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NYT saying 81% chance of Trump taking FL.

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Thought I was losing my mind. Figured something was up when I was unable to connect to certain sites through WiFi OR LTE at the same time.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

sometimes i suddenly hear my clock ticking and then i can't stop hearing it

I ended up tossing the clock I had in my bedroom because of this. I kept becoming aware of the ticking right before I wanted to sleep.

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Maybe you guys know how to wire-up all your generators and solar panels successfully to a nuclear launch facility. I certainly don't. I'm also assuming that these facilities are setup in ways where it would be impossible for a sole infiltrator to actually do anything even WITH power.

I'm just not feeling good about this plan.

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NFUN posted...

Who said you can't use electricity?

I don't see how the power will still be running by the time I successfully break into anywhere that has nuclear weapons to launch,

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I'm not confident, especially with all the power grids dying, that I could solo do any of: 1) locate enough nuclear weapons; 2) infiltrate said locations; or 3) then proceed to correctly target and launch things (without electricity??).

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Internet probably isn't going to last long given that power all across the globe will start to go down fairly quickly without humans. This is a nightmare task, I wouldn't even know where to begin tbh.

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Your latency score is perfectly normal, nothing to worry about. Your latency is being compared against anyone also using that kit of RAM. This includes people who: 1) are using an Intel CPU, where latency is naturally lower; and 2) people who overclocked that kit.

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Sick, enjoy! You built a pretty sweet machine if I'm remembering your parts correctly.

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_stingers_ posted...

No I was aware of that and have been plugging directly into the motherboard.

Dumb question, but you've tried plugging your monitor directly into the GPU instead too, right?

Your mobo should have two sets of power connectors. They're both plugged in?

EDIT: Completely ninja'd by Xiahou

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Holy shit, I haven't thought about this since high school. Tor Tyrannia will live on forever.

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Yesssss, turning it on now.

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Probably FFX, I guess.

Honestly, I'm most proud of my 48/50 achievements on the original Dead Rising. I opted not to get the 5-day and 7-day survivor achievements because I think it required too much straight IRL time.

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Runescape represent

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1. Did you fight your rival west of Viridian City?
Not a clue

2. In what order did you fight the following gym leaders?
Not a clue

3. Did you kick Giovanni/Team Rocket out of Celadon City?
Yes. Is this optional?

4. Sub-question: Did you use the Poke Doll on the ghost of Marowak?
Absolutely not

5. Did you go through the Diglett Cave/get Flash?
Yes

6. Did you go to Fuschia City via the Snorlax to the west of Celadon City/the bike route or via the Snorlax east of Lavender Town/the piers?
The latter sounds more familiar?

7. Did you go to Cinnabar Island from Fuchsia City/the Seafoam Islands or just by Surfing from Pallet Town? Did you immediately leave Cinnabar Island by flying?
Definitely got there from Pallet. Don't remember what I did afterward.

8. Did you go to the Power Plant? If so, when?
I almost think I went post-Elite Four.

9. Did you encounter/catch the legendary birds? / which ones, and when?
Definitely encountered - don't know if I caught them. Moltres -> Zapdos -> Articuno is my guess, but I don't really remember.

10. Master Ball
This I remember! I used it on a normal Fearow.

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Wall of text warning.

Showing up a bit late to this topic. The difference is a bit more substantial than CAS Latency of 16 vs 14 for certain people (i.e. overclockers). If you weren't aware, you can overclock RAM to force it to have higher frequency or better CAS latency (amongst other things). Certain RAM kits have a lot more headroom for overclocking than others.

Background: Even though there are many sellers/brands of RAM (G.Skill in this case), only three companies actually produce it. Those companies are Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron and they each have their own processes for the production of RAM at various qualities/densities.

The 3200C16 kit was originally manufactured by SK Hynix using their 8Gbit MFR process. This manufacturing process is not known for overclocking well. So basically, you wouldn't expect to be able to overclock the performance much above the originally promised 3200C16 spec.

The 3200C14 kit on the other hand was made by Samsung using their process often just called "B-Die". This process is very well-known for producing RAM that can overclock well-beyond the original spec. The $80 price differential could very well be worth it to someone looking for top-shelf overclocking potential.

