Comment Re:That's what Russia CLAIMS... however (Score 1) 39
There was absolutely nothing in that article about Roblox usage. It talked about browsing websites.
There was absolutely nothing in that article about Roblox usage. It talked about browsing websites.
You mentioned Tesla only, and you talked about "if" everyone had their thumb on the scale, rather than the fact that they do. And you didn't explain why Chinese OEMs should be obliged to enter the market unsubsidized while US OEMs have, by your own admission, received subsidies.
It’s crazy! Here in London, UK, there’s a massive jumble of cars, everything from a Citroen Ami (very rare) or Smart car (pretty common) through to superminis (ten-a-penny), saloons and a bunch of SUVs of varying sizes. But the largest we have is something like a Range Rover, and the smallest SUVs are things like my own car, a Mercedes EQA, which is only 4.4m long. Pickup trucks are super-rare.
Yes to all of that!
But instead we have a 100+ comments focused on bullshit about engine reliability which affects a small % of people, as opposed to the costs of poor fuel economy, which affect many more.
There is a middle ground. Apple and Qualcomm have released ARM CPUs with some hardware x86 translation like the entire Mx line up and the new Snapdragon X series chips.
Errr no. There are insanely minor hardware accelerations at play here. Virtually all of the translation on the M series is handled by Rosetta 2 - a software emulation layer.
I wouldn't call ARM a niche platform considering many consumers probably own more than one ARM device and fewer of them own an X86 device these days. Gaming is one of the last strongholds of X86 only software but with efforts like this, that may change.
Context matters, ARM gaming is insanely niche, far more niche than Linux gaming providing the context includes recognising that tapping on a touch screen is not "gaming". The reality is if you create a game you want to reach the target audience, that is Windows x86. Many people consider the border of "niche" to be some 15% of market adoption. ARM currently is 0.0fuckall% of the gaming market.
Are we meant to treat every climate-catastrophe model like holy writ now?
You realise what this story is about right? The answer is no. The entire premise here is that bullshit gets retracted from publication.
We’re developing materials, energy systems, geo-tech and carbon-capture methods that simply didn’t exist when the early models were written.
You're an optimist, but in the past 30 years we have developed fuck all. We've only taken existing developments and mildly improved them. Not only have we in 30 years not stopped a catastrophic rise in emissions thanks to our new inventions, several of them (AI, crypto, etc) have contributed massively towards them, wasting energy without any practical benefit to society massively cancelling out any improvement.
At this point, someone should write a paper on whether these legacy models are even relevant given today’s technological progress
At some point you should read those "legacy" models. You may find that many of them aren't even old enough to walk unassisted without mama yet. Not only that, but no model spits out a single number. They spit out a range that is based on different development trajectories, and those (the most optimistic of them) include radical new technological development.
I'm sure fusion power is ready any day now.
Until then let's just focus on the 20+ year promise of carbon capture that is currently producing 0.000fuckall% carbon offsetting. What wonderous technology we have
If the data center is almost justifying its own power plant, then build both of the damn things in rural dirt.
Who said build? Datacentre companies are bitching about not having power made available to them. They don't want to build it. They can in theory put themselves off grid if they were willing to pony up the cash, but it's easier to be the government for a handout and saddle the public with the high cost of power.
Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.