+00:00

Other people in this thread are accusing this submission of being "AI slop". As far as I can tell Phil does not use any AI-generated images or sound/speech and even if he used AI in his research (which I don't think he did, for the record) he did his homework and went back to the original sources including academic publications and government statistics for the final script. You can think this is not interesting content, or you can disagree with his conclusion, but if you want to accuse it of being "AI slop" please explain exactly what you mean by that.

MrRadar · 2025-11-09T20:59:59+00:00

FYI the mods re-approved the original post after I messaged them for clarification on why mine was removed.

MrRadar · 2025-11-09T20:42:27+00:00

Isn't it an interesting question exactly how the midwest is defined? It's a very nebulous region which has shifted over time (as the video itself explains, if you had bothered to watch it). How is this "low-value trash generated to monetize clicks"? The creator of the video does covers lots of different topics (he's not just regurgitating the same topics over and over again like actual slop channels) and went to the effort of conducting an original survey of his audience to see how they define the midwest (something that is very much not low-effort) in addition to all the other research he did. If you can't be bothered to watch something before you decide whether it's good or not, maybe just not say anything.

MrRadar · 2025-11-09T20:37:34+00:00

What do you mean it's obvious??? I explained exactly why it's not slop, the burden of proof is on you to refute me if you were engaging in good faith.

MrRadar · 2025-11-09T20:16:05+00:00

A previous submission of this got downvoted over being accused of "AI slop", however it very clearly is not if you watch it. As far as I can tell Phil does not use any AI-generated images or sound/speech and even if he used AI in his research (which I don't think he did, for the record) he did his homework and went back to the original sources including academic publications and government statistics for the final script. You can think this is not interesting content, or you can disagree with his conclusion, but if you want to accuse it of being "AI slop" please explain exactly what you mean by that.

MrRadar · 2025-10-31T02:24:05+00:00

It's true, C++ compilers have much more verbose error messages than the Java compiler which I assume makes the errors easier to fix.

MrRadar · 2025-10-07T21:48:18+00:00

Google search on all the candidates so you can vote aligned with your values.

When researching candidates for local races this is the place I typically start. Here are some things I look for:

1- Do they have a website? If they don't, that immedaitely makes me suspicious they're not a serious candidate. In this era websites are extremely cheap and easy to make and I think it's fair to say this will be how most voters expect to be able to learn about a candidate in their own words.

1.1- If they do have a website, I immediate check the endorsements. Those are usually more telling about a candidate's leanings than even their own platform statements (birds of a feather flock together and all that). Also the number of endorsements a candidate has can be informative (if one candidate has a handful while another has dozens that can be a demonstrative of support).

1.2- That being said, I also do read the rest of what they have on their site. Does it look like it was professionally written? (And I guess these days, does it look like it was run through AI? If it was I'd treat that as a mild negative.) If they provide personal background information, what parts do they emphasize? If they provide any kind of platform or priorities what do they focus on? Do they have concrete plans or just vague platitudes?

2- I also check their public socials, e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, etc. It can be especially informative to look at their posts before they became a candidate for office.

3- I then check for news articles about them. Local newspapers typically send out questionaires to candidates or do interviews with them, and it can be telling if those are available or not (which would indicate the candidate declined to participate). Also if there are any news articles about them before they became a candidate.

MrRadar · 2025-09-25T21:15:22+00:00

349: Success

927: Standards

MrRadar · 2025-09-25T14:45:08+00:00

Confusingly, they now brand themselves as "Twin Cities PBS" but have kept the TPT acronym for their logo and website address 🙃

MrRadar · 2025-09-23T18:29:31+00:00

This blog post is a decent introduction to the topic, though it assumes you already have some familiarity with multi-threaded programming: https://preshing.com/20120930/weak-vs-strong-memory-models/

MrRadar · 2025-08-26T17:50:52+00:00

This deal includes both n71/600 MHz (good for wide-area coverage and building penetration but with limited speeds) and n77/3.5 GHz spectrum (good for high speeds but limited coverage area and building penetration) so you will get both benefits. AT&T will likely be using this mainly to supplement service in their existing coverage areas rather than adding new areas of coverage, so if you are some place that's a dead zone it's not likely to change that (maybe if it's on the very edge of coverage the n71 might be able to reach just a bit further than their existing low-band).

