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my public key: https://keybase.io/ajoy39; my proof: https://keybase.io/ajoy39/sigs/vQ3hb0SbjIkCGzlGJn1qkqgV2Z3Ca2M8tlus7rPg0v0
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ajoy39··on Up to 600 watts of power for graphics cards with the new PCIe 5.0 powerconnector
The difference is that with GPUs nearly every model has a different layout of components around the actual chip, and those components need to be cooled too, so making a universal cold plate for them can be really challenging. The AIO I bought for my last computer could be used with any CPU, AMD or Intel, released in the past decade. The water block I bought for the GPU I put in my desktop two computers ago could only be used with reference designs of the AMD R9 290 or 290x.

There are models of GPUs with AIOs, EVGA makes their Hydro series, Gigabyte has their waterforce series. They just usually aren't worth the cost since you have to design a new full cover block not just got every generation but also usually for different cards in the same gen too.

Lastly, TDP is not a defined standard and each manufacturer defines it differently. Intel for example defines TDP as the maximum allowable power draw under full load. How that translates to actual heat output depends on architecture and process node. Intel's most recent chips for example all max out at just over 100 watts TDP, but they're known to need 200+ watts of heat dissipation for sustained workloads.

ajoy39··on Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
There is a world of difference between what you imagine and creating a digital likeness of someone else, that will almost certainly then be distributed. Comparing the to and comparing the banning of them to thought crimes is incredibly dishonest. And yes, people do have a right to their image and likeness, those rights are protected by law.
ajoy39··on Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
Then maybe Facebook and Google should be taken more effort to prevent this content from making it on their platforms. How is it happening more often elsewhere a justification for it to happen here?
ajoy39··on Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
How does this have anything to do with REAL rape and REAL stolen video and images being uploaded NOW? Just because you can theoretically, in the future, make a fake video of someone having sex doesn't mean it's in any way justifiable to allow actual video of real violent crimes on your platform now. And even when this future does happen, do people no longer have a right to their own image and likeness? Is it okay simply because it's fake?
ajoy39··on Chrome Is Bad
You're awfully confident for someone who has provided no additional evidence.

The OP claims the high CPU usage went after uninstalling chrome and rebooting their machine.

Rebooting their machine.

The thing we tell everyone to as the absolute first step in trying to solve any problem with a computer, "have you tried turning it off and on again?".

This isn't proof that chrome or keystone or anything at all caused the problem. We have nothing to determine the root cause.

ajoy39··on All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
How do you pay your bills? If running those websites were your full time job, would you still be okay not making any money off of them? Or have you just decided that only people who have other income should have websites?
ajoy39··on Google pulls gender pronouns from Gmail Smart Compose to reduce bias
unless you make a conscious effort to select your dataset to avoid that bias sure. You don't have to give the algorithm ALL of your hiring data. Balance the data you train it on to avoid the bias.
ajoy39··on Google pulls gender pronouns from Gmail Smart Compose to reduce bias
It obviously depends on the algorithm but if you train your hiring algorithm based on past hires, and your company has predominantly hired males in the past, your going to end up preselecting males. algorithms aren't bias in themselves but if you want to avoid biased results you have to be very careful on the data sets you use to train them with.
ajoy39··on Why Apple's 3D Touch failed miserably
Dead is probably too strong but it is pretty telling of Apple's internal thoughts on the feature that they would leave it off a new phone
ajoy39··on Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor
Make it three, mostly because the wifi card in my laptop was a nightmare to get working in linux
ajoy39··on Reasons You Should Put the Mouse on the Left If You’re Right-Handed
I have a trackpad for gestures on my left and a mouse for point and click on my right. I am certifiably weird.
ajoy39··on Rise of Kotlin: A Programming Language for the Next Generation
Probably has something to do with that ongoing lawsuit with oracle
ajoy39··on Hacking the Tax Plan: Ways to Profit Off the Republican Tax Bill
you don't pay corporate taxes with a pass through LLC. You deduct your expenses from your income, and the rest gets passed through the LLC to you as personal income. So you're getting taxed on less because you can essentially write off any expense that you can justify as being spent on the corporation itself.

The downside is, usually, that you get taxed on ALL profits personally no matter how much you actually withdraw from the LLC but if you are the only member and you're just using it for tax purposes that's less of an issue since you intend to take all the money anyway.

