I find it shocking how many Linux apps are not hidpi compatible. There is also a big issue with using screens of different resolution (hidpi and normal). X11 may not be responsible for all of that, but it is part of the problem.

Most people have no strong feeling about their init process.

And that's why Ubuntu is so successful: it comes without the ideological baggage.

Microstuttering is the result of bad software. Too many games are still single threaded and without real time management of computations. Faster hardware does little to address that.

High frame rate is not meaningless, because the modern video pipeline typically has a 1 or 2 frame delay built in. So the faster frames are generated, the less delay there is in the system.

But there is a diminishing return. At 60 Hz, the delay may be 33ms, at 144Hz, it is 14ms, and at 240Hz, it is 8ms.

The corporate greed crisis is throttling the whole economy - graphics cards are just a small part of it.

They think they have "established a new price level", but they are wrong.

We want better graphics cards the same money, and for the last 3 years, those have not been available. Once you can get the RTX 4070 for under $500, I might be interested again.

I would argue that it is not a market failure, because there is no market. The system is set up as a monopoly, and it is controlled by people with a financial stake, so of course it is stacked in their interest. We should ask ourselves why those people are so corrupt, and why nothing was done about it.

I think it is that simple. ChatGPT is just a took like Google or a spell checker, just a lot more advanced.

It is an interesting combination of some scholarly analysis and combination of different sources, mixed with some limited (surficial) logical understanding, and an element of confabulation.

As long as you know how to use that in your writing process, I don't think there is anything wrong with that, and I don't think there is anything that can be done about it. Given that an AI is a master of style, it will always be able to avoid style detection.

The only bit missing is the referencing of sources, and ChatGPT could produce drafts for actual scholarly work.

Facebook is an advertising company. They want to control what you see, and a VR headset is the ultimate level of control. That's why Fakebook is interested, and for no other reason.

As for Meta - it has about the graphics appeal of the Nintendo Wii. As a showcase for VR, it does very poorly.

But advertising, that works.

> Fusion has a reputation of being utopic.

It is not. Fusion is pretty well understood physically, but it is very challenging from an engineering perspective. It would take about 100 billion US$ to develop a fusion reactor. That estimate has been reasonably constant since the 1970s, and actual funding has always been orders of magnitude lower.

Basically, it is utopic as long as we do not actually try.

What I find strange about this that the argument seems to come from strange places on the political spectrum.

We have three big addictive activities in the population:

1. Alcohol
2. Drugs
3. Gambling

The left is usually against gambling (and this is not communism, it is out of a concern for general welfare), while the right is usually against drugs (and can be a bit of racism, too). Only puritans are against alcohol.

One key question is how much damage these addictions do to the lives of individuals and to society as a whole. Alcohol is certainly terrible on the whole but attempts to ban alcohol were not successful. Drugs have some impact, but the main issue is their illegality. Gambling can devastate whole regions, just like drugs. (But it is pretty profitable...)

Learning from the best.

(Flexible ethics baked in.)

They are all the same, in fact, Facebook is a lot worse. It is really pushing the video stream tab, and the videos are all exploitative, fake, full of misinformation, and down a rabbit hole within a few clicks.

Youtube is still one of the best systems out there. At least it has some decent content, which does not seem to be true for Facebook. But you always have to watch out for the rabbit holes.

I assume that Youtube counts the dislike button as an interaction, which is more than apathy. So I am not surprised that it does not work. Just stop watching the video, that is probably more effective.

Most of the things in the world are better at redistributing wealth than the USA. 120 countries, for a start. My coffee mug. Bit coin. You name it, it probably is.

Indeed. Most will use some kind of flow or air cooling. Evaporative cooling is only viable for large installations, and it only uses about 1l per kWh. Compared to agriculture, it is really not a big amount of water.

This. Google Talk was great. It was a revelation, in fact. But they kept changing it until it was broken beyond recognition. How many chat systems has Google already tried to then discontinued? Just stick with one and make it work.