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agressivelyPassive ,

"Base load" is not that much. Off shore wind is almost always blowing, and all the other renewables can be stored via batteries or hydrogen (or tanks, in case of biogas). Yes, that's a whole lot of stuff, but the technology exists, can be produced on large scale and (most importantly) doesn't cause any path dependencies.

Nuclear is extremely expensive, as the article highlighted. And to be cost effective, power has to be produced more or less constantly. Having a nuclear power plant just for the few hours at night when wind and sun don't work is insane - and insanely expensive.

agressivelyPassive ,

The alternative to nuclear isn't coal....

And if you seriously think regulations are the problem, you're denser than the lead shielding you want to get rid of.

agressivelyPassive ,

Some people have way too much time and way too disturbing world views to be allowed on the Internet.

agressivelyPassive ,

.... And they're able to make chips good enough for their military.

Russia's military is in large parts only slightly refurbished soviet gear. For a T72 or even T90, a 90s era chip is still good enough.

Why do you think they dismantled all those washing machines? The microcontrollers in there aren't high tech at all.

agressivelyPassive ,

... barely because they contain enough botox to wipe out a small nation?

agressivelyPassive ,

But with an actually tablet worthy screen section.

Ideally, you'd have an ARM CPU and a decent battery in the screen section, and a dedicated GPU plus proper battery in the bottom section.

agressivelyPassive ,

The number behind Ultra is pretty much the same as with the i$x scheme. 3 is entry, 5 is mid range, 7 is high end, 9 is bad decision making.

The number after that kind of works like before. So higher number means more better. Probably with an extension for coming generation. Remember, the first i5s had 4 digit names as well, the fourth digit was prepended to indicate generations.

Thing is, there's no really good naming scheme, because there are so many possible variants/dimensions. Base clock, turbo clock, TDP, P core count, E core count, PCIe lanes, socket, generation ,..... How would you encode that in a readable name?

agressivelyPassive ,

You really think, that is more readable?

agressivelyPassive ,

For example being able to get a grasp of the rough performance from the have.

i5 10500 is faster than i5 10400. But is 6p4e better than 4p8e?

It's illusionary to fit everything about a CPU into its name. What you're proposing is essentially the entire value column of the spec sheet concatenated.

agressivelyPassive ,

And how many people do you think could accurately, or even ballpark, estimate their workload? I couldn't tell you, whether my workload would benefit from more e or p cores and by how much.

What you're implying here is an illusion of accuracy. You want accurate numbers for something that you can't really judge anyway. These numbers don't mean anything to you, they just give you the illusion of knowing what's going on. It's the "close door" button in an elevator.

agressivelyPassive ,

That's what's really confusing me: why add an expensive feature, that obviously doesn't work and even in the best case adds only minor improvements?

I mean, it's not another option like with Bing. It's the default. Every stupid little search will take up AI resources. For what? Market cap?

agressivelyPassive ,

It's common in Germany to get a "reference" from your current landlord that basically just says "paid rent on time and didn't set anything on fire".

agressivelyPassive ,

I had to present such slips several times.

But I'm living in a city where the queues for apartments is 50 people long.

agressivelyPassive ,

It's actually astounding, how weirdly unmaintained Windows is in many areas. Just look at the settings chaos. There are three completely different settings trees, and at least for me, it's impossible to know which one to choose for a given task.

There's constantly stuff going on in the background for no reason and updates take forever and require 7 reboots. That's not okay.

agressivelyPassive ,

I could see those as an option for rural areas without much traffic. A full train might not be economical, but a small pod is. It could transport people to the closest proper train station where they can hop off.

But that would mean you'd have to maintain a ton of tracks for a handful of people.

agressivelyPassive ,

I also promise, to pay you back, if you give me 10 million. No contractual obligations, but I totally promise!

agressivelyPassive ,

Effectively they speed run something like 400 years of banking regulation and its history.

agressivelyPassive ,

It was never "trustless", but trust in the system as a whole.

The change you mentioned is more a change of the definition of "system", since now it's effectively an oligarchy.

agressivelyPassive ,

Let that toilet bowl in.

agressivelyPassive ,

Because Ryan wrote it like this 10 years ago and nobody bothered to rewrite it in C.

Back then, I'd guess most developers were relatively fluent in assembly, so if there's only a small change to make, they'd just change the assembly and move on.

agressivelyPassive ,

How many companies need such a scale, but are not able to provide it inhouse for less money?

Everyone wants to be Netflix, but 99% of companies don't even need close to that amount of scalability. I'd argue, a significant part of projects could be run on a raspberry pi, if they'd be engineered properly.

agressivelyPassive ,

It's clearly ragebait, but let's be real here: the amount of accusations against men in general is astounding. Not the real, actual cases, but the implication that by virtue of being male I'm immediately accused of being a predator. And that's just shitty.

I can understand that a lot of men feel very attacked by that, because a whole lot of men just try to be good people. This kind of ragebait is harmful, because it will definitely turn a bunch of men hostile towards anything feminism, since in their view, they can only lose. And that's incredibly bad.

agressivelyPassive ,

Then tell me: how is helping anyone?

Do you seriously believe, that this changes anything to the positive?

agressivelyPassive ,

So discrimination is okay if it hits the right people?

Again, an entire group is set out to be predators for no fault of their own.

I'm portrayed as a predator, because some idiots are, and I'm supposed to view that to reflect myself, because some other people are also treated badly? That doesn't make sense. This is purely parroting the party line, chastising oneself what an evil counterrevolutionary one is.

No positive, but tons of new hostility. Awesome. That'll take humanity in the right direction!

agressivelyPassive ,

I think you fundamentally don't understand my point and choose to be insulting instead.

Flip the meme to any other group. Jews and Muslims, for example. Would you say, it's okay for either side to imply, they'd rather be with a dangerous animal than with the human? Do you think, it's okay to say, since some Muslims historically are rabid antisemites, you'd rather be with a bear? Would you then say, every Muslim should just accept that, and if he complains, he's one of the bad guys anyway?

And look at what you did here. Instead of actually engaging with my argument, literally called yourself "fucking awesome" and called me out for being.... Yeah, what exactly? One of "them"? You don't even know who. Yeah, the baddies, probably. Why would any of the good guys be somewhat concerned, if his entire gender is framed as being dangerous?

You're incredibly naive.

agressivelyPassive ,

And you think that's helpful?

We're not talking about an enslaved group here, but women. Yes, disadvantaged in many areas, but far from being universally inferior in every aspect. If I'm punching up, you know, who I hit? Several women. Hell, my chancellor has been a woman for literally the majority of my life.

Again, what does this achieve? Hostility of those who don't want to be put on the same level as rapists. Instead of blaming the very real predators for their very real crimes, they're blaming every man for being a man. That's not punching up.

agressivelyPassive ,

Tell me, exactly, how I am not meant? I'm a man, men are portrayed as universally dangerous. How am I not implied here?

Thinking I'm not meant is wishful thinking. And it's extremely interesting, that suddenly I'm portrayed by you as a bad guy, because I say "hey, I'm not a bad guy, why do you call me that?". I explicitly mentioned the very real predators. But you ignored that.

And thinking like yours is exactly why there's so much hate. I don't subscribe to the party line, that men have to shut up and just have to accept that they are all potentially vile beasts, and thus I have to be one of the vile beasts. Don't you see that? Do you really don't see what you're doing here? You're creating the us vs them chasm. You're alienating people because you're just now actively accusing me of being a bad guy. And yes, it's about me, because I'm a man and this meme is about men. I'm in it. Just like you are.

agressivelyPassive ,

If you don't subscribe to my kind of feminism, you're a monster anyway.

That's essentially your point.

agressivelyPassive ,

Be humble, understand the dangers, and have thicker skin when people tell you unpleasant truths.

Imagine saying that to a woman being catcalled.

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agressivelyPassive ,

Have you considered something like tailscale?

agressivelyPassive ,

Could be a weird perspective thing.

agressivelyPassive ,

It won't. Some people will scream bloody murder, most people will ignore it.

SO was in decline anyway. Most answers you'll find are several years old and outdated, because some idiot thought the new ones are duplicates.

So now a few people will leave, the spamming idiots will keep spamming the platform with low effort nonsensical answers and its relevance will dwindle just a bit faster.

Look at Reddit. Last year there was a huge outrage and today it's pretty much the same as before.

Most people don't care. Most people feel so powerless, that they'll accept every privacy scandal, every exploitive business strategy, every sellout of their platform.

agressivelyPassive ,

To make money. If user engagement drops, revenue drops. The existing content is the only real asset this company has.

agressivelyPassive ,

I'd say the former.

Many queries don't find relevant questions, and the relevant questions are often not answered properly. I often find the exact same problem I'm having, but the answers are just a bunch of those CV padders that post completely irrelevant answers based on a buzzword they saw while skimming the question.

agressivelyPassive ,

Maybe your bottles are different, but the bottles here in Germany have a very short "leash" and are often connected to the right in two places, so it constantly pushes in your face when drinking.

If an actual problem would have been solved, I'd be fine with it, but it's just a pointless law which only exists to create the illusion of progress and shift blame onto consumers.

agressivelyPassive ,

...then it scratches my cheek.

Why is it so hard to understand that a useless piece of plastic in your face might be unpopular?

agressivelyPassive ,

And even that is dubious.

How many of the caps are actually reaching the ocean and is that actually a way to reduce that?

I mean, how about a European refund system? Works perfectly fine in Germany and actually makes recycling a bit easier?

These caps are empty gestures as I described above.

agressivelyPassive ,

It was implemented as a symbol. I described it above.

The entire idea, similar to the carbon footprint, are attempts by the fossil industry to shift responsibility away from them and towards consumers. We from BP and BASF would love to stop pollution, but you guys keep throwing away the bottle caps! So they lobby the European Parliament to enact such regulations, the Parliament can act like they actually did something and the industry can keep producing plastics.

Yes, other solutions would cost more money. But these solutions would have at least a realistic chance to change something.

Remember the straight cucumber regulation? That was demanded by the retail industry. So it's not like the EU doesn't enact regulations for some lobby groups.

And if you think these caps are doing anything, the fossil industry fooled you successfully.

agressivelyPassive ,

Ask yourself these simple questions: where is micro plastic coming from? And what would be a good lever to reduce that? Bottle caps are not the answer for any of that.

So the result is barely any change in the amount of plastic introduced in the environment, the real big sources (for example the plastic wrapper around the bottles, and around the pallets of bottles) are untouched, but people (like you) become complacent, because we added those cap straps after all!

Yes, reducing even a bit is helpful, but it's far from being free, because this exact bullshit makes people ignore the real problem. Your view is far too myopic.

agressivelyPassive ,

Then introduce a refund system. Has been proven to work in Germany for over 20 years.

And as I wrote in another comment already: these regulations are a distraction so that the real problems can be ignored. They are actively harmful.

agressivelyPassive ,

It's not, and it's disingenuous to imply that this is what I wrote.

You're building a straw man.

iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air (9to5mac.com)

On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.

agressivelyPassive ,

It's a waste of computing power, though.

I have an M1 MacBook Air and barely ever actually used the CPU. Putting these chips in iPads, which are mostly used for drawing at most, is just a waste, and one of the reasons they're so incredibly expensive. Apple could have just kept producing M1s and putting those in current iPads.

The reality is, there's zero innovation in Apple products. The switch to M1 was really great, but everything since then was just "more M is more better", utility stayed the same, price went up. Awesome.

agressivelyPassive ,

Smaller companies offer much less safety, though.

If a project is late at Google, you can pull in resources from other projects, delay the release, etc.

If a project is late at a small company, that could mean bankruptcy, even if everyone pulls 80h workweeks.

I personally would prefer a company that is just small enough not to require much corporate bullshit, while still having enough buffer to survive rough patches.

My current project is together with Cap Gemini and holy shit are those guys corporate drones. Absolutely horrible.

agressivelyPassive ,

Not really, especially not in countries with sane workers rights. Google won't just fire a bunch of people because a project is a bit late. They'll finish the project, eat up the costs and maybe decide later on what to do.

Of course, given the absurdity of the US labor laws, big corporations will also fire people, but ceteris paribus, a larger corporation will be more likely to be able and willing to keep you employed than a smaller shop.

agressivelyPassive ,

I still don't understand, why this is seemingly no problem in any other application.

Desktops, servers and even some chonkier laptops manage to work with regular (SO)DIMMs just fine.

agressivelyPassive ,

But I want clear black and white distinctions and outrage!!!

agressivelyPassive ,

It's not gatekeeping, but a frustration about a new generation coming to an obvious conclusion, that they already had.

agressivelyPassive ,

Most people (public and private) never go beyond disapproval, though.

You'll hear people complain about this and that, but never even looking for an alternative.

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