Most vending machines now days use almost nil power except for the LED lighting, which is again almost nil power. A kilowatt hour consumed every four days or so. I had one plugged into my kill a watt while repairing it for the liquor store across the street. Doing nothing, it sits about 10W consumed hourly. Vending something, that jumps up to 20W but that would only work if it were constantly activated for an entire hour, so it's really just a quick blip.
Videogames waste more energy than POS crypto? Arcades have been dying left and right, I'm guessing you don't leave your keyboard to find good entertainment that often. To boot, newer arcade games that are released are using more efficient processes and such, and thus use far less power (power savings is a huge marketing thing for places like Chuck E Cheeses and other energy-sucking entertainment places.)
Most popular videogames by active user count will run on laptops. doubt the energy waste is happening there. Maybe you're still thinking of Sega Game Gear days, but who the fuck even has one of those in operation in this day and age?
ANY distributed database sucks up a ton of power, especially as each additional node is created and linked and verified by every other node (or a simple majority) on the network. People like you never bothered learning the lesson we learned in the 70s regarding this exact thing. Requirements begin jumping rapidly, bandwidth, energy power, processing power, and it jumps DRAMATICALLY at scale. Logarithmic power sort of dramatic, if you took such math.
"The way it's specified means that the driver needs to add all kinds of (usually unnecessary) locking and validation of states into every single call you make."
And VALIDATION is what's so big in CAD, anti-cheating for games, etc.
"The result is that on a device which becomes CPU bound submitting 200-300 draw calls with OpenGL, a developer can submit 2000-3000 with Metal."
And you're clearly demonstrating that you're a horrid graphics programmer. The main cost of draw calls only applies if each call submits too little data - that's on your ass, not the API. Learn to fill your data buffers ahead of time and have them filled with an adequate amount of content. Even DirectX figured this shit out back in like version 8 (getting rid of all those context switches and such to allow for more geometry data to flow in each call.)
You're an idiot that obviously doesn't read. First story below is about the loss of stock value and that Facebook might face lawsuits regarding this. This story is about a shareholder ACTUALLY SUING because of said loss of value, plus perceived illegal stock sales.
So this isn't a dupe, it's a different story, though related to the one below.
It will cost more energy to pump that water back up there than will be gained letting it flow back down when needed. Sure solar and wind helps negate this impact, but that'd be assuming every pump along the route were powered by such. I'm seriously doubting that.
"For those of us who do care about performance because time equals money will continue to invest in high performance equipment."
WRONG. Those who care about performance learn to code at the bare metal level and OPTIMIZE. Meanwhile, you keep using shitty bloated high-level languages that need so much beefy hardware because y'all don't know how to code for shit.
"This is about low power parts aimed at the ultraportable market,"
Actually, no. Increasing physical core count means increasing actual power consumption. This would be a shitty move to make towards the portable market, versus just having HT on a lower core count CPU where you can keep power consumption lowered.
When a site needs to resort to shadowbanning, you already know that site is dead or dying. It shows that the administrative staff don't have any actual control, nor did they have any clue in the first place.
Do you even live in a moderately-sized city? 1:45AM is last-call for most barflies in most states. Guess what you usually want to do after a lot of drinking come 2AM?
"I've seen unpatched windows xp machines completely break down due to the volume of competing viruses on them"
What are you considering "unpatched?" After SP2 (it went up to 4 in XP) the system is rock-solid. Looking at two XP systems right now on the internet, not giving a fuck - my laptop and one of my legacy desktop systems.
The warning isn't fucking unobtrusive, that's the problem.
Any time you do something Google doesnt' like, it makes sure to make a big fucking fuss about it.
And that's going to give people the idea that the age they're trying to visit has been hijacked or otherwise when it has not.
It's going to pretty much result in digital libel and defamation of the site as idiots who don't know better start spreading word that "site x is hacked because Google Said So."
Too bad nerds like you quite often have shorter sight than your coke-bottle glasses lets on.
"Once you've watched it, there's no point in buying the game. They're also blatantly illegal."
Wrong you fucking moron. Unless the game is EXACTLY THE SAME EVERY TIME, then every actual playthrough is in fact a unique performance and the copyright of that performance can be assigned to the one playing the game in that specific manner.
Try again when you have the balls to actually identify yourself.
I bet I could open your PC case right now and find goddamned spaghetti wiring all over your interior. As if ONE EXTRA SET OF WIRES from the PSU is that much of a problem when you've already got cables running from the PSU all over hell and back.
