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Well after this emergency meeting I went to talk to my area manager and asked him where the cleaning supplies were. He said he just sent an email asking his supervisor (yay, BUREAUCRACY IN A WAREHOUSE!), and apparently they were some where in the facility sitting on a pallet. INSTEAD OF IN THE AREAS THAT NEED TO BE CLEANED. I also suggested, since Walmart is hiring twice as many people as they need, they just designate one person to go station to station and clean, all day. He said I could do it, so I just might take him up on that once the supplies are located. The department I'm working is filthy.

Welp someone at my facility just tested positive for CV 19 today. Didn't give us any more details beyond our particular group wasn't in direct contact with the person... which doesn't mean much to me. I did manage to piss off the lady briefing us. She apparently thinks they have been doing a really good job cleaning the facility. I told her our department, which happens to be the largest department and having 200 people working shoulder to shoulder, hasn't been cleaned in several weeks and there were absolutely no cleaning supplies (disinfectants) available at all. She then shortly tells me, "Well you'll have to talk to your manager about that." Naive fool.

I went to Kroger's last week and every piece of meat, fresh and frozen, was gone. Just went today and they are pretty well stocked up. I guess everyone has hoarded up for a while, so now might be the lull between the next one. I was knocked out for 2 days on Christmas. Tested negative for the Flu. Don't think it was Covid 19 because I had no problems breathing and no fever. I know of some person who bought 3M masks from hardware stores to re-sell on ebay for 10x the price.

You'll be able to run them at 4k with an emulator

Good luck, trying to take Twitch head on.

Because "EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION" is communism my friend, and Trump says communism is the Devil!

They're not news, they're just actors reading a made up script.

I'm at a Walmart.com warehouse and they have also basically done nothing. In fact they are neglecting routine cleaning, too. Dust bunnies are piling up. It's pathetic. I've been there since December so I really don't doubt that I've come in contact with CV-19. And if not, that warehouse and any other one in the country is guaranteed to be an outbreak at some point in time, even if if they do actually routinely clean commonly touched surfaces. Because there are always those people who come into work sick as a dog. Just two days ago in the men's bathroom some dude had a nasty cough, and was not covering his mouth. He just infected a few hundred square feet of area right there, and how knows how many on the floor. And this cough was definitely bronchitis cough. It wasn't smoker cough, or I swallowed down the wrong hole cough. Stupid mother fucker. In air from a cough: 2-3 hours On cardboard: up to 24 hours On plastic and steel: up to 3 days. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200317-covid-19-how-long-does-the-coronavirus-last-on-surfaces So you probably don't have to worry about the cardboard, but the plastic bubble filler and whatever item you bought could definitely still be infected with Prime delivery speeds.

MV-20 heartbreaks already outpacing CV-19's.

Would love to see this implemented into the Battle Royale's on the market, like Apex. I get blue balled when I see an enemy moving in the distance, which turns out to just be the aliasing on the edges of a tree branch. And while they're at it can they use the Tensor cores to create AI that will just play the game for me?

Would be nice if you could pick up items with one hand while you hold your gun in the other. During the train section you could then throw the gas can by swinging your left arm as you really would, and then shoot it with the gun in your right hand.

Emulation is mostly CPU bottlenecked even when you have low level access, so SSD speed probably won't help.

You could be right about the cooling. I should amend my statement by saying the size differences would be small regardless. As both consoles will be close to same performance they should also be close in power and heat output, but right now we don't know how this RDNA2 architecture built on the 7nm+ architecture scales in power, frequency, voltage, and transistor count yet. Right now the only metric we really know is performance, but these other factors will also impact how big the heatsink is. So there's really no way to speculate size.

