Sunday, January 21
Daily News Stuff 21 January 2024
Pal Is As Pal Does Edition
Pal Is As Pal Does Edition
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- The same pathetic losers who tried to organise a boycott against the Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy are at it again with Palworld. (GGRecon)
With similar results.
Hogwarts Legacy sold 22 million copies last year.
Palworld has sold 3 million copies in two days.
Tech News
- Overclocking your SSD can bring big performance gains. (Tom's Hardware)
If you have a cheap no-name SSD that is underclocked to start with, and if you don't mind losing all your data.
- Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop chips could be 5% faster than the current Raptor Lake models. (WCCFTech)
Intel is in the middle of launching four generations of CPUs in the same month, which is impossible for anyone to keep track of, but it doesn't matter since they all perform the same.
- For truckers driving EVs there is no turning back. (Yahoo News)
That's because the only truckers driving EVs are the ones on fixed short-to-mid-range routes where charging is readily available and the economics make sense.
- Can an AI become its own CEO after creating a startup? No. (INC)
The co-founder of Google's DeepMind division thinks so, but he's an idiot.
- Node.js users download 2.1 billion deprecated packages every week. (SC Magazine)
If you're using Node.js, you've already made a really bad decision, so why not double down on that?
Disclaimer: You could also try eating live hornets. I'm told is the big new thing.
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At least the article about SSD overclocking mentions--eventually--that the controller is default underclocked so it won't throttle.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, January 22 2024 02:28 AM (BMUHC)
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I upgraded my son to an i7-12700K this week, because his 10600K was starting to be a bottleneck in a couple of games. While I was at it I got a 14700K and it's noticeably faster in a few places, which surprised me. it'll run all 6 P cores at 5.5GHz all day long, and sometimes one or two will hit 5.6, on regular tasks. Probably going to get a slightly bigger HSF though, because the fan--while not obnoxious--is more noticeable than it used to be. Kinda got tired of waiting for the big generational gains we used to see and went with something that was still a decent upgrade.
Guild Wars 2's graphics engine is somewhat dated and single-thready, so there are a few world bosses that can drop your GPU to 18FPS (or less if your computer isn't fairly powerful) and the new CPU seems to go no lower than high 20s to low 30s, so that helps some. (Whatever the engine does, it's not as choppy at lowish frame rates as a lot of games can be; one thing it does is stop rendering player skins at a certain point, giving each character a default skin based on class, race, and gender.
Guild Wars 2's graphics engine is somewhat dated and single-thready, so there are a few world bosses that can drop your GPU to 18FPS (or less if your computer isn't fairly powerful) and the new CPU seems to go no lower than high 20s to low 30s, so that helps some. (Whatever the engine does, it's not as choppy at lowish frame rates as a lot of games can be; one thing it does is stop rendering player skins at a certain point, giving each character a default skin based on class, race, and gender.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, January 22 2024 02:34 AM (BMUHC)
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Node, like cancer, has spread everywhere. I was looking at a web page last week on how to set up an Eclipse environment for doing microcontroller development and, you guessed it, you gotta use Node to install the other stuff you actually need (or, I guess, figure it out all yourself, which is really annoying.)
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, January 22 2024 04:31 AM (BMUHC)
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