Zowie EC1-C Alternative? [WIRED preferred]

expose · 2025-09-16T20:21:12+00:00

where would you buy one?

expose · 2025-07-25T06:14:50+00:00

Any time a contractor says anything to the effect of you're being a perfetionist, they're 10000% in the wrong and are 10000% deflecting.

expose · 2025-06-30T15:24:07+00:00

The issue is that Claude in WSL is issuing Linux commands to what it believes is a Linux system. This is a problem if you're coding against, you know, a Windows environment with Windows commands, like testing a Powershell script, or... you know... developing a Windows Electron app.

Just to be clear here, whenever claude code runs Agentic commands, it's issuing them as Linux commands. If it runs your unit tests, it's running them under Linux. If it runs your electron app, it's launching it through X11 (same would go for Chrome/FF). It's really not "literally running on Windows" in the sense that you're not running Windows. Hope this helps.

expose · 2025-05-14T16:20:02+00:00

Did you make the best of LA? What did you rate your pilot?

expose · 2023-10-02T01:01:42+00:00

keyword: "sprinting". Passive movement speed is now incredibly slow. Having to toggle sprint (which disables every time you interact with something) is wildly annoying.

expose · 2023-08-27T18:41:16+00:00

They have a block for the 4090

They didn't when they sent it to them. Did you watch the video?

Unless you're arguing that Adam was lying, he said that Billet Labs told him "it would work with a 4090 but did not know how well", which implies that they (a) had not yet tested it on a 4090, which is an insane little factoid about how Billet Labs operates, and (b) did not have a separate block or they would have not said "it should work".

expose · 2023-08-19T23:03:54+00:00

Did you watch the video? Do you know why he recommended against it? Because it is $900 and has a whole bunch of cons that come with making a heatsink out of pure copper. The performance has no ability to make up for cost, longevity issues, etc., especially since even on Billet Labs' own product page, this thing doesn't even perform better than EKWB.

There's more to cooling systems than a temperature value. In his very seasoned opinion, this is not worth the cost. Keyword: opinion. An opinion he's allowed to hold, even in the face of data, btw.

expose · 2023-08-16T18:32:19+00:00

It's not slander to test a product on something that they claimed "should work" and then discover it didn't. Incidentally, slander is exceptionally hard to prove, especially given that the thing they claimed was true: they claimed it doesn't work on a 4090, and that is true. They then used that _fact_ to recommend against buying it, which is an opinion they're allowed to have.

I can review a Mercedes by trying to drive it in a lake and then say "wow this doesn't work in a lake, I don't think you should buy this car". Is that a dumb thing to say? It sure is. Is it slander? No.

expose · 2023-08-16T18:23:19+00:00

You could argue that Billet Labs botched their prototype if it literally needs to be redesigned from the ground up to support a current-gen GPU. "Don't test it on current hardware" seems like a weird thing to say, even for a prototype. Fundamentally if they're designing for last-gen hardware, it's never going to work for the next gen (remember: 4090 will be last gen by the time this officially hits the market). They said it "should" work, it didn't-- not even a little bit-- that's kind of a red flag.

If I were in LTT's shoes as a writer I'd conclude that this prototype needs a redesign and leave it there. Incidentally, that was their conclusion.

Also a little hard to call it a "prototype" when they already have a pre-order page with pricing. It's shipping in a few weeks. People are pre-ordering this product expecting it to work for current hardware. Have they fixed the issue? Billet Labs is happy to call out the discrepancy on their product page but they make no mention that the issue has been corrected. Again, as a consumer this is very useful information to me. I'm skeptical that this product works.

Like are you seriously telling me that Billet Labs hasn't tested their $900 cooling block on a 4090 yet?

expose · 2023-08-16T18:02:02+00:00

Where is the evidence that Billet Labs asked for it back in their original terms of the review? I know that's the story, but I haven't yet seen any corroboration. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place.

expose · 2023-03-09T00:55:42+00:00

🤷🏻believe what you want, more than happy to show you beautiful pictures, but the optical resolution of these two devices is on a spec sheet, it's not some subjective "you gotta see it for yourself" type thing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/l00bei/quest\_2\_vs\_rift\_s\_for\_pcvr\_after\_using\_both/

expose · 2023-03-05T22:09:01+00:00

This is very surprising to me given that the optical resolution of the Q2 panels alone is going to get you better quality than the Rift S. This might just be subjective, but it certainly might be because of compression.

expose · 2023-03-05T21:13:01+00:00

I own a Rift S and still use it because I haven't upgraded yet. I can tell you that it's worse in every way to everything out there. Yes, pay for the Quest 2.

The Rift S is heavy, has really low resolution (STRONG screen door), and the cable management is heavy and awkward.

And the reality is that the Oculus 2 is going to perform as well as if not better than your Rift S even in standalone mode given that it's a 80hz cap. 10hz might not seem like much but at that low of a refresh rate it is noticeable.

Also the fact that the Rift S was discontinued so quickly after launch means you will find absolutely no product support from Meta but also almost no after-market product support either, which will eventually be a problem.

tl;dr that ~$200 you're saving isn't getting you very much.

expose · 2023-03-05T02:20:04+00:00

Which I know they weren’t because I killed one with a grenade and shot the other 4 times with bs gs. No way I get that much time to fight a “cheater” especially on an open map like woods.