To someone who is uninterested in overclocking, the $200 price-tag doesn't make much sense. There are cheaper 3200C14 kits out there that aren't B-Die, and would perform just fine by enabling the XMP/DOCP profile and calling it a day.

EDIT: Actually, 3200C14 doesn't really exist outside B-die at this density. But the point still stands, for someone just using XMP/DOCP, a 3200C16 kit gives extremely similar performance.

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Like two years ago, I spent $700 on a replacement motherboard for my laptop that was busted. It didn't fix the problem, so I ended up tossing the laptop anyway.

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You're good using that RAM instead. Amazon's specs at the bottom are screwed up - it's definitely DDR4. FWIW I also trust Corsair more than PNY.

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Yep, that's perfect. Don't forget to enable A-XMP (could be called DOCP instead) in your BIOS to make sure it's running at the advertised speed.

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Yeah, with a 144Hz monitor you absolutely want a rebuild.

Your part list looks good to me. My only recommendation would be bumping your RAM to 3200 CL16 instead. Ryzen systems in particular love faster RAM.

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Actually, you know what? If you only care about 1080p gaming, you could probably just go with a GPU upgrade for now. Your current processor probably won't bottleneck a GPU that can better handle modern 1080p performance.

I'd look into getting like a GTX 1650 Super if your budget allows. Again, this is all assuming you have a 1080p monitor.

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You're probably going to need a complete rebuild tbh.

There's not much room for upgrades on your current mobo. Mainly this is because it's using Intel's LGA 1150 CPU socket, which has been succeeded twice. Upgrading to a new board means your RAM can no longer be used as the new standard is DD4. Finally, the GTX 960 is a bit underpowered for modern titles even for 1080p gaming if you want to be hitting a stable 60 fps.

That being said, I (and I'm sure others on the board) could help provide guidance for new components if you have some parameters in mind: estimated budget, usage case (strictly gaming vs. gaming + work), etc.

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Watched my dad flip all the ceiling fans in the house twice a year, so I knew this. But it doesn't shock me that a lot of people don't know this ceiling fans aren't an overly common thing to own.

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Xiahou Shake posted...

I will say that for the first month my productivity was UNREAL

Jealous that you were able to manage this. I basically spent my first month constantly refreshing news sources for COVID news.

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Definitely used to working from home at this point. Although it'll get a lot better when the desk I ordered over a month ago finally arrives (estimated shipping date still 3-4 weeks away). I definitely miss the social aspect of being in the office, but that's about it. I certainly don't miss my 50-minute subway commute.

My office is officially closed until September 1st, but I found out two days ago that my role is being changed to WFH permanently. I think the company is realizing that WFH is going well-enough that they can start consolidating office space to save $$$. Fine by me I'm still allowed to go into the office if I reserve a desk for the day, it's just expected I'll do so at most twice a month.

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iiaattgg posted...

Probably stupid but what is mips

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Have to agree with others that it's the second floor that's the weakest.

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Oh boy...

• Office desk
• File cabinet that matches desk
• 2x curtain panels for living room
• 2x curtain panels + tension rod for hiding shelving under my kitchen counter
• Blackout shade for bedroom
• Faux wooden blinds for kitchen
• Stainless steel trashcan for bathroom
• Stud finder
• 3x scent cartridges for my bathroom air freshener
• Metal bookend for kitchen cookbooks
• 2x canvas prints for kitchen
• Framed tiger portrait for entryway
• 12x picture hangers
• 4x plastic containers for under bed storage
• Hanging canvas three-shelf unit for closet

I think I got all the ones I'm currently waiting for? I've been on an ordering spree lately -- spending a lot of time at home has been driving me to do some improvements.

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Big fan of the low-60's.

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Ordered a new desk that's back-ordered until July. Once I get that I'm switching my setup to ultrawide + laptop on the side.

Right now I use one monitor + laptop because that's all my current desk can fit.

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Napoleon Dynamite

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Can't go wrong with a Crucial MX500 (your call on the capacity). You can either get it in an M.2 form factor or a 2.5" form factor. M.2 is nice because it plugs directly into the mobo with no wires.

The mobo I mentioned above does have a M.2 slot, but if you go in another direction with mobo/CPU, just check if your new mobo takes M.2 before purchasing anything. 2.5" will work no matter which direction you go.

