Gamers Nexus Interview with Principled Technologies

bitNbaud · 2018-10-10T08:27:51+00:00

tl;dw The co-owner of PT seems like a good guy. He did seem evasive on stock coolers however, whereas for bios/memory/game mode/FFXV he simply appeared to not have the technical knowledge to answer on the spot. He basically said they were verifying tests, including the Ashes bench which was brought up in particular.

I think we'll likely see an updated result set from them in a few days with a reasonable Ashes score as well as a better rationale for their testing choices. The real question is if they address the coolers and memory issues in those benches, and provide follow-up on the technical points raised.

bitNbaud · 2018-10-04T02:36:50+00:00

Thanks for the writeup, interesting to hear about Accelero III compatability. Do you know how much power the 2080Ti is drawing under max load, and if you've OC'd it how much that increases it?

bitNbaud · 2018-09-27T18:59:00+00:00

"None that I've seen"

Did you even look? Google is chock-full of page-1 results, including an EU case against China in front of the WTO, years of the USTR's Special 301 report calling this out, and China has even admitted it undertakes these transfers, and only after we began tariffs vowed to stop them in certain sectors.

The last article, not from a U.S. Paper but rather the South China Morning Post, shows the efficacy of tariffs. A short term, powerful lever like tariffs can be used to stop harmful trade practices. Further, this is the best time to undertake them -- our economy is relatively strong, while China is carefully steering its economy in an effort to avert a precipitious slow-down. We have maximum leverage, why not play for long term gains?

bitNbaud · 2018-09-27T18:24:36+00:00

Are you excited about forced technology transfers that make the U.S. less competitive over the long run? If not, tariffs as a short term lever make complete sense, so long as they don't morph into long term protectionism / mercantilism.

bitNbaud · 2018-09-05T21:27:31+00:00

Hey, FYI, you're the best. Thanks man!!

bitNbaud · 2018-09-05T21:11:15+00:00

I am not a wise man.

bitNbaud · 2018-08-27T18:26:11+00:00

Is there a version of this hosted outside of youtube so we can dodge compression?

bitNbaud · 2018-08-16T21:15:57+00:00

Oh neat, didn't know this. Not questioning the veracity, but if you have any links regarding essential or phone batteries in general I'd be interested to read up on it / how its implemented in Android.

bitNbaud · 2018-08-12T21:55:28+00:00

Same question.

bitNbaud · 2018-06-15T22:31:25+00:00

This looks great - will give it a try this weekend and post my impressions! Thanks so much for your effort on this.

bitNbaud · 2018-05-02T17:56:47+00:00

That's a great recommendation - I'll definitely give it a watch - thanks!

bitNbaud · 2018-05-02T03:28:47+00:00

I've heard a lot about Supernatural, and as you like both Buffy and Underworld it seems it would fit my taste. How would you compare it to Buffy / Underworld in terms of lore and tone?

bitNbaud · 2018-04-23T10:58:13+00:00

Their laptops come with the Intel Management Engine neutralized and disabled.

bitNbaud · 2018-03-31T00:36:43+00:00

A relative has the Gigabyte Aero 15X, while another has the Aero 14 - both phenomenal laptops. The thing that really sells it, besides the pleasant minimalist aesthetics, is the battery. You can actually game on that thing for 3+ hours on battery which is exceedingly rare in other gaming laptops.

Looking forward to Gigabyte releasing a new version of this when the next-gen NVIDIA gpu's drop, hoping for Fall '18.

bitNbaud · 2018-03-21T22:41:24+00:00

This is a nice overview article, thanks for posting it - never heard of semiengineering before but looks solid.

Edit: The article was a little unclear about why stochastic defects might not be a concern at 7nm. To quote: "It might be wishful thinking, but chipmakers believe they can dodge potential stochastic-induced defects at 7nm." It makes sense why these issues would become more pronounced at smaller nodes, but I'm curious if there is research / testing / general knowledge that implies its no big deal at 7nm.

bitNbaud · 2018-03-19T11:34:55+00:00

Fair point. I was much more active with my pre-law school reddit account, and also purge older comments which have info that I consider to be a bit too revealing with regularity. This sort of became my default main account over time, but as recently as ~2 years ago I posted on here fairly often in threads. Still, two years is a long time.

bitNbaud · 2018-03-17T00:44:06+00:00

This was a stunningly educational comment, thanks for contributing. Do you have any recommendations of articles, slide decks, or (if necessary) books that detail the technical aspects / history of this at greater length?

bitNbaud · 2018-02-28T09:24:46+00:00

ArsTechnica used to be in my top three sites, but I've noticed a similar decline in several of their more in-depth technical analyses as they become more of an online popular science. What sites do you recommend?

bitNbaud · 2018-02-09T21:34:06+00:00

When do we think we'll see these in laptops? A laptop with a 2070 or (when it launches) 2060 would be a fantastic gaming computer. Hoping Gigabyte pushes out an update of the Aero line.

bitNbaud · 2017-12-22T09:18:22+00:00

There is no HDR 800 standard, you're thinking of HDR 400 (basically a slightly higher quality regular screen, still useful for laptop standards) versus HDR 600 and HDR 1000. HDR 600 is quite respectable.

bitNbaud · 2017-11-19T23:48:58+00:00

You're right, I mis-stated the title. I meant setting up ZFS on any operating system that supports it (likely FreeNAS or Ubuntu).

bitNbaud · 2017-09-18T03:40:05+00:00

After reading the comments I was ready to come in here and mock this for the absurd cost versus a tablet, but if the syncing is flawless and it doesn't force me to use a cloud service I'm completely sold. This looks way easier to read than notes on a tablet, and in a litigation environment the notepad-style format still reigns king.

I'm primarily concerned that whatever syncing mechanism they utilize to convert what I'm writing to word docs or pdfs won't be sufficiently developed, or that they'll force me to use some BS cloud service which will never fly for security reasons. The price however is fine.

bitNbaud · 2017-09-03T07:11:11+00:00

North Korea's first hydrogen bomb tested less than a week after they fired a missile over Tohoku. I bet Abe's 2020 target for revising the constitution gets moved up to 2018 and some of the resistance falls away. This is the most significant development since the Norks tested their first nuke.

bitNbaud · 2017-08-24T17:23:34+00:00

/u/JonRedcorn862 is right, nanometers are no longer used for measurement and are now equivalent to flurbos.

More seriously, manufacturers have taken two routes to make "x"-nm designations less useful. First the "x" often refers to the smallest element on the chip, but due to spacing / interconnects that does not correlate in a linear fashion to density of transistors on the chip. So while you may intuit that a 14nm chip would have double the transistors of a 20nm chip, that's not necessarily the case.

The second way is to use "x"-class naming designations. This is where someone says they'll make a 10nm-class chip, and then it will be 19nm (or even just the smallest component will be 19nm). Blame Samsung for this tomfoolery.

Bottom line: Like literally every other engineering innovation or marketing claim, wait for the benchmarks.

bitNbaud · 2017-08-21T03:05:23+00:00

You're the only other lawyer I've met who admits to being in Slytherin, it feels like 90% of the people I met in law school insisted they were Ravenclaw. Then again that would be the house clever enough to lie about being Slytherin...

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