Tell ya what, you can gripe when the PSU just has one cord going to the motherboard, and when the necessary cables for the other peripherals all carry data and power on the same cable.
Till then, you're really just griping without any actual hindsight. Hell, I actually wonder if you've ever opened up any case at all. Pre-ATX days (my 8088 for example) had neater wiring than most computers TODAY. And yes, it had that nice bulky primary power switch with four bulky ass wires.
Those are all incompetent people that don't know shit about computers (sevenforums is a place rife with ignorance and lacking knowledge)
Try again with a source full of competent people. The only thing that ever triggers a "scan this disk" is when I move SD cards from my camera to my computer. Guess what? Other devices don't always fully support certain features of certain file systems. Sure you can write to it, but it might not have the capability to fully-update the entry that says if the drive was properly ejected or not (most cameras don't do this, in fact.) This happens weekly with almost every SD card I use with my Kodak Z981 or my Canon Rebel.
"If you just yank it, the next time you want to use it you'll have to go through "The file system on this disk may be corrupt, do you want to run CHKDSK on it" "
Uh, no? Haven't seen that in about 15 years. I NEVER eject drives. Hell I hot-swap SATA all day. I never get asked to run a damn thing.
Until the first three layers of OSI are perfected, ain't SHIT the future of programming.
Which means Python is NOT the future of programming and will never be, because no company has any interest in doing the first three layers of OSI properly in the first place. Intel already made that loud and clear.
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Most vending machines now days use almost nil power except for the LED lighting, which is again almost nil power. A kilowatt hour consumed every four days or so. I had one plugged into my kill a watt while repairing it for the liquor store across the street. Doing nothing, it sits about 10W consumed hourly. Vending something, that jumps up to 20W but that would only work if it were constantly activated for an entire hour, so it's really just a quick blip.
Videogames waste more energy than POS crypto? Arcades have been dying left and right, I'm guessing you don't leave your keyboard to find good entertainment that often. To boot, newer arcade games that are released are using more efficient processes and such, and thus use far less power (power savings is a huge marketing thing for places like Chuck E Cheeses and other energy-sucking entertainment places.)
Most popular videogames by active user count will run on laptops. doubt the energy waste is happening there. Maybe you're still thinking of Sega Game Gear days, but who the fuck even has one of those in operation in this day and age?
ANY distributed database sucks up a ton of power, especially as each additional node is created and linked and verified by every other node (or a simple majority) on the network. People like you never bothered learning the lesson we learned in the 70s regarding this exact thing. Requirements begin jumping rapidly, bandwidth, energy power, processing power, and it jumps DRAMATICALLY at scale. Logarithmic power sort of dramatic, if you took such math.
They're ALL still outright inefficient wastes of energy.
"The way it's specified means that the driver needs to add all kinds of (usually unnecessary) locking and validation of states into every single call you make."
And VALIDATION is what's so big in CAD, anti-cheating for games, etc.
"The result is that on a device which becomes CPU bound submitting 200-300 draw calls with OpenGL, a developer can submit 2000-3000 with Metal."
And you're clearly demonstrating that you're a horrid graphics programmer. The main cost of draw calls only applies if each call submits too little data - that's on your ass, not the API. Learn to fill your data buffers ahead of time and have them filled with an adequate amount of content. Even DirectX figured this shit out back in like version 8 (getting rid of all those context switches and such to allow for more geometry data to flow in each call.)
You're an idiot that obviously doesn't read. First story below is about the loss of stock value and that Facebook might face lawsuits regarding this. This story is about a shareholder ACTUALLY SUING because of said loss of value, plus perceived illegal stock sales.
So this isn't a dupe, it's a different story, though related to the one below.
Fail. That's what you're charging extra for. You think if I'm doing line drops I'm just charging per drop? Hell no, there's a time rate included.
You also need to learn how to sell yourself on top of learning low-level coding.
It will cost more energy to pump that water back up there than will be gained letting it flow back down when needed. Sure solar and wind helps negate this impact, but that'd be assuming every pump along the route were powered by such. I'm seriously doubting that.
"For those of us who do care about performance because time equals money will continue to invest in high performance equipment."
WRONG. Those who care about performance learn to code at the bare metal level and OPTIMIZE. Meanwhile, you keep using shitty bloated high-level languages that need so much beefy hardware because y'all don't know how to code for shit.
"This is about low power parts aimed at the ultraportable market,"
Actually, no. Increasing physical core count means increasing actual power consumption. This would be a shitty move to make towards the portable market, versus just having HT on a lower core count CPU where you can keep power consumption lowered.
