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macOS already does present a list of apps that are using a lot of energy if you click on the battery indicator. I thought that Windows had a similar feature, but I'm not sure.
I don't know how useful that feature is for the purpose of "shaming" given that i have never seen Slack on that list on my Macbook pro.
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Economically, SpaceX is about 3% cheaper than Arianespace. That's not a 50% or 100% improvement. Maybe they'll get that improvement once they run recycled rockets all the time, but not before that.
@mlvljr: Your account seems to be shadowbanned, I can’t reply to your comment. Currently, SpaceX has prices around 56-62 million USD per launch of a normal satellite (with a weight and orbit where they can recover the first stage). Arianespace launches such lighter satellites in pairs, always two at once, at a price of around 60 million USD per satellite. The Chinese launchers offer the same at around 70 million USD…
Long term, Musk is shooting for a ~100x reduction in launch costs to make a Mars colony feasible. Hope he makes it.
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Well actually I think it's more a case of "increase in performance is becoming harder and harder, the technology leader (Intel) is slowly becoming stuck and the competition (AMD) is catching up". Everybody will be more or less at the same level as it requires huge investments to only get a marginal advantage. Apart from games, I would not be that afraid to install recent pieces of software (browser, office suit, os)…
> Apart from games, I would not be that afraid to install recent pieces of software (browser, office suit, os) on a 10 years old computer (2007 core 2 duo). Ah, I can answer that one for you: my work computer of that time (E6850, 8 GB RAM), which cost me less than a thousand euros to build back then, has since been reconverted as a work computer for one of my employee, running Windows 10, Office 2016 and Chrome all d…
I'd rather use an old machine that's been upgraded with an SSD than a brand new machine that only has a mechanical hdd
In retrospective, Intel should have bought NVidia when they had the chance; GPUs is the only area making huge progress year to year now.
Even better course of action would be AMD merging with Nv instead of ATI.
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Well, this seems quite a bit unsubstantial. If an Intel Employee in that position wanted to leak some real info, i would assume it would be accompanied by something that gives the information some credibility.
You mean an anonymous post on 4chan about Obama spying on Trump isn't super credible? Color me shocked...
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> Zeit's Hyper is very efficient Ladies and gentlemen! I present you the efficient terminal application, which only needs: Process Memory Threads ------- --------- ------- Hyper 40.8 MB 32 Hyper Helper 51.9 MB 15 Hyper Helper 18.8 MB 12 Hyper Helper 15.2 MB 4 Total: 126.7 MB 64 On a serious note, I think the insanity will stop when the operating systems will start shaming badly written applications and nudge users to…
That's a lot more threads than iTerm uses for me, but it's less memory. Typically my work computer (a 2015 15" MBP) tends to be bottlenecked on RAM, too. 16GB sadly is pretty much the minimum viable amount of RAM for me to do full stack development these days.
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Do you know the depths of not taking that advice and what lurks in them? Do you know that if everybody simply took it to heart, there'd be nothing unrealistic about it at all? How many months of abstinence and solidarity would be required to end these practices, or the companies if they so wish? And then that money simply shifts to ethical companies and we actually have a future. Or, we keep pretending it's all so ve…
> Do you know the depths of not taking that advice and what lurks in them? Pretty much everyone can imagine computers being insecure and unreliable, since computers are currently insecure and unreliable.
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> Do you know the depths of not taking that advice and what lurks in them? Pretty much everyone can imagine computers being insecure and unreliable, since computers are currently insecure and unreliable.
Not to mention that they'd wouldn't be secure and reliable just from removing Intel ME
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It is not a big problem to make DRAM on pretty much every SOI process, just power consumption and refresh rates will have to be quite big. The problem with MRAM is unreliable reads, they are excellent for low clock speed devices, but as you go into gigahertz range, signal quality of an mram cell begins to degrade, and you have to put a darlington on top of it, or a bicmos transistor, thus negating its cell size advan…
For DRAM are you talking about standard deep tech capacitor dram or FBRAM? Agree with MRAM, but it is also a very immature technology, so there's hope at least. unless you're talking about crossbar crosstalk which can be solved with a diode.