It’s not right to fight the mentally deficient. And your weird obsession isn’t hurting anyone other than yourself. Just don’t be whipping your UI out in public or in front of minors and you’ll be fine.

Except sometimes that self-driving mode decides it would rather drive on without you. And sometimes it activates itself randomly.

Ah, that’s efficiency of use and depends more on how familiar you are with the software as well as the design and task. Like editing an image or video is going to be a lot easier with a gui than a command line interface (other than generating slop I guess).

When people talk about how efficient software is, it’s usually referring more to the amount of resources it uses (including time) to run its processes.

Eg an electron app is running a browser that is manipulating and rendering html elements running JavaScript (or other scripts/semi-compiled code). There is an interpreter that needs to process whatever code it is to do the manipulation and then an html renderer to turn that into an image to display on the screen. The interpreter and renderer run as machine code on the CPU, interacting with the window manager and the kernel.

A native app doesn’t bother with the interpreter and html renderer and itself runs as machine code on the CPU and interacts with the window manager and kernel. This saves a bunch of memory, since there isn’t an intermediate html state that needs to be stored, and time by cutting out the interpreter and html render steps.

Yeah, though getting useful information out of documentation is a skill on its own that not everyone possesses. But I agree that “it’s in the manual” can be useful, especially these days with how common useless manuals are.

Like I just bought a motherboard and the paper manual it came with was useless, like it didn’t even differentiate between installing Intel or AMD coolers, so clearly didn’t contain much specific information for that particular board.

The online manual had more useful information, unless you want more info about uefi settings, where you’ll be lucky if it has full information of uefi options for the release uefi, let alone the latest version.

Knowing apple, at that price point, performance is going to suuuuuck.

If you do that, the volcanoes could start sucking the rocks back in, along with the people and animals, and we aren’t well adapted to living in reversed volcanoes. Within a few generations, survival pressures will probably select for shorter posture (to more easily move around in tight spaces), stronger build (to be able to push rocks out of the way more easily), skills with mining and smithing (obviously), and beards on women (so they, too, can easily carry around small snacks for later).

So yeah, carry on.

Can you elaborate on that? I disagree but would like to understand why you think that. Maybe you’re referring to something I wouldn’t disagree with.

Yeah, I’ve had good results just going for the chest instead of the chest and belly. Then they can interact with their front paws or head if they want to, and you avoid getting raked with the rear claws if they suddenly decide petting was ok up to then but must stop immediately.

Also don’t go from 0 to 100 instantly, unless you know the cat well. Ramp up the intensity more slowly so the cat isn’t jolted around unexpectedly or feels out of control. Same thing if you pick them up. If they instantly start squirming around, they aren’t comfortable. Maybe it’s nervousness about being dropped, maybe they just don’t want to be carried.

Gonna need a bigger screen or a projector to draw a circle large enough for your mom.

Yeah, for things that will likely be used, caching is good. I just have a problem with the “memory is free, so find more stuff to cache to fill it” or “we have gigabytes of RAM so it doesn’t matter how memory-efficient any program I write is”.

It’s like people who reply “rtfm”, except these people actually think they are helping, while the rtfm replier just thinks the question asker isn’t worthy of their knowledge (or wants to hide that they don’t know while maintaining their “I am wise” persona).

I don’t want my PC wasting resources trying to guess every possible next action I might take. Even I don’t know for sure what games I’ll play tonight.

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No, unused RAM keeps my PC running fast. I remember the days where accidentally hitting the windows key while in a game meant waiting a minute for it to swap the desktop pages in, only to have to swap the game pages back when you immediately click back into it, expecting it to either crash your computer or probably disconnect from whatever server you were connected to. Fuck that shit.

There isn’t anything fundamentally slower about using a GUI vs just text in a console. There’s more to draw but it scales linearly. The drawing things on the screen part isn’t the slow bit for slow programs. Well, it can be if it’s coded inefficiently, but there are plenty of programs with GUIs that are snappy… Like games, which generally draw even more complex things than your average GUI app.

Slow apps are more likely because of an inefficient framework (like running in a web browser with heavy reliance on scripts rather than native code), inefficient algorithms that scale poorly, poor resource use, bad organization that results in doing the same operation more times than necessary, etc.

Except for KDE. At least compared to cinnamon, I find KDE much more responsive.

AI generated code will make things worse. They are good at providing solutions that generally give the correct output but the code they generate tends to be shit in a final product style.

Though perhaps performance will improve since at least the AI isn’t limited by only knowing JavaScript.

T’would be funny if this kind of demand drove the prices back up. Not to money laundering levels, but like to like $180 or something.

I’ll see your grand and say 950 is still too high.

Most of the danger is on the pulling out side, so it makes more sense to do the harder ones for the safer part. Plus, when you’re parking, it’s easier for others to predict what you’re doing, whereas pulling out gives more opportunity for someone walking by the line of cars to be surprised. If you’re pulling out forwards, it’s trivial to see someone about to walk in your path. If you’re backing out, you might not even be able to see someone who is 1s away from stepping in your path, especially if they are coming from your blind side.

And if you absolutely must play one of their games, buy used console games, with the added bonus of keeping their kernel anti cheat shit off your PC.