When a site needs to resort to shadowbanning, you already know that site is dead or dying. It shows that the administrative staff don't have any actual control, nor did they have any clue in the first place.
Do you even live in a moderately-sized city? 1:45AM is last-call for most barflies in most states. Guess what you usually want to do after a lot of drinking come 2AM?
"I don't get privacy anymore because sheep are gullible?"
Exactly that. Sheep are already handing over your information, whether you know it, like it, or not.
Isn't shit you can do to stop it except live in absolute isolation from the moment of birth.
Welcome to reality. Bring your complacent ass back here, sonny boy. We got some more hard yes for ya to hear.
"child's rescue vehicle"
No, it was a bunch of spare rocket parts. Get a fucking grip on reality, 2-million+ UID millennial tool.
Uh, no, how about a full-page warning going to http-only sites that are known-good yet Google classifies as 'dangerous sites?'
JUST got that going to an HTTP site (one used for looking up MIDI files.)
You apparently must be very new with Google and the internet in general despite your UID.
Shut your mouth until you're fully-informed on the subject. It is apparent that you're only about 10% informed. Good day.
"I've seen unpatched windows xp machines completely break down due to the volume of competing viruses on them"
What are you considering "unpatched?" After SP2 (it went up to 4 in XP) the system is rock-solid. Looking at two XP systems right now on the internet, not giving a fuck - my laptop and one of my legacy desktop systems.
The warning isn't fucking unobtrusive, that's the problem.
Any time you do something Google doesnt' like, it makes sure to make a big fucking fuss about it.
And that's going to give people the idea that the age they're trying to visit has been hijacked or otherwise when it has not.
It's going to pretty much result in digital libel and defamation of the site as idiots who don't know better start spreading word that "site x is hacked because Google Said So."
Too bad nerds like you quite often have shorter sight than your coke-bottle glasses lets on.
You are a prime example of someone with a 7-digit UID - too stupid and brainless.
Why? Because they can, and you obviously can NOT.
Compliant, as an complies with the design documentation.
This is why you are not a programmer.
Yup, here's a report from 2007.
https://www.forbes.com/2007/08...
That nothing has been done to fix this shit is the real story.
"Once you've watched it, there's no point in buying the game. They're also blatantly illegal."
Wrong you fucking moron. Unless the game is EXACTLY THE SAME EVERY TIME, then every actual playthrough is in fact a unique performance and the copyright of that performance can be assigned to the one playing the game in that specific manner.
Try again when you have the balls to actually identify yourself.
"In short, you are insane."
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result from the ones that have occurred.
Given your consistent horrible mis-use of the word, I'm going to say that by definition, you are the insane one.
I bet I could open your PC case right now and find goddamned spaghetti wiring all over your interior. As if ONE EXTRA SET OF WIRES from the PSU is that much of a problem when you've already got cables running from the PSU all over hell and back.
Tell ya what, you can gripe when the PSU just has one cord going to the motherboard, and when the necessary cables for the other peripherals all carry data and power on the same cable.
Till then, you're really just griping without any actual hindsight. Hell, I actually wonder if you've ever opened up any case at all. Pre-ATX days (my 8088 for example) had neater wiring than most computers TODAY. And yes, it had that nice bulky primary power switch with four bulky ass wires.
Those are all incompetent people that don't know shit about computers (sevenforums is a place rife with ignorance and lacking knowledge)
Try again with a source full of competent people. The only thing that ever triggers a "scan this disk" is when I move SD cards from my camera to my computer. Guess what? Other devices don't always fully support certain features of certain file systems. Sure you can write to it, but it might not have the capability to fully-update the entry that says if the drive was properly ejected or not (most cameras don't do this, in fact.) This happens weekly with almost every SD card I use with my Kodak Z981 or my Canon Rebel.
"If you just yank it, the next time you want to use it you'll have to go through "The file system on this disk may be corrupt, do you want to run CHKDSK on it" "
Uh, no? Haven't seen that in about 15 years. I NEVER eject drives. Hell I hot-swap SATA all day. I never get asked to run a damn thing.
Yes, Simulbrowse had curved-bezel tabs back in 1998.
Google has become Apple - innovation through copying old ideas and claiming them as new.
Until the first three layers of OSI are perfected, ain't SHIT the future of programming.
Which means Python is NOT the future of programming and will never be, because no company has any interest in doing the first three layers of OSI properly in the first place. Intel already made that loud and clear.