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Who are these people?
The dude is an ex officer and a former world record holder, a 4 time world champion in shooting, has been top 3 in 27 european and world championship competitions, and has been competing for over 2 decades now. He won silver at the last Olympics
The woman recently won Gold at the Olympics.
The joke in the original meme is that she needed all that equipment and perfect form to beat a guy who literally walked on with a pack of ciggies and a tshirt and shot with both eyes open. It is very likely he is a much better shot than her in any real world scenario given he is also former special military. He probably wasn’t trying that hard at all.
Much like the guy, Torvalds invented Linux and Git may be one of the most influential minds in software in our lifetimes and he doesn’t have a desk full of blinking lights and $15000 desk setups. He doesn’t need a bunch of try hard poser shit to be great.
My favorite part of this is how he subconsciously wiped the fingerprints off his gun when he was done
That's be amazing if he also took it apart while walking away and dropped the pieces in different trash cans
He probably wasn’t trying that hard at all.
I highly doubt that's true.
His shooting style is just more traditional while hers is more contemporary.
Both are amazing shooters and among the best in the world.
Thank you for the explanation! I never really watched the Olympics enough to see them firing guns. I would think all that high tech equipment counts as performance enhancement stuff which goes against the spirit of peak human based skill but maybe sports people who actually watch and run the Olympics think differently about external augmentations in some cases.
Its really funny with the context of some dude just chilling and vibing while casually firing off world record level shots
He is the odd one out. Most have special gear.
Shooting with both eyes open is actually easier, your whole face is relaxed, and relaxation is key to accurate shooting. At least that's what I was taught in the military
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I keep getting caught off-guard seeing current photos of Torvalds. He's just like...a guy.
And honestly I'd rather my mission-critical software be written by "just a guy" than by whoever Mr. Battlestation is down there on the bottom.
Mr. Battlestation that is running one GPU, but has the combined cooling to run a nuclear power plant
Cooling? You mean the spinning leds?
TBF, cooling is cheap, GPUs are expensive.
Still has a keyboard that's way too big though. See him having to use the very corner of the mouse mat in order to use it comfortably.
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"It really doesn't look like much. And I have to say, the most interesting part in this picture, that people mostly react to, is the walking desk. It is the most interesting part in my office, and I'm not actually using it anymore."
— Linus Torvalds, The mind behind Linux
Why is this guy posing like he doesnt have the default windows background?
He'd displaying his lack of personality.
I've gathered some like that. Or I've misunderstood and people are easily led morons. One or the other.
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I had a friend ask for recommendations for prebuilts. I found one that was under budget and over spec for their needs and sent them the info. They ended up going with an overbudget one with arguably worse specs (they didn't really need the specs I was suggesting but bang for buck it made sense and was still under budget) because it had all the lights that the seller could shove in it. No real judgement if that's your style and you have the money, but it just upset me to have spent time doing research for them only to have them ignore all of that because they failed to mention that lights were important.
The bloody lights everyone is obsessed with nowadays caused me numerous nights of shit sleep. Some devices designed by companies who clearly think too much of themselves decided that they would keep their LEDs on despite the computer shutting down.
If anyone else is experiencing this issue, look for ErP in your BIOS/EFI and then turn it on/enable it.
Caveat: you won't be able to charge your USB devices using your PC USB ports while the PC is shutdown if you change this setting.
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Uhm, nothing worse than when people ask your opinion on things that you literally need to know to perform your job and then just ignore it completely.
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Not shown: a cubic meter of obscure developer boards and gadgets that hardware manufacturers randomly send to Torvalds to integrate into Linux.
Also his RAM is ECC.
On account of the cosmic space beams.
Bottom needs a gamer chair to prove that he's a gamer. A gamer games 45% better with a gamer chair. That's why they're shaped 45% differently. Without a gamer chair, a gamer does not truly game. But it's very important that they see it.
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do you have a walking desk? yes WELL YOU BETTER GO CATCH IT
Imagine have a nice custom setup and using the default Windows desktop. Weird flex...
I can't imagine spending thousands of dollars on a setup and then running windows on it like it's in a some office cubicle somewhere.
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I suspect the actual PC used is at least fairly powerful though. Like someone else said it's likely using ECC as its mission critial, so chances are it also has other expensive server parts inside. Not all powerful computers actually look like anything fancy at all. This post reminds me of things like the watercooling subreddit and the amount of effort and money they put into things like aesthetics, that don't actually improve performance at all. Even though the original point of watercooling was performance.
The most recent info I can find (2020) is that he's using a Threadripper. I daresay he might have upgraded it by now, but it should give an idea what he goes after. There are a few links from reputable sources around that time, here's one.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adopts_amd_threadripper/
When i was still into building computers, i really liked elaborate watercooled builds. But the whole maintenance and the little gain wasn't even worth it for me. I don't wanna know how much an average watercooled pc is suffering
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The guy in the lower pic looks like such a chud.
He's exactly the sort of twat that as soon as he shows up in any IT workplace everyone cringes because that MBA motherfucker is gonna be the stupidest, most unprofessional, unskilled thing on the floor and he's gonna make it everyone elses problem
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Bruhhh but my NFT's will be mooning soon!
Torvalds could assemble a system by collecting old outdated electronic junk from a trash heap and make it work
Tech Bro needs to convince million dollar investors (or his wealthy parents) to finance his latest setup in order to install the latest Windows or Mac OS ... without money to buy new shiny things and proprietary software, he's totally lost
He built this, in a cave, with a walking desk!
B but sir. Im not Linus.
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a random consumer*
It’s a bit like alt med quacks wearing a white lab coat and carrying a stethoscope while they prescribe magical water or wave coloured crystals at you.
Its the treadmill.
The treadmill gives you infinite power.
Christ on a stick! As someone who builds computers for fun all I see is fan control modules and cables. So many cables. Cables as far as the eye can see!
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But standing desks are awesome, I too would pick the top over the bottom setup
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that’s a gamer/streamer, not a tech bruh
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