Agreed. The people still working are at such a high risk and will no doubt unwittingly spread the virus because of the people they'll be exposed to, and now I have to vent about my work situation... Currently I am working at an E-commerce warehouse for Walmart and it is insane, as you can imagine everyone is buying from home now. The pay rate is actually decent for my area, but the working conditions under this "we must contain the virus" is not. There are almost no precautions implemented since the outbreak has started growing in the U.S. at this facility. I am working within a 6 foot radius of several people at a time, and to maintain productivity we often have to migrate from station to station. Everyone is touching everything and they do not have any kind of cleaning supplies for us to use. They are also currently hiring 400 more people to bring into this already crowded building. During meetings they (the area managers) are not encouraging any kind of social distancing behaviors. There are about 3 people for every microwave, and they are making everyone go on lunch at the same time. The lunch tables are cheap fast food types: Four people to a table using benches instead of chairs. The break room is packed and are people forced to sit next to each other when everyone goes at the same time. If one infected person comes into that building, and specifically my department, everyone is going to spread the virus. On top of that, because of the insanely high workload the building is forcing the people actually employed by them (I am coming into the building as an outsider) to work 6 ten hour shifts per week. Since this facility is fulfilling online orders, the employees were only expecting this amount of work between Black Friday and Christmas. But they have been completely busy since October of last year, working 50-60+ hour weeks, with only about a 3-4 week reprieve in January to their normal 40 hour work week. It's a bad situation being made worse by people who are tired and care even less about cleanliness. I have also noticed the work areas are getting dirtier/dustier by the week, as there are spills (broken grocery items, soups, pasta sauce, etc) that haven't been cleaned for several days and I can see dust bunnies under tables that were not there a month ago. I guess they can't spare anyone to push a fucking mop and broom! I wonder how much profit Walmart is making off this panic buying. I could leave at any time, but I'm am erring on the side of caution of getting paid as much as I can while I still can. I'm normally socially isolated, and healthy, so me being infected would be low risk. But I still would rather not have any risk of spreading it to the few people I do interact with, so by the day I am more and more considering a quarantine, especially if that place doesn't give us some disinfectant spray and paper towels. So there is a bit of irony here. People are told to stay home and go out as little as possible, but since we have the ability to order and bring whatever we want to our doorstep people are doing that at an increased rate. This is putting a huge burden the likes of Amazon and Walmart, such that these companies are hiring more employees to stuff into central locations, demand these people put in above average work hours, and do absolutely nothing to clean the work areas (in my situation), which as a result will provide the perfect breeding ground for this virus to spread rapidly.

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That's a good upgrade because Nvidia stopped optimizing 1000 drivers a long time ago! And you get better RTX performance.

I thought the DF article was about as detailed on the XSX as the presentation Sony gave on the PS5. Sony just added a lot of history and context for people to follow along, particularly with the audio, but MS gave us pretty detailed specs and (a short version as to) why they did it that way. My take-away differences: CPU/GPU performance: -Microsoft targets consistent clockspeeds and built the console and heatsink to handle the worst-case scenario as the power requirements will fluctuate. -Sony targets a consistent power delivery by offering adjustable clockspeeds. So the system (or devs, presumably) can allocate more clockspeed/power to the GPU if the CPU doesn't need it, and vice versa. They should be able to build a smaller form factor since they know what the worst-case power scenario will be, and the PS5 SoC should use less power anyway allowing them to use a smaller heatsink/fan. GPU features: -Both seem to use a form of mesh shading -Both seem to have the same Ray Tracing acceleration built into the shaders of the GPU. -Microsoft mentioned Variable Rate Shading while Sony didn't, but I don't see why the PS5 won't be able to do it. I think this is just an assumed feature much like 120 Hz and Variable Refresh Rate support, neither of which Cerny talked about. Overall the Xbox will be slightly more powerful than the PS5 at its max potential, but this is really not going to be a difference you'll notice. It's a smaller difference than the XboneS and PS4 slim as well as the difference between the PS4 Pro and X1X. My guess the biggest noticeable difference that could emerge will be in the Xbox's ability to dedicate more hardware horsepower for Ray-Tracing effects. Storage: PS5's SSD capabilities will be up to twice as fast the XSX. While going about redesigning storage access methods in slightly different ways, both companies are effectively doing the same thing in having hardware-accelerated decompression to keep the CPU from being overwhelmed. In Sony's description they talked more about the custom I/O hardware they created in order to achieve this while in Microsoft's description they talked more about the custom I/O software they needed to create, but in either case you need both hardware and software to work together so the end result is the same goal: Both companies want the SSD to act as extended memory in order to free up actual system memory for data that is actively being used, as in current gen games most of the data sitting in memory isn't actually needed; the data is just there as a buffer to keep the frametime from spiking in case it needs to fetch the data from the currently slow as shit drives. Memory: The differences are basically a wash. Microsoft does have overall faster memory, but it also needs the faster memory in order to keep its faster CPU and GPU fed properly. The amount is the same for both consoles, but again each company is trying to free up memory by utilizing the SSDs. Sony's SSD is faster so it can brute force this method better. But Microsoft did mention one technique they are going to use to free up even more memory that Sony didn't, and that's Sampler Feedback Streaming. This method will work concurrently with the SSD by having a less-memory-intensive, lower quality texture loaded into memory and utilized in a final rendered scene while it waits for the SSD to load in the higher quality version. Maybe Sony doesn't need this method since its SSD is fast enough to... not need it? The end result is there will be a bigger generational leap in effective RAM games can utilize than what the paper specs show us - the same deal with how the performance difference will definitely be more than what TFLOP increase shows us because 1 RDNA2 Compute Unit is more efficient than a GCN Compute Unit. Audio and VR: Clear advantage to Sony, as the only mention of audio from Microsoft was that it would be running on the generic CPU cores while Sony has a dedicated chip for processing MOAR sounds than you've ever heard in your life. Not mentioned in the DF article I linked, but I stand corrected in that both consoles will have dedicated audio processors. Microsoft didn't provide any details beyond that, so who knows which one will be better. Backwards Compat: -Microsoft wins here by guaranteeing multiple generations back, but despite some of the meme's I'm seeing Sony will at least support PS4 compatibility. However they will have to verify games, much like how the Pro couldn't run every game in boost mode when it launched.

