This paradigm, of choosing more energy efficient options leading to good downstream effects, is what I’m jabbering on about. Imagine if all our appliances were appropriately sized for our households: a 2 bedroom apartment coming with an 8 cubic foot fridge, 2-burner induction cooktop, and a countertop oven. We’d be using the correct amount of energy to do the correct amount of work; imagine how much simpler things would be. If commonplace complex tools – appliances – are civilization, then we’re wielding them poorly. Apple silicon’s greatest miracle is its power-per-watt – an M1 Mac Mini, for example, sips 7 watts while idle and can gently glug 39 watts of power under load. It’s also very fast and plenty for most people. [...] My desktop, running a beleaguered i5 9600k and RTX 2070 Super, have a combined TDP maximum of 310 watts. Lately, launching a modern game at 1440p makes both of those components redline to 100% or near it, so let’s go ahead and assume they’re using that amount of power, and that’s before the other components in the system.

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incredible support forum thread asking why VLC can't have a previous frame hotkey > users desire a practical feature, however a developer, instead, desires an opportunity to explain why the data structures of enough video formats resemble one-way linked-lists so the feature is "algorithmically impossible", users counter with examples of other pieces of software that implement the feature, the gymnastics begin, and it becomes apparent to us, if not the people involved, that a fundamental philosophical debate is occurring about the nature of what 'solving a problem' even means

a website can be just a bunch of files. we can write a script to mush text and images and links together, so we can focus on making more text and images and links instead of managing websites. writing your own script means you can maybe change it when needed.