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New comment by thedaemon in "Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install"

thedaemon — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:34:29 +0000

Windows 10 Pro, I've installed it about 40 times or more. Domain Join is the option to create a local account. It works, I do it every install, while connected to network.

New comment by thedaemon in "Create a First-Person Shooter In Godot"

thedaemon — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:31:27 +0000

Thank you so much for creating a web page tutorial, instead of a Video tutorial.

New comment by thedaemon in "Google Chrome to block file downloads over HTTP"

thedaemon — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:49:16 +0000

Google Chrome has been removing over-rides since forever.

New comment by thedaemon in "The Geocities Gallery"

thedaemon — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:55:44 +0000

It is up. You shouldn't post a link and not be bothered to check it.

New comment by thedaemon in "How housing became the world’s biggest asset class"

thedaemon — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:50:28 +0000

>It's like healthcare in the US: Since people can't opt out of it

We do not have a national healthcare system as most of the world does. We are not forced to have healthcare. Yes there are provisions of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that charge a tax penalty if you are not covered or exempt.

New comment by thedaemon in "How housing became the world’s biggest asset class"

thedaemon — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:43:05 +0000

I don't think anyone chooses Kansas or Missouri (depending on which Kansas City you are talking about) as a place to move to.

New comment by thedaemon in "Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Leaked Specs: Up to 20GB GDDR6 RAM"

thedaemon — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 20:19:02 +0000

3d artist here, yes Renderer can use your GPU RAM while rendering.

New comment by thedaemon in "Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Leaked Specs: Up to 20GB GDDR6 RAM"

thedaemon — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 20:17:35 +0000

That's the bottom end of the RTX cards. $300 for a low end card that would have been $150 a few years ago.

New comment by thedaemon in "Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (2018)"

thedaemon — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:39:37 +0000

>I don't know the realities of the weird city life Americans experience, but the places I've lived in Europe make this trivial.

I have lived in poor rural America. Here is some information for you that might help: There are no forms of public transportation. You are required to own your own car or have someone drive you. Work is usually 1 hour or more away. The grocery store is usually 30 minutes to 1 hour away. There are usually fast food restaurants within a few miles. Don't forget that America is gigantic in area and very spread out in the rural areas. However after telling you this, when I was a child we did go grocery shopping and ate things like crock pot roast beef and hamburger helper.

New comment by thedaemon in "People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows"

thedaemon — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:12:38 +0000

Because they aren't investing and letting their money work for them. They are spending it frivolously.

New comment by thedaemon in "How did British officers live in the scorching heat of India?"

thedaemon — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:43:53 +0000

The author is a history professor from the US, I would say, yes you are correct, Fahrenheit.

New comment by thedaemon in "Translating Quake 3 into Rust"

thedaemon — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:23:43 +0000

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-poorest-countries-in...

New comment by thedaemon in "AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th"

thedaemon — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:22:35 +0000

I haven't had any experience with cheap current generation CPUs. Have you any experience with ones such as an Intel Celerons that are about $30 on Amazon?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...

New comment by thedaemon in "Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?"

thedaemon — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:18:31 +0000

Information Technology.

New comment by thedaemon in "AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs"

thedaemon — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 23:20:39 +0000

It seems, after reading all of these comments that the ONLY significant improvement of highdpi is Font Rendering. I am a 3d artist and do not run HiDPI as it is a waste for my user case. I can see how most people don't do artwork and prefer the font rendering of HiDPI. Please don't think we all want nice font rendering, sometimes we need that 100% scaling.

New comment by thedaemon in "AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs"

thedaemon — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 23:17:00 +0000

I wonder how we've gotten by for 40+ years without HiDPI font rendering. sarcasm

New comment by thedaemon in "AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs"

thedaemon — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 23:11:46 +0000

16:10 was the perfect aspect ratio. I held onto my 24" 1920x1200 Dell Monitor until just last year. I recently tried to upgrade to a new 16:10 and it was impossible. Disappointing.

New comment by thedaemon in "Translating Quake 3 into Rust"

thedaemon — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 23:06:51 +0000

Not everyone is a rich American or European, many people live in what would be considered a poor country. They might have a core2duo if very lucky. The entitlement on this website is getting out of hand.

New comment by thedaemon in "AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th"

thedaemon — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:39:53 +0000

I just upgraded my CPU and kept my GPU, an older Nvidia 960 GTX. My CPU was a Q6600 and now I have a Ryzen 2700X. CPU matters so much it's amazing. Some games are heavy on the GPU and some are heavy on the CPU. Depends on what kind of things they have going on.

New comment by thedaemon in "AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th"

thedaemon — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:37:10 +0000

People buy Mac Pros to specifically run Mac Video Editing Software. This is the only reason to own a Mac Pro. IE if you work for Marvel editing films.