I see posts on my FB all the time using the slippery slope fallacy of equating any kind of (more) democratic socialism with communism. "Healthcare for all = communism." The Midwest and rural areas of this country still live the Cold War mentality. They only accept what they are exposed to, which is capitalism - a man makes himself, and a man makes for himself, fuck people you don't know!

My city just had its first confirmed case, and it's at the hospital where my mom works. I don't think she would have treated this patient, but the news only broke an hour ago and they haven't released any names.

Relevant for you in 2021. For me and other middling class people, 2022-2023 is probably the time frame when the drives would become reasonably priced anyway, particularly if the world economy is going to be in stalemate for an extended period of time.

That was a great presentation, but now I'm a little sad I decided not to get a motherboard with PCI-E 4.0. Should have spent that extra $50 But I guess on the bright side, by the time any PC game actually takes advantage of an 4.0 SSD I'll probably have the urge to upgrade again anyway. So I wonder how big of a competitive advantage the 3D audio is going to give cross-platform multiplayer games, hmmm? And while I loved Spider-man and am glad the second one is coming so soon, I didn't really feel that restricted when playing the game. The freedom and variety could always be turned up a notch, but I'm way more excited to see what they can do with the next God of War game.

I turned off the CPU folding since it's just not efficient enough from a points-per-watt perspective to be worth it, and took the side panel off my case to ensure no overheating would happen when the GPU is dumping its 250W of heat 24/7. And yeah sometimes it likes to stop working after finishing work unit; it seemingly can't connect to the server to download a new one. I usually then have to manually pause and then start it again and it'll find a new workload in a few minutes.

And they'll have PSNow to offer streaming *until* they get those emulators working. I hope they talk about the VR capabilities. That's probably going to be the biggest difference between these consoles, since Microsoft isn't even addressing VR at all.

Most surprising is the clockspeeds. They are basically delivering full desktop PC all-core clockspeeds, and the GPU clockspeed is higher than the 5700 XT's base clocks. Quite impressive. Aside from that, I love the demonstration of the load times and quick resume features. I hope the PS5 basically copies most of those features.

Right as I was graduation HS, sometime before my first semester of college, I went to CIRCUIT CITY and customized a prebuilt Compaq: Circa 2003: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ ATI Radeon All In Wonder! 7500 512MB of RAM 120GB HDD Soundblaster Audigy SE Creative 5.1 speakers... which I'm using for my HTPC to this day And within a few months, after finding out you can buy your own parts from retailers, I gutted the system and built one so I could play with overclocking.