There was some speculation back when the first Ryzen came out that Anandtech (among other reviewers) were pressured to not do the gaming benchmarks at all, or to do them last, since the gaming performance was so abysmal. I think they delayed those numbers for a few months.
It's very suspicious when Ryzen 2 numbers are that far off and whilst they keep getting all this amazing access to AMD for trips and CEO interviews and new toys.
Anandtech has nothing to gain if they're the only ones with invalid benchmarks.
Edit: If the comments on the AT article can be believed, then Toms Hardware's Intel benchmarks didn't include the latest Meltdown/Spectre firmware patches because they didn't know that the X470 platform had them to begin with.
Is anyone else kind of skeeved out by this site and the elektrec.co? Sites that are 90% worship of corporation X really rub me the wrong way, even for the companies I am a fanboy of.
I suppose there are similar sites like macrumors, but they seem to be independent and often critical. But these Tesla sites only push out the same positive, glowing stories over and over.
Some of us are old enough to remember the web and other services before they had ads. I remember quite well when the first started showing up, people called them "banners", and it was infuriating.
I never accepted the change in the expectation that everything will now be ad supported. That's a fundamental, massive shift. You can still say no that imposition, it's not actually baked into any of the technology, just a bunch of bloat glued on afterwards.
I recently visited SF for the first time in like 10 years, I was surprised at how safe and clean everything appeared after reading these sorts of articles for years. I walked 40 miles over the course of a week doing touristy stuff and spent lots of time in lots of neighborhoods at day and night and it wasn't nearly as "scary" as everyone seems to think it is.
If anything Denver has more homeless per street, and they seem to be much more aggressive and/or unstable. The Mission District was pretty hip and relaxed in comparison.
I generally love this blog but complaining about how irresponsible your valets are is just the most tonedeaf privileged nonsense I've ever heard.
I didn't own a car until I was in my 30s, I was ecstacic when I got that junker because it meant I could now sleep in the back of it instead of outside the library. I can't imagine most white people even believing that statement, I guess they got deleted dash cams to upload.
> I generally love this blog but complaining about how irresponsible your valets are is just the most tonedeaf privileged nonsense I've ever heard.
I don't think it's tone-deaf in this case. This person isn't complaining about the valets at the 5-star restaurant where she pays $100 a plate, he's complaining about valets that were foisted on him against his will by an employer that was growing too fast for their office space.
As a white person that comes from poverty, many of us do believe that statement since we have had similar experiences. White doesn't mean rich or even middle class.
I'm so tired of every corporation comparing themselves to others to justify everything. "Well GE hid losses for decades with fradulent accounting so we can too!"
How about just stop exploiting a technically illiterate government that is incapable of regulating you? You know when you're doing it, everyone working on an analytics engine knows exactly what the fuck they are doing, trust me. How about you just stop?
It's the latter, 10% collapse in a 1 in 100 event. I used to do similar work in floodplain management. I don't even know what a 1 in 500 event is in earthquake terms, is it even possible to build something that withstands that level of quake?
The fact of the matter is in a best case scenario, 10% of these buildings are going to collapse in a major earthquake. 10% of the newest, shiniest, up to code buildings. Best case, that's the engineering code, that's the spec. They are designed to collapse 10% of the time.
In reality many more will collapse, because some buildings are older and not up to code, as well as earthquakes generally just being weird and unpredictable.
Do you think 10% of buildings collapsing is a "loose" or "tight" code? 10% losses is acceptable in say, human habitation?
You don't get exactly 10% failure rate, you have to demonstrate better than 10% failure rate which means going past that point. Further, failure is not 'collapse' failure is anyone in the building being unable to exit safely.
And again, they are aiming for a 9.0 that's a ridiculously large earthquake. An 7.8 similar to the last SF earthquake would still be a major earthquake, but vastly less dangerous by comparison.
I know multiple people who work at Google that are quitting because of this. Lots of people have lines in the sand when it comes to violence and military work, but those lines are deep for a reason and they don't really want to talk about them so you'd never know.
Do you mean these people have handed in notices or are planning on quitting in the next day or so? Or do you mean these people are considering quitting if google doesn't change its ways? Or do you mean "Some people I know are saying that they will quit" but have no short term plan for actually quitting?
Quitting a job over an ethical issue doesn't take long. It goes like this: "I quit!"
And then, those people are no longer 'quitting' but now have become 'have quit.'
That a tech worker on a tech website knows some people at a major tech company? Guess what I know people that work at almost every tech company you've heard of, that's what happens when you get old.
Try just going to eat at the Pho place across the street from Google in Boulder sometime, you'll hear people openly complaining about Sundar and Susan and chatting about their latest projects at full volume without a care in the world.
I assume the parent meant that it was convenient they didn't talk about the topic, or that you couldn't give examples. Most everyone on HN knows a lot of people at major tech companies.
Anyways, we'll see what happens, if the company doesn't give in perhaps we will see some more "why I quit Google" blogs down the road.
It's very suspicious when Ryzen 2 numbers are that far off and whilst they keep getting all this amazing access to AMD for trips and CEO interviews and new toys.