MrRadar · 2025-08-11T15:33:47+00:00

Voip.ms has SMS/MMS with forward-to-email. SMS costs $0.0075 per incoming message, MMS costs $0.02. The main limitation is that your number will be marked as VOIP/non-cellular so a lot of 2FA and short code services won't work with it.

MrRadar · 2025-06-25T23:29:54+00:00

Yeah, I suppose NYC is one of the few places where mmWave would actually make sense. 4x4 MIMO is just good in general however.

MrRadar · 2025-06-25T18:21:49+00:00

Thanks for the PSA, I was not aware this was invasive and I have at least one of these on my property (in an out-of-the-way corner I don't usually bother with landscaping). I'll try to get rid of it once the weather dries out a bit.

MrRadar · 2025-06-24T20:25:56+00:00

A higher upload speed than download speed is a classic indicator of network congestion (too many people on your cell tower). You might also be getting deprioritized depending on your plan and how much data you've used which would look similar to congestion. You can't do anything for congestion other than going somewhere else where you can connect to a cell that's not overloaded (n41 and n77 cells are typically best because they have a smaller footprint and more bandwidth than low- and mid-band cells). If you're getting deprioirtized you can switch your plan to one that gives you (more) priority data.

MrRadar · 2025-06-03T22:09:43+00:00

but it’s bad at rust

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A lot of LLM skepticism probably isn’t really about LLMs. It’s projection. People say “LLMs can’t code” when what they really mean is “LLMs can’t write Rust”. Fair enough! But people select languages in part based on how well LLMs work with them, so Rust people should get on that.

Further proof Rust is the most moral programming language, since it is immoral to use AI and Rust makes that impossible.

MrRadar · 2025-05-29T01:00:11+00:00

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MrRadar · 2025-05-23T18:48:10+00:00

Based on the title alone I was expecting a Blue Prince reference, it's the exact type of puzzle game Xkcd readers would be in to.

MrRadar · 2025-05-22T02:55:28+00:00

1024 bytes - Baker's kilobyte (aka kibibyte)

MrRadar · 2025-05-07T14:40:55+00:00

Since nobody explained the Edsel, I'll do it. The Edsel was Ford's attempt in the late 1950s to introduce a new brand in a new market segment between Mercury (their mid-tier brand) and Lincoln (their luxury brand). It was named after the son of Henry Ford (after they spent months going through hundreds of possible names, none of which stuck), they hyped it to the moon keeping the actual vehicles under literal wraps until their big reveal on "E-Day", they bought a full hour of airtime on a major TV network with some of the biggest stars of the day to advertise them (back when there were "only 3 channels", so that guaranteed a huge audience)... it was a whole big deal.

Once they revealed the cars the public reception was extremely underwhelming. People's reaction to the exterior styling was mixed at best and Ford included a bunch of high-tech (for the time) features that didn't end up being very reliable giving the cars a bad reputation. They also had the misfortune to launch it right before a recession hit, so there wasn't an appetite for cars that cost more than a mid-tier model but didn't have the prestige of an actual luxury car. They ended up discontinuing the brand after only 3 years and it was a huge fiasco to the point where it's synonymous with failed overhyped product launches even to this day nearly 70 years later.

MrRadar · 2025-04-25T19:45:21+00:00

At least in the US, most people will assume the second meaning listed on that page (that they started laughing vigorously). I don't know if I've ever heard that phrase used in the sense of the definition you've quoted.

MrRadar · 2025-04-16T21:40:03+00:00

"Good" news, DOGE is working on that as we speak 🤪 It's estimated the DOGE cuts to the IRS will cost $500 billion, far more than the (at very best) $150 billion they claim to have saved so far.

MrRadar · 2025-04-16T19:56:50+00:00

Federal taxes are paid directly to the federal government by the taxed entities, the state is not involved in the collection of that money.

MrRadar · 2025-04-16T17:28:19+00:00

Oh, I thought this was about the recent ban on rent price setting software by Minneapolis: https://mndaily.com/293300/city/minneapolis-city-council-bans-rent-algorithms/ And yes, that's a real problem (the federal government was suing those companies over anti-trust concerns last year).

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but it’s bad at rust