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New comment by KSS42 in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

KSS42 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:43:25 +0000

I have multiple of the MSFT Sculpt keyboards. It's wireless. Comes with separate wireless number pad. Now produced by Incase. It has Windows key, but it's easy to remap.

Official name now : Incase Designed By Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Wireless TKL Keyboard

https://www.incase.com/products/sculpt-ergonomic-keyboard

(In Canada, only available at Bestbuy)

New comment by KSS42 in "Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC"

KSS42 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:29:37 +0000

The question is where are these chips packaged? Potentially the wafers are shipped to the east for packaging, assembly and test.

New comment by KSS42 in "Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC"

KSS42 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:28:03 +0000

GF is 14/12 nm. Not really cutting edge anymore

New comment by KSS42 in "Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector"

KSS42 — Tue, 21 May 2024 00:51:14 +0000

I did find a way to have two gfx chips on a single AGP card without glue logic. See my comment above in this thread.

New comment by KSS42 in "Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector"

KSS42 — Tue, 21 May 2024 00:48:31 +0000

Back then, I came up with a way to connect two graphics chips onto a single AGP slot without a bridge chip or glue logic. Since AGP is a superset of PCI, both gfx chips will get recognized and enumerated. Then you just have the driver only ever use AGP bus mastering on one chip and PCI bus mastering on the other chip. It is not symmetric in terms of transfer speeds and a bit janky, but it does work.

Can you guess which product used this implementation?

New comment by KSS42 in "The worst programmer I know"

KSS42 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 16:55:15 +0000

That impact should show up in the plus/minus score?

https://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm

For 2022/23 Green ranks 38. His defensive impact is very high but it is offset by his negative offensive impact.

New comment by KSS42 in "A room-temperature superconductor? New developments"

KSS42 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:50:04 +0000

See:

Weekly Science news by Sabine Hossenfelder

Today we’ll talk about the new superconductor claim, bad news for new physics, a quantum radar, how to print origami, space-based solar power for a moon station, a dire prediction for the collapse of an ocean circulation, Europe’s first hyperloop test, why NASA shoots lasers at the rain forest, and of course, the telephone will ring.

https://youtu.be/RjzL9cS3VW8

New comment by KSS42 in "Exway doesn't care about USB-C conformity"

KSS42 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:50:24 +0000

Apple helped define it!

New comment by KSS42 in "AMD's AI chips could match Nvidia's offerings, software firm says"

KSS42 — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:14:47 +0000

AMD is slowly but surely expanding support for Radeon cards. It's not as extensive as Nvidia, but it is improving. ROCm supports RDNA2 now and RDNA3 support is coming this fall.

https://community.amd.com/t5/rocm/new-rocm-5-6-release-bring...

New comment by KSS42 in "Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake"

KSS42 — Tue, 09 May 2023 20:48:45 +0000

The only way to tell is to do a blood test. It took me taking 10k IU a day to get to the mid point recommended range. On the plus side, daily 10K IU is covered by my drug plan. I get my levels tested every 3 months.

New comment by KSS42 in "Apple’s plunge in PC shipments is steepest among major computer makers"

KSS42 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:04:25 +0000

It's a bit odd to me basing a purchasing decision on process nodes. I would consider overall product features rather the foundry or foundry node in of it self.

In fact, I'd rather being inclined towards n-1 node and not take the risk of being first for high volume manufacturing for a new node.

New comment by KSS42 in "AMD Launches Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors with Zen 4 Architecture"

KSS42 — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:43:32 +0000

Partially due to PCIe5 and DDR5.

New comment by KSS42 in "Ancient DNA traces origin of Black Death"

KSS42 — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 21:12:22 +0000

Likely smallpox.

New comment by KSS42 in "Intel financialized and lost leadership in semiconductor fabrication (2021)"

KSS42 — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:02:55 +0000

AMD announced $8B buy back recently ...

New comment by KSS42 in "Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: An American Heart Association Advisory"

KSS42 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:33:13 +0000

Were there any changes to his carb intake? Did he also reduce use of simple carbs and processed foods?

New comment by KSS42 in "Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup"

KSS42 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:30:16 +0000

I heard that a loophole is to install Windows with a MSFT account, create a local account with admin access and then delete the MSFT account

New comment by KSS42 in "I collect and read old computer manuals"

KSS42 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 05:16:04 +0000

I still have mine. The C64 given away long time ago.

New comment by KSS42 in "How are Rome's monuments still standing?"

KSS42 — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:46:35 +0000

Here’s some great videos on this question from YouTuber ToldinStone - Garret Ryan

Author of Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators and War Elephants

Why was Roman concrete forgotten during the Middle Ages?

https://youtu.be/dbvvlFHCNn4

See also his YouTube series: History of Rome in 15 Buildings

The Colosseum: https://youtu.be/m6iHR8zqbiM

New comment by KSS42 in "Vintage Byte Magazine Library"

KSS42 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:07:33 +0000

I just threw out about a dozen BYTE issues from the late 90's that were sitting in a box for the last 2o years.

New comment by KSS42 in "The price students pay for a prized IIT seat"

KSS42 — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 21:52:02 +0000

When was that? 40? 50 yrs ago?

Did you really mean engineer or did you mean entry level technician?

When I graduated high school in the late 80's, you would at least need a community college degree to become even a technician or technologist.