I could understand declaring with --foo, but then referencing should be either var(foo) or just --foo, not the combination var(--foo). I don’t get why the grammar has to work that way.

I like that css now has variables, but why that syntax?

It’s important to note that TDP is a very fuzzy number. It has no industry-wide standard definition, and manufacturers play with the formula for their own products all the time. At best, it gives you a ballpark estimate of what cooler and PSU you’re going to need, and some would dispute even that.

In 2.5 years, the EV market will look very different. Just the last year has shifted a lot around with the used market (such as Hertz cycling out a bunch of Teslas and offloading them cheap).

I’ve driven from Madison, WI to Chicago in an EV with ~100 mile range in cold weather. Wouldn’t be my first choice, but I was in a pinch at the time. It can work, but getting a reliable charger network is the biggest problem. Made three stops to chargers that were broken or inaccessible for various reasons.

That was a couple of years back, and I think it’d go a bit smoother now. The Chicagoland area has reasonably good charger network outlays (much better than Minneapolis, which is a joke). Still wouldn’t be my first choice, but it’s workable.

Which have a whole bunch of issues of their own. Like increased mechanical complexity, and that you might use gas so seldom that it becomes significantly water by the time you do need it.

Nvidia claims the 5070 will give 4090 performance. That’s a huge generation uplift if it’s true. Of course, we’ll have to wait for independent benchmarks to confirm that.

The best ray tracing games I’ve seen are applying it to older games, like Quake II or Minecraft.

Scalpers were basically non existent in the 4xxx series. They’re not some boogieman that always raises prices. They work under certain market conditions, conditions which don’t currently exist in the GPU space, and there’s no particular reason to think this generation will be much different than the last.

Maybe on the initial release, but not for long after.

They tend not to fit down the cable, but they’re working on it for the next revision.

One way to do this is trademark law. You have a trademarked logo that says you can only use it if your cable meets certain standards. You can get sued if you label a cable that doesn’t meet it.

SD cards and USB work this way. This relies on the trademark holder enforcing it, which doesn’t always happen.

Going for higher bandwidth tends to increase signal interference. There are various ways to deal with that, most of which cost money. For example, most high speed data cables use twisted pairs that help cancel out interference. To go faster, the twists need to be tighter, and that’s more expensive to make.

If there is no customer demand for those use cases, then there’s no reason to force a more expensive cable, connector, or signalling electronics just so you can meet specs.

Correct. Wikipedia has a complete breakdown of resolutions and speeds with and without compression.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

See the section Versions -> Refresh frequency limits for standard video.

Then throw in multi displays, either on your desk or in VR. And VR wants very high refresh rates, too. Oh, and 10 bpp encoding for HDR.

Then I think you’ve answered your initial question: people don’t talk about it because there’s no apparent way it can help. If someone does come up with a good idea, then that will change. Until then, there isn’t much to talk about.

Frankly, I don’t think that will happen. Blockchain has been around a while now and its usefulness as currency is dubious, and its usefulness for anything else has failed to emerge on any scale.

OK, but how does a chain of verified hashes help us get there? No matter if that’s going to happen tomorrow or in 100 years?

Generally, the aim is to rely on mutual aid and community. People don’t consume beyond the system’s ability to support them because their neighbors take a dim view of that, and they rely on their neighbors for a lot. Of course, this would take a significant change in how we do things under capitalism.

Having a chain of hashes that need to be verified and created doesn’t seem to have any application that would move us there. The issues to solve are largely social, not technical.

Solarpunk is embedded in leftist thought, and the endgame would include becoming a moneyless society. There’s various debates on how to get there from here.

Does crypto help with the transition? I would say no. It requires hooking up more renewable energy just for the sake of money.

Agreed. They really limit how many enemies you face at once in that game. Any more would be unplayably difficult.

Half Life: G-Man confirmed.

Oh, also, you’re wrong that this excludes housing and healthcare:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm

The CPI represents all goods and services purchased for consumption by the reference population. BLS has classified all expenditure items into more than 200 categories, arranged into eight major groups (food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communication, and other goods and services). Included within these major groups are various government-charged user fees, such as water and sewerage charges, auto registration fees, and vehicle tolls.

Energy is a little more complicated, but it should be included in the graph above:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/common-misconceptions-about-cpi.htm

Has the BLS removed food or energy prices in its official measure of inflation?

No. The BLS publishes thousands of CPI indexes each month, including the headline All Items CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the CPI-U for All Items Less Food and Energy. The latter series, widely referred to as the “core” CPI, is closely watched by many economic analysts and policymakers under the belief that food and energy prices are volatile and are subject to price shocks that cannot be damped through monetary policy. However, all consumer goods and services, including food and energy, are represented in the headline CPI.

In other words, what do you use to back up your assertion that wages have not matched inflation?