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I see. So when you said "No, it won't ever(x) become a problem", it was like one of those ads "Unlimited(x) data", with the fine print "(x) unlimited is meant to be understood as less than 10 GB per month", or in your case "(x) ever means at most 200 years from now"

Note, that when I said "all of India being airconned" I literally meant all of India, as in the whole subcontinent being a single giant city with 100 billion people living in it. And on that scale you need energy not only for airconn, but food/water/waste disposal/... But I guess you exclude that possibility too. It's understandable through why you would just imagine that I was talking about making India into something like present day Europe. In general people find it really hard to imagine anything radically different than the status quo.

You seem very sure about how humanity will look like in 500 years and how much energy it would use.

Obviously you consider the concept of Type II and Type III civilizations impossible and ridiculous, since they would use more than 20 orders of magnitude more energy than we do.

You assume that it's obvious that we can't consume 7 orders of magnitude more energy than now.

We already grew our energy consumption 4 orders of magnitude in 300 years.

http://bwp.io/blog/2014/thermodynamic-limits-of-human-energy...

Which is why I mentioned that it will be a problem in the future, not today. Imagine all of India airconed. And it's also why I mentioned albedo. That will drastically increase the sun insolation effect, today a lot of the suns energy is reflected back into space. This will change, especially with solar panels.

> Build some nuclear plants to make more clean electricity. Problem solved.

It doesn't work that way. Aircons dump unusable waste heat into the environment. On a large enought scale, it creates global warming on it's own.

Same with solar panels, they change the albedo of the earth surface, and this will be a huge problem in the future.

There are mobile aircons, no drilling holes required.

Git is also free. So, how are you the product when you use git?

> The first complication came in 2008, when a group of scientists, in an effort to more precisely map out the evolutionary relationships among animals on the tree of life, identified comb jellies rather than sponges as the earliest animals.

Interestingly, comb jellies have RGB lights. They were dropped in later animals, probably many viewed them as too tacky, but nature truly was on to something:

https://giphy.com/gifs/closeup-comb-lobed-13tbkKy93iYuuA

https://media1.giphy.com/media/7ofEYFGlgZehO/giphy.gif

Not necessarily lasting physical damage, but flickering CRTs, or for that matter flickering fluorescent or LED lights can cause headaches, nausea, ...

I've certainly noticed it myself, using 75 Hz CRTs made me feel tired after a few hours, unlike 85 Hz.

> In 1989, my colleagues and I compared fluorescent lighting that flickered 100 times a second with lights that appeared the same but didn’t flicker. We found that office workers were half as likely on average to experience headaches under the non-flickering lights.

https://www1.essex.ac.uk/psychology/overlays/1989-82.pdf

In the last two companies I worked in it was us low level employees which were begging IT for Slack, until they reluctantly accepted (because of costs and of fears about hosting confidential chats on 3rd parties). Nobody was begging for LimeChat or IRC.

And what about Discord? It's almost exclusively used by people in their homes, there is no company pushing it down their throats.

Funny how a google images search for limechat fails to find a single screenshot with inline images. But I'll take your word for it.

I guess that settles it. People will dump Slack and Discord on mass and move to the amazing IRC clients like LimeChat which are so much more efficient. it's well known that the number one thing people look at when choosing software is how efficient they are. Nobody cares about looks or features, just about CPU cycles.

Yeah, and a Rolls Royce is little more than a Honda with worse miles per gallon.

> People seem to forget that C++ and opengl is cross-platform

OpenGL is dying. It's already deprecated on MacOS.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/04/opengl-opencl-dep...

Because I want to sync my settings across a few computers. And I want to install Store apps. But I am not forced to.

I use Windows with a Microsoft account. But none of my files are saved in their cloud.

What are you talking about? OneDrive? You don't have to use it if you don't want.

Setting? You can disable their syncing too.

bfloat16 sounds like it could be supported with minimal changes to existing floating point units, maybe with just some improved microcode.

FB's approach on the other side requires entirely redesigned and separate execution units. That's harder to justify, that silicon will remain dark for non-DL usage.

So if you go to the top of a mountain and there is a single cabin selling water there, at outrageous prices, you would just help yourself to one bottle, because hey, no competition, captive audience.

How is this different from trying a door handle to see if it's open.

He did a lot of stupid stuff. Like logging into SilkRoad from a public library. FBI agents were at the next table.

No, it's more like tricking the restaurant staff into giving him a free meal.

His attack is active, privacy plugins are passive, even if they report back false fingerprints.

Offense versus defense.