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I love this from a societal point of view.
However, I believe Service-as-a-Software has a more powerful future. Business pay for shifting a problem to someone else (like hosting, or accounting, ...). The software isn't the solution, it's not what's valuable, the service is.
Can you share some numbers? In Belgium I paid it back in 6 years. In South Africa where I live now, it'll take about 8 years. And as a big bonus it solved load shedding when that happened in 2023-2024.
The anti-renewables misinformation seems high in some places of the world.
Can I ask if you are in the US?
It seems better in the EU where a lot of people happily embraced residential solar
not just audio unfortunately.
Yes I know, and agreed. <€3.0 is still cheap enough to buy a dozen and keep in a drawer for a bunch of applications
Not exactly £1.5, but you can get them just under €3.0 shipped (with duty etc) to EU when ordering a bundle of 10 on Ali.
In November last year I could still buy them for €1.57 each.
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What would have been the right amount of harping about the environment though? Or is it always going to be a pointless exercise trying to convince/alert people?
Or is the only way to do that successfully, doing it subconsciously/covertly like the state actors are swaying public opinion? :-/
1/ You're on HN, the audience isn't "everyday average people"
2/ This is like complaining that climate activists were harping too much 30 years ago, and that's why nobody listened
This feels like a failure in (late stage) capitalism more than corporates.
I would love if we'd put efforts towards better economic/political systems.
These datacenters run the GPU's close to 100% usage 24/7. The Mac mini at home probably has <25% utilization. And then there's economies of scale, wholesale discounts, etc.
The Mac mini GPU also isn't as optimized as the datacenter GPUs
People want recognition when doing something hard that took time, effort and dedication.
Training a year, and running a marathon feels more worthy of recognition than driving 42km in a car from the start to the finish.
While I don't empathize with the defeatist tone of the post. I do empathize with this part.
It might have been discovered by people ripping the dvd. iirc the rip software detected the chapters
I loved the interactive DVD menu's. The deleted scenes and director commentaries or alternate endings were such a bonus. I miss those
I fully agree that we should have incentives and systems in place that the government works for the people.
> government should be small enough that it fears the people
How would that work when the government controls the military? Would that mean that a country's military has to remain small?
I used to, but not anymore. The incentives and human behavior seem to lead to corruption. New tools have made it too easy to pervert real/honest democracy into "pseudo" democracy/idiocracy.
A well-funded minority can shape what the majority is angry about.
would the difference between those two show up in the measurements that the article made?
> nobody benifits from supporting it
Do you mean the users of the browsers not benefitting, or specific Google employees/stakeholders?
I don't know the details of Czech accounting, but large investments are usually amortized over several years. It impacts cash-flow more than profit
I think buyers care more about accuracy and resolution than which sensor. If it’s accurate, with hugh resolution and has good battery life, do you care if it’s Bosch or A Chinese name you’ve not encountered before?
Civilizations flourish and falter. Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Egyptians, Romans, …
Given (enough) time, it’ll also happen to the ones at the peak now.
Even in that case, cheap and unmanned would be much more cost efficient.
The SR-71 was uncontested in the 70'ies, but it wouldn't be today. Today it would be vulnerable. Missiles reach higher and fly faster. There are missiles that are designed to intercept ICBM's, which come in faster than a Mach-3 SR-71.
Radar detection, tracking and firing has also become much more effective in the last 60 years.
Do you have a source on these being suicide missions without enough fuel to get back? The F-14 has drop tanks, and after firing all missiles, that sheds another 4,000+ lb of payload.
I think they planned with proper return. Which can also be at slower speed.
My NVMe died a month ago (failed self-test in bios). Was 4.5 years old. Western Digital had a 5 year warranty. SanDisk owns them now and honored the warranty. The replacement NVMe is on the way.
How old is your NVMe?
Looking at the news in the US, it feels like the wealthy and powerful are working that problem.
> The 220C is the temperature at the hot end of the heat pump. The chips are on the cold end of the heat pump.
If we want the heat pump's cold end at about 40–65°C, then for each 1MW of GPU heat, we need another 1MW of heat pump power. Now you need 2MW of solar power.
Good news is that the radiator at 227C (500K) can emit about 5× more heat per square meter than at 57C (330K)
I think most people on HN know robby russel. Have you ever used ohmyzsh?
The irony of this website being so loaded with ads that I can barely read the contents is palpable :P
But on-topic: iOS shouldn't show any ads.
My home setup has both a trackpad and mouse (and a separate keyboard). I like them both. In practice I use 65% mouse and 35% trackpad I think. Trackpad is great for horizontal (or 2d) scrolling and gestures. Mouse has better ergonomics for accurate pointing, and is more natural in some apps (eg KiCAD).
For people making a living on western software engineering salaries, why wouldn't (Apple) hardware be worth the price?
A lot of other crafts and jobs need way more expensive hardware. Software engineers "only" need a $1,000 - $3,000 laptop every 5 or so years. That's typically less than 0.5% of that 5 year's salary.
> China has recently awarded 1.3 to 1.4 million engineering bachelor's degrees a year, and about 292,000 postgraduate engineering degrees in 2022. [0]
> For the US, ASEE and NCES put engineering bachelor's degrees at a stable 130,000–145,000 a year, rising above 200,000 if computer science is included. Because China counts CS as engineering, the fair comparison is roughly 1.35M against 230–250k US engineering plus CS graduates. That is about 5–6x in absolute terms. Adjusted for population (1.41B vs 335M), China produces about 950 per million people and the US about 700 (1.3–1.4x more).
Even Claude highlights that the numbers aren't apples to apples and in China the definition of "engineer" is more loose. I do believe that in relative numbers, more engineers graduate in China
On lawyers:
> In the US there were 1,322,649 active lawyers as of January 2024. For China, there were around 650,000 lawyers in 2022. Which in relative terms is 8x in the US than China.