Can't speak to transferring the OS to the new drive. I always fresh-install when I get a new main drive.

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You already rocking an SSD for at least the OS? That's an upgrade I often recommend for consideration for a much speedier-feeling computer. (EDIT: Ninja'd)

Oh and correction to my previous post to prevent confusion, the 3600 is Ryzen 5, not Ryzen 3.

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I'm not really plugged-in to Intel offerings nowadays, so these are more-recent AMD-centric recommendations. I targeted a build around like mid/low-range - this is potentially overkill depending on what you're doing.

MOBO: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (note that the B550 chipset mobos will start to drop a month from now, which will allow upgrades to Ryzen 4000-series CPUs in the future, which are expected later this year)

CPU: Ryzen 3 3100 (potentially Ryzen 3 3600 depending on your budget). This would be a fairly substantial upgrade for your system.

CPU Cooler: Not very well educated in coolers. Scythe Fuma seems really well-liked if you can find it. Otherwise Noctua U14S maybe.

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I said that, but continued to stare at it anyway.

It's because your solution accidentally introduces a bunch of 0-leading numbers (e.g. 0112345). This perfectly offsets for the double-0's that you weren't contemplating because you can take any of these 0-leading numbers and map them to valid double-0 numbers. 0112345 -> 1002345.

Accidentally very clever.

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I was just staring at your solution for 6 unique digits for the same reason. I'm honestly too tired right now to figure out why your solution accidentally fell into the right value.

The program is as naive as can be though, so I don't think it has a flaw just goes one-by-one from 1,000,000 to 9,999,999 and counts unique digits for each.

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Wrote a program to do this one for me. Thankfully far easier than the previous problem.

1 Unique: 9 (0.0001%)
2 Unique: 5,103 (0.0567%)
3 Unique: 195,048 (2.1672%)
4 Unique: 1,587,600 (17.64%)
5 Unique: 3,810,240 (42.336%)
6 Unique: 2,857,680 (31.752%)
7 Unique: 544,320 (6.048%)

Average: 5.217031 unique digits

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Kobe

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TLJ > RO > TFA > Solo > ROS

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I have two 44's. My one 0 is the real bummer.

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V > IV > VIII > VI > VII > I > III > IX > II

The ST is so frustrating for me. I really wish it had a consistent director the whole way through, whether it be JJ or Rian.

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OT >> ST >> PT easy ranking for me

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Scorn had a very serious Prometheus-feel.

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dowolf posted...

but for 4 gets 368064 solutions?

Yeah, it's totally possible I goofed up the calculation a little bit there. Thanks for running your solver, I can finally rest easy now.

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This has always driven me crazy. Personally, I use semi- for twice in the period and bi- for every other, but always begrudgingly elaborate.

Reminds me of how flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.

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Halo

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If anyone cares, my hours of playing with this problem has simplified the solution to a graph theory problem that I can't solve.

Given a fully-connected graph of N distinct nodes (in our case, N = 12), how many ways are there to assign each edge a value (0, 1, 2, 3, or 4) such that the sum of edge-values attached to any given node is equal to 4?

I have solved this problem for N = 2, 3, and 4. Values are 24, 1728, and 366336. Can't really generalize the solution (also no dice on OEIS) and the computation for each successive N takes longer and longer.

The value from that sub-problem represents the numerator of the complement of probability we desire. The denominator is simply (using double-factorial notation): (4N - 1)!!

I also came up with an alternative framing of the graph theory problem that got me nowhere, but it's more fun. Given N schools (again N = 12 in our case) each with 4 students, how many ways are there to pair up penpals between schools such that every student is writing to one other student in a different school?

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With 100,000 trials my simulation CI for at least one pair amongst 12 players is probably pretty tight. We're talking like 79.0% +/- 0.25% for a 95% CI.

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I ran a simulation of 100,000 trials because I'm over trying to actually figure the exact answer. This is not an easy problem.

Probability of at least 1 player getting a pair in a game of 12 players is approximately 79.0% by simulation.

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Sorry, didn't mean to come across as accusatory toward anyone. Just wanted to point out that azuarc's conclusion about your estimation doesn't necessarily hold true.

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