Disclaimer, I am not a tax professional, and I do not actually do the taxes/distributions for the LLC I part won. This is just how it was explained to me by the person who actually does those taxes.

ajoy39··on Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door
The lockbox was for the packages themselves, not for the keys to the house.
ajoy39··on Sublime Text 3.0
I found an old laptop I hadn't used in about 3 years, fired it up and quipped to my friends "Hah, this thing is so old it's still running the beta of ST3!"
ajoy39··on Trump, our next president, promised to block AT&T/Time Warner merger
Obamacare also lets people under 26 stay on their parents health insurance longer, prevents insurance companies from dropping people from coverage or denying them coverage in the first case because of illness (yes, this used to be a thing in america, if you got cancer or some other disease that takes years of very expensive treatment to deal with your insurance company could just say "nah we're not paying for that" and drop you like a rock) and made health insurance affordable for millions of people who previously could not get it.

the affordable care act is far from perfect, but it's also not useless in any sense, and it needs to be modified not repealed. And yes I'm partially saying that because I and my brother will both lose and not be able to afford health insurance if it is repealed. I'm also saying that because I strongly belief in the benefits that have come out of the bill, even at the cost of some major downsides.

ajoy39··on Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
they raise money for their party. Candidates who aren't up for reelection still spend a lot of time fundraising for members of their party.
ajoy39··on How Hampton Creek sold investors on fake mayo
I don't think they're being investigated for that, but they did buy there own product off store shelfs to create the illusion of high demand, helping them get in more stores http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/food-start...
ajoy39··on MacOS Sierra
had to reinstall xcode command line tools (which I should have seen coming) and then run an update on home-brew itself but all appears well now. brew doctor passes, and it updated my outdated packages just fine
ajoy39··on There Is No Island of Trash in the Pacific
They're not saying it doesn't exist, they're saying it's been exaggerated to death to the point where the actual thing doesn't resemble the myth at all. There is no floating trash island, it's not "twice the size of texas", and in fact as stated in the article no scientifically sound estimates to it's size exist. The story was told as basically an iceberg of trash the size of a continent in the middle of the ocean and that's not at all what it really is. It exists, it's a problem, but it's not the mythical thing it's made out to be.
ajoy39··on Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux
my first semester of college back in 2010 I, for reasons I cannot explained, decided that I would keep my windows and linux installs on totally separate hard drives. With a laptop. With one drive bay. You never appreciate how quick rebooting into linux is until you spend 4 months physically swapping a hard drive every time you want to switch which OS you're using.

I was not a smart freshman

ajoy39··on “Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply”
Facebook hasn't been filtering their trending news for about a week now, and in that time some of the top stories have been

- A man having sex with a chicken sandwich

- A fake story about Fox News firing Ann Coulter

- A fake article about the iphone 8, claiming tim cook said Siri is going to do your chores for you.

So yeah maybe the people were kinda needed?

ajoy39··on Pokemon Go – Permissions Update
thats why they're involving google, Google is handling the permissions changes
ajoy39··on Pokemon Go – Permissions Update
it's the google login flow
ajoy39··on Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked
twitter does have 2FA. You can either get a login code texted to you whenever you login or use the Twitter app to verify logins from new devices.
ajoy39··on How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War on Google Plus
Youtube isn't a social network.
ajoy39··on How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War on Google Plus
I don't follow this train of thought. Did those users make facebook? Run it's servers? write it's code? Sell it's ad space? Every product and service in the world only exists because of consumers, but there's nothing owed between the parties. Facebook provides a platform for it's users. The users use it. They don't own it anymore than you should "owe" your local grocery store because you buy vegetables there
ajoy39··on Clickbait and Traffic Laundering: How Ad Tech Is Destroying the Web
and those people keep things free for the rest of us, so I'm fine with it. Everybody likes to complain about advertising but no one has come up with a way to eliminate it without a large portion of the sites we use everyday shutting down.
ajoy39··on Amazon search was down
to search for things that you want to purchase....
ajoy39··on How the Supermarket Tabloids Stay Out of Court (1991)
In the span of about 3 weeks the National Enquirer said that Prince died of Suicide, Accidental Drug Overdose, Aids, and Suicide because of Aids. The Same publication declared 3 separate causes of death for the same person in back to back to back issues, and yet people still read and believe this fucking garbage.
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