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I could get a PCI-E riser and try to install a dual-slot card (yes the case/mobo don't fit one unmodified)

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meh, my q6600 isn't stable modded to 3GHz and modding the voltage requires conductive ink

oh and also I guess I broke the graphics card so go me

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is it possible to friction weld a heatsink to a chip

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You know how video ads, video interstitials in online articles, have been getting more and more popular over the last few years?

That's because Facebook told everybody that people paid a lot of attention to video ads.

Turns out, THAT's because Facebook desperately wanted advertisers to buy the more-expensive video slots (instead of plain text or images) and falsified their viewing metrics, sometimes by a factor of /nine hundred/:

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

I gotta say, this "trends" feature is really useful /s

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more general thing about cws 

this is a more general point, but the above is a specific example where i feel like people will often think "this is important for them to see so i'm not gonna CW this"

don't do that

it's not our decision as the person posting something about whether potential harms to some readers' mental health are outweighed by the importance of the information. respect the agency of people wrt their mental health and attention

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food salty 

if you sell like ten different burgers and none of them is a veggie burger fuck you

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Mathematical!

My NumWorks arrived and now I can Python everywhere!

something about japanese engadget in google translate absolutely eats performance

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Sleepless Domain (no spoiler) 

extremely blessed panel

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ooh yeah just putting on new thermal paste and loosely sticking on the cooler does't seem to be ideal for graphics card temps

gotta figure out a way to properly secure this heatsink, I guess, I'm definitely not supergluing it back on

how hard is it to cut a trace on a graphics card when trying to remove superglue with a screwdriver? asking for a friend

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