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Comment Re: It's also unusable with 8GB of RAM (Score 1) 92

In this case the graphics capability shouldn't matter that much, as I have disabled animations on the Intel laptop because without that it was horrible. I haven't done any such thing on the AMD one, which also only has 2 GPU cores - it was in a $300 laptop. The Intel machine is a HP Elitebook... I remember when those were actually powerful, back in the Core and Core 2 days.

Comment Re:Rhetorical (Score 1) 108

Sorry about that!

Light bulbs are very small things; the energy that goes into making them is likewise very small, regardless of type. The electricity an incandescent bulb burns is, by contrast, not at all small. You also have to replace the incandescent bulb far more often.

There's all sorts of exhaustive analyses out there, but the TL/DR is:

One incandescent bulb takes ~1-1,5kWh to manufacture and lasts ~1000 hours
One LED bulb takes 8-20kWh to manufacture and lasts ~25000 hours (commonly modern home construction doesn't even use lightbulb sockets anymore; the fixtures are designed to not need "bulb replacements")

So even on manufacturing, the LED bulb wins because it's up against 25 incandescent bulbs. But that's all trivial, because:

60W × 25000h = 1500 kWh
9W * 25000h = 225kWh

So a few extra or fewer kilowatt hours in manufacturing is irrelevant. It's totally dominated by usage energy.

Incandescent only wins one category: disposal (it's just glass and a little metal, you can just throw it in the trash; LED is e-waste and gets recycled). But in both cases, you're talking tenths of a percent of lifetime energy usage.

Comment Re: Working fine for me (Score 1) 115

They have probabilities from it mixed in with everything else on their training data. They don't reflect the Internet so much as training data soup. But what's more important is that it's a semi-randomly generated chain of similarities. You can never ignore the randomness. That was added because it was found to make the output look more natural because otherwise it's too predictable, but it also is a reason why sometimes the output is inexplicable.

It's the randomness that I was bringing up primarily. You think you're getting data from the Web because it says so, but it's mixed with every other influence and it knows as much about that as it does about everything - nothing at all.

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