but you dont know the values to which they are to br able to ask a question involving it which is the point. youre put in a situation where you dont know everything. there are things you assume the question giver assumes else questions are never answerable. they arent given to you as a gotcha situation, especially in the context as a programming question.

you get to the point where no question can ever be asaked to you because you believe in the manipulation of the question over to the point that you’re intentionally looking for ways to break the question rather than assuming you and the question giver has the same assumption given the question circumstance.

If you go out and look for dumb things like that, there is basically no question in the universe thats answerable.

Do you question if gravity and friction exist if someone asks you how fast something is moving? and what values they are?

if you want to avoid that problem, you would just add the step at the very start: have all the bulbs in off and wait a bit for all the bulbs to cool off if you needed to be sure.

of course, nothing says you can’t but programming (and engineering) is not just solving the problem, but solving the problem efficiently.

one who lacks optimization knowledge would run into situations like the rockstar employee who originally wrote the parser for GTAO that made it take over 5 minutes to load GTAO, till someone else rewrote the parser in order to get people loaded in quicker. It’s basically the weed out for the devs people complain about when something uses way more resources than it needs to.

if anyoen is curous on the answer, you flip one and wait till you think a light bulb gets warm enough from ambient that youd notice. you then turn that off and turn another on.

if light = on, second switch you hit

if light = off && bulb = warm, it was the first switch

else switch 3

because youd only swap mobos for either aesthetics(expensive, not often done) at best because you choose to downsize, or because you need more pci-e I/O.

the average user doesn’t use all their pci-e i/o, and the ones that do, are looking towards workstation motherboards, which is almost a completely different market from the consumer level stuff. It’s a game of, you know when you need more i/o, and if you needed it, you probably would have never bought the consumer level board in the first place.

because of the cut in digital sales theyd get. phone companies are the current front, but its going to get extremely messy when the front gets for example, put into the console gaming front. its all for money for software they did not develop and prevent that money from going to any other payment processor.

for example on the PS5 front, sony makes more than 50% of their revenue on live service games. none that they actually own themselves. Apple, and to a lesser extent, Google, apply that for ALL software, and gain additional money from developer subscriptions. It’s the same fear Valve had back when Microsoft was pushing for the Microsoft Store to become the defacto storefront for personal computers. that push however failed miserably.

cell towers not responding definitely not a first time. happened years back because of a music festival, and there were like some dead cellular spots in san francisco that held them back a while back as well.

besides cars mass energy storage isnt available for all countries yet, so you need a way to balance grids. green energy resources doesnt have the ramp up required when energy usage spikes(e.g people get back from work). we dont suddenly put out more sun, make faster rivers or purposely make stronger winds for power. you balance the spike with the dirtier energy. so you often run into a situation where once green, a majority of your energy can be green, but you always have to reserve space for spike usage.

many are hdmi only, but there are several that have display port as well. I see a lot since I work in lease return/e-waste recycling.

of course, I’m not suggesting anyone should use them. im just saying they exist. the companies that make the good screens are all part of the HDMI forum, which defeats the reason why display port wont be offered at these screen sizes effectively.

basically no comoany is going to deny using HDMI unlrss a new upcoming screen company either develops propietary displayport tech, or the VESA foundation spins up monitor production.

unironically the only company i can remotely see doing said action is apple.

well its not the only option, its the only consumer ended option.

the corporate option is large format display/digital signage screens

i don’t think the demand for old ram is viable)for scalpers), the number of systems that actually want it is far fewer nowadays. DDR4 pricing was more caused by production stopping on DDR4, rather than the current ram shortages.

like I said, the deck was not their own design. it was a leftover design that they ended up picking up. If it was their design, then the Ryzen Z2A would not exist. and valve has already said they aren’t using the Aerith Plus cpu. If it’s their design, why would there be a plus model, and why would they not be using it.

And I don’t think we would disagree that the Deck has been a wild success.

yes, its a sucess, reletive to other PC handhelds, but Even valve could not sell 10M of them. the fact that AMD offered Microsoft a 10M min production run, and they declined it, its not going to be any better for valve. Valve just uses whats cheap for them.

For example with the steam machine, theres ABSOLUTELY no reason why they needed to use a seperate gpu, and seperate cpu, and not used shared memory, instead, forking out 24gb total memory (16/8 split) between hardware. It’s only like that because they had little choice.

if valve had an option, they would have liked to get the ryzen ai max 385, but it was never gonna happen due to pricing, so they had to opt to go seperate cpu/gpu theyre getting cheap.

the problem is, the tame version (Ai Max 388, 8c/40cu, or the 385 (8c/32cu) is still not optimal for handhelds, because of the fact that a large chunk of its power budget goes to the cpu, when the gpu needs it more.

pc handhelds are in a not so great position because the Z1 and Z2 generation of designs are functionally binned down laptop gpus, designed top down, rather than bottom up. Because AMD is on 8 core CCDs, it hamstrings the pc handhelds in the 10-15w use.

Since the Aerith CPU, the only other handheld thats AMD based thats actually reasonable is the Z2 Go, which is only featured in the Lenovo Legion Go 2 S, because both use 4c/8t cpus, due to intentionally picking an older cpu architecture, while having a beefier igpu. Its why gen over gen, pc handhelds are pretty stagnant as it cost nearly twice as much, while only offering 20% more performance, under the condition that you would have to increase the power target.

the problem the arm based options has is that the current companies in the spaces gpu drivers are not great(when Nvidia digits is having driver problems, you know damn well quacomm isn’t going to fare much better), and likely doubley so for modern games, especially ones that use modern features. Valve is too small for a company to get a good deal with AMD when it comes to a smaller semi custom cpu of their own, hence why Valve has essentially been using scrapped project parts from AMD since the steam deck. They were getting it at a lower cost because someone else likely commissioned the designed and canceled out of it. (supposedly it was Microsoft and the Aerith APU was originally meant to go into a surface product). The steam machine uses a borked laptop cpu, and a cut down low end desktop gpu, likely that was meant to also go into gaming laptops but ended up not getting sold because AMD has weak laptop gpu presence.

The best case scenario for a handheld would be a cpu who has 2 modern cores, and 2-4 efficiency/low power cores. Until AMD delivers on a CCD that fits the said target, handhelds will be stunted.

the ai companies are but that doesnt talk about the hardware specific companies. for example dell, hp and lenovo run a large business laptop leasing business if they do not get their ram, it will sour their relationships with memory manufacturers . they arent all going to be willing to take losses

problem is it wouldnt be priced well if it did unless AMD already has plans for it.

its already gone public that the reason Microsoft held off on their handheld was they couldnt commit to 10M sales of of custom arm based SOC. Valve clearly would not either given steam deck sales, and the choice of hardware for the steam machine is telling.

theyd have to all collorbate to make that happen though, which is really unfeasable on their end. a BUNCH of companies will go under if they cannot sell product. they arent going to willingly take losses for the sake of a different company.

the browser has historically been one of the most suceptsble vectors of hacking.

theres a reason why most older consoles often have an exploit related to getting access to protected regions of memory via corruption using the browser, and why modern Nintendo and PlayStation consoles do not have a built in browser for consumer use.

the browser is the biggest offender for viruses.

it can eventually turn into one if the project gets a lot of support. the problem is the current intention is to help occulus rift devs port their games to steam, and VR is a reletively niche audience, so its not going to get the development time it needs if it wants to explode.

tangently related, I do see a future where valve goes the route of game native and opens up steam officially on android, but its not quite there at the moment.