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by Panzer04 2y ago
I don't think you could find a windows laptop with comparable build quality (or display quality, which I consider important if you intend to use a laptop for its intended purpose) for 1/2 the price of the air. I do think you could
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I'm not really in the space - I was curious. I think people tend to overstate the importance of power consumption relative to the price of the products they buy and the value of their time (eg. if it's a workstation part, higher p
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Agree on the sleep state stuff. idk who's fault it really is, but at least on the software front I mostly blame microsoft, because it's really their duty to deliver consistent, reliable power consumption on battery power.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
No, this is Windows. It absolutely can use minimal power, but my experience closely monitoring my laptops consumption is it will regularly spike from 5-6w to 15-20w for extended periods, which obviously obliterates battery life. I've b
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Please explain how android isn't competitive with apple. My experience switching from iPhone to Android is I lost pretty much nothing and gained a lot, particularly by going to a folding phone (which Apple obviously doesn't offer
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Is this actually true? At 200w power draw 24/365 you're talking 1800kwh. at 0.2$/kwh that's 360$. These server processors seem to be charged out at multiple thousands of dollars. Is the difference in efficiency in server
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by Panzer04 2y ago
These sorts of processors are available from Intel as well (if anything, more available, as you can buy low-end 5w processors with modern e-cores in them, eg. N95/N97). The commenter above is referring to these, and they are common in
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Well, I mean, if you ignore the 8GB RAM base model.. and the pricetag at 2-3x a similarly-performing windows equivalent, and probably +50% on similar screen windows equivalent. I can make a great computer that meets everyone's use case
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Depends on the class of performance you want. I think at the low end laptops are surprisingly cost-competitive with desktops, but if you want high-end laptops either don't exist or are hilariously expensive. Also depends on the type of
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I don't think I agree at all with your assertions about ultrabooks and blaming intel CPUs. To be honest, all x86 processors are reasonably efficient if you pick the right power points to run them at. My experience with my laptops is th
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I wonder if that's more a matter of incapability than anything else, though. Currently, we have more ability to move the needle on lifespan and illness than we've ever had before, and we learn more about it at increasingly acceler
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by Panzer04 2y ago
My feeling is that longevity will have an s-curve effect. Every disease and malady we solve today only extends life until some other problem kills you. However, the further we push things, the more problems we are capable of resolving, the
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by Panzer04 2y ago
My guess is that the issue is more related to the constant high temperatures rather than the battery state of charge, which this wouldn't assist with.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Power consumption can only really be compared at the same performance level (IMO) - though I guess it depends on if you plan to tweak the processor defaults. One of my biggest bugbears is people using maximally clocked processors (such as t
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Arguably the question is whether: - The edge is large enough - The provider has sufficient capital to exploit the edge I guess if you can prove the edge, you could find capital, but I really have no clue how difficult that might be.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I wonder if this buckets things like motherboard problems under the same causes. Those numbers do seem very high in general. I guess it would be a pretty useless comparison if they weren't carefully filtering for CPU-only failure thoug
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I also had the page load very slowly, and it actually reloaded 3x while I was trying to read it. Something is off about that website :(
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by Panzer04 2y ago
If you aren't paying drivers, that's a lot of margin, yeah? If you're the only driverless game in town all of your vehicles can potentially earn an the salary of a driver, like 20$ an hour. They'd pay for themselves with
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by Panzer04 2y ago
You're incorrect. Inflation numbers do account for substitution effects (ie. People buying a cheaper replacement good). Something no one buys that goes up in price 100x has no substantial effect on inflation, while food that everyone b
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Because houses are the benchmark for all costs? No need to reinvent the wheel, inflation stats exist for a reason. Inflation-adjusted, 3k in 1950 is ~40k today, so 150k leaves you much better off in general. Also, 150 is definitely high (th
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Where did you see the 3.9TW number? I don't see how they can target 1200GW wind and solar and 3.9TW renewable total - what other resources are there? I found the info from a quick look outside the article, so it could definitely be que
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by Panzer04 2y ago
It's a bit ridiculous to claim Australia is somehow falling behind when our target seems? To be more ambitious than China's is. It's not actually mentioned anywhere what China's 2030 renewables target is. It's appar
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Australia is building loads of renewables, largely as a free market at this point. politics and media love suggesting government involvement, but by and large the problem is solving itself at this point.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I mean, children are just really expensive with no financial benefit no matter how you cut it, regardless of who the parent is. It used to be that children would look after you in your old age, or would contribute to the family relatively y
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by Panzer04 2y ago
The most amusing thing about such a concept is that many "climate-positive" industries (for want of a better descriptor for renewables, mostly) are killing fossil fuels based on their superior investment case now :)
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Is heat a concern in HDDs? Vacuum would probably make it extremely difficult to cool if it's necessary.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
This is a bug in a very obvious location that is triggered, in my experience, all the time. It's easy enough to work around, but it's also just terrible optics. Why does something like this take the better part of a year to fix?
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Lithium batteries are more than capable of starting cars, and at a fraction of the size (just look up "car starters" and the like on Amazon - those are usually a tiny lithium battery that you pull 50c from). The thing is they are
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Curious why you'd skip low level. Pay? Industry? Knowledge not helpful?
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Well, you can't read PD packets at that layer - they are only realistically visible at the driver layer and below, as the TCPM driver will manage the PD negotiation (and the main benefit of these analysers, at least for me, was to help

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