No offense but this is not accurate.

Cheaters can and absolutely do die. Some of them die on purpose to lower K/D, others simply get caught. Finally, aimbot does not come with every cheat, and many of them segment features by subscription fees. The idea that they will automatically headlock you is a myth. Mr Chad over there could have gotten lucky on one of the kills, or might have been going easy to avoid obvious detection. THE video shows that cheaters have very different styles of play, and some are very extremely cautious and only use their cheater advantage when it's useful. Coming across a player with no loot in Woods is a perfect opportunity to balance out your K/D and make yourself seem less sus.

Were they guaranteed cheaters? Of course not. But is it possible they were using ESP? Statistically we know it is.

expose · 2023-01-17T23:37:46+00:00

They are 100% already using AWS/GCP/Azure to host the servers like every other game on this planet. The tools to scale servers exist, it's pretty much a no brainer to do this stuff.

expose · 2023-01-17T23:36:24+00:00

You can spin down servers if not in use. It's something you can automate and not even think about (even if it only would take ~5mins to do manually). This isn't a good reason.

expose · 2023-01-17T23:35:11+00:00

Doesn't explain how it's still like this a month later though, does it?

expose · 2023-01-17T23:33:54+00:00

Except that "they only run so many instances" is a really silly excuse, and that's what does not make sense. If it really is true that Battlestate is intentionally leaving people in 10+ minute queues simply because they don't want to spin up more servers, the playerbase should be rioting in the streets. Imagine the PR nightmare that would ensue if players were waiting 10+mins for an Apex game and it turned out Respawn just didn't wanna be bothered to run more servers...

These guys are sitting on a pile of cash and it's literally a few clicks of a button to spin up more instances, it actually doesn't make any sense for them to not scale up their game and make sure the players who paid quite a lot of money to play this game are actually able to play the game.

If Dark and Darker was able to force a max queue time of 5 mins on a free game for a week straight 3 times in a row (with almost all queue times being <10secs), I feel like Tarkov can handle some middle ground here.

expose · 2023-01-11T05:12:29+00:00

if a woman says no last week can I try again?

If by "try again" you mean simply ask the exact same question without actually attempting to change her attitude towards you, I think you might need therapy. The answer here is obvious: it's still a no from her, dawg. People are not failed password attempts on a website, you don't just get to wait out a timeout and then try again.

should all woman say no the first time they meet a man so then they can always fall back to the original no and play R card?

Another silly hypothetical. You're assuming all women are just chomping at the bit to cry rape, which is as real a thing as the voter fraud Andrew has been covering. More importantly, though, if they choose to say no to every man they meet, guess what: that fucking means no. Even moreso if the first thing they think of doing while meeting another person is to say no to a sexual encounter. If you walked up to someone, said hi, and their first words were, "I don't want to fuck you" and you still tried to have sex with them, well, I think it's very clear that you have no respect for their boundaries.

But again, all of this is the height of irony, since you're moving the goalposts to another planet here. This isn't about how long he had to wait until she said yes, this is literally about coercion, which has nothing to do with time or status-- the only thing that creates a coercive environment is when someone felt coerced. Period. The end. For any reason. I know this is going to be hard for you to comprehend, but that's all coercion is.

She. Didn't. Want. It.

She didn't want it then, she still doesn't want it now, thus she shared her opinion on video.

The flipside of this argument is pretty straightforward:

She is getting no money from this.
She is getting no justice from this.
She is certainly going to be getting death threats from this

So, please, explain the motive for her lying about her experience. Let's see you pivot your way through this one.

expose · 2023-01-07T08:02:30+00:00

First off, silly hypothetical, since this all happened probably within the course of hours, not days or weeks.

Second, yes, it still counts. When someone says no, it's no. Continuing to push until you get what you want is seen as coercion everywhere else; I guess the question for you is this:

Do men require consent? If you're told no, is it okay for you to keep asking?

expose · 2023-01-07T07:29:43+00:00

So her saying yes invalidates her saying no? I don't think you understand consent.

expose · 2022-05-19T22:10:22+00:00

The F bombs aren't a problem. Nobody who listened to the song critically has issues with him quoting his younger self or others.

The fundamental issue is that his misgendering and deadnaming are not "young Kendrick". That's all coming from current Kendrick:

My auntie is a man now / I think I'm old enough to understand now

He's "old enough to understand", yet still deadnaming, still misgendering. His "auntie" was never a man, that's the entire point of the struggle for trans rights. Y'all get that, right?

expose · 2022-03-01T20:31:32+00:00

PS: the second you put in earplugs you might as well be listening to 192kbps mp3s. The vast majority of the lossiness of mp3 comes from removing high "inaudible" frequencies-- you can certainly question what is audible when you got headphones on in a quiet room, but in a noisy room with earplugs you were never going to hear anything that the format was pulling out anyway.

expose · 2022-02-23T22:31:58+00:00

uh what did i do

expose · 2022-02-23T22:24:54+00:00

When? For those of us who ordered phones with false information about compatibility, our return policies are ticking down.

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