Why don’t older games like dota 2 and cs go utilise 100% of new gen graphic cards? what are the reasons that make game developers holding back on improving gpu utilisation to their games?
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A long time ago Wendell and co. recommended getting a large monitor as a ‘dumb’ TV and using a roku/shield/chromecast as a input.
Is this still a viable alternative? Did everyone cave and get a smart tv?
What are your recommendations now given the improvements in display technologies?
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What have you been watching lately?
(TV/Movies etc)
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I’d like an update on Wendell’s home automation and security setup. It has been a while since he’s spoken on the subject so idk if he finished it or just lost some steam on the process.
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@wendell Now that you’ve gone through the Orange soda supply of Kentucky what new Soda rating content will you deliver with the news?
@kreestuh What colorful post video processing do you think would make Wendell’s Soda rating portion oh so much better?
For Ryan: What semi serious food rating would you like to to do as your portion of this minor segment of Level One News?
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When do you think the current trend of “shove everything in the cloud” will reverse on an enterprise level?
EDIT: for elaboration; I’ve noticed trends of centralization → decentralization → centralization, wash, rinse, repeat. They aren’t identical, but they’re definitely relatives.
We’re currently pushing everything to be more centralized. Even though we’ve got regional failover and whatnot, it’s not “throw the servers in the branch offices and hire a NOC tech to manage the hardware”
I don’t see this really changing in the near future, but it’s been bothering me lately to consider if/when this might revert back.
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Now that I’ve got that out of my system… @kreestuh, Ryan, and @wendell
If you have one, what is your most liked keyboard of all time?
What about your most hated keyboard of all time?
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This question is for Ryan: Favorite member of the Wu-Tang Clan? Ghostface is a legit contender for top 5 MCs but I really love ODB because he was completely insane. I also think people sleep on GZA, Liquid Swords is a hell of an album.
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I will be horribly disappointed id ryan does not answery question after drunk tubs new years 
While I personally long for bare metal technology—where 100% of compute is spent on the task at hand, without untold layers of emulating, abstracting, and virtualising—in a world where untrusted proprietary code must be run for games and other popular applications, I can see the need to rely on virtualisation to increase security through isolation. Maybe there is no avoiding an eventual future where under-the-hood everything mist be a QubesOS-like environment, because nothing else is safe enough to use.
Q: What are Wendell et al.’s thoughts on this?
Do you view virtualisation as a necessary wasteful evil? no opinion at all? preference for virtualising things?
I have the same disappointment in the wide use of virtual desktops; securing or configuring applications/devices has frequently been abandoned in favour of carting bitmaps of virtual screen data. In a way, I miss the days of slower internet where this kind of clunky approach would have been impractical.
Q: I understand that virtual desktops can be an interesting problem to work on, and may have prompted good and widely useful research into compression technology, but am I alone in disdaining the regression to a mainframe↔terminal approach to computing?
Q: Do Wendell et al. have any other philosophical thoughts on the overall trend towards thin clients?
Whether or not this trend will persist is a different, more concrete question, and one which @SgtAwesomesauce has already asked.
Thoughts on Starlink’s place in planetary telecom
I will mention my thoughts on this since it somewhat ties into my thoughts above, of what feels wrong or correct regarding certain technologies, and hopefully might fuel a more interesting response:
SpaceX’s approach, especially currently, mainly provides a last-mile bounce to space; you are talking to a ground-station that may as well be down the road, just out of WiFi range. It really seems like a waste of resources and spectrum when used,
- on populated land - where a fibre connexion should be used
- on moving vehicles in populated areas - where a cellular/mobile connexion should be used
That a satellite system is competitive in either situation is more an indictment of the incumbent telecom providers than anything else.
//oops. Posted before I finished writing; check back later
Summarised,
- in an ideal world, would we really need Starlink if we have widespread reasonably priced fibre, cellular/mobile, and Iridium?
- will we eventually see space-based Internet routing, where individual satellites run the equivalent of BGP, or maybe even have individual AS numbers?
Because you need a CPU that can churn out a million FPS, take a look at our video on the 5800X3D
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What would Apple have to change to make a Mac an appealing option for you?
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Hi there. 3 questions:
- Internet speeds and prices at home?
- Is torrenting a thing in US?
- Do you hang out sometines after work, or is the office the only interaction you guys need?
Keep up the good work!
Also Brian, the darkness inside you, I love it.
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How do you cover medical expenses and not go broke? Travel over seas/canada to fix a tooth?
This is my biggest concern as I’d like to travel the US, but the thought of having a six digit debt after ONE visit…
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It’s called travel insurance.
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Hi Level1 team! Do you have any insight into the pci-e 5 nvme world? I run a few programs that are read/write dependent right now and while I have a great gen 4 nvme supposedly gen 5 is going to go super duper really fast. Specifically can you talk on thoughts regarding known specs, including read/write endurance and any release date timeline? I’ve read that it is supposed to come with AM5 but outside of some random OEM press release I’ve not been able to find out more. Thanks!
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What is the best book or series that you have read fiction & non-fiction that you would recommend to read?
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Hi team!
Welcome back Editor Amber!
The ARM is upon us. With Apple going full force with all of their computers and Microsoft announcing ARM Windows PCs as well (not to mention Azure, AWS or GCP), this seems to be the way some of the big companies are moving forward. But what does this mean for the x86_64 platforms? Is HEDT compute and gaming moving to ARM? And if so, why? Why is ARM better and why did Apple make an ARM cpu instead of an x86_64 one?
Sorry if the question is a bit bloated.
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Are there any plans to look at alternative CPU technologies like RISC-V and POWER? The stuff that was done with Raptor computing was cool.
Any plans at looking into and discussing/dissecting retro CPU architectures like Itanium, SPARC, and m68K? Looking at the technologies of old to understand how we got to where we are now may prove interesting to those that are just getting into the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering fields.
also, welcome back @Level1_Amber! You were greatly missed.
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Which cause should we mail our congress critter the most about?
Net neutrality, Pardoning Snowdon/not burying Assange for the rest of his natural life, Universal income once the robots takes our jerbs, higher highway speeds so we can get to our destination without our ticket, or am I just dreaming we could have any?
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