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[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Misleading headline. This improvement was only the best video encoding result. Most relevant improvements were in the 7-17% range. Still an improvement, but not so spectacular.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Misleading is the way of journalism these days. It's all about clickbait and partial facts.

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Tomshardware is a blog, not journalism. It seems to be a generally credible blog (passes the CRAAP test), but it’s still just a blog.

That said, sadly, I have to agree about the general state of almost all US-based “journalism” these days. About 90% of headlines today would have gotten the editor fired on the spot in my newsroom. That was a point of strong disagreement between me and the station manager, and It’s one of the major reasons that I left the field.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Honestly after reading the headline I expected the average difference to be 1-3%, 7% is kind of amazing lol

[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Prince Wang's programmer was coding software. His fingers danced upon the keyboard. The program compiled without and error message, and the program ran like a gentle wind.

"Excellent!" the Prince exclaimed. "Your technique is faultless!"

"Technique?" said the programmer, turning from his terminal, "What I follow is Tao -- beyond all techniques! When I first began to program, I would see before me the whole problem in one mass. After three years, I no longer saw this mass. Instead, I used subroutines. But now I see nothing. My whole being exists in a formless void. My senses are idle. My spirit, free to work without a plan, follows its own instinct. In short, my program writes itself. True, sometimes there are difficult problems. I see them coming, I slow down, I watch silently. Then I change a single line of code and the difficulties vanish like puffs of idle smoke. I then compile the program. I sit still and let the joy of the work fill my being. I close my eyes for a moment and then log off."

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The photo they used for Linux patch was a Windows desktop?

The patch, sent out on June 6, 2024, adjusts the Intel P-State Energy Performance Preference (EPP) default “balance_performance” value. This sets the balance between power and performance in a processor. The allowable range for the EPP is from 0 to 255 and it was set to 128 in February before Intel changed it to 115. The latest patch further refines the value from 115 to 64.