You can adjust the frame rate based on whether the user is actually interacting with the window and whether the window is currently not shown at all. This is not hard to do at all, burning CPU and CPU cycles just to show a static frame (or nothing at all while the window is minimized) just means the developer doesn't care.
I cannot help but wonder how many decades it will take the U.S. to recover from the damage that the current administration is causing, both economically and in trust on a global scale. While in no way comparable, as a German, that topic feels familiar non the less - and to this day, it's a long and rocky road.
Much of the damage is irreparable. Organizations that no longer exist have lost workers, other stakeholders, resources, and trust permanently.. and in cases like USAID and healthcare, people have suffered permanent injuries or died.
These clueless assholes don't care about or understand the implications of the damage they've caused... they're gangs of criminals rapists and pillagers scorching the earth and leaving chaos and destruction in their wake.
No. Sure, MAGA Republicans are only 25-30% of the population, but most of the people share at least some beliefs that would hold the entire nation back. There's widespread economic illiteracy, that leads to people generally favoring monopolies, and not believing in economy of scale in some circumstances. It's an article of faith that the press has a liberal bias. Lots of people distrust elections. There are lots of authoritarians, which is the fertile ground that let Trump take power in the first place.
He did have to leave his independent status and join the Democratic party in order to participate in the primaries. But that was just a formality; he filled out a form.
Some people did vote for him. Just nowhere near a majority. A lot of people resented that, and stayed home rather than vote for the primary winner. So she lost, and the rest is very literally history.
Outsiders can and do win in the primaries. Trump is the most prominent example. He was not a familiar regular, and nobody in the party leadership wanted him.
He won the primary, and went on to win the Presidency. The party leadership came around to support him, and the new leadership is vetted by him rather than the other way around.
True. And they forced some scientists to work for them to build terror and WMDs. This regime doesn't even want technological supremacy in many other domains like drones and counter-drones except maybe hypersonic missiles and unworkable pocket battleships.
The US got to its preeminent position because the rest of the world screwed things up badly, and the US played a key role in rescuing it. Hopefully we never again see a global conflict on the scale of WW2, so hopefully the US never again is in a position to gain the rewards from rescuing the world.
the US got it it's preeminent position because it was a resource and manufacturing powerhouse that was unrivaled in the world at the time. it was already overtaking the aging British and French empires when the WW's happened, and both of those wars gutted everything.
it'd be like if WW3 happened now and every other major country got nuked except China.
Yes, that's a good analogy. China's position as the world's manufacturing powerhouse isn't unassailable at the moment, but it certainly would be if wars devastated its competitors.
I wish I could see a pic from today with the aurora. I was surprised to see the aurora in northern Europe a couple hours ago, it is very active right now.
Yeah, it is - unfortunately, it is rather cloudy in my area at the moment. Luckily, the weather was better during the 19./20. January event, which I'll carry forever in my heart.
> If this is the case, it's just a matter of time until costs can be reduced.
Is it, though? We cannot predict technological advancement, and the times of ̶M̶u̶r̶p̶h̶y̶'̶s̶ ̶L̶a̶w̶ Moore's Law* for computational power are long gone. There is simply no guarantee that the costs will go down enough.
I think there is plenty of room to make AI inference much more energy efficient. For example, there are companies testing creating custom silicon to run the model. Once that technology matures and we have some "good enough" models for normal use, inference cost for non-bleeding-edge models can come way down.
I don't expect bleeding-edge models to become any cheaper, but previous generation models can potentially be really cheap.
I would assume that the economic reasoning, if looked at it without dollar bills covering their eyes, would apply to AI in general the way we are using it.
I went down this rabbit hole, and am now the proud owner of a PS2 (Slim), a PS2 (Fat), a PS3 (Fat), a PS4 Pro and a PS5. I also own a Nintendo Switch and a Gaming PC.
After installing a custom firmware on the PS3, I am now able to play my PS2 games, and also have the benefit of using HDMI without an expensive upscaler.
Turns out, the PS3 satisfied my needs to relive childhood memories, although I never had one as a kid growing up.
Also, I started reading books again. A pretty hassle-free childhood memory, to say the least.
I wonder if going for keyboard switches with RGB could bring the price down, if you then either print the keycaps yourself, our use a 3d printing service. 23 Cherry MX switches cost 20€, that‘s roughly 260€ for a 17x17 matrix.
If the current trend continues, there won’t be much left to reverse engineer, as your appliances will use the internet for computation, as RAM and processing power are consumed by AI data centers, so…
nah, if AI dream comes to fruition, then we can rewrite all the code and system to be better. I mean, we are pretty wasteful from resource perspective. We would need 1/20th the CPUs and ram. Your intel 586 cpu will be as good as your computer today with 1gb of ram since everything will be regenerated in the most optimal low level code.
I can see both having a place: vi/vim for more elaborate features and editing capabilities, and nano for the quick "I need to change that one little thing in my config file" fix. I prefer nano over vi every time, but I barely work over ssh more than once a month. There is simply no need for me to know more about vi/vim.
It doesn't hurt to know some basic vi/vim commands though, as you will mostly encounter them pre-installed on even the most exotic distribution.
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