• IPC
• Instruction set
• Levels 1 through 3 cache
• Performance per watt, usually measured by benchmarking, gives you an idea of efficiency

Generally, you can assume that a newer CPU with a the same thread count as an older CPU will outperform it.

However, you’d have to keep in mind a CPU is a very complex entity comprised of its cores, its cache, its bridges, its controllers and whatever I’m missing. Intel, for instance, would not make any huge changes to architecture every other generational skip. It’s what they called tick-tock. The tick would be a new concept, the tock would be a refined version.

But redesigning the entire chip, ie its lithography, the layout of what is positioned where, all the way down the to smallest detail, will have some effect on performance. It’s difficult to quantify, hence the need for benchmarking tools like Geekbench.

Sinkin’ Park

My house costs less than that and now I’m in debt for the next 30 years. And I do quite okay.

Polarising of two or more subservient groups is excellent for people in power. If you create the us-them narrative they’ll be so busy arguing amongst themselves, they’ll have no eye for the ones affecting their misery and changing it.

Now I’m not saying everyone should take to the streets and fight the government immediately, but bashing in your neighbours’s skulls because they drive Teslas and/or voted for Trump is not productive at all. Rather find some middle ground with them and see how to survive the coming four years.

Black bishop takes rook before it can take pawn or king though

Edit whoa I was looking at the wrong rook for the first one even though you specified it. I need weekend.

Ah well my house is not that big. It’s my wife and me and three cats but we have rather large furniture so it kinda feels cramped.

Definitely house, preferably owned. I rented my previous apartment and had to run a lot of jobs through the landlord. Now, if something goes wrong or if I want to hang something with screws, I can just go ahead. And I love having a back yard. Front yard meh, just work, no joy.

Downside is that my house is not exactly well maintained and it was built in the sixties. So I’ll need to invest in some stuff in the next 5 to 10 years.

I’m currently going though the books and from what I can tell, Harry especially takes issues with some teachers. He hates history and doesn’t understand divination but he’s fine with charms, defense against the dark arts and even potions once Snape no longer teaches it.

It’s just that during the lessons she describes, they usually have stuff like Quidditch or Voldemort stuff going on so they don’t really pay attention. They also don’t like doing homework so they let Hermione do it for them. And they still did pretty well on the OWLs so all in all, I think they were fine with class but by and large, she just doesn’t really write about classes that went their regular course.

The Bad Lip Sync version of Gotye (Kicked Your Monkey And I Used Your Goat) kinda always comes to mind

Boost notifies me when someone responds to my comments. It might be able to push from certain communities.

Edit: I checked and it seems not

Could do with a lil Tuesday catering today

Om the colour wheel I’d say it’s greenish cyan, possibly bluish green.

Source

So. Both.

I’m not really an avid gamer but I’ve been gaming since I was around 10 which is 22 years ago. I think most games I played somewhere around 300 hours, like Borderlands, Borderlands 2, The Pre-Sequel and 3, so that adds up to about 1200 hours. I finished quite a list of rpg’s over the years.

But, I bought Rocket League in 2016 or so and since you can just casually play a game or two in between other stuff I’ve got over 1500 hours in. I’m not even really that good at it. I think some 100 hours would be just sitting in main menu with friends or leaving it open while going to do something else. Sometimes, I could just listen to music while absent-mindedly driving my rocket car around the field in casual.

So what I’m saying is, time span is an important measure here. Steam should also include stats about how many hours a year people have put in on average, or per month. I think those thousands of hours for some might be put into better perspective.

I see your awake tortie and raise you a sleepy kitty

I always think this when I see people with main character syndrome. Folks that just seem impervious to the thought they might be inconveniencing others.

Me, I overcorrect so much that I now need therapy because I am constantly thinking of others first.

Maybe don’t have kids in the first place if they make you unhappy.

Besides, if the kid had a say in it I doubt they would consent if they knew what kinda future they were heading into.

I’m from the Netherlands, we were just ahead of the US elections. I know the hardcore Trumpers will never be convinced by any amount of solid proof that they are wrong but we somehow elected a populist blowhard and after a very difficult formation (it’s what happens when you need to form a coalition to form a cabinet usually necessary if you have more than two parties) we got a state government of people so incompetent, I wouldn’t let them preside over a local gardening club.

I was kind of intrigued when they picked a former director of the Dutch intelligence agency to be prime minister but that dude just screams ‘I don’t belong here and I disagree with everything my cabinet does’.

Now, they haven’t fundamentally screwed the pooch on anything that the Netherlands has built over the last three decades, but there are definitely plans to make our country less of a refuge for people in need of help in spite of folks who take advantage of a too friendly system.

The (western, I can’t speak to a world I’m no active part of) world is changing. It’s becoming tougher, and that essentially means that if you have either money, power or both you’ll be fine. If you don’t, well… dark days are ahead.

The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. Any time you feel you are witnessing an injustice, think to yourself, what would good men (I’m obviously saying ‘men’ to mean ‘humans’) be doing to make evil not succeed?

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

Have you ever cheated at a game, cut corners on work or purposefully did something unfair to get better from it yourself?

Yeah it’s much easier to win without any pesky ethics or a strong moral compass.

Good folks have been struggling uphill since the Ancient Greeks as long as there are folks trying to win with a different rule book.

Agile is a critical one. I’m a data analyst and a data engineer (I do a bit of both) but most of my work is in the Microsoft stack. There are loads of certificates to get from Microsoft, like the AZ-900, DP-900, DP-600 if you’re interested in Fabric.

But for the Agile thing, consider traditional project development as a straight line. There is a start and an end. Agile projects look like an input line into loads of loops. These loops are called ‘sprints’. In a sprint, every developer takes ownership of work items and by the end of the sprint, they are finished. If not, they need to be refined or they are taken into the next sprint. There’s will be someone who guards the process, there is someone who knows what they want but there isn’t really a project leader.

If you’re interested in doing agile projects at large companies, you’ll likely go from developing to implementing straight into maintaining the environment. Look into DevOps. It’s the future of project development, especially in IT.