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This is about a 12nm "Zen+" chip coming out this year, not "Zen 2".

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Pinnacle Ridge Processor Single And Multi-Core Benchmarks Leak

The Ryzen 5 2600 is a 6-core/12-thread processor with a 3.4GHz base clock and 3.8GHz boost clock. It also has 3MB of L2 cache, 16MB of L3 cache, and a 65W TDP.

In Geekbench, the chip scored 4,269 in the single-thread testing and 20,102 in multi-threaded testing. Compared to the Ryzen 5 1600, which is a 6-core/12-thread processor clodcked at 3.2GHz to 3.6GHz with the same cache arrangement and TDP, the Ryzen 5 2600 is anywhere from 7-15 percent faster in single-threaded performance, and 22-31 percent faster in multi-threaded performance. The ranges in percentages take into account different scores in Geekbench's database.

Even if going by the low end numbers a 7 percent jump in single-threaded performance and 22 percent gain in multi-threaded work chores is a nice upgrade. Part of the difference is obviously attributable to faster clockspeeds, but performance optimizations underneath the hood also play a role. The gap could be even wider when Pinnacle Ridge ships too, as AMD and its partners will have had more time to polish up drivers.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 spotted in Geekbench database

Previously:

AMD Expected to Release Ryzen CPUs on a 12nm Process in Q1 2018
AMD at CES 2018

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Summary:

I am often presented with an alert that says "This Mac can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with "mdcrawford@gmail.com". Open iCloud preferences to fix this problem."

There are two buttons: "Later" and "iCloud Preferences"

Clicking Later sometimes fails completely. The alert keeps reappearing.

I work around this by moving the alert so it is mostly off-screen. However I am unable to convince the alert that "No means No".

Steps to Reproduce:

Change your Apple ID password.

Use your Mac for a while. This mostly occurs when the Mac has been booted for at least a few days. However you can put your Mac to sleep then wake it the next day.

Expected Results:

The alert won't show itself anymore

Actual Results:

Less than one second passes between appearances of "can't connect to iCloud".

Version/Build:

macOS 10.12.5 16F73

Model Identifier Macmini7,1

Configuration:

Intel Core i5
8 GB memory

When I bought my mini Apple was advertising three configurations. I bought the $699 model.

As Peter Thiel ditches Silicon Valley for LA, locals tout 'conservative renaissance'

If the billionaire tech investor and noted libertarian Peter Thiel really does leave Silicon Valley for Los Angeles to escape what he views as an increasing intolerance for conservatives, the city’s growing community of conservatives will be there to welcome him.

Among LA’s right-leaning residents are the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, the political commentator Dave Rubin and the blogger Bill Whittle. There’s also the former members of the defunct Friends of Abe, a secretive group of Hollywood conservatives that fractured in 2016 over the candidacy of Donald Trump.

“Silicon Valley has long despised the American right and it’s beginning to flex its muscles against us,” said Michael Knowles, an LA-based podcaster for The Daily Wire, referring to a lawsuit filed by conservative media site PragerU against YouTube for allegedly “censoring” conservative videos.

“It’s a sign of the time that Peter Thiel is heading down here because there’s been a conservative renaissance in Los Angeles,” Knowles said.

PragerU’s chief marketing officer, Craig Strazzeri, added: “It’s both astounding and sad – but unfortunately not surprising – that there are parts of this country where you are socially and professionally shunned if you support the duly elected president of our country. That might be changing in Los Angeles.”

Previously: Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles

I wouldn't cheat on anyone. Never have never will.

On Valentine's Day I bought a rose for a woman I'm interested in. She clearly likes me but I really don't know whether she would want to date me.

She wasn't in that evening. I felt a huge sense of relief.

Last night I was stricken with terror because she was in. I said "happy Day After Valentine's Day" then gave her the rose.

I don't think I have ever in my life seen someone as happy as she was last night.

Neither of us had anything rational to say so I left.

But soon I'm going to ask her to meet for coffee. In my experience that works quite a lot better than asking women to dinner.

Never ever take a first date to the movies. Fail to heed this hard-won advice and she'll spend the duration of the flick wondering if you're going to put your arm around her, while at the same time you'll be wondering if you can get away with doing so.

When you feel confident enough to take her to a movie, and she's not going to get pissed off at you for putting your arm around her, take her to a comedy.

I once took a first date to "Lorenza's Oil". It's a true story: Lorenzo had a horrible genetic disease that resulted in constant, excruciating pain. That disease only happens to boys. The women in his mother's side of the family tend to all have red hair.

It was ultimately a truly wonderful story, but when Lorenzo first started screaming in pain I wanted to crawl under my seat.

What the movie portrays by the end of the movie is quite inspiring. So by then I was OK to crawl back out from under my seat. I'll leave what actually happened as an exercise for the gentle Torrent enthusiast.

What was I thinking?

I should not write code when I'm hallucinating.

The playboy who got away with $242m – using ‘black magic’

Air Dabia

A: It was a bunch of skiing enthusiasts who went to Tahoe without bringing the car chargers for their iPhones.

This joke is my own original work. I'm going to milk it for all it's worth.

You Up? College in the Age of Tinder

Frankly, dating apps can also just make things incredibly awkward. My freshman year I swiped through hundreds of people. At one of the last tailgates of the year, a random man walked by me and yelled: “Hey! We matched on Tinder! You are Tinder girl!”

I was mortified. Suddenly everyone around me knew that I was on Tinder. And I had swiped through so many people, I had no idea who this guy was. He was just another nameless “match” that I would never get to know. Because, needless to say, I walked away and never spoke to that guy again.

[...] The same Snap asking to “hang out” sent at 2 p.m. can have a completely different meaning when sent at 2 a.m.

[...] You don’t want to be mid-makeout while the jewel-encrusted crab from “Moana” is singing about how shiny he is.

Meet the Writer the New York Times Hired and Fired In Just Six Hours

After a Twitter Storm, The Times and a New Hire Part Ways

- a method." -- Caltech mathematician Tom Apostol

        sleep( 10 ); // MDC try to fix fast user switching with a horrible hack