• KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ
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    3810 months ago

    OP might not have a PhD but this stuff happens a lot on reddit. A lot of people here on Lemmy have an IT background and would get a rude shock looking at some of the dominant opinions on the major technology-related subreddits, particularly those that are heavily astroturfed.

    • @[email protected]
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      10 months ago

      It hits like this when people with a pure CS or IT background start talking about the humanities or literally anything not purely tech-related.

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        710 months ago

        “Just” is the most dangerous adverb in the English language for engineers. I catch myself making sure I revisit anytime I say it to make sure nuance is better captured.

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      1310 months ago

      Yeah, I avoid most of that nonsense. Even the humor sites annoy me more than anything.

      /r/technology is perhaps my least favorite, and the Lemmy alternatives are a bit better imo (though a little too focused on Elon Musk).

      • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ
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        610 months ago

        If you really want to have some fun, when an Intel CPU is out preforming an AMD one on the charts go and mention that in a thread related to CPU performance. I’m fairly sure you’ll be talking to people paid with AMD money to astroturf the shit out of Reddit who will make up every excuse they can about the situation.

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          810 months ago

          Intel CPU do outperform AMD in several workloads, but on the top end, AMD seems to have the efficiency advantage.

          If AMD lost in some, they outperformed in many more metrics by large enough margins.

          This trend was true in past 2 gens (price and efficiency advantage with an overall perf advantage in power limited scenarios). Nothing to astroturf about it.

          The weird part would be if someone is comparing a zen2 with 14gen and still sticking with AMD for “some reason”

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            310 months ago

            I have similar gen Intel and AMD, the Intel chip annihilates the AMD one for bursty workloads, AMD eats Intel at everything else though (power draw especially).

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                110 months ago

                I have similar gen Intel and AMD, the Intel chip annihilates the AMD one for bursty workloads, AMD eats Intel at everything else though (power draw especially).

                it better, with all of that power…

    • Encrypt-Keeper
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      710 months ago

      I hop into the selfhosted subreddit every once in awhile and as you would imagine it’s mostly hobbyists that have no clue what they’re doing, but they’re also not very receptive to advice from people who do. They have their own set of commandments at this point it’s pretty wild.

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          310 months ago

          The most common thing you see is the idea that the holy grail of security being “not forwarding ports in your router”. Put your publicly accessible web service running on your unsegmented home LAN behind a cloudflare tunnel and you’re “secure”, problem solved, job done. If you point out the fact that this doesn’t solve any of the problems that go along with “port forwarding” or that CF tunnels MITMs all their data, you’ll get downvoted as a “CloudFlare hater”.

          Similarly they tend to believe that there’s no reason to separate your publicly accessible server from the rest of the devices on your home LAN, especially because the home LAN is “safe”.