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4K is an outrageously high resolution.

If I was conspiratorial I would say that 4K was normalized as the next step above 1440p in order to create a demand for many generations of new graphics cards. Because it was introduced long before there was hardware able to use it without serious compromises. (I don't actually think it's a conspiracy though.)

For comparison, 1440p has 78% more pixels than 1080p. That's quite a jump in pixel density and required performance.

4K has 125% more pixels than 1440p (300% more than 1080p). The step up is massive, and the additional performance required is as well.

Now there is a resolution that we are missing in between them. 3200x1800 is the natural next step above 1440p*. At 56% more pixels it would be a nice improvement, without an outrageous jump in performance. But it doesn't exist outside of a few laptops for some reason.

*All these resolutions are multiples of 640x360. 720p is 2x, 1080p is 3x, 1440p is 4x, and 4K is 6x. 1800p is the missing 5x.

$250 in 2016 would be $335 today. A 16 GB 9060 costs $370 which is only 10% higher. So prices are getting reasonable; after having been completely outrageous the past few years.

Now these are US prices. But the 9060 is available in Sweden for $435 eqv. which is really not bad.

Last time Iran tried to become a liberal and democratic country the UK and US organized a coup to replace the government with a more dictatorial one, which is how they ended up like this. Is more violent foreign intervention the solution? We're about to find out!

Looking at their track record there's no reason to believe Isreal would give an occupied Iran any rights or do anything good for them. More likely it's just more territory to be ethnically cleansed and repopulated after they're done with Palestine.

Repeating what they heard is very different from automatically processing the chat to harvest personal information about the participants.

Just because some data is publicly available doesn't mean all processing of that data is legal and moral.

You're both getting side-tracked by this discussion of recording. The recording is likely legal in most places.

It's the processing of that unstructured data to extract and store personal information that is problematic. At that point you go from simply recording a conversation of which you are a part, to processing and storing people's personal data without their knowledge, consent, or expectation.

There are LED bars for mounting in your rear windows to display text to those behind you

In the USA voter turnout is 50-60%, and the winning party often gets less than half the votes. So actual support for the ruling party is often less than 25%. And that's without counting the millions who aren't allowed to vote.

Yet that doesn't seem to lessen the power of the government.

Gay.

It's the Gay Intersex Marxist Program. Obviously.

This is an outrage!

Coq was such an excellent name. Short, memorable, unique, related to its origins and logo, as well as funny.

I would think that giving people care doesn't actually cost much, it's having the capability that's expensive. And the administrative work required to deal with the edge case of charging foreigners might not be worth the minor sums involved.

I think it's such a general word that your association says something about what subjects are on the top of your mind.

My association was hand gestures, or more comically, flag signals :D

Aluminium smelting is so energy intensive that Iceland, a country with a population of less than 400 000, is the world's 12th largest producer of it, even though the raw materials aren't mined there. Iceland just has cheap geothermal and hydroelectric power.

In the real world there is no entirely reasonable code base. There's always going to be some aspects of it that are kind of shit, because you intended to do X but then had to change to doing Y, and you have not had time or sufficient reason to properly rewrite everything to reflect that.

We tend to underestimate how long things will take, precisely because when we imagine someone doing them we think of the ideal case, where everything is reasonable and goes well. Which is pretty much guaranteed to not be the case whenever you do anything complex.

You cannot say no to legitimate interest. That's a valid legal basis for processing the data that you only need to be informed about. Some times it appears like they are asking for your consent (which is a different legal basis for processing data) for legitimate interest, but that's likely just a poorly designed interface.

Definitely, but it's impossible to do for everyone using an adapter.

Overcurrent protection on each pin should definitely be mandated by the standard.

But it's important to keep in mind that Nvidia has 90% market share and can do whatever they want. If PCI standardized something Nvidia didn't agree with, then there simply would not be any implementations of the standard, and Nvidia cards would use a non-standard connector. It's that simple.

It was Nvidia that designed the original connector and forced it upon the world. PCI has been trying to make it less bad, but it was standardized after it had already been created, not the other way around.

Economists refuse to accept that their subject is really just sociology. They like to imagine it being like physics, where study of reality leads to underlying mathematical truths to extrapolate from. Not a big messy subject where you can't be certain of anything.

What makes it even more freaky is that many of the subjects being studied know they are playing a game. So in many ways economy is more like the evolving metagame of competitive sports, where hardcore nerds constantly try to game the system and outplay each other, and what was a solid strategy last month doesn't work anymore, even if the rules are the same.

Here's a trick that works for me (who mainly have trouble getting started with things).

Decide that you only need to do the thing for 10 minutes. Set a timer for 10 minutes and get started. Then when the timer rings you've gotten going and will likely want to continue (forever).

It's mind boggling how different the modern concept of work is from how it was for 99.9% of human existence.

I'm sure the hyper-optimization, hyper-specialization, the alienation, and the constant flux of modern work contributes greatly to the problems we are experiencing.

Even when there was no "adventurous alternative", work was a lot more grounded in society and had a lot more downtime at pretty much any point in history.