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A.k.a. She Asked for Murder. Great book. Black Gat reprints are the best, the built in cover crease is amazing. 32 thumbs up. Product endorsed. #books #pbo #bookstodon

"The previous Liberal government under former prime minister Justin Trudeau set an anchor of capping the annual deficit at one per cent of GDP and maintaining a declining debt-to-GDP ratio."

"The PBO report forecasts that Ottawa will blow past those anchors in the upcoming budget."

#Canada #CDNPoli #PBO

"Stupefying," "shocking" and "unsustainable" -- those were just some of the words Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog used Thursday to describe his scathing forecast for federal finances ahead of a long-anticipated fall budget.

PBO: "I think everybody should be concerned"

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/09/25/budget-watchdog-sounds-alarm-about-ottawas-unsustainable-fiscal-path/

#Canada #CDNPoli #PBO

Surprised everybody by sitting in the basket. #catstodon #cats #CatsOfMastodon #calico #mastocats #booksandcats #bookstodon #books. #pbo

A calico cat, medium fluff, half gray and half tan with a white bib. She is very seriously sitting in a wicker basket with a handle on a table next to several flat stacks of paper backs. The stack with visable titles are 80’s action adventure series books like Able Team and The Terminator. Behind her is a book shelf.

“Tears for Jessie Hewitt” by Edna Sherry, 1958. #bookstodon #books #reading #sundayreading #crimebooks #pbo

A picture of a paper back book called “Tears for Jessie Hewitt” by Edna Sherry from the reprint series Black Gat Books by Stark House Press. The cover is white and blue with a a red slash across the top. There is a pulp era style painting of a womans head and shoulders. She has brown hair, green eyes. She’s turned slightly, mouth open a look of shock or worry on her face. Behind her lightning arcs across the sky.

Concannon By Clifton Adams. Fantasic. A Detective-Western that takes place in 1893 Oklahoma City. 23 thumbs up. #bookstodon #books #reading #weekendreads #pbo

A picture of a paperback called Concannon by Clifton Adams. The cover show a mustached man who vaguely looks like charles bronson or middle aged josh brolin smiling wearing a duster and a pistol on a gunbelt. In one hand he holds a cigar and in the other a bundle of dynamite. A red starburt blued on one side says in all caps “Easy Read Western.”

Fredric Brown - The Fabulous Clip Joint. #bookstodon #books #reading #saturdayreading #pbo

A picture of a paperback copy Fredric Browns “The Fabulous Clip Joint” from Penzler Publishing. The cover is reddish brown and shows carnival tents against a background of highrise buildings.

Modern motherboard firmwares (#BIOS for us oldtimers) are outright awful. Toggling a single option X on/off isn't necessarily binary. Enabling option X might enable other option Y (and maybe more) which will remain enabled even if you disable X again.

This makes it extremely difficult to do binary search on situations where some firmware option causes you trouble.

I was bit by this earlier today when I enabled AMD Precision Boost Overdrive on an AM4 system. The system would start to fail compile tasks randomly (and #Prime95 within second) when PBO was enabled. Confusingly disabling PBO did not result in a working system, but the system kept crashing. I updated the firmware to the latest version and the system became stable again. "Great, #AGESA update must've fixed the stability issue!", I naively thought. So I enabled PBO, system kept crashing, I disabled PBO, system kept crashing. Frustration ensued.

"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". Enabling PBO pulls some other options which cause the stability issue, and disabling PBO doesn't disable them.

Sure enough, resetting BIOS to default, then enabling everything but PBO resulted in a stable system that is able to run Prime95 for hours. While it might be possible to figure out what this "extra" option causing the instability actually is, at this stage I was happy to just have a working system. It won't touch PBO on this box ever again.

#Hardware #AMD #PBO #troubleshooting

We know this is a niche meme, but we just had to make it 🤭

#AMD #PrecisionBoostOverride #PBO #meme #memes

Trans Sayori (aka Coolyori; trans Drake) meme template.

* Top left - Sayori looking away disapprovingly from the top right text with her right hand making a stop sign gesture
* Top right - text reads "Precision Boost Override (PBO) limit set to auto"
* Bottom left - Sayori looking approving towards the bottom right text with her left hand making a finger gun
* Bottom right - text reads PBO limit set to motherboard

Modern processors with their increasingly smaller features really aren't build to last, they suffer from electron migration requiring increasingly larger core voltages over time. My #5900X is less then 4 years old and already crashes without offsetting the core voltage even with #PBO off.

This will require to rethink server maintenance for projects with long turnover.

#books #pbo #bookstodon #quarry #maxallancollins

A picture of a hard case crime paperback reprint of “Quarry’s List” by Max Allan Collins. It is styled as a 60’s crime paperback with a painting of a woman with long blond hair in teal negligee and eye makeup who sort of looks like cher. She has a knee resting on a table with flowers on it. The cover blub advertises the cinemax show based on the series of novels.

Canada’s NATO target plan unclear, PBO says as U.S. election ups stakes #Canada #Politics #World #Canada NATO spending #NATO #NATO spending #PBO report

https://globalnews.ca/news/10838215/canadas-nato-target-plan-pbo-report//612

Enjoyed #CreativeMornings in #pbo Poulsbo, Washington this morning.

Local artist and printer Karen Sawyer reflected on her creative journey.

Creative Mornings with Karen Sawyer of Pier Six Press

9700X PBO has a HUGE Efficiency cost... but what are the gains? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzoO1zuzivM
#JayzTwoCents #AMD #Ryzen #Zen5 #Ryzen9700x #Ryzen9800x #PBO

Canadian Government Quietly Backs Down on its Implementation Plans for a Digital Services Tax - Michael Geist https://bit.ly/49Qvpgr #DigitalTax #PBO #Taxation #Treaties #cdnpoli @canadiangreens @cdnpoli

Pharmacare would cost billions more a year, but lead to economic savings: PBO
The PBO released a report on Thursday that provides an estimate for the cost of a pharmacare program between 2024-25 and 2027-28.
#globalnews #Canada #Health #ParliamentaryBudgetOfficer #PBO
https://globalnews.ca/news/10020670/pharmacare-canada-pbo-cost/