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Gris - Jun 05, 2019 1:05:24 pm PDT #25290 of 25500
Hey. New board.

For GitHub specifically, the desktop GitHub app is pretty good too.


Emily - Jun 19, 2019 4:18:28 pm PDT #25291 of 25500
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I have used GitHub quite a lot but kind of forget every time I take a week or so away. I've found this very useful: [link]


Gudanov - Aug 19, 2019 5:11:20 pm PDT #25292 of 25500
Coding and Sleeping

My computer is pretty good at multitasking.

[link]

I just upgraded my computer and starting using it and things like GIMP starting instantly are happening now.


Jon B. - Aug 25, 2019 5:42:29 pm PDT #25293 of 25500
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

What hardware are you using, Gud? I've been thinking of upgrading myself.


Gudanov - Aug 26, 2019 4:07:35 am PDT #25294 of 25500
Coding and Sleeping

I just upgraded to a Ryzen 9 3900X which is a 12 core processor. Since I already had an AM4 socket motherboard (X390 chipset)all I had to do is pop in the new processor.


Jon B. - Aug 26, 2019 4:13:22 pm PDT #25295 of 25500
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Ah, I've been looking at a whole new build with a Ryzen 7 2700X.


Gudanov - Aug 26, 2019 4:34:12 pm PDT #25296 of 25500
Coding and Sleeping

Go with a 3000 series if possible, the architecture is much improved.


Jon B. - Aug 27, 2019 5:05:11 pm PDT #25297 of 25500
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Good to know!


Gris - Aug 27, 2019 5:49:51 pm PDT #25298 of 25500
Hey. New board.

Anybody know anything about setting up really basic Selenium tests to run in Travis CI? I have students submitting some very basic typescript projects where they essentially uses textboxes, buttons, and divs to send input and output back and forth, and I want to automatically check if they've satisfied requirements on GitHub. I'm pretty sure I know how to set up the Selenium tests locally, but am having trouble figuring out if I can do it on Travis (I have an educational plan so should have free access to a lot of Enterprise features).


Gudanov - Aug 28, 2019 6:40:57 am PDT #25299 of 25500
Coding and Sleeping

Here's an article about the Ryzen 3000 series.

[link]

The new Ryzen 3000 chips mark the first "big" leap for AMD since they introduced their first Ryzen processors a bit over two years ago. Unlike last year's Ryzen 2000 series, which was a more minor refresh and brought some tweaks to the microarchitecture and process node, this year's Ryzen 3000 is a major upgrade for both CPU architecture as well as on the manufacturing node.

I went from a Ryzen 7 1700X to a Ryzen 9 3900X and I expected it to be faster, but it's been 'holy sh*t' faster. And that's just from swapping out the CPU, same motherboard, same memory, same everything.