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No, he is saying that if they were to replace natural gas with electricity, it would use 2.2 gigawatts of electricity.
I don't think the conversion is as straightforward as they claimed. But they're also not claiming that they currently pull gigawatts of electricity.
- People don't need cloud backups
- People's files aren't valuable
You're making a lot of claims that are so blatantly false from what I see on my side that I don't know what to make of it. Are you projecting your own needs onto "people"? Or am I the one who's disconnected, and people truly don't care about losing all their photos?
I disagree with your blanket statement. The vast majority of (commercial) PC games were never that small, even in the 3.5" heydays. Most games required 2-10 disks.
To me the spirit seems to be that it should run on your average Windows machine without any external dependencies and without a web browser.
Your average PC has half a dozen .net runtimes installed but likely not the correct .net version you want (yay), so to me it seems like it would be out. Same for the various C++ redistributables, better not rely on that unless you ship the DLLs you need with it (which I don't think you're allowed to do per Microsoft).
https://2pgarcade.com/contest-144mb.html isn't much more elaborate than the article unfortunately.
If the best someone can do within that 1.44MB constraint is a pico-8 game, then so be it. But I bet we're going to see much more impressive stuff!
Competitions for 16KB games exist. as well as 64KB. And likely everything between 0KB and 1440KB. It doesn't reduce the fun to have multiple tiers, in my opinion.
Make -> ninja
I would disagree on that one. Ninja config might not be turing complete, but they're generated by turing-complete tools (usually cmake). Nobody writes ninja by hand, thus I would argue it's irrelevant!
PHP doesn't suffer from that because there are barely any libraries for it.
You don't need many libraries in a typical project, because PHP is batteries-included and if you use a framework it does all the rest for you, that is true. But there are still hundreds of thousands of packages with billions of installs:
PHP offers that safe API, though, and always has (prepared statements). The same one as all other languages.
PHP might seem worse than other languages due to a combination of factors:
- It's the most used one by far, even though few of us like to admit it.
- Old tutorials still come up during web searches, so "SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE id = $id" will still be written today.
I suspect you missed the joke: A web shell is a script to execute arbitrary commands, i.e. Remote Code Execution.
Surely a PWM of 10,000Hz wouldn't allow for night sky photography. With full exposure it can already take minutes of hours to take a night sky a photo.
And it's usually recognized that 1,000hz is the bare minimum to spare sensitive individuals from symptoms, with 2,500 usually used for safety margin. Then you have to account for some jitter in the synchronized network so you're looking at at best a 1/5,000 exposure.
Is that sufficient to be worth the trouble?
The night will still feel odd and "soulless" even with 2700k LED street lamps so long as they're still the absolute worst CRI.
What makes you say that the CRI causes the lack of soul? I'm not saying that you're wrong, but given that CRI is objectively better than it ever was now, why?
The sodium lamps we used previously had a CRI of 25-35. The absolute worst white LEDs we have have a CRI of at least 60.
Most fruit crops need 8-12 hours of darkness but it changes depending on which point they're at in their life cycle. 20 hours of light is usually fine during the initial stages, then they require 8-10 hours of darkness to bloom, then back to 18-20 hours of light during the fruit growth.
(I'm not a botanist or a farmer but I grow greenhouse veggies for fun)
So far accessing old storage media from 50+ years ago hasn't really been a problem. Reading old tapes and punch cards/tapes or even early hard drives is something that a single motivated hobbyist can achieve in a few weeks or months with a microcontroller and patience.
But it's more difficult to imagine that 1000 years from now someone will be able to read from a PCI-E NVME drive if the specs get lost along the way (ignoring for a moment that flash storage most likely won't retain data that long).
Property lines disputes happen every single day in America, too. It's a universal thing.
Why blame the investors? You went out of your way to even name them so we can bash them, why? Ollama founders sought them. Ollama founders wanted the money. Ollama founders took the money. Ollama founders took all the decisions that made people now dislike Ollama. Nobody forced their hands, it was their plan all along...
Three buttons mice have been the standard for well over 20 years. I'll give you that when blender was first released, three button mice were not common.
Those assumptions are only crazy if you're an Apple user or a laptop user who uses a touchpad to 3d model.
CAD Sketcher for blender is definitely not ready to be used in a real capacity and it's been almost 5 years I think, so I don't have high hopes. I will keep trying it every now and then, however, because I really want this product.
Though people are so eager to be locked into Fusion 360 I will never understand. Especially when Freecad is so much better than it used to be.
Because Fusion 360 is that much better than even the latest Freecad? Just because Freecad sucks less nowadays doesn't mean that Fusion 360 isn't simply a better product... Freecad 1.0 was too little too late. The only way it could gain traction in the hobby market is if Fusion 360 pulls the plug on its free version (again). And I say all this as a Freecad user.
I thought you need to clean and full redraw if anything changs anyways?
Unless you use an ancient teletype, you don't have to redraw everything. That would make any interactive applications way too slow/flickery.
You can move the cursor arbitrarily in the terminal and start overwriting characters from there. So you need to track state to know what is "dirty" and needs refreshing. Occasionally you issue a full redraw to catch missed artifacts left behind or when the terminal is resized (SIGWINCH).
China smelts over 50% of the world supply. India/Russia/Canada does another 30%.
Your assessment is correct, those are countries with very low energy costs.
Nobody cares that you're fat. But apparently (some) Americans care if your tracker shows that you've missed your period for one or two months before resuming as normal (indicating a possible abortion).
I don't know if you were being pedantic or confused, but turso is a sqlite3 remake in rust (with some additional features).
Rust isn't great, and it shouldn't be a surprised since it's designed after npm. However one metric where nodes_modules is still worse for me is the sheer number of small files in it.
Having nearly one million files in nodes_modules isn't that unusual. The problem is that on most common file systems the minimum allocation is usually at least 4KB. So even if the actual data is less than 500MB, you end up with 4GB disk space used/wasted.
I'm a fellow embedded dev and I agree, arm is still ubiquitous in all applications I've worked on in the past 10 years. I've used the rp2350 in a commercial application recently and whether or not we'd ignore the risc-v cores wasn't even a question. As a hobbyist however I'm glad that they're there!
Just a nit-pick: risc-v isn't limited to the ESP32-C line. All of their chips are risc-v except the OG/S/S2/S3. A few years ago they've stated that the S3 would be the last xtensa chip and they seem to have held to that, the -E, -H, and -P lines released since are all risc-v.
I.e. a low memory solution so you can leave it going and only open the client for actual interactions. Thunderbird is pretty bloated to leave open all day and sending and receiving shouldn't need a web browser attached.
I agree with you. Having my mail client still use ~800MB of memory when in the tray is not great (and I have very few emails, so one cannot blame the index or whatever).
Unfortunately since Thunderbird's IMAP stack was recently (a few years ago) rewritten in javascript (from C++), it's now dependant on the web stack to receive and send emails. I doubt firefox/thunderbird is engineered in a way that you could unload only the html rendering part on demand.
So I doubt we'll ever have our wish granted...
Pretty much everyone doesn't want to do that unless they have a doctor telling them it's either that or death. A GCM might nudge them into making real changes, telling them to "just lift and run" will most definitely not.
I want to try it but how am I supposed to run at the same speed as I walk?
I mean physically, what am I supposed to do to run at 5-6km/h? Should I exaggerate and slow down my run stance? Like I'm fake running? Is that more demanding than walking and a good intro to running vs just running/jogging?
none of them upload entirety of codebase or even attempt to.
How do you know? Did you do an analysis like OP did?
Yes you can do the same on Windows.
The ternary isn't guaranteed to be branchless. In your case it should almost always be on a modern compiler, but it really shouldn't be present in what one would call branchless code.
But in your scenario they are an integral and necessary part of the device, so it's costed in.
In a television it's an added cost and it's unclear if serving ads really can offset that extra $25-100 of hardware (and included data) you ship on a $200-1000 television.
It's also unclear to me if the low data packages they come with would be enough to serve meaningful ads to begin with. Those devices usually come with a fixed plan of 100MB/month for 5yrs (or along those lines). Modern smart tv ads are very often video or at least hi res images.