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New comment by timpattinson in "Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs"

timpattinson — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:29:21 +0000

du du du du..... hax verstappen

New comment by timpattinson in "The Mysterious 50 Ohm Impedance: Where It Came from and Why We Use It (2021)"

timpattinson — Mon, 29 May 2023 12:37:07 +0000

Altium is far from the only choice for professionals, but if you have to ask, you can't afford them.

New comment by timpattinson in "A Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire"

timpattinson — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 06:30:39 +0000

The Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem only defines the sample rate to perfectly reproduce a signal of a certain bandwidth.

It says nothing about noise, distortion, dynamic range. In these areas it is impossible to create a "perfect" DAC, although granted the best DACs are indistinguishable from perfect as far as human perception is concerned.

New comment by timpattinson in "The GPU shortage is over"

timpattinson — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 06:16:47 +0000

AMD HBM GPUs, the only ones that a PC gamer would buy, are known to suffer from issues with the HBM due to thermal cycling issues

New comment by timpattinson in "YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips"

timpattinson — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:06:43 +0000

415 volts on a 30A breaker, like you might find in an undergraduate electrical engineering lab, is very lethal. I'd hazard a guess that's what the OP is talking about.

New comment by timpattinson in "Tachyum’s Prodigy CPU Specs"

timpattinson — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:53:07 +0000

IBM had 5GHZ in 2014. [1] Clock speed is not a measure of performance alone.

Besides, most of the work in reaching a certain clock speed or target can be owed to the foundry (in this case TSMC which is world-leading, certainly beating Intel on most metrics at the moment.)

Comparing to the over-tuned enthusiast SKU of 2018 is not a fair comparison for either. Also 600W is not impossible to cool, there are GPUs at that level of power for a while now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8

New comment by timpattinson in "Ask HN: How many computers you got?"

timpattinson — Tue, 10 May 2022 12:42:41 +0000

Windows desktop. Fairly high end. Gaming, some side project development work. Ubuntu laptop - XPS 9560 (don't buy one, they are crippled by thermals and poor sleep support even in windows). Mostly used for web browsing.

New comment by timpattinson in "Limits to green energy are becoming much clearer"

timpattinson — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 08:41:36 +0000

Please provide numbers for this if you're going to make such an extroadinary claim.

New comment by timpattinson in "WFH Policies – Based on anecdotal community feedback"

timpattinson — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:26:46 +0000

Australian large corporate workplaces whose employees notified this site - a little bit less impressive than it sounds

New comment by timpattinson in "Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password"

timpattinson — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 09:06:47 +0000

+1 KeePass + dropbox/gdrive/ "getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."

New comment by timpattinson in "Apple Mac Studio"

timpattinson — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 06:47:58 +0000

"unspecified frequency" is LPDDR5-6400. Better than anything else you can get for a reasonable price, and well into the experimental range with a 12th gen Intel cpu

New comment by timpattinson in "$1 Microcontrollers (2017)"

timpattinson — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 14:25:53 +0000

Yeah, STM32 spans the range between the $1 and the STM32F7 at 200Mhz

New comment by timpattinson in "Unlocking my Lenovo laptop, part 1 (2016)"

timpattinson — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 13:07:09 +0000

Linus not knowing what he's doing is the trademark of their channel though

New comment by timpattinson in "Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?"

timpattinson — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:47:12 +0000

A decent fabric mousepad. Night and day difference.

New comment by timpattinson in "Ask HN: Is there any tool for benchmarking responsiveness for Linux?"

timpattinson — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 11:05:45 +0000

Yeah you can generally underclock a modern intel or amd chip down to 400MHz, but of course other bottlenecks (storage, RAM, networking) will be massively out of proportion

New comment by timpattinson in "Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max"

timpattinson — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:49:20 +0000

Professional CS:GO is played mostly at 1280x720 and 300-400FPS+ There is definitely a market need for this type of setup, whether you think it's a dumb idea or not.

New comment by timpattinson in "Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max"

timpattinson — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 06:10:49 +0000

It's not like Apple would ever do it, but the M1 should have heaps of OC headroom. Given that the RAM is already on package, all they need to do is turn up the CPU multiplier.

AMD chips are doing similar clocks to Intel on TSMC N7, so Apple could (but won't) have a chip running way higher than the clocks they are currently shipping with.

Also, it's kinda inaccurate to imply any overclocked setup will crash, there's plenty of room unless they come turned up to the max from stock like the 12900k.

New comment by timpattinson in "No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation"

timpattinson — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 04:49:57 +0000

While i wouldn't agree that HN is a conservative forum, there is certainly a lot more conservative-leaning material posted here than similar tech-focused forums.

See any thread about California, Texas, diversity & affirmative action, COVID, etc.

New comment by timpattinson in "PCI-Sig Releases 256GBps PCIe 6.0 X16 Spec"

timpattinson — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:16:57 +0000

Yeah nothing has changed after the late 2000s when the memory controller moved to the CPU die rather than the northbridge

New comment by timpattinson in "PCI-Sig Releases 256GBps PCIe 6.0 X16 Spec"

timpattinson — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:15:39 +0000

On-die HBM is already happening in the CPU space:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17067/intel-sapphire